Author: vinodnarayan
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130/365 Owning up our ignorance & our experiences
“Are you ignorant?”… if someone asks us that, we might get offended. but we all know that we cannot be knowledgable about everything. There are definitely more things in this world that we are ignorant about than what we are knowledgable about… same goes with experiences. We often have an issue owning up our ignorances…
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129/365 The fear of being exposed
In the era of Social Media and cell phone cameras and live streams.. do people fear being exposed. Apparently people’s life taken out of context can also cause trauma. I was thinking about this the other day… When do we feel exposed and why do we fear we might get exposed. Exposed in itself means…
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128/365 Powerless on Willpower
I have always considered myself to be low on willpower. And recently the topic of willpower came up in a conversation with friends. Usually I try to change the topic as I personally feel I have less of a willpower and that was my way of coping with that vulnerability. But I guess it depends…
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127/365 Life and Value Trade-Off
Tradeoff is a word I often use… while talking and while writing…. because a lot of what we do is in a way a trade-off. but yesterday I was thinking about Value Tradeoff. Because any Tradeoff is associated with a Value….. or a perception of value.. value gained and value lost…. For those who are…
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126/365 Movies, Phone and Focus
We live at a time when focus is a rare commodity. It is not about focussing on what is difficult to focus.. but even the easier things seem hard to focus. I never needed effort to focus on Movies… I just love them… But that is not the case now. Watching movies have always been…
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125/365 Getting Perfect Scores in Life
Life is not a race or a test to get perfect scores.. It is not a Gymnastics act either.. even though many of us might feel it is at times…. Life does not give you perfect scores. But as human beings we are obsessed with it. I was trying to think if I have ever…
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124/365 On our deathbed we will not feel we could have spent more time in office
Talking about death is not considered the best thing in most cultures.. but there are many cultures where death is discussed… As mortals I think we all need to think about ourselves in deathbed and imagine how the world around us should be at that time. How we should feel… and how others would feel……
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123/365 It is not enough to be on the right track, if you don’t move you will be run over
There are times when I question myself…. if I am on the right track…. What we navigate in life is not always black and white and there are so many grey areas. The question is if we are on the right track and it repeats itself. And we need to answer.. but it is not…
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122/365 Life is shot at you point blank; it is here and Now
We all have limited time… though when we are young we think otherwise. The first time we hear death or see it we know life will end but we always feel that is a long time in the future. We have time.. And then years later it dawns on us that we have to be…
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121/365 When the going gets tough the tough gets going
Tough is always considered better than Weak. I was also taught that anyone can be tough. And I honestly believed that. Till I started thinking otherwise. I believe in Darwin’s theory or evolution… I don’t believe in any other story… but when you look at our human life from a survival of the fittest point…
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