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Accept that we live in a world of marketing, so screw what they are selling—charm, looks, profundity, it doesn’t matter.
it’s about where you stand, what your capabilities are, and what you can show when the opportunities come.
But at the end, you win by becoming too good to be ignored.
People are weird. It has nothing to do with you.
Your major struggle in life is to be happy; it is not to be satisfied. Now, self-satisfaction does not mean you won’t be happy, nor does it mean that you will be happy all the fucking time. What it offers is something better—a state of mind called peacefulness. You would be at peace with yourself. And this is also where the problem comes: to be at peace with yourself, you will have to know your ‘self’ first. So, how much do you know
your self? The answer in a lot of cases would be, fuck-all, because in our youth we are busy practising to become Mr Savage and Ms Flawless. And our ‘self’, to us, is definitely not those things; it’s confused, vulnerable and emotionally unstable. So, we ignore it. What you don’t realise is: you can’t be something you’re not. At best, what you’re gonna be is a copy, an imitation and a poor parody. But what you do have is the power to find out who you are, and fix and develop whatever you think is weak.
The truth is, life doesn’t revolve around happiness. Life is a lot of things that have nothing to do with happiness.
happiness is a by-product of life done right.
the true test of any idea is not its popularity, but how deeply it makes you think.
an activity to make you forget about it. Your wants and actions come under the category ‘interest’ only when they are controlled by you, not you by them.
breaking out of the group identity and becoming your own person.
losing should culminate in self-reflection.
So, impress with abilities, not appearance. Abilities cannot be ignored; if one person happens to do so, there are always going to be other takers.
BECOMING A NATION
When we live in a culture where that is punished, where immediately choosing sides, or always having a strong opinion is the norm, thinking gets punished.
You learn only when you are open to learning.
separate data from the narrative.
