Stay humble

Stay humble: I’ve seen people fill up with pride like a hot air balloon when they achieve a teeny bit of success. They get a huge ego boost, they start considering themselves as some kind of god who knows it all and can never fail however thinking that is a recipe for disaster. Yes, you must celebrate your success but you should also realise that there are tons of successful people that are way ahead of you and have done a lot more than you did. Only then you will be able to think ahead in life. When you be humble and realise that your success is nothing as compared to others, only then you will be able to reach to the level of people who have achieved a lot more than you.

-Saurav Sharma

People Develop Their Attitude Depending on........

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You will suck at everything

You will suck at everything :When you start something for the first time, be it a new business, a new job or learning a new language. You will be terrible at it no matter how high your IQ is. Everyone who starts something new will suck at it at first, however most people don’t start or pursue something new just be cause they expect to hit the home run in their first attempt. If you lift weights in a gym for the first time you will realise how weak you are and your body will ache terribly the next day. When you start to learn a programming language for the first time, most of the things wont make sense and everything will seem so complex. However if you keep doing it, you get better at it after a period of time and you will suck less. When you still keep pursuing it you will get good at it. Hence, don’t be afraid to do something new just because you don’t know how to do it. Unless you do there is no chance you would learn how to do it. You can’t learn to swim unless you jump in the pool.

-Saurav Sharma

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Do motivational Speakers bring massive, or, even real measurable transformation in your life?

 Let me ask another similar question.

• Do good teachers help students to learn?

The answer to this simple question is not so simple.

I had the occasion to teach during my PhD course and also as an Adjunct Faculty in my institute.

I was also the Course Director of the IRS (C&CE) officers of 2008 and 2009 batch where I took a large number of classes.

• I have found that in the class some students learn so well that they can write even better answer than me.
• However, I have also found that some students are so ignorant of my teaching that I feel as if I have not taught them at all.

The learning by a student is a combination of the effort of the teacher and the student.

If a student is not willing, no teacher can teach him.

If a student is mischievous, he would learn bad things even if the teacher is teaching good things in the class.

A teacher was trying to explain to the students the ill effects of drinking alcohol.

He took two beakers. One was filled with water and the other was filled with alcohol.

He then took one insect and dropped on the beaker that was filled with water.

The insect could easily swim over the water and reached to the other side.

Then he dropped the insect in the beaker filled with alcohol.

The insect couple not swim but died within no time.

Then the teacher asked the students, ‘What lesson you learn from this experiment?’

One student replied, ‘Sir! It means that if you drink alcohol, it will kill all the worms in your body.’

This is what happens with motivational speakers also.

If you are a good learner, you would find their lectures extremely useful and life transforming.

However, if you're dumb or you are there to only prove the speaker wrong, you would find the lecture and the speaker both useless.

-Awdhesh Singh

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Changing Yourself or Changing the World ?

 You are asking to compare two things which are incomparable.

• Changing the world is impossible.
• Changing the self is immediately possible.

Most people waste their life trying to change the world and in the process they themselves change to fit into the world.

No one can change the objective world, which always consists of good as well evil. .

• Many great saints, prophets and even Avatars of God tried to change the world, through love and spiritual knowledge but they failed.
• Many philosophers tried to change the world by giving the world new thoughts, but they too failed to change the world.
• Many kings and tyrants tried to change the world by sword and terror, but they also failed.
• Many revolutionaries tried to change the world by overthrowing the rulers and they too failed.

The objective world is never going to change.

However, it possible to change your subjective world to a great extent.

And that can be done by changing yourself.

• If you become good, the world becomes good to you.
• If you become evil, the world becomes evil to you.

Hence, be the change that you wish to see in the world.

When you make yourself good, your world becomes good to you, though the same world would continue to remain evil for other people who are themselves evil.

-Awdhesh Singh

If a cab driver makes more money than an IT professional, why should I study?

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Regrets...........

If a cab driver makes more money than an IT professional, why should I study?

 You should continue to study so that you would understand what false equivalence is and how to avoid falling into it.

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So these are the gems that your finding-A cab driver makes more money than an IT professional-ignores:

1. An entry level cab driver might make more money than the IT professional, but a senior-level IT professional would have more relaxed life, more vacations, more rooms in the house, more money in stocks, gold and bank than a senior-level cab driver.
2. All cab drivers, regardless of age or experience, generally earn a fixed rate per trip. In contrast, a high-level IT professional can earn 10 to 100 times more than someone just starting out in the industry.
3. If you're unhappy in IT, you can always switch to driving a cab. But if you start as a cab driver and later realize your assumptions were wrong, transitioning into IT becomes significantly harder.
4. Your knowledge compounds in IT. Based on your projects and work experience, you grow up the ladder. And this compounded knowledge results in more money. As cab driver, well, your knowledge is stagnant and your income depends on inflation and not on your skill.
5. Your IT job has paid holidays, medical leave and health insurance. As cab driver, if you don’t work, no pay.

