Happy New Year..!!

Another year just passing by but this time I am much happier than the last year. I started my blog in the previous year which was one of the most productive decisions I ever took and I continued to post the entire year showing consistency. Consistency is crucial for any kind of success I am happy that I was consistent the entire year. I am very grateful for everyone who helped me in doing so. 

One aspect of life is to inspire others and to be inspired by others. I am happy that I have inspired some and have been inspired my many. Thank you for being a part of my journey, I wish a happy and prosperous new year for you with full of surprises you want from life. 

Since you are already here I would suggest you do one productive habit the next year, not two, not three, but just one productive habit. It can be anything, learning guitar, learning classical music, learning a new language, choose whatever you like but the catch is that you stick to it no matter what. It would be an asset to you the next year. I promise.

 

Once again, I wish you a very Happy New Year..!!!

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The Mainstream Media

News channels have become pretty efficient in almost everything they deliver which makes watching it for hours no sense. Today the recent events in Uttar-Pradesh have created a spur in the media. However, it seemed pretty irrelevant to me and just knowing was enough for me. For people who are active in politics an hour of the report may have sufficed but on every channel, it was only one thing which aired today.

We have started to lead so monotonous lives that we now love to watch discussions (pointless discussions more precisely) on what would happen in UP elections. Some people find politics interesting but if you can’t learn anything from it’s just a timepass.

 

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The Marshmallow Experiment

The Closed People

Temperament is not Destiny

 

“Temperament is not Destiny”

Emotional Intelligence-Daniel Goleman

I knew it intuitively but knowing it scientifically has given me a whole lot of confidence in knowing and believing that a person’s nature can be changed.

Long back when I absolutely knew nothing I believed that a person’s nature is permanent. In my hometown many of my elders used to say, “A person’s nature and signature don’t change”, well they still believe this to be true and they can not be more wrong about it.

The brain is plastic meaning it can always learn, it is only up to us to make a conscious effort to learn and by learning anything can be changed. Be it learning a new language, learning how to play guitar, or changing his innate nature.

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Movie Review: The Matrix

One of my cousins gave Matrix trilogy a week ago. In spite of having watched it several times, I was like let’s see if I get it this time. Today I completed the trilogy and the funny thing is that I did not recall the story line at all. It was like watching it for the first time, though I remembered that I have certainly watched it before. Although I still have some unanswered questions but I could settle for what I have understood for now since it is one of the most complicated movies of all time.

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

Morpheus

Symbolism, look for symbols and you will start finding clues in almost every frame. The first movie was a true masterpiece, the subsequent movies did not do justice with the standards they had set with the first one.

After researching on the internet I found out that there were 6 years of preproduction work that was there for the first movie, that’s a lot of hard work. The first movie got released in 1999, and the technology is still watchable. I mean at any point I didn’t feel like I was watching a movie that old which is awesome.

Have you watched it yet? 

More importantly, have you understood it yet?

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Marriage and Emotions

Me: Finally, today I’ll write about marriage and emotions.

My Inner Voice: Seriously..!!

Me: I mean I will share my learnings from the book “Emotional Intelligence”, and it’s not that I’ll share something out of my butt.

My Inner Voice: Haven’t we discussed this before, just because you have read doesn’t mean you know what it is to be in a marriage and it makes you unqualified for writing about marriages.

Me: Yeah, that’s true ..! But I want to share what I have learned at least it’s better than sharing nothing at all.

My Inner Voice: Alright, but you are on your own and don’t tell me I didn’t warn you about it when people start making fun of you saying that you even write about things you haven’t experienced yet.

Me: Yeah, that’s okay.

I had this conversation in my head every time I want to share something I have read from the book “Emotional Intelligence” on marriages.

Long back I had read the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie. He too had discussed various points on marriages on how to make it successful and things we should and shouldn’t do in a marriage. This time the book “Emotional Intelligence” explained why we should and shouldn’t do those things. This book explained what actually happens in the mind of husband or wife. The author explained various cases of troubled marriages and traced it’s starting location. The various trigger points, the various health issues couple go through if their marriage is troubled. I have to tell you it was quite scary, though.

If I only have to share one very crucial point for a marriage which defines its success, I should share the feeling of contempt and disgust and why it is a poison for a marriage. The married lives have been analyzed over decades and these two feelings are the ones which poison the marriages the most. If a couple has this feeling for their spouse they are bound to get a divorce in next 10 years.

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Namaz: Are You Following The Rules

Friday is one of the most sacred day of the week in Islam. In the middle of the day, we gather together and perform Namaz which is a form of prayer. Namaz consists of several rules ignoring or not knowing these crucial rules make the prayer null and void. They are also called Farz in Namaz. Knowing and abiding these rules is also Farz meaning crucial in Islam.

Yesterday I went for Namaz in the mosque in my neighborhood for the Friday prayers and like every other time I started looking for people who were abiding those rules. By looking at a person who is performing namaz and knowing those rules it’s easily noticeable if the person is abiding by those rules or not.

We create conflicts with so many people over religion without knowing even the most basic of rules of our religion. In the recent days, there have been numerous cases of religious conflicts in my hometown, the world would have been a better place if instead of creating conflicts we would have worked on knowing the most basic rules of our religion.

If you are reading this and if you are a Muslim please find out if you are performing namaz the right way. You would be surprised to discover the little facts on how to perform namaz correctly.

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