You might have seen youtube videos where the youtuber requests the viewers to subscribe to the channel. Does such a request really work? During the I was surfing the internet to figure out researches on the same. However, I couldn’t locate any, if you know any please share. Even if see some LinkedIn or Instagram... Continue Reading →
Locations effect on habit
Mostly when we travel our habits are impacted. Moreover, when we move from one location to another we face challenges to continue older habits since we lose the previous flow suddenly. In fact, it’s a great opportunity to begin fresh and break the previous chains. How can we continue the habit smoothly while traveling? First... Continue Reading →
Fool’s Day
How did April fool come into existence? Let’s scratch the history to know about it. In 1582, France switched to the Gregorian calendar from the Julian calendar. However, the information didn’t spread as quickly as information spread today. France used to celebrate the new year around April 1st just like the Hindu’s new year is... Continue Reading →
Magic of Placebo on Hotel Maid
Image Credit During the day, I came across an interesting read-up, which discusses the research of Ellen Langer on Hotel Maids. The maids do certain physical activities at the hotel be it carrying luggage or cleaning. The maids far exceeded the U.S. surgeon general’s recommendation for daily exercise more than required physical exercise but it... Continue Reading →
Swiping != Quitting
I spoke with one of my cohort members who was facing challenges to continue the habit happily. Though, he still managed to push himself for 8 days consistently to do the habit. It speaks that he is interested to do the habit. However, he was doing it with a burden. To simplify the process I... Continue Reading →
Significance of colors
Image Credit On this auspicious day of Holi, I took a look at one of my articles on color, where I discussed how color speaks, especially in the natural world and in the digital world. Be it anything, we speak in terms of color. Observe your surrounding you will observe the variety of colors. Only water is... Continue Reading →
A world without gadgets
Recently, one of the cohort members was facing challenges to perform the habit timely. He had a prior belief that there is no way to do something without gadgets especially when you are alone in a room. After a few minutes of conversation, he started to come up with answers and was easily able to... Continue Reading →
Content Curation
I had a fruitful discussion with Abhash and Dhruv today. I connected with those guys through the slack community, ajvc. Thanks to Aviral for setting up such an amazing community. The discussion revolved around content. Both Abhash and Dhruv has been into podcast and newsletter. They discussed a variety of podcasts and newsletters they have... Continue Reading →
Do you want to be 🌳?
A tree lives its life selflessly. Apart from providing valuable eatables, tt provides us significant element oxygen. However, we rarely care about it. The way we care about the precious smart device in our hands. Even after living for decades, we use the leftover wood for other purposes. There are so many uses of the... Continue Reading →
How did 20 bucks help me?
Image Credit I was habituated to publish the articles as soon as I was done with writing. I was in a rush. I rarely reviewed them consistently. Some of my curious readers even suggested reviewing once before publishing. However, I didn’t like reviewing but deep down I knew it needed to be done for improving... Continue Reading →
Disney+
Netflix took a decade to achieve a remarkable achievement whereas Disney+ was able to achieve the same in the span of 16 months. We are talking about the 100 million(M) paid subscribers. Disney+ planned to achieve the same by 2025 but thanks to the Wuhanvirus and IPL and achieved the goal way ahead. 28 M... Continue Reading →
Content Diet || LinkedIn || Gratitude
I have been posting on LinkedIn for over a month now. Every time before posting I scroll through the feed and mostly I came across the posts either from Akshat or Pavan or Ayushi. Their posts give me a newer perspective. Askhat’s and Pavan’s posts are mostly on career enhancement, describing how to analyze the... Continue Reading →
J. P. Nadda at a small village
Today I observed the BJP President, J. P. Nadda, from a few meters speaking live. I was wondering how hard a politician's life is especially during the time of the election. The politician needs to visit the places and needs to make voters feel he is one of them. Without likeability, it’s difficult to gain... Continue Reading →
Yet another century!
The magical figure of 400 reminds me of Brain Lara, the only cricketer on the planet to have scored 400 in an inning. We mostly focus on that one inning, we rarely focus on the previous efforts or precisely, the failures. Only the success shines. Without failure, one is rarely successful consistently. Tp put in... Continue Reading →
Time Perception
I have been speaking with the new members of our habit community to help them gear up to form lifelong habits. Most of the common responses I have been receiving are lack of time. It’s interesting as we keep procrastinating on many important things like exercise, thinking we have ample amount of time whereas at... Continue Reading →
Camel Milk
During a malaria outbreak, members of Rajasthan’s Rebari community have a unique remedy: camel milk. Though camel milk was illegal in India during the outbreak. By that time, it has already gained a lot of attention in the Middle East and Western Countries. US has been importing camels to set up dairy farms. It speaks... Continue Reading →
Identity Change
When humans attempt to change a habit they focus on putting a full stop to a particular habit. For instance, we focus on quitting smoking. We don’t focus on replacing it. Monkey mind can’t be idle. It needs something all the time. If we don’t replace, we are still focusing on the old habit. As... Continue Reading →
Sanchi Stupa
Have you ever seen the above monument? If your smart device, brain, tell that you haven’t seen this scuplture, it’s time to revisit the 200 currency note. It is depicted on the reverse side of the note, probably to signify the importance of Indian heritage culture. It was designated as UNESCO World Heritage Site in... Continue Reading →
5 Seconds Rule
Image Credit If you don’t take an action, the brain kills the idea instantly. The monkey mind doesn’t like to walk out of the comfort zone. Counting in reverse orders helps in coming to the present moment. 5-4-3-2-1. Just do it once.. One of the participants of the cohort, Aklank , one of the coolest... Continue Reading →
A strange road
Image Credit Life is strange we love facts but we run on opinions. We like to travel on straight roads, where accidents happen more. But we still want the road to be straight not with turn and twists. To grow from zero to one, we need to take a smooth walk from the current situation.... Continue Reading →