We often blame social media for making us feel distracted but as Oliver Burkeman points out in his book 4000 weeks: The overarching point is that what we think of as ‘distractions’ aren’t the ultimate cause of our being distracted. They’re just the places we go to seek relief from the discomfort of confronting limitation. When we work on the more mundane parts of the meaningful projects we want to execute we crave for a joy that we might have lived, had we spent our time else

What we think in our minds will always be better or worse in a way unplanned when actuality arrives. It will never go as per plan. And what a boring day it would be if we couldn’t discover anything beyond what we have planned. Giving up to this uncertainty is like giving up to watercolors, to recognise it can work its own magic beyond our plans. To listen to it and find joy in it is the best we can do. Like watercolor does its magic on paper so does time on your mind, all you

If I can’t be content here and now, I can’t be content anywhere any time. Because being content is not upto external resources it is something that is a state of mind. We might desire something in the future, we might think its what would make us happy then, a state of change from what we are now based on materiality. But we forget that with that mindset when we do get to that ideal future we will have another ideal setup just as quickly further ahead in time. Progress is of

Doing one thing by definition excludes the countless other things that you could’ve done in that time. Thus, joy is felt only when you feel within you that the thing you are doing right now is more important than the other things possible. I recently learnt from the excellent book 4000 weeks by Oliver Burkeman that the word ‘Decide’ comes from the latin word decidere, which literally means to CUT - OFF. To decide then is to mean not to choose something but to cut everything e

“Many of us don’t realize the moment we are born we are marching towards death” - Reinhold Messner (paraphrased from the film 14 peaks) Living is a process, dying is its inevitable outcome. You die because you are living. What you do of your living is the only thing you have in your hand. In the process of living there are many choices you can make with the constraints you’ve been born with. But its important to question if the constraints are actually out there or are made u

Everyone of us wanted to make films when we were in film school, not so many once out of it. The difference I feel is that we consumed a lot of films when we were learning and it made us want to make films. This is with everything, knowingly or unknowingly. The more you read comics the more you feel like writing/drawing them, the more you read books you have the urge to write and the more you geek out on plants, the more you want to grow them. We are, after all, animals that

When the PS3 was launched it was a much superior machine than the Xbox 360. The problem was that Sony relied on its brawns and thought it would win the race whereas Microsoft kept using its market wisdom to expand the titles under them. PS3 was a solid machine compared to the 360 at its launch but relying on just that made it lose big. You might be strong but that is no reason to be complacent. You might be skilled but you will still need to be smart about using your skills i