Born To Pay E.M.I: Recent Episodes
Aravind
When everyone around you is pushing and forcing you to be perpetually productive, achieve greater things in life, come out of your comfort zone, keep growing, learn a new skill and do more, you need someone to remind you to take it slow and calm the hell down.
I am that someone.
Amidst all the chaos that surrounds you in the form of forced and toxic positivity, false motivation and peer pressure, this series is all about pausing our sprint for a moment and embracing our mediocrity. To realize that we are average and we will die average no matter what. Welcome to the demotivational podcast!
I have arranged a very special one-to-one guided meditation session on staying average. Affirmations included. Awaiting payment for this. Sit back and keep sitting back because that's what average people do.
It all ends here. Or does it actually begin? Nah! It ends. Good luck on being average and I really hope we stumble upon each other on a commute, in a bar, on the crosswalk or anywhere else.
The path to liberation is tough. That's why you need some substantial concepts to help you become an average person or employee. Stoicism and Taoism could help you become one. You are the Chosen One.
Employee motivation is a joke. You and I both know that. From ethnic days to team lunches, it's all bullshit. But why do we enjoy them?
Tested and proven strategies on how you can be the most average employee in your workplace. All 100% effective.
This is the episode that will change everything. Well, not really. It just asks us to calm the hell down.
Everyone's a motivational speaker until....no wait, everyone's a motivational speaker today. Even influencers online make motivational reels on making it big in life. Has motivation become a joke just as our lives? Is there too much fake positivity around us today?
Hint: Yes.
Admit it. Haven't you bought that Bluetooth headset, watched that phenomenal TV series, read that book or listened to that hit song just because of peer pressure? Who knows. Even your career could have stemmed out of peer pressure. Well, let's not get there and simply listen to this episode.
P.S. Lot of LinkedIn bashing happening. Keep your shoes and offence outside.
Discriminatory and brainwashing, advertisements are constantly making us feel miserable in the pretext of enriching our lives. Are our aspirations really ours? Well, let's find out.
On that note, feel free to drop a message if you want your commercial on this podcast. I am a hypocrite.
Advertisements are always subliminally influencing us. This prologue takes you to the near future - a dystopian scenario - where advertising has taken a deadlier form. Who is going to save us?
A very loud shoutout to my cousin Anushree for agreeing to the voiceover. It wouldn't have sounded this way if it weren't for you. Cheers :)
The internet is posing a new threat to us in the fact that it makes us feel we could become anybody we want. We are just one course, video or mantra away from becoming a whole new person and unlock inner potentials. But where is this leading us to?
Why was this series conceived and developed in the first place? Did I have too much time? Was there an angle to be explored? Well, you'll never know.