Notes for a lifetime

One-sentence summary of the talk’s core idea True success and resilience come not from seeking elusive feelings like confidence or motivation, but from acting despite fear, realizing you are not alone in your struggles, and refusing to label yourself as a victim or prey. 3–5 golden insights that changed your view  "You Are Not That Special": Thinking you are special isolates you and makes your pain seem unique and insurmountable; realizing you are not special means you are not alone, and if others survived similar hardships (like 9/11), so can you.  Confidence is Overrated: You do not need confidence before you act. Seeking confidence creates a "windy road" of distraction; instead, simply take the direct path of doing the action without confidence, and the confidence will eventually follow.  Motivation Equals Mediocrity: If you wait for motivation, you will only do the bare minimum because motivation is fleeting and unreliable. Success comes from doing the work (lik...

  Principle 1 : Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you. Higher the level of emotion, the lower the level of reasoning. Principle 2: Avoid being your own enemy. Principle 3 : You can change environments, but until you change yourself nothing else will ever change.  Principle 4: Learn to be curious. Principle 5: Don't be afraid to explore your curiosity. Everything you need, to get everywhere you need to be, is already inside you. Principle 6: You have to saddle your dreams before you can ride them. A year from now you may wish you had started today- Karen Lamb. Desire and imagination could be classified as potential energy. What distinguishes potential energy to kinetic energy is 8 letters : M.O.V.E.M.E.N.T. Principle 7: Choosing friends is a matter of life and death. Lesson 1: Look for people who believe in something and are passionate about their beliefs. Lesson 2: be a giver, not a taker. Lesson 3: Always remain loyal.  Less...

  Preface Real joy of living can be found in only one way - In one's communication with an eternal source of hidden knowledge within oneself- which each individual is bidden to seek and find for himself. Historically, people have always fought among themselves on one issue or another. Prehistorically, battles were fought over food and shelter. With the passage of time, wars were waged over religious and ideological beliefs; and now the dominant struggle of sophisticated warfare is for economic and technological supremacy. Consequently, economic and technological supremacy is equated with political power and world control. We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness. Chapter 1:  “When you pray,” he said, “you transcend your body and become a part of the cosmos, which knows no division of wealth, age, caste, or creed.”  “In his own time, in his own place, in what he real y is, an...

  He won't say much, but he observes everything Being able to live in the moment. It is very rare for any sportsperson to look so relaxed and at peace with the world and himself at a time when the axe seems so perilously close to his neck.  Many have likened what dhoni has done for his home town to what Sir Don Bradman did for his home town, Bowral. Ganesh Chandra Ghosh, the chittagong based freedom fighter.  Mahatma Gandhi met the then lieutenant governor of Orissa and Bihar in 1917 City kind of slipped off the national radar in independent India, but Ranchi rise to fame within a few days of Dhoni. Ranchi Air port is named after Birsa Munda. City of Waterfalls. The more things change, the more they stay the same. He doesn't believe in leaving anyone behind. And believes in taking everybody forward. Always being quiet. He was in his own world mostly, almost too sorted to be a child. Keen sense of knowing what to do, when to do it, and giving it all his focus and energy. I...