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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