So

The thing is

Choose right data and derive right conclusions to take right decisions.

-Srinath Nalluri

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Most people don’t know the principle of............

Most people don’t know the principle of energy management.

You might have heard and practice time management but one of the most underrated resource is your energy.

Just like time, energy is a finite resource and you only have a finite amount of it every day.

Hence it is important to spend it wisely because just like money, if you make a bad investment of energy you will get bad returns.

There are three aspects of energy management.

1. Conserving energy.
2. Enhancing energy.
3. Directing excess energy into something meaningful.

Conserving energy:

You might not realise it but you are draining tons of valuable energy by doing certain things like browsing social media or watching YouTube videos.

Here are certain ways you can conserve your energy.

1. Stop browsing social media endlessly, if you want to use social media use it at the end of the day after your have made a good investment of your energy into meaningful activities like working on your goals.
2. Avoid arguing with people, it is a big energy drain when you get into arguments with people on the internet and in real life.
3. Avoid negative people at all costs, people who talk about negative things all the time when you meet them. Your mind is a garden, don’t let these people turn it into a dumping yard.
4. If there is something which bothers you at the current moment, write it on a piece of paper and say to yourself that you will deal with it later. When you are constantly worried about something while you are working or studying it will drain a lot of your energy.
5. Stop thinking about things you cant change, not everything can be your control so there is no point in draining your energy thinking about something you cant control.
6. Work on one task at a time, multitasking and context switching are again huge energy drainers. We waste a lot of time when we switch from doing one task to other.
7. Pro tip: Treat your energy like money and spend it wisely. Would you pay money to browse a dumb social networking site which offers you no value ? If not then why would you waste your energy which is much valuable then money ?

Enhancing your energy:

There are certain things you can do to enhance your vital energy, these things are simple and can be done by almost anyone.

1. Improve your physical fitness, it has a huge impact on how you feel. You don’t have to become a bodybuilder or go to a gym to be fit. You can just walk / run for 30–40 minutes a day and do some pushups.
2. Have a good diet, your body is a vehicle and your food is your fuel. Would you put crappy fuel in your Mercedes ? If not then why would you put junk in your body? Stop eating junk food and eat healthy. Eating healthy does not mean you have to buy those expensive protein tubs. There are a lot of food items which are nutritious and yet cheap like groundnut, bananas, eggs etc. If you fuel your body well, it will produce more energy.
3. Take multi vitamins and mineral supplements, they are vital to your brain health and can enhance your performance a lot. You never know which vital vitamins or minerals your body lacs hence it is better to do a blood test once a year and visit a doctor. Don’t go for those expensive multivitamins which cost a fortune. Generic multivitamins at your local medical store are enough and they are affordable.
4. Taking a power nap is another great way to recharge your mind and body. If you feel tired and exhausted during the day, instead of using your phone better take a 20 minute nap. You will feel fresh and energised to work.

Directing excess energy into something meaningful:

By the end of the day we do have some excess energy.

You can spend it any any way you want but make sure that you don’t invest it into something which is counter-productive like watching TV or spending time watching dopamine inducing videos.

Bill Gates has this trampoline room built in his house so that his kids can spend their excess energy jumping all day.

The reason why it is important to spend this excess energy is to avoid its misuse.

When you have an energy built-up and it has nowhere to go, chances are we will misuse it.

Other things which you can do to spend this energy are:

1. Reading a book which will help you sleep better.
2. Working out at home or at a gym.
3. Going for a swim.
4. If you are into art, you can draw, write an article or a poem.

Once you get better at the above three things you will eventually have the energy to work on your goals and wont feel tired and lazy.

Plus when you have the energy to work on your goals and you are working towards it, you would feel naturally motivated and driven to work.

The reason why you are feeling low right now is because your body is signalling you to stop abusing all the energy you have and get things in order.

-Saurav Sharma

Life is Hard

9 to 5 Job

 You are a lucky person if you have to work only from 9 to 5 i.e. for 8 hours, perhaps for 5 or 6 days in a week.

There are millions in this world like housemaid, housewives, labourers, guards, cops who have virtually no working hour and no scheduled holidays.

You must appreciate that every single working day, you have 16 hours at your disposal and you have 24 hours at your disposal on the weekends, holidays and leaves.

The number of free days you can enjoy in a year would be in the range of 100-150 days.

What a lucky person you are?

You have reasons to be happy and satisfied with so much time and resources at your disposal.

Millions of people would consider themselves lucky, if they can get your job.

When you are working 9 to 5 job, you also don’t have to worry about the health of the company because you can always change your job.

You also get sufficient money as salary to live a decent life and take care of your family.

The real problem with 9 to 5 job is that almost everyone you see around yourself has it.

Hence, you don’t feel special being an employee as you have nothing great to boast off.

