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Our attention and even our empathy levels have diminished.
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We have never really understood time as we are focused on Money.
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Beggars can teach us a lot.
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The feeling of being a fraud in your job role.
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.. answered with Emotional Intelligence
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These are two different things... Happiness is in the present and success is future oriented.
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Tips to strike great conversations with Strangers.
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Life is upside down and i prove it here and now.
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All the myths busted.
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Unrealistic expectations are premeditated resentment.
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Disclaimer: this is for the corporate world.
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The love for a lucky surprise.
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The indefinable, shape shifting entity that is our brain.
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New ways to make use of an extended vacation.
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Take some time out to learn in your busy schedule.
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A brief history of podcasts and what Podcast inventor Apple and challenger Spotify are planning next.
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Get hired and influence anyone with the art of storytelling. Exclusive content on neoviky podcast that can change your thinking.
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Reprise: Handling of difficult emotions.
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We choose emotional decisions over rational ones
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Why we choose complex solutions over simple ones.
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Everything about our ego.
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We see what we see due to our motivations and desires.
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The state of Zero. Originally published in 2008 as Man as a Machine: Zero.
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Don't be overwhelmed with Emotions
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Why we shouldn't identify with our job.
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How people are manipulated using FUD.
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Handling physical, mental, emotional and spiritual clutter.
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Why we are blind to risks.
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Don't wake up every morning as an employee.
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How to identify and handle the feeling of unhealthy guilt.
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Don't define your success by comparing with others. Run your own marathon
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How to Stay Awake and Alert while working.
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Deal with people showing passive aggressive behaviour.
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Beating automation and AI.
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A comprehensive talk on self-knowledge.
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Stop being fake.
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Make fast and accurate decisions using the OODA Loop.
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Hyper-spiritualism for everyone.
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A pre-requisite to achieve your goals.
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- Death meditation: zen death chant. 2. Meditation on loved ones. 3. Focusing on Play and Exploration.
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The fundamental reason for your focus or the lack of it.
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Interview dialogue with yogic practitioner and author Mr Vikramaditya Singh. We discuss Yoga, books and how millennials live their lives. Rockstar Series.
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How to Influence your environment for a better life.
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Do not give in to pain killers.
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Perfectionism or thinking in absolute terms is dangerous.
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Why is the desk job so exhausting?
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Practising deliberate failure for maximum learning.
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The emotional labour we put in our job.
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The rhetoric of using more words than required.
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The concept of Kaizen, or continuous improvement.
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Be a beginner for life.
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Becoming good at many things is better than attaining mastery in one. Featured celebrities: Scott Adams and Zat Rana
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Advice that was most common in over a thousand articles i worked over the past year:
Don't take stress. Worry and anxiety is not a solution to your problems.
Get good sleep.
Wake up early.
Exercise regularly and do Yoga.
Meditate for a few minutes daily.
Practice gratitude.
Avoid processed and refined food, and have a varied diet.
Phone notifications should be off.
Read books.
Practice deep breathing.
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We talk about procrastination.
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A question is more important than the answer. We don't ask the right questions, and our answers are based on the wrong questions.
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Remember they are also struggling.
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Taking into account the risks, the odds of failure and the opportunity cost while making a decison.
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We talk about the root cause of boredom and how to overcome this feeling.
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The secrets of TikToks appeal: Social creativity apps, most notably the hugely popular and controversial TikTok, use design elements, colors, visible choices and other neat tricks to facilitate a frictionless setup, ease of use and maximum penetration of the app.
The onboarding process and general app usage are made smooth and appealing by applying basic principles of human behaviour and human psychology.
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The mind wants more (to be happy) and less(to be at peace).
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Includes a 10 second meditation.
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A glimpse into risk, uncertainty and fear of the unknown.
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Pro tip: do not try to use logic, or even try to win.
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When faced with strong reactive emotion, we are usually unable to understand that our emotions are dynamic and start acting like wind-up toys doing the same motions, not being aware of other possibilities and options.
We get stuck in our emotions due to our spiralling mind, our fixation with old ideas and behaviours, our need to be always right, perfectionism and thinking in absolute terms.
Things We Do To Cope-Up With Negative Feelings
These are the three usual suspects, stuff we do to cope-up with our emotions:
Bottling up our emotions, leading to stress.
Brooding over our emotions, which usually leads to self-blame.
Forcing ourselves to see everything as positive, which can be delusional in many cases.
Get Unstuck: Cultivating Emotional Agility
Acknowledge and accept the various bad ways used to cope-up with negative emotions.
Identify the feelings and be comfortable with the uncomfortable emotions like frustration and hopelessness.
Start a journal and write down your deepest feelings and insecurities.
Look for clues in these negative thoughts, trying to find the underlying cause or pattern.
Identify the basic inconsistencies and try to make a course correction in the right direction.
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Just having one anchor task can make all the difference in your day and make you a Superhuman.
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6 tips to arm you for the next year after a roller coaster ride that was 2020.
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The paradox of being ignorant of your own ignorance.
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Make certain things non-negotiable if you want to progess in life.
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We need to cut out the noise, reducing our junk news consumption and also our contact with life-draining people.
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Creating Space In our lives
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Continuing the man as a machine series: Stupid People are the mechanical animals, bio-robots infesting our planet.
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A throwback to 2008 when i wrote a series of blogs on human behaviour: intelligence vs intellect. Part 1 of a series.
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Laziness: One Of The Seven Deadly Sins
Laziness or Sloth is the disinclination to use energy and is seen as a negative trait in most cultures.
