Author: vinodnarayan
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81/365 Can some types of cheating be OK?
So cheating is bad… But can some cheating be ok. Now don’t start thinking about all the kind of cheating you have done in life. Because we use the word cheating in a lot of different ways. As of now I am cheating. I started this project 80 days back and the plan is to…
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80/365 How about learning something New
I keep talking about continuous learning, but then when someone asks me what are you learning, I might have to think. Do books I read count? Does Articles I read count? What about conversations? Videos.. movies?.. just work…? Learning needs a structure I agree and so I am thinking I should pick a topic for…
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79/365 Conversations & Learnings
There was a time in the past when even short durations could fit in large and meaningful conversations that hang around in your mind even after it is ended. They open up spaces inside us where we can fill in new knowledge and even use that to unlearn some of the things we already know.…
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78/365 Why Should We Create
There is the creator economy. I am not sure if it is for everyone, but I think everyone should create. Becoming a Creator is not about having a million followers. It is much more personal and valuable than that. I have been creating content in the sense of the word since 2005 with this blog,…
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77/365 Writing is a Houdini Trick
Suspended straight jacket escape is one of the most famous Houdini trick. Yesterday I felt that writing did such a trick for me. It helped me tremendously… to get out of a mental space I was stuck. Not just that I also learned a few things interesting about me. If you remember my post yesterday,…
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76/365 My space in a Maze
There are feelings that are tough to explain in words. I have such incidents at times. It is weird but I will try to explain it here. or attempt to put it in words. There are certain parts of my life that is more like a maze and I sometimes wonder where my space in…
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75/365 When you change some people will distance from you
“The world is changing” He shouted… “I know it dammit” I shouted back at him.. “So what are you going to do about it” he wanted an answer as if he was standing at that tip of change. I kept quiet and looked around me… I had to think.. Change is all over us and…
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74/365 Happy Teacher’s Day – From Teachers to Facilitators of Learning
Is that a long journey…? in 2020 just before the pandemic broke I was at a teacher’s training institute in my home town in Kozhikode, talking to new teachers who were leaving the college that year…. and this was one of the question I had in mind. The Journey to being a teacher is what…
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73/365 Ten Years back I wrote a Novel
A November Sunday was the Novel I wrote… around 56 thousand words… completely written in a moving train as part of my daily commute to San Francisco in 30 days in a November in 2011. Not sure if I should call it a Novella instead of a Novel Every year folks come together to write…
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72/365 The slow pace of life
I read carl Honore’s ‘In Praise of slowness’ sometime in 2011. I read that after I heard one of his TED talks. I can’t say I have consciously practiced that. But years later when I look back, there are elements of me that has had an interesting pace. Last one and a half year a…
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