Being an unconventional person in a traditional society like India causes inconvenience to his or her community and family as well. In this blog I will be discussing the financial risk that comes along with having a maladjusted person in your family. This is just anecdotal evidence. But it explains why people did not want […]
Category Archives: Self Help
On Empathy – Some Comments
I have been lacking in empathy pretty much all my life. It is only in the last 5 or 6 years that I have become somewhat empathetic. I am 61 years old now and that means that for about 55 years I was severely handicapped by not having empathy. I used to be very critical […]
Criticizing my Elders
I am, in this blog, going to criticize my elders. Since I am publishing it for the whole world to read I am doing so in public. I need to do so without causing offence. So I thought I would just give some quotes from books I have read that I thought my elders can […]
Why I am happy to be a Recluse
The meaning of the word recluse is: a person who lives alone and who maintains very little contact with other people or society OR a religious person who lives a life away from other people and society Both meanings apply to me to some extent. I have little contact with people and I take spirituality […]
What I have gained from books I did not understand
I used to do a lot of mindless reading when I was young. Mindless reading meaning: Much of this was pure escapism. I did not want to face up to the demons within me. I had psychological issues and lacked friends and company and so kept compulsively busy reading and walking. Now you may think […]
How Philosophy saved me 34K
I’ll start by telling the story of how I lost about Rs 2.5K just yesterday. I was surfing on Google search and the topic of my search was books and reading. Google AI recommended a mobile app Bookly. It said that this app would help organise my reading. Organize my reading means this: I want […]
A Message to Daniil Medvedev
Those of you who do not follow tennis – Daniil Medvedev is a Russian tennis player. He is currently ranked 13th in the world and has won the US Open. He is a charismatic character and somewhat controversial and modern tennis needs charismatic sportspersons. Otherwise today we have Sinner and Alcaraz dominating men’s tennis to […]
What does being Mature mean?
Some time ago a casual acquaintance hinted to me that though I was no longer young I was still immature. I forget the exact words but that is not important. What does being mature mean? I looked up the dictionary and this is what I got: to become more developed mentally and emotionally and behave […]
Why I am saying no to Business
If you are thinking of going into business for yourself read this first. You should find it interesting and useful. The following are the reasons why I am saying no to business. I am going to read this blog every time I feel tempted to pull out my credit card and buy another Internet marketing […]
How to change your Mindset
I know of a way to change your mindset but it is hard and difficult. I have done it myself. I was young and I had a tiger’s drive. I did something that may be thought of as completely impossible – I changed my nature. This is not something that I can do now at […]