Being lazy has also been associated with being a slacker, or a good-for-nothing person wasting time.
New scientific research tells a completely different story and lists out a few advantages of being a couch potato. Being tactically lazy can actually be good for us.
“Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
Robert A. Heinlein
Nature seems to reward laziness, and many species of reptiles and animals are notoriously slow and sleep most of the day.
Humans may be seeing laziness upside down, as it may not really be a sign of inefficiency or unproductivity, but a result of being able to work smartly and free up time to do nothing. Sitting lazily can also trigger further smart work.
The Benefits Of Laziness Part 1
Many smart solutions like the remote control, smart speakers, escalators and even the light switch are the work of lazy people.
Lazy people often actively procrastinate, and unlike the ‘passive’ procrastinators, they have better control over their work and time and perform well under pressure.
As lazy people see their energy as an expenditure that can be saved like time or money, they avoid unnecessary, low-output tasks, and prefer high-leverage tasks.
Lazy people are the pioneers of automating, delegating or eliminating monotonous and time-consuming tasks.
The Benefits Of Laziness Part 2
Lazy people are able to cope up better with stress due to procrastination and ‘killing time’.
They are able to regain control over their time and their own body and mind, recharging themselves and avoiding burnout.
Mind-wandering or diffuse thinking is the opposite of focussed thinking and is what the brain needs to be able to process information, leading to creative and innovative solutions to problems.
The Benefits Of Laziness Part 3
Slacking is good for our mental health, as being distracted and busy blocks our thoughts and feelings, leading to suppression of truth, and many mental ailments can arise from avoiding our real thoughts.
Resting and staying idle recharges our ‘energy stores’ just like a daytime nap refreshes us. Breaks are good for the body.
Many problems just need time to be auto-solved, and taking action may be detrimental to them. Lazy people often wait out and let the problem die on their own.
Being lazy may be an indication of a lack of motivation, lethargy, tiredness, hunger or a change that may be required on what we do with our lives.
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Give 30 seconds to this one for a secret....
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Why are we always in the center of our stories and narratives?
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What you see is what you get.
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A new way to react.
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Breathe and let others breathe.
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What if we didn't want so much? How to get out of the consumerist trap.
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10 points to live life to its fullest potential. A neoviky special episode.
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Even if you don't believe in God, you need to listen to this 2 min podcast.
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Happiness Is Always In The Future
We are always saving, anticipating and building towards some future ‘happy’ moment, where we believe we will eat a bigger slice of life.
We keep looking forward, towards the future when we will complete our project, or go travel somewhere, or experience the next big moment we have been waiting for, missing the Present all the time.
The Present Moment
We never stop and consider that maybe this present moment could be the moment we were waiting for all along, and could be the most important moment in our lives, with us not being present towards it.
We always take the present moment for granted as our whole attention is always to attain something more at a later time. There needs to be appreciation for the present moment, which is all we have got, essentially.
How To Appreciate This Moment Part 1
As the present may be the most important moment of our lives, here are some ways we can appreciate them:
Stop and be aware of you and your surroundings, feeling grateful.
Refocus your attention from something in the future, towards right now.
Feel the wonder and brilliance of life, seeing this as your big moment.
Most of the time we are in a hurry or are rushing towards something, and need to realize that we can still gift ourselves our full attention and feel the moment of rush just by being aware and appreciating how your body feels in motion.
How To Appreciate This Moment Part 2
A mundane life can be seen as an opportunity to examine our ideals about life and practice letting them go, as they might be blinding us from the incredible richness of life that surrounds us.
If you can’t find something outside you, find your own curiosity and inner appreciation of yourself.
If there is pain or grief in your life, you can be present towards those feelings with love and kindness towards yourself to make this less-than-joyous moment the most important and powerful moment in your life, giving you courage, learning, growth and open heartedness.
How To Appreciate This Moment Part 3
If the present moment is filled with fear, worry and anxiety, observe the changing nature of reality and find ground in the apparent groundlessness of life and find comfort and peace. This will make you strong and steadfast.
You can appreciate your partner and see them as a manifestation of beauty and love, a creation of God with whom your time is limited and extremely precious.
How To Appreciate This Moment Part 4
We can always turn inward and feel the goodness of our heart.
We can appreciate nature, the Sun, the flowers, the sky and see how present they are in this very moment.
We can appreciate our body, our eyes and ears that provide us the ability to interact with the present moment of beauty and wonder.
We can appreciate our ability to breathe, even the ability to use our legs to walk this planet.
Experience thousands of such moments in the most loving way that you can, providing your full attention.
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Three simple ways to feel better: 1) Meditate 2) Write what's on your mind 3) Talk to a caring listener.
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In 2020 i started practicing an ancient hindu 'yogic' sleep technique called Yoga Nidra, after reading a book on this profound meditation method by Richard Miller. I try to explain the same in this small introduction.
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Your life your soul your feelings everything is for sale.
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McDonald's food.. s**t served to billions.
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What the heck is tax and why do we have to pay taxes? Seems like a scam to me!
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The totally shut minds encountered everyday.
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We all have to follow orders from above... Why is that?
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We all hate our jobs, what if we could swap them?
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2 questions: Why are people in a constant state of misery and why do people calculate so much? Is there a correlation?
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On Keanu Reeves 55th Birthday and the 20th Anniversary of this iconic movie, I talk about..... The Matrix and what was it all about when it got released in 1999.
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Fake People, people who are consistently nice. A person who isn't perfect, is more authentic and real, but remains unknown.
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Going beyond the cycle of happiness and sadness.
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