Author: vinodnarayan
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EP 207 (144/365) Death in the Digital age
Is dying the same…. before and in this digital age…. When we die we don’t exist in the physical world… but digitally our presence is felt… one does not need to pull the album and flip through it to see our pictures… They don’t need to do anything to watch our videos… We are there…
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EP 206 (143/365) Four Thousand Weeks
If we live up to 80 years we would have lived around four thousand weeks. That is true… but I did not think about it till I read Oliver Burkeman’s book ‘Four Thousand Weeks’…. Time Management for mortals…. The book reminds us about both time and our mortality. The first thing I did as soon…
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EP 205 (142/365) Withdrawals of a Lifestyle Change
Can we ‘Think Uninfluenced’…? what does that even mean…? before you jump into any conclusions… I need to tell you that whether we agree or not, it is very much possible that we are all influenced by many things… I am.. and the funny part is most of the influence I myself am not aware……
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EP 204 (141/365) People are bad just in our minds?
Whether we like it being done to us or not.. we will do it to others… judge other people… Even subconsciously…. Sometimes I feel that this is our way of interacting… We see someone or hear someone and then make a mental picture and start working on that…. then it is all upon them to…
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EP 203 (140/365) Making meaningful Connections
I grew up liking the company of people… always wanting to be around others…. May be that is how I chose sales after college… but I left that profession a few years later… when I moved into management and Agile…. but over the past few years I have become much distant from people… I am…
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Crossing 200 Podcast Episodes
I recently crossed the 200th episode of the Penpositive Outclass Podcast. If you have been following this blog my podcasting process has been a daily journal writing followed by the Podcast the next day. I have been journaling on my personal blog https://vinodnarayan.com/ I have been doing the Journal for 139 consecutive days and I…
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139/365 How reckless and foolish I was
Yesterday I was watching an Indian movie and in that a person in a running train walks up to the door and tries to open it. When asked she tells that she wanted some fresh air… She cannot open the door and so remains inside. As I was watching it…. I was thinking how dangerous…
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138/365 Should I give way to my madness?
Don’t we all have our share of madness? I think so… Some of the madness is so common that we think it is the norm… And some we hide though it is so OK… we hide it because we find it uncommon… We have this urge to gel in with the crowd.. to blend into…
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137/365 Saying No to some of the things we want to do
We will never be able to do everything we want….and I get that… I hope you do too… but the bigger problem is saying No to some of the things we want to do.. Remember we spoke about value trade-offs…. Even when we are able to find the value and do the trade off.. there…
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136/365 The “Love My Work’ Week
There was a 2019 book by Marcus Buckingham ‘Nine Lies About Work’ that he had coauthored with Ashley Goodall.. I highly recommend you all to read it…. In fact the Episode 9 of the Penpositive Outclass Podcast was about that… The book again came to my mind recently as I started reading and writing about…
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