A Perfect Sunday.!

What is a perfect Sunday.?

Reading one-third of the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie and completing half of the book “Origins” by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

I have been away from reading books from a couple of weeks and I was feeling terrible about it. Finally, this Sunday I filled my brain with some useful knowledge and I feel extremely awesome about it. This is the third time I am reading the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People“  and every time I have read it I got something useful from it.

What happens in daily life is that we often forget what have learned in the past but we still think and behave as if we are applying what we have learned. But more often than not we forget things and also forget that we have forgotten about it (a terrible situation). Upon rereading the book we find things which we didn’t discover when we read it for the first or second time and our beliefs also change meaning the wiring in the brain strengthens every time we read which in turn make us more confident in our belief system.

 

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Buying Habits

Mimicking the Other Person

Do you live alone or with a partner?

It’s obvious that whoever is living with you matters, but when I read about the behavioural changes in ourselves when we lives with another person in the book Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman it made me rethink the time spent with those people who have lived with me in the past and how they have influenced me for the better or the worse.

The thing is that we subconsciously mimic the other person whether we like it or not. Sound bizarre.?

It actually is.

But then when I analyzed my behavior in the past it kind of makes sense. The interesting thing is that while you are subconsciously mimicking the other person, the other person is also busy mimicking you subconsciously irrespective of whether he likes you or not.

I would have suggested choosing your partner carefully but then I remembered, you already knew that but I bet you had no idea that you have been mimicking your room partner the whole time.

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Becoming Productive on the Internet

 Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

— Paul J. Meyer

The Internet is fathomless, you think that you finally have got the information of becoming productive on the internet and then someone shares something with you and a whole lot of new worlds open up. There are several stages of using the internet. First, we are amazed by its awesome features and we hang out at the most obvious places of all i.e. Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, etc.

Then we realize the importance of our time and start becoming productive, and we get a whole lot of new ways of becoming productive in almost every aspect of our life. We start finding places to get answers i.e. Quora, Stack Overflow, etc.

The next stage is that we start finding like-minded communities meaning people like us. This is the point where we start to hang out to less known places like Reddit, SoundCloud, Coursera, WordPress, HackerEarth, LeetCode etc. I am currently away from the mainstream internet and it’s amazing to hang out in such places. With that said I am pretty sure there are still hundreds of such places which I am unaware of and I still have to find them out.

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Friends.!!

Reddit: Getting Help from Online Community

Lately, I have been getting tremendous help from the online community. No, it’s not Facebook, it’s Reddit. One of my dear friends when introduced me to Reddit I was like they can’t even make their homepage look nice, how good they can be.!

It’s true that Redditors are one of the harshest people in the online community but they are equally helpful too. Think about it, millions of people helping each other genuinely and anonymously.

I have had a lot of help from Stack overflow and I always wondered if that kind of help could ever exist at other places. And now that I have found one I am really happy.

Thank you, Prabhu, for introducing me to Reddit.!

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