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To succeed in whatever you’re doing, you know that focus is one of the most essential ingredients.  As a matter of fact, if everyone were able to summon their powers of concentration and focus single-mindedly on their goals, we would be hearing success stories everywhere.  People would be able to contribute much more to the world with their unleashed talents and consequently be leading much more fulfilling lives.
The philosopher Sir William Hamilton in 1859 carried out a simple experiment in which he cast down a handful of marbles, varying the number of marbles thrown and attempted to estimate their number … Continue Reading

Those who study large scale information databases, i.e. those in the terabyte (1012) to the petabyte (1015) range, suggest that information in the global intellectual inventory is now doubling as fast as every nine months.  This rate of information doubling was supposedly every three years in the late 1990s while in the immediate post World War II period information doubling required decades.

Source : The Basics of Satellite Communications By Joseph N. Pelton
Today, the rate of information growth is doubling very quickly, as fast as every nine months in some fields.

What this means is that if you studied 10 … Continue Reading

“Oh, it doesn’t matter.”

“Well, that wouldn’t hurt.”

“Don’t sweat the small stuff.”

As we go about our daily lives, we tend to neglect the micro choices that we make consciously or unconsciously.   But here’s the thing – the law of Cause and Effect is continually at work whether we know it or not.  Every choice has a consequence, every cause that you set in motion has a resultant effect on your life.

Everything you do, counts.  The life that you’re experiencing now is a summation of all the choices that you have made to date, whether you know it or not.

When a person … Continue Reading

Think about it, do you like things to be overly complex?

Probably not, right? Even people who like challenges would be weighed down eventually by things which are overly complex.

Complexity decreases efficiency and more often than not encourages procrastination.  You might have heard of the term “paralysis by analysis”, which simply means that when you analyze too many factors, you get inundated and start procrastinating instead.

Further, complexity wastes a lot of your energy and drains you of whatever initial enthusiasm you might have.

Yes, Life is complex at times.  Problems are complex at times.  Choosing simplicity doesn’t mean denying reality.  It means … Continue Reading

You are breathing.  Ok, you should be. :p

You can perceive and experience the world around you using your five senses.

Unfortunately for you (and most of us), one day, your life will come to an end.

The important question therefore,  is, from now till then, how are you going to live your life?  Will it be a life of joy, bliss, accomplishments and fulfillment?  Or will it be one filled with anxieties and worries, stress and depression?

Which do you want it to be?

As we talked about in the previous article on … Continue Reading

STOP!

How did you end up here?  Something caught your attention?

You know what, mortal? I’ve successfully stolen a few seconds from your life.

Fortunately for you, reading this will be rewarding.

Because as you’re reading this, for once, you’re probably more aware of what you’re now reading.  Think about the myriad of content that competes for your attention everyday and everywhere, which you mindlessly indulge in.  Does it raise to your awareness how much time was possibly wasted?

One of the ironies today is that while we have … Continue Reading

This is quite an interesting video.The AnacondaJaguar Vs Anaconda. Battle To The Death. – video powered by MetacafeAlso, the narrator mentioned a thought provoking point – the Jaguar succeeds because it knows no fear. It’s interesting that many of us including myself find ourselves not realising our true potential not because our problems are too big for us – but that we allow our fears to grow too big for us.From a biological perspective, when we allow our fears to get the better of us, our mammalian brain starts … Continue Reading

You know with increasing competition and sophisticated technology ever helping to increase our productivity, we are beginning to handle more concurrent things in life today. Even kids these days are not spared, they have increasing pressure from school, additional tuition to supplement their learnings in school, piano, violin, taekwando, etc. lessons to complement their academic life. Working adults are handling more projects at work and have to effectively manage their personal lives and provide for their families, take care of kids, etc. It’s no wonder that more people are getting depression these days.

There is an increasing tendency … Continue Reading