3 Stoic Lessons from Epictetus to beat mediocrity — Only Focus On What’s Inside Your System: We tend to focus on what’s uncontrollable, i.e. the things outside our system. The only thing controllable is our mind which we fail to focus on. Master your mind to write your future and hence your own story. Make Beautiful Choices: How you spend your NOW is how you spend your hours, how…

2 strategies to get you what you want in life — Here’re 2 strategies that will help you achieve what you want. Fail Early To Start Again Elon Musk says: “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are against you.” When you know you want/have to do a certain thing, you must not think but rather test if the strategy you…

Taken from the book: ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse’ — A boy and a horse were once in the woods. The boy says to the horse, “I can’t see my way forward.” The Horse: Can you see your next step? The Boy: Yes. The Horse: Then take that step. After taking that one step, the boy looks at the horse…

3 Strategies to pull you out of the darkness of overthinking — Strategy — 1: The Do-Something Principle Action breeds more clarity than thought. Just take the first step and see how your hormones flush your veins with emotional energy giving you the runner’s high. Strategy — 2: A 1000-mile journey starts with a single step When you only think of your next step, you remove overthinking from the equation.

Thinking is not planning and planning is not… —

A take on the life we lived so far — After staring at the chirping birds for a minute or two, she slid her slipper out of her left foot and threw it onto them. The birds flew away. She looked at me for validation as every other kid does. I smiled at her with affirmation, and she smiled back…

Coz the right changes are the differentiators b/w the hyper-successful & ordinary like me & YOU — Nothing is constant. Only change is constant. And change is scary, painful, and stressful. It can lead to multiple mental disorders in a variety of ways. When you visit a psychologist, a counselor, or a psychiatrist, the first question they ask you is whether there has happened a big change…

That would let you die peacefully — We’ve seen/heard the shorter version of this question, already. Like what would you do if you find out that you have a month or a year or a day to live? The answer is simple and clear; you’d spend it all together doing the thing that you deem the most…

His orange cover book still circulates on bookshelves throughout the world — A clueless dickhead just graduated in finance & entered the 9–5 rate race. 6 weeks into the job, finding that cubicles & schedules ain’t his thing, he told himself, “fuck it” & left the job. After eating bags and bags of Doritos alongside playing tons of video games in guilt…