Do you have any idea which age we are in? Last time I checked, we were in the information age. Now, I am told; we are living in the Imagination Age. The Imagination Age is a period beyond the Information Age, where […]
Standing desks at workplaces are becoming increasingly prevalent. Despite complaints about aching legs and strain on spines, more and more people are choosing them. The pay-off is just not in health benefits but also in productivity. An average person sits for approximately […]
At last, there are a few more people on this planet who have the same views as mine about ‘mediocrity.’ So much so that Tim Wu, the author of The Attention Merchants has written an opinion post in the New York Times […]
How unforgiving and over-disciplined we have become? We not only can’t forgive others but also ourselves. We are harsher on ourselves than we are on others. We judge and punish ourselves if we think that we have not done what we expected […]
Elizabeth Gilbert, in her book Big Magic wrote: A clever, independent, creative, and powerful woman in her mid-seventies offered me a superb piece of life wisdom. We all spend our twenties and thirties trying so hard to be perfect because we’re so worried […]
There is a Buddhist proverb–when a student is ready, the teacher will appear. I must be ready when I spotted Austin Kleon’s book How to Steal Like an Artist in a newsletter from a bookstore. Out of a list of one hundred, […]