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1. No one is truly your friend until they have seen the worst of you and still choose to stay.

2. No one is truly your friend until they say “I believe in you” when you struggle to believe in yourself.

3. No one is truly your friend until they choose to tell you the truth, even though they might be affected personally for saying so.

As kids, all we heard were stories. 

True stories.
Fiction.
Mythology.

And these stories shaped up our worldview.

Our fears, hopes, desires and imagination stems from these stories.

But as we grow up, logic takes over.

1+1 becomes 2 and nothing else.
History becomes fact and nothing more.
Nature becomes evolution and nothing beyond.

And we forget how much we loved stories.

We forgot how, hearing stories, makes us go back to who we were!

We have suppressed the child within us.
But it is still alive!

If I can find the kid in me and bring him back, that will be the best gift I can give myself.

Class 6

Dad had just lost his job. We were under severe debt. Desperate for money, he started working at a corporate gifts biz. 

That night, we had to fill ball pens with refills, to be paid per 100 pens.

The room was full of pens. And I asked “how will we ever fill them all?”

Dad said, “There are 3 of us. We can fill 3 pens each every minute. So 9 pens every min. Which means in a night we can do 3000 pens!”

And I was like “wow!”

We filled pens the whole night.

He gave me hope.
We made it! :)

??From an early age, thinking about money was not encouraged.

It was the unsaid rule that money is important, but thinking about it is evil.
After all, money was the reason behind the fights, the wars, the disagreements.

Now I know, it is not money that is the cause.
It is the importance we attach to it, in our lives.

Money is simply a medium of transaction.

When it becomes an emotion, that is when it consumes us.

And that is true for all things in life!

An underrated impact of having a routine is self respect. 

Think of all the promises you made to yourself and broke.
And what it did subconsciously to your self respect. 

And think of all the promises you made and kept.
And how that made you feel you could trust yourself. 

The healthiest way to feel validated is to have a routine and deliver on it.

I read every day.
For 30-45 minutes, early in the morning.

Only non-fiction.
No specific topic.
Anything that intrigues me.

How it has helped me is to connect the dots from multiple fields, personalities, and experiences.

I remember how Stoic Philosophy helped me design the investment approach for nearbuy, and how Charlie Chaplin’s biography helped me make better video content!

It is ridiculous that a good book at the right time, costing less than a pizza party, can change your entire life! 

Ma always stood for perfection.
But she has a very interesting and inspiring definition.

Perfection is when you do something with such finesse that people are left amazed at how you even did it.
But for you, it is not a big deal. 

It is a habit.
It is natural.

I learnt from her that perfection is personal.

It is what makes others wonder.
But for you it is the only way you know!

Our routine sets our habits. 

Our habits determine our experiences. 

Our experiences determine our emotional state. 

Our emotional state determines everything.

Tomorrow – A mythical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored :))

You DO NOT need to set up your life before you are 30.

Life is not a scripted game.
Things won’t go as you planned and adding a deadline will not necessarily help.

Take your time.
Explore.

You have time.