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Focus on principles, not the routine

We’re a generation of hacks. Or at least people who want to ‘hack’ things. A lot has been written on how to hack the brain and change the way we think about certain things. Even though my initial reaction to anything that’s about life and wellness and starts with ‘How to…’ is to not take it seriously. It’s a mix of the cognizance that most ‘How to’ articles are a sham and exploit the vulnerability of people desperately trying to fix their lives for likes and views, and a broader understanding that when it comes to life and how to better live it – no single approach works alike for two people. Copying someone will almost always lead to failure because what works for person X is dependent on their background conditions (such as education, personality, friends, parents, attitude, habits etc.), and person Y can never get the same results by trying to copy what X did because they cannot replicate the exact same conditions. So two things. First, avoid most stuff that talks about how to make...

Advice to my 18 year old self

I've always struggled with the idea of how to best utilize my time. What activities to pursue, and which books to read, which professors to talk to, and which classes to attend. The protagonist in the German mini series DARK said that a choice for something is a choice against something, pointing out the inherent trade off nature of all our actions. Do one thing, and you won't be able to do another. No matter how much you race against time, you cannot catch up with your own ambitions and curiosity. I'm doing my second undergraduate degree as of now. And sometimes I reflect back on the time I spent during my first. Although I don't regret much of the choices I made, there are surely things I would have tweaked here and there given the chance. Of course these suggestions for my past self suffer from hindsight bias - I still think I would have achieved more optimal outcomes if I adopted these suggestions in a better and efficient way. And of course for anyone reading this...

Why Twitter is the single most important learning tool & how to take the most out of it

NOTE : We don't inhabit a fragmented reality. Nothing around us can be isolated from the catastrophic effects of the pandemic we're witnessing. All further posts on this blog will carry this caveat until there is some reasonable accountability established and substantial actions taken against the state's criminal abdication of responsibility.

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