You have been conditioned to believe that you are a special person who deserve something special in this world.

Hence, you feel ordinary and common doing the same thing over and over again and get bored.

Many people leave their jobs and start their own company or business to get rid of this routine.

However, most of them end up making their life worse rather than better for the following reasons.

• According to Bloomberg, 8 out of 10 entrepreneurs who start businesses fail within the first 18 months Thus 80% new entrepreneur lose all their savings, get burdened by debt and then back to 9 to 5 job soon.
• When you start your business, you have to work 12-14 hours a day for almost 7 days in the week. Even when you are not going to the office, you are working from home.
• You have to worry about cash flow, office rent, competitors, and employees all the time.
• You have to worry about the legal compliance of your company and managing with tax payments etc.

If you decide to follow your passion and choose to become a writer, painter, singer, actor, musician etc., you struggle for earning your bread and butter until you reach to the top.

Don’t get fooled by the success of a few in these fields by listening to the interviews of those who have made it to the top.

For every successful person in the glamourous profession, there are hundreds who are struggling with life in these areas.

Learn to appreciate and value what you have rather than running after illusions and making your life miserable.

Instead of thinking that you are stuck in your job for the rest of my life, realize that your living is assured for life thanks to your job.

-Awdhesh Singh

How much time to prepare for a Govt Job ?

20s 30s ?

 I am way past that age, but I have some really good advice for you.

• You really do not have to worry too much about the time you have lost. Unfortunately that time would not come back, but you can do some significant improvements in your life and lifestyle for future.
• Fortunately, you can make up for all the things you could not do back in your twenties.

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• First of all, what you really need to do is to eliminate things that do not matter in your life. For example, cut connections with negative people, and then negative activities.
• You have to put an immediate stop to all those things. Without this you really will not change, and nothing will be better in future.
• This will sound hard, and feel bad in the beginning, but this is actually good for you. It will bring an immediate impact and then you can focus on great activities.

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Next, you should find three things in your life: Inspiration, motivation, and discipline.

• Inspiration: You have to find a set of people with whom you are willing to swap positions. Write down on a paper why you think those people are amazing. They must have done some great things in their lives. You have to identify those things. You have to read books and increase knowledge. You have to gain the experience they gained. You have to develop the habits they developed, and refine those habits for your purpose.
• Motivation: You have to look up to the great things you can do now, and how things in your life would look like when you have achieved them.
• Discipline: You have to build daily habits that help you get closer to your dream. You have to be very consistent with these habits, and keep tracking your progress on a weekly basis.

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Some greedy approaches:

• You can find out from others what are good skills to learn whether you like them or not. You have find out from others what daily habits they follow and reason with them why those habits are valuable.
• Last but not the least, you have to tell yourself, that any great success comes to you in 10 years, and a short version of it can be realized in five years.
• If you go by this plan, and systematically work on your life, you can achieve a lot, and your future can be significantly bright.

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Stay blessed and stay inspired!

-Rohit Malshe

Life Problems

Regret

No one else, but we put locks in our brains ourselves. Here is how it works:

 No one else, but we put locks in our brains ourselves. Here is how it works:

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• An old man used to live in a small town (more like a village). His home was very close to a school, and the school premises were often misused by people as they used to find a shortcut to places through the school premises. He did not want people to use school premises as a shortcut, but still wanted to use the shortcut himself for his commute.
• Here is what he did: He put a lock on the gate of the school, and observed the people. He watched that people would make it to the gate, but then seeing a lock, they would turn back and would take the long-cut.

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Then, in a few days, he took out the lock, but left the chain tied over and over around the gate. Note that now it was possible for anyone to un-tie the chain, and use the premises as shortcut. There was no stopping. There was no announcement. It wasn’t anything illegal.

BUT! People would see the chain, and would get discouraged anyway, and would walk away.

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He started calling this a mental lock. We all have mental locks in our brains, put by ourselves.

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• We tell ourselves that we cannot succeed.
• We tell ourselves that we are depressed.
• We tell ourselves that we have been cheated.
• We tell ourselves that we are not smart.
• We tell ourselves that we would not be considered for a job.
• We tell ourselves that everything that holds us back.

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There is no physical lock. The lock is in the brain. I had heard this story of the man who used to put the chain around the school gate, and I had this story in the back of my mind.

• One day, when me and my sister got two cats, we both didn’t want them to go to the kitchen area.
• We put a child barrier in our home, so that the kitten would not cross it.
• As the kitten grew to being cats, they still could not cross it, not because they had any physical limitations, but the lock was in the brain.

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Life will throw a lot of mental locks your way. They would be thrown by your family, friends, colleagues, supervisors, and so on. It is you who put those locks in your brains. You have to unlock them yourself.

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Your motivation will always end, when you will see some locks. If you stay disciplined, you can not just break some locks, but walk through walls.

Stay blessed and stay inspired!

-Rohit Malshe

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