I remember a meeting I had with a well regarded member of my community who moves around in high society. He is the sort of person who could easily have found me some work simply by calling in a favor from one of his high society friends. This was a social occasion in which many […]
Category Archives: Self Help
Still More Life Skills
I’ll end this series of 3 blogs by writing about something I have never been good at – interpersonal relations. Links to the previous two blogs are at the end of this article. I remember being desperate for friends when I was young. My very desperation caused me to behave in eccentric ways and I […]
More Life Skills
This is part two in a series of essential life skills. Link to parts 1 and 3 are below: This blog is about knowing yourself and learning thinking skills. I came up with my own method of knowing myself based on my reading. I was prone to a lot of self deception when I was […]
Essential Life Skills
I had initially thought of this blog as being about essential career skills but now I think that these skills are critical to living life as well. So I changed the title. These skills can be divided into 4 aspects: Knowing yourself, Human relations, being detached and thinking skills. I’ll start with some sales talk. […]
I can be trusted – Here’s why
I’ll start by explaining my motives for publishing this blog. Simply put, I want to earn some money and not be dependent on my family. I also want a more active social life. I am hoping this blog will allay the suspicions of people who are in a position to help but do not want […]
You are not here for a Popularity Contest
I am facing a lack of respect from society. I made my choices and they were bad ones (in some respects) and now I simply have to live with the consequences. But there is one guiding principle which helps both to make sound decisions and to live with lack of respect from people you meet. […]
Here is an Aid to Sound Decisions
I turned 60 recently. I am telling myself now that becoming a senior citizen starts at age 65 haha. I was in an introspective mood and I started wondering whether I was where I had wanted or planned to be in life. Flat broke, no family or career, no social life and a dependent on […]
How to Contemplate
What is Contemplation? I did a Google search and came up with these results Sourced from – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contemplation Relating to how to do this sort of contemplation I have come up with my own method. It is explained below: Whenever he has the courage and initiative to question life and keep questioning it, to interpret […]
Attn Students – What To Choose After your 10th Standard Board Exams
One of the members of my extended family has a young teenage son who is faced with the choice all middle class kids face in India – the choice between science, arts or commerce streams after their 10th standard board exams. I would like to make a pitch for encouraging your kids to choose the […]
The Ultimate Self Help Tip
There are some sentences from Shakespeare (Hamlet) that are justly celebrated as some of the most meaningful sentences ever written in any language. They are: Forget the first quote above. That is beyond the scope of this article and possibly beyond the scope of my intellect. Focus on the second (To thine own self etc). […]