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Motivational Porn, good or bad?

Some mornings arrive with a quiet restlessness. You feel slightly out of rhythm, talking more than usual, switching contexts too often, pulled in many directions at once. And yet, that chaos has its place. Some days, order and disorder walk side by side. That is life nudging you toward reflection. What I realized in that moment is simple but profound. Long-term growth is shaped not by how we feel, but by the choices we train ourselves to make. Those choices are getting harder in a world designed to hijack our attention. The Allure and the Trap of Motivational Content The internet is overflowing with motivation. Reels, quotes, success stories, and endless formulas for success. It is addictive, not because it helps us grow, but because it delivers dopamine without demanding effort. Motivational content becomes a mental snack. It tricks the brain into feeling productive without doing the work. Success stories can inspire, but they also mislead. They show the outcome, not the long nights, ...
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If you react to everything, you respond to nothing

 As I write this, today I am just going to write for a period of 45 minutes. I just don't know what to write, but let's see what we can write and what we really need to focus on. The important thing to write today is that we need to spend more time doing the work rather than talking about the work. However, we should also collaborate. But for these 45 minutes, let's be comfortable with the silence and work. I am going to talk about a personal formula today about being unreactionary in every situation. There is stimulus and then there's response and in between there's something called as choice which is what we choose. Stimulus is not something that we choose. It's the choice. And then give a response. For example, we can get extremely angry and tell folks that this how things are done. We can become reactionary. However, the goal is not to become reactionary, it is to become more understanding.  Stimulus Stimulus is anything people or the world does. For an exam...
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The Importance of Staying Structured, Especially When Life Isn’t

 As I am recognizing some really interesting stuff now. Where I need to work with the team and other folks out here, but let's keep going. So what we are trying to achieve out here is to get some work done on the agent infra side of things. I am just going to write down what I understood so far.  Every Foundry Project is identified by a system managed identity. This is the first thing that I understood. Once we have a system managed identity will be given IAM roles. Those IAM roles are used to access different resources. Now if a particular application is there and we need to call graph apis from that particular application we will use that identity to call those graph apis. So once we understand these basic concepts we can move over to the next few concepts. But this blog is about self help and not IAM roles and system managed identity. What did I learn is not to rush. Not to go for something that we want to feel good about we want to follow a particular way of working. The m...
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The Art of Hard Choices: Building a Life Worth Living

We live in a world optimized for comfort. Every app, every algorithm, every convenience is designed to make life easier in the moment. But here's the paradox: the easiest choices rarely lead to the most meaningful lives. This truth hit me recently while watching a cricket match. Sanju Samson was struggling at the crease while Ishan Kishan was in extraordinary form. The question seemed obvious: why not swap them? Kishan felt right in the moment. But as I thought deeper, I realized the team management was playing a different game - one focused on long-term strategy, squad balance, and building trust. Sometimes the hard choice (backing Samson despite his struggles) serves the bigger picture better than the easy one. This cricket dilemma mirrors the choices we face every single day. The Moment vs. The Marathon Every day presents us with a fundamental choice: optimize for how we feel right now, or optimize for who we want to become. The easy choice always feels better in the moment: Scr...
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HARD CHOICES, SELF AWARENESS, PROCESS

Alright, so today we are going to talk about easy and hard choices. How important it is for all of us to take the hard choices in life which might not feel that good in the moment but will pay off in the long run. So let's start our conversation about the same. The thought about this came in when I was watching Sanju Samson bat and I realised that he is not doing justice to the role. Meanwhile, Ishan Kishan was playing wonderfully well at the moment. It was a natural question that once Tilak Verma comes in the side, who gives the place to that talented batter once he is back. It was a question that pondered in my mind. Just before the World Cup Ishan Kishan played wonderfully well against the NZ series, however, and in the moment, I felt like Ishan Kishan should be playing in place of Sanju Samson. Interesting thought. However, as I pondered over the thought, I realised that Ishan Kishan is someone who has done well in the recent series, has been in extraordinary form, and in the m...
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The Cost of Comfort

I've been thinking about why we suffer more than we need to. Not the unavoidable pain of loss or failure, but the prolonged suffering that comes from refusing to face what hurts. The kind that stretches on because we keep looking away. We've built an entire infrastructure around avoiding discomfort. Infinite scrolling. Autoplay. One more episode. One more drink. One more distraction. We've become experts at numbing ourselves, at filling every quiet moment with noise. And we're miserable for it. What We're Actually Running From The discomfort we avoid isn't usually catastrophic. It's often just... uncomfortable. The awkwardness of sitting with your own thoughts. The sting of rejection. The frustration of not being good at something yet. The hollow feeling of a Sunday evening. The weight of knowing you're not living the way you want to. These feelings won't kill you. But avoiding them might kill the person you could become. Because here's what I...
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Self-Control: The Foundation of a Meaningful Life

Today was one of those days where clarity emerged from chaos. Between overworking, endless meetings, and the constant pull of Instagram, I realized something fundamental: I've been losing the battle for self-control, and with it, the structure that makes life work. The Chaos I Created Looking back, I can see how I introduced chaos into my own life. Adhoc meetings. Jumping between tasks. Checking Instagram every few minutes. Opening new tabs without finishing what I started. Each context switch felt minor in the moment, but together they created a frenzy that left me depleted and distracted. I noticed something else too: in team dynamics, some people want all the credit but only half the work. When you're caught in chaos, you don't have the clarity to see these patterns. You just react, respond, and rush through everything without thinking. The solution isn't to move faster. It's to slow down deliberately. What Self-Control Really Means Self-control isn't about w...
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