Tag: Books
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Writing is not easy
I had a request from a publisher to write a book since May last year, and I even started writing it, only to find out how difficult it is. The sheer energy needed to bring your thoughts to words. I realized it was not for me. Last week the publisher reached out to me and…
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How we spend our time
Today with so many options, there is so much that craves our time and attention and not all of them are useful to us. Some of them we know are useless and yet we do them. Some of them we only know the uselessness in hindsight. This also means we sometimes know how useful things…
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Happiness of being used
In Ichiro Kishimi‘s ’The courage to be disliked‘ there is an interesting sentence that comes to me over and over. It goes something like this, or that is how I understood. “Happiness and self worth comes from being beneficial to the community, by being of use to someone else.” This is a profound and deep…
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A look at books in 2024 and for 2025
As always this year I took a note of the books I have consumed. I say consumed because books are not just read anymore, they are listened to as well. It came to 36. 16 read and 20 listened. As the year is ending, the last book of the year is Hope for Cynics –…
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The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt | Book Positive
How is technology and our online interactions impacting us? The even more important question is “how is it impacting the younger people”. I can attest that it has significantly impacted me at this age and when I took a 90 day detox it made me realize how much my online persona had eaten into the…
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The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon
Sharon McMahon‘s ’The Small and the Mighty‘ tells you the story of 12 Americans who changed the course of history. School Teachers, a telephone operator, a poet on a train, a young boy detained in a Japanese concentration camp (We still call it internment camp when it was really a form of incarceration) and others.…
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How Stupid Am I Really ?
Reading through 350+ pages on stupidity… On the psychology of stupidity to be precise. A few things have become clear. I have been stupid way more times that I will publicly accept. And everyone I have known has been stupid in atleast on one occassion. They might not accept but I have felt so. And…
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Stories that hit us hard
Dan Heath’s book ‘Upstream’ starts with a story which has come to my mind over and over. And every time it hits hard… Two people standing next to a stream see a baby floating. One of them jumps and saves the baby. Immediately they see another baby floating. The other person jumps and saves. Then…
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How we spend our days
Sometimes a whole week of work with all its turbulence, confusions, learnings and self reflections finally boils down to a few minutes talk on a Friday and you say “that was a worthwhile week… Not perfect but productive”. And yes you say a Thank You! a big Thank You ! This ‘Thank You’ can be…
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327/365 What to read and how?
How do you read what you need to read? Read and listen to be precise. A few months back I made a list of things I needed to read. Here is what I came up with and I knew all this would not work out. But I wanted to address the ‘HOW’ only after I figured…
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