2017 / 2018 were very good in terms of both professional and personal success. It's been a great learning in both areas.
Professional Learnings - Code More, Learn more, Connect more with people, Experiment more ideas. Good with the progress but still we can improve the momentum and speed
Personal Learnings - Stay away from relationships which pulls you down in life, Bury some relationships no matters it's family/friends/ potential partners
Travel - This year expanded the horizons with nature with Coorg, Madikeri, Dandeli, Chickmangalur, Dharmastala. I slowed down a bit in momentum when things hit the ground in my life. In a way look around and observe and learn to understand there are people who carry heavier baggage than you
Charity - Yes a good amount of charity I keep doing it. Whatever I have in my life I hope those bits and bytes lighten up someone's life. Swanthana, Udhavum Karangal, Other medical help, Provisions :).
Since everything has to be data-based, I plotted data based on my intuition for this year. I know the peaks and lows accordingly I normalized it.
Personal life - Screwed up but stabilized
AI work - Ups and Down and Still going
Learning - Finally going in the right direction
Health - Needs attention Emotional and Physical Wellness
Data - Visualization - Insights - Learnings :)
Looking forward to 2019
Let 2019 be a year of hard work, more milestones of good machine learning projects, built and find meaningful relationships, unload all the old baggage and march forward for a brighter future.
Make every day a little better than yesterday Apart from books like Subtle Art of Not Giving Fcuk these blogs, videos from Issac Asimov, Jordan Peterson, Tony Robbins and Carl Jung were useful to learn understand different perspectives of Life Wishes for 2019 are
One more day to learn One more day to try One more day to spread kindness One more day to leave a smile One more day to start fresh One more day to apologize for mistakes One more day to forgive One more day to be kind to ourself One more day to feel empathy One more day for gratitude for the life One more day to slow down and watch the deep skies One more day to feel the breeze One more day to go for a lone moonwalk One more day towards a better self One more day to progress forward One more day to feel happy for little things in life
We are driven by emotions and connections at different stages of life.
Unconditional Love @ Childhood
Demanding the endless attention from parents
Being adamant and getting things we wanted
Love @ Learning
The wow effect when your code gives the result you wanted
When you connect the dots of concepts
When you feel the concept more than marks and grades
Love @ Romance
Movies spoiled my concept of Love @ Relationships
Wait for calls / endless texts
Making each other feel special
Love @ Doing things we Love
The things we dream in life
The long drives, the lonely walks
Feeling the mist, breeze, seeing the magic in regular life with the fascination and beauty of what we didn't notice it
Love @ Kindness, Empathy
Often helping strangers, being kind to people we connect with is what life makes meaningful
Part a ride with a smile
Do something for charity
Love @ Finding Yourself back
We change jobs, We lose people, We meet new people
Some people are their for certain duration, As we part ways sometime it breaks us (Incompatible choices @ Job, Life)
This takes us to get our next level of self
The absence of love is pain, Do everything with your attention, passion and love. The moment we recognize life is short, focus on living our true emotions, We are all good.
I missed my Terrano for 3 weeks. This 3 week has been a different perspective of life
Guilt - Initial 10k I did drive a bit harsh but later I slowed down and drove gently. There is a bit of guilt. Did my driving result in fuel injector issue?
Respect - The issue happened while driving back from Hubli. Even with the issue I slowly drove the vehicle. I have huge respect for it. It was performing poorly but I didn't want to screw it up. I am grateful for it for the 20k I drove, the ups and downs, my lonely drives, all my good bad moods it was my companion to look up to
Missing Days - I felt bad with all dirt, dust, engine condition after the trip. You have bought it with so much love you should maintain it well too. It took a while for parts missing. I was a bit desperate initially but again it resulted in being at home, studying at weekends. I had full faith in Surya Nissan team. Bunch of amazing folks. It feels like a family.
The beautiful day - Today when I saw it. It was like a blessing. The engine sound was like a cry of a newborn baby. Excellent service and drive felt like smooth and consistent. I touched my Terrano and prayed with respect, gratitude before starting off. The things I missed in it developed my gratitude for it.
Health check-up - After few weeks gap, it came back like a monster. The stunning finish, awesome service. Felt like even I got to service my thoughts and life to at times like how I got my Terrano boosted to 2.0
Thank you, my dear Terrano. My friend, My companion in all my Ghost Rides.
Ending the Year with beautiful Lessons and thoughts. When the mind is free there are no thoughts and nothing to post :) Got my Ghost rider back. The sound of the engine is so smooth. Surya Nissan Team is awesome. The folks were very friendly and supportive. It had a tough start but I guess its like a family connecting with them. Some beautiful quotes for the day.
Got my big brother (My Terrano) Back. The most beautiful thing that happened in my life past one year is my beautiful ghost rider Terrano. My gratitude for it for being with me in all my ups and downs
I never cared about the material things some one could give me. I care about time, attention,honesty, layