You can only improve things which you measure

You can only improve things which you measure

Let’s say you want to improve your ability to focus.

After a couple months, you wont be able to tell if you have made substantial improvement unless you have some metrics to measure.

You can only say you improved your focused work hours by x% when you have the data to back it up.

To have that data, you must track measure and track something which proves your performance.

For example, on day 1 you can say I worked for 1.5 Hours in a focused manner. You can keep tracking it every day, and can measure your progress.

-Saurav Sharma

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Consistency

Consistency: Understand than improvement is not a one day game. Improvement is a gradual and a very slow process. You can only start working on improving certain aspects of your life today, does not mean that you will see the result in the next day or even next month. Why most people are skeptical about self improvement is because they lack patience and expect fast results. To improve upon anything, its’ important that you do it on a daily basis. You don’t need to do a lot but you need to do it daily. To remember this, keep this phrase in your mind “Doing a little everyday > doing a lot a single day”.

-Saurav Sharma

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To have bigger goals, you must be around good people

To have bigger goals, you must be around good people: Most of your achievements do not depend on your hard work but depend upon the people around you. If you are around mediocre people all day long, chances are that you will end up being like them. This is why families which belong to a certain class in a society always remain in the same financial circumstances for generations to come. The way in which this works is that when you be around people, you are influenced by their thoughts and actions. For example, if you are around drunkards you will thinking that drinking a lot is common and you will end up being a drunkard. When you be around chain-smokers you will find smoking to be acceptable and you will end up being a smoker as well. If you be around people who think making X amount of money, buying a car which costs Y is acceptable then you would impose that standard on yourself as well. Imagine if you be around your friends who are terribly fat, they eat potato chips, drink soda and lay down all the time. Chances are that if you hang around with them, you will end up being like them as well. On the contrary, if all of your friends are fitness addicts with a six pack, even if you are a fat guy the next time you go out with them you will feel ashamed of your body and would at least think about joining a gym. Hence always be around people who are better than you, it’s better to be along rather than being in the wrong group of people. If you have no people around you who can be ideals then read autobiographies of great people, reading them has the same influence as being around them.

-Saurav Sharma

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Act on the criticism

 Act on the criticism : Don’t just say “I am a lazy person, I procrastinate a lot”. Instead do something about it. Self-criticism is the first step, acting upon it is the second but more important than the first one. Once you address your flaws, act upon it. If you have certain habits which are holding you back then find ways to eradicate those. Criticising yourself alone wont do anything unless you find a fix for your problem. You wont improve yourself in a day, even in a month. The process of improvement is gradual and continuous and lifelong.

-Saurav Sharma

Self-criticism is extremely essential

Self-criticism is extremely essential :If you are someone who truly wants to improve then you need to be your only biggest critique. Being a self critique is extremely hard and not a lot of people can be one. You cannot improve unless you know whats holding you back from achieving your true potential. Analyse what habits are holding you back. Im sure you must have a habit that you know is holding you back and you know that you should do something about it but when you think about it, you feel guilty and try to ignore it on purpose. criticism can be harsh, it can make you depressed for a while but is extremely essential for self-improvement. Its like that bitter pill you need to take when you get sick, it tastes terrible but it will make you better.

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

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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

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