A New Year Resolution is a resolve to initiate a new practice or habit or to carry on a certain act, in order to achieve a certain goal. This typically involves taking a quantum leap from a prevailing state of affairs – habit, behaviour or condition.
Modern life is too demanding and enervating. In the modern, pacy life, there are some “the least I can do” stuff that can come handy.
In all relationships, we should keep the base rate in mind. In the long course of life, there are bound to be some bad episodes, as long as we are dealing with nice people, we should stick with the base rates.
There are domains which work on the principle of Increasing Returns – Strength Begets Strength. One can benefit from these by either being at the right place at the right time or by inducing this effect in their favour by triggering some actions.
Effort and Rest are not opposing forces; rather they are parts of an upward sloping continuum, complementing each other towards the overall cause.
The point that I am trying to make is that the clock is ticking. It is ticking for me, as I write this; it is ticking for you as you read this!
Do not squander your time on frivolous matter.
‘The Glass is half empty’ attitude gives you a sense of purpose. ‘The Glass is half full’ attitude gives a sense of fulfilment. The shift in perspective helps you be the best version of yourself.
The degeneration in the capability to handle variability is spontaneous and autopoietic; to impede it, calls for efforts.
If you give up on your body & brain, the body & brain give up on you!
The best, the most error free, the most stress free and the fastest way to carry out multitasking is by carrying out one task at a time, partially, if not fully, and then switching to another task. I call this Monotasking.
Intuition can be trusted only in the presence of regularities and familiarities of the stimuli. It can’t be trusted when you are dealing with novel situations or when the environment can change dynamically, non linearly or unpredictably.