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Here is a list of my life’s learnings, the thoughts I live by (or at least try to live by) daily. And I hope to keep adding more to the list as I grow older… On Learning We all spend our 20s thinking we know everything. In our 30s we realise we never knew anything, and then actually start growing. So the 40s are a lot easier with this knowledge that we don’t know much 😊. We learn forever. We need to. Never think you’ve learnt all there is to know, and stop working on yourself. That will be the end of you as a person. Always look to improve yourself, through small or big things. (This is not an original thought but I love it and it’s so true) We all never realise but as children, we saw our parents growing up. Our parents had us very young and were still finding themselves then. So we should be a bit kinder to them for their mistakes, they just had us too soon and didn’t get enough time to grow up, before having children. A lot of life’s learnings seem obvious once you dis...

Ask yourself a few questions today Do you feel your mind is always whirring, always running? Jumping from one to the next to-do? Planning the day ahead without pausing enough for the moment now? Even when you are ‘relaxing’? Do you feel you are always running to deadlines, whether at work, or even in personal life? Even when you may not have to? Do you sometimes feel guilty when you have free time, and you don’t do something ‘productive’ with it? Do you feel a pressure to always multi-task? To listen to a book or podcast while running? To read something while in the tube? To do something on your laptop while watching tv? To check your phone while having a conversation with a friend? Do you find it tough to sit and focus on one task for too long, without your mind wandering somewhere else? Do you find yourself unable to just read a book or exercise, without getting distracted with something else, especially your phone? Do you find it difficult to stay aw...

Most people will agree with me if I say that today’s political world is highly polarised. We can see it across the largest world democracies, most notable for me being US and India, given my background. In US, this has taken the form of Trump vs an anti-Trump stand. And in India, it’s the Modi vs anti-Modi stance. What we are increasingly seeing are people picking, or made to pick one of two sides. And both sides then decide to stick to their ground of what is right and what is wrong. Come what may. It’s led to an impasse, as both sides refuse to even acknowledge the other point of view. And there is no way out of it, really. Honestly, both sides are to be blamed for this. Both sides feel like they are absolutely right and the other side is absolutely wrong. And this arrogance prevents open and humble dialogues between the two. You can see it when you have discussions with your friends. We continue discussions if the others agree with our viewpoints, but stop listening when they h...