IDEAS ARE COOL

Once, my teacher told to my class, “The greatest skill you can have in the 21 st century is the ability to learn, relearn and unlearn.” I was intrigued back then but today, I deduce the significance of the statement. Learning is pivotal for growth in any sphere of life – academics, sports, career, parenting etc. Learning can be articulated as imbibing new information and using that information to one’s own benefit. Whether you have to study for examination, hone a particular skill, improve any aspect of life it is an imperative. But, you might already know its importance even better than me and I don’t even need to explain. Relearning is an interesting term because it presupposes that we have already learned something. Since memory is forgettable if not used, we would require some time to regain the learnt process. For an example, when I used to teach my sibling his subjects of class X or to clarify doubts, I usually took some time to recall math formulas, science concepts

I have an obscure memory of the moment when I was in the Nursery of my school – I was making friends and I met a boy who lives near my house and we easily got along. I made some other friends too. It was a lively moment and though I remember minuscule about my early childhood school day’s since every student has a proclivity to despise going to school, still a benchmark would be when I entered into Class I and it was a novel moment when I had to stand in the assembly along with other classmates and pray to God. The same would be followed for next 12 years and it just feels like a fleeting experience. Reaching to assembly and praying for 20 minutes was never any amusing thing for anyone with a child’s temperament but it was the norm and I got acclimatised without much bickering. But, there is more than the assembly. It is how we commence the day and the divine blessing which is always needed to start your day with positivity. I spent 14 years of my life centred around the same

We are relentlessly bombarded with incessant advertisements, movies, web series, etc. and they are geared towards creating a demand. You know, consumerism functions on the principle of demand-supply. Companies need to engender demand so that they can supply and you can buy them. But, this Economics101 would be an abberation from the subject of this blog. The result is that we capitulate to these media at a point where we believe that we need something extra. We would easily dub our lives as mundane when encountered with numerous social media posts, vlogs, online articles etc. We can sense that there is something 'missing', which needs to be placed. This easily creates a sense of the possibility that some facets of life can be ' near perfect' whether that is a job, physique, lifestyle, etc. You would easily concede to the belief that your life isn't as glimmering as others, your ways of life are inferior to someone, your body, intellect, and any other attribute i

I would commence by introducing a Greek term -  Logos.  It refers to the logical explanation of the metaphysical world around us which is objective reality for each individual. Each of us has a different explanation for the life which occurs uniquely for us as individuals. A tribal from Amazon forest will comprehend reality in ways substantially disparate from an urban dweller in Mumbai.  Logos  is one of the facets of the three aspects through which we decipher the world around us. The remaining two  are  Pathos (emotional comprehension of life) and  Ethos (something believed to be true by a large group). Religions all over the world have served as systems which societies have used to comprehend the reality around them. Some would believe in an idea of God, someone in another idea of  Parmatma . Some believe that there is a superpower and all religions are same. Societies needed to be glued together so that they could survive hence, they built knowledge systems which count

I spent the previous year in entrenched pessimism, a sense of distraught on how life was trudging and a powerful discontent fraught my psyche. In an attempt to overcome this looming insurmountable menace, I had crafted a slew of plans, theories, isolated myself for a formidable length of time in the hope of a miracle – something which would just upend this menace. It can be conceived that I was depressed but I chose to battle it and I can assure, every day I was just mentally warring against it. It was accompanied with my exams in which I did great which was enough to supply some hope for my future. I cannot disclose what happened so explicitly, I hope you understand. But, take it as chronic depression. For one month now, it seems to be diminishing. But you need a paradigm shift to just extirpate any speck of depression on your brain. And I would explain how today, I found it. My mother had been in hospital for 4 days and I met her today. She was inside the ICU and the moment

Ambitions drive our actions. They are geared towards achieving a goal which we have in our mind. If we delve deeper into the psychology of ambition, we find that it emerges out of relative scarcity and - less marks, less money, subordinate job etc. We try to fill the scarcity from our actions and we deem it even necessary. In the same time, we acquire stress, have the urge to work 24x7 and just to improve our current position or achieve something greater in future. The strategy seems to validate the stress,  physical and mental resources being employed to achieve what we want. So, is ambition a virtue? That's the question I attempt to answer in this post. I would like to start from diving deeper into human's mind. We all need some meaning in life. A meaningless life easily succumbs to depression and even suicidal tendencies. Hence, to uphold the meaning in our lives, we create ambitions so that we live through the life with a meaning. This is why we hold our ambitions dea