If you are a student like me, you know the drill. Wake up, attend lectures, do tons of assignments, focus on research, come back home to find yourself occupied with homework, and then the cycle repeats. It often is a blessing to find a few hours free, let alone an entire day. With such a routine, why am I focusing on increasing my typing speed rather than relaxing or rather focusing on the other skills I can improve on? Here’s …
Continue ReadingWhy am I focusing on increasing my typing speed as a student?
September 2, 2022
The fear of not growing with time
July 5, 2022
This will be a short, single-write blog (in one sitting without re-reading to check for corrections). The reason? I don’t want to alter and modify things that might not make a ‘good impression’ on you. I always have this innate ideology that as long as I live, I should continue learning new stuff. Things to make me grow as a human. Things that will make achieve these three things in life- happiness, health, and wealth. In order to achieve this, …
Continue ReadingParalysis by Analysis. Don’t fall into the death trap
May 7, 2022
Being able to figure out how much time to dedicate to decision-making is a key skill in life. Often, at work, we are given deadlines that have to be met, and that puts us in an ‘easy’ position. For other areas of life, we don’t have the time-constraint privilege making it easy to fall into the never-ending analysis loop which puts us into paralysis on the action part. Why do we fall into Paralysis by Analysis? We, humans, are relative …
Continue ReadingPut a Stop-loss order on Your Worries
February 3, 2022
Disclaimer: The idea behind this writing is taken directly from Dale Carnegie’s book titled ‘How to Stop Worrying and Start Living’. If you have time, discard reading this short blog and read the book instead. It is way better. If you don’t have time for the book, then you may give this a read. For the financially astute amongst us, they know what a stop-loss order is. For those who do not fall into this category, let me explain it …
Continue ReadingGet up & Say what you want
November 24, 2021
Leadership gravitates towards the person who can get up and say what he wants.
This is true. Isn’t it? But I didn’t say this. Neither did anyone from this century. It was said by Dale Carnegie back in the 1900s. The fact that this statement remains true even today is proof that it has stood the test of time and it is worth giving it a thought.
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