Tag: belief

• March 4, 2016

  Broken meditation streak

  Last night I broke 234 day long med­i­ta­tion streak in Calm.com. While it is unfor­tu­nate that I could not find even ten min­utes to medi­ate yes­ter­day, there is a bright side. I engrossed in some­thing impor­tant and lost track of time. That’s mind­ful­ness, isn’t it?  By the time I real­ized, it was six min­utes to twelve in the night. I could… Read more

• November 10, 2015

  Ben Horowitz’s Commencement Speech at Columbia University

  Ben Horow­itz’s speech at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty is a great com­mence­ment speech I enjoyed in a long time. It is wit­ty, insight­ful, opti­mistic and uncon­ven­tion­al. I loved his main idea: fol­low your con­tri­bu­tion instead of your pas­sion. The next thing I loved is this quote: As human beings we want to be liked. It’s anthro­po­log­i­cal. If peo­ple did­n’t like you… Read more

• October 1, 2015

  How much is too much

  As a per­son­al blog­ger most­ly writ­ing about myself, my biggest dilem­ma is to decide how much is too much. I often won­der if I am expos­ing myself too much on the inter­net. Until recent­ly, I did not even dare to have my pho­to on this blog. I am cer­tain­ly not ready to post my fam­i­ly’s pho­tos here. I may, in the… Read more

• September 30, 2015

  About me in three words

  For a long time I described myself as unpar­al­leled, unpre­dictable and unas­sum­ing. I had filled all my online bios with just these three words. They still apply to me but I stopped using these adjec­tives for no clear rea­son. Lat­er I learned that using adjec­tives is a ter­ri­ble way to describe one­self. While I think there is mer­it in “show, don’t tell”… Read more

• March 6, 2015

  Not giving a fuck

  Tim Fer­riss tweet­ed and I retweet­ed this great post titled, The Sub­tle Art of Not Giv­ing a Fuck. Stop what you are doing right now and read this. “@tferriss: The Sub­tle Art of Not Giv­ing a Fuck http://t.co/lp6xUDTpt4” — Chai­tanya M S V (@chaitanyamsv) March 5, 2015 It has so many f‑words in it but it is a great post… Read more

• March 6, 2015

  Adventurous Life

  You don’t have to jump off the planes or cliffs to be adven­tur­ous. You can also live an adven­tur­ous life by not accept­ing the sta­tus quo, not giv­ing in, not lis­ten­ing to cyn­ics, and not stop­ping to learn. All it requires is the belief that any­thing you don’t like at any stage in your life… Read more