Posts from the personal development category.
There are some books you finish and immediately know what you think about them.And then there are books that leave you sitting with a question.A Republic Reimagined: A New Economic Model for a New Age by Joshua Schmude belongs to the second category for me.I didn't agree with everything in the book.But I kept thinking about one question.Who owns the future when machines begin doing more of the wor...
There is something almost absurd about a life being reduced to ten inches.Twenty-two years of pouring tea.Twenty-two years of remembering who wants extra ginger, who will pay tomorrow, who needs a cup on credit and who comes to the cart simply because there is nowhere else to go.Then someone draws a chalk line on the pavement.Ten inches.And suddenly those ten inches matter more than everything tha...
1. AbandonedLeft on the street with no guide or map,I picked myself up and closed the gap.They said I was done, said I’d fall and break,I built from the ashes for my own sake.Storms tried to pull me under the tide,I learned to swim with the hurt inside.Scars on my back, but fire in my crown,They left me to sink. But I did not drown.2. UnbrokenThey tried to bury me under the weight,I turned the dir...
There is something slightly uncomfortable about Finish What You Start.We have been taught to admire people who never quit.Finish the project.Complete the course.Stick to the goal.Keep going.Somewhere along the way, finishing became proof of character.Peter Hollins's book examines why we struggle to do exactly that.We start with enthusiasm. Then the excitement fades. The work becomes repetitive. Di...
There is a particular kind of love that looks beautiful from a distance.Someone waits.Someone remembers.Someone notices everything.Someone keeps showing up.And because they ask for nothing, we assume their love must be deeper.The Unsaid made me question that assumption.Kartikeya Dhar places Kabir Sharma in Shimla in 2003, a schoolboy with an unusual ability to notice what others miss. He sees unha...
“What’s your price?”It is an uncomfortable question because we are used to putting prices on almost everything. A house has a price. A car has a price. A company has a valuation. Even our time is increasingly measured in money.But what happens when the question is directed at a human being?That discomfort is precisely where Dr. Manjit Hans begins in What’s Your Price? Understanding Your Worth. The...
Nick Trenton’s I’m Anxious and Can’t Stop Overthinking made me look differently at the noise inside our headsThere is something strangely exhausting about an anxious mind.It can take one unanswered message and turn it into a story. One mistake can become evidence of incompetence. One uncertain tomorrow can occupy an entire afternoon. And sometimes, the more we try to solve the thought, the more th...
(Part 4 of 4)Watch me walk in like I own the room,Turned all my grief into a garden that bloomed.They counted me out, now they count my wins,Every \you can't\ just fuels what begins.Crown on my head, but I earned every scar,Started from nothing and came this far.Abandoned before but watch me soar,What tried to stop me made me unstoppable more.
What if having it all is not about getting everything?What does it actually mean to have it all?More money? A successful career? A happy family? Good health? Inner peace? Meaningful relationships? Freedom from regret?We tend to imagine these things as items on a checklist. The more boxes we tick, the closer we are to a great life.Gaur Gopal Das’s You Can Have It All made me question that definitio...
What happens when a place stops producing gold but refuses to stop carrying its history?That question stayed with me while reading Rabi Samuel’s Cold Mine.Set against the history of Kolar Gold Fields, the novel takes us into abandoned mine shafts, forgotten records, unfinished maps and old legends. But beneath the thriller machinery, Samuel is interested in something larger: what happens to people...
