Tag: psychology

Playing not Played, Review 2022

Everyone seems to be doing a yearly app for me. What a sweet gesture. Reminded me of doing one myself, from everythig that I remember. So here we go. First, lets take stock.. (from 2021 review) 2022 came with its own set of learnings and challenges. Things looked bleak in the first 3 months of the year.…

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Ambitiously Expect?

Recently read a great blog on managing expectations for a happy reality from the legendary Morgan Housel which can be found here: https://collabfund.com/blog/expectations-and-reality/ The tl;dr on the link above is simply captured in this quote: The first rule of a happy life is low expectations. If you have unrealistic expectations you’re going to be miserable…

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Power, Audience, Memes

The Internet is expanding. It is increasing its influence not just in the different services it offers and the category of reels it has on it. It is influencing the places we visit, the courses we enrol in, the food we consume, the jobs we take and the stories we believe. With its expanding reach,…

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Seriously…

How do we measure progress? A bunch of variables, benchmarked against what is being exhibited by people around the world. We have been trained to do so! Measuring ourselves against the competition that is “Out There” is not just phenotype but is ingrained in our genes. Our world is a relative world. The idea of…

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Hot Haste

The last two weeks have been fun, trying to figure out why we move like cars on a highway as if we have destinations to reach, which never seem to arrive. This brings me back to the subject, “What is it all about?” The question is like an onion, layers of which are constituted by questions…

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Purpose

Finding purpose is hard. A lazy thought process would lead us to believe that there is no big purpose to our existence, so why spend time finding it anyway. Zooming out and thinking about the vastness of the universe, the unfathomable highs, unmeasurable breadths very well makes me realise that, I am but a tiny…

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Happiness I

A topic that has kept me on my toes and my brain on a dose for a long, long time now. I am always scared to write about happiness as it is really tough to ascertain whether I have enough context to put thoughts into words. But like everything else, this needs to be done.…

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