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 […]
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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 […]
My Benefits of Reading
I had in my previous blog written about the perils of reading serious books in India. That blog was about external factors. This present blog is about the changes internally that I experienced in my life through reading good books. So to summarize my advice – read for enjoyment, read good books repeatedly and imbibe […]
The Perils of Reading in India
The books I have read have affected my life internally and externally. Regarding the internal changes I will write another blog. The external changes are also interesting and I think you can learn something from my experiences. I remember a visit to a lady psychiatrist more than 20 years ago. I had retired at the […]
I just learned that I don’t know how to read
I have in my library in Mumbai and Pune more than 500 books. I am known to be a person who reads a lot and I did, when I was young, spend a lot of time with books. I am well qualified and have a blog (this one) and more than a thousand answers in […]
The Best Self Help Books
I spend some time every week answering questions on Quora. For those of you who have not heard of quora.com, it is a question answer site which can give you good guidance if you have any questions you need answered. Quora has been funded by about US$ 225 million by private investors. It is a […]