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‘It’s harder to be kind than clever. [...] Cleverness is a gift. Kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy, they are given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gift if you’re not careful.’
Founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos
(Talk starts at 6:26)
Some of you who followed my blog may notice that I tend to write a reflective piece (like this and this) towards the end/beginning of the year. Every year I was surprised by much learning/people/inspiration that came into my life; for that, I thank you. Here is my list for 2010,
1. A [...]
How to be Smarter: If you’re walking with someone, holding hands, and they trip a little, you tighten your grip to prevent them from falling. If you would let go of someone’s hand and just let them fall, you shouldn’t have agreed to hold their hand in the first place. So if someone you love [...]
Another great post from Setty’s blog:
Mini Saga #61 – Thoughtfulness
The waitress repeated, “Medium $3, Large $3.50.” The kid had emptied his pocket. He had $4 in total. The waitress was getting impatient. Five minutes. Finally, the kid asked for a medium scoop. Later, the waitress came to clean and swallowed hard. There [...]
A good friend of mine has been complaining about her wrists that hurt so bad she has started visiting the physios regularly – and she’s only in her twenties! That made me think, how many of us (who sit in front of a computer all day) are constantly suffering from back pain, shoulder pain and [...]
One of those days you sit in the park with a friend that clicks with you, and you start talking like Plato (or Plato-wannbe) . My mate and I were talking about what makes people lucky. It reminded me of a scientific research I have read and it’s a fascinating finds – there are [...]
Here is a Chinese story,
There were two brothers who lived on the 80th floor of a building.
They went out together for a party without noticing there’s no lift service on the day. The brothers were very frustrated when they realised that they were kind of doomed, but they decided [...]
Someone made me happy today, and I thought I was happier and I defined that as (1+x%)happy. And then I was asked ‘can you be more than 1 happy?’
Got me thinking,
Happiness is a 1/0 thing.
Imagine you are a happy person, you make someone happy, and that someone makes someone else happy, [...]
1. I hate not being able to keep up with my thoughts.
2. Not being able to keep up with my thoughts means that you think more than you will ever be able to share and articulate the signals among the noise
3. Too many ideas go wasted because of that
4. [...]
‘The water of the valley stream is always flowing. It races on, not pausing for even an instant. Its sound, to me, is the sound of time.
The water of time glistens on the riverbed of the universe. Though theirs is a much slower flow, Human beings and all things that have life flow. Thought [...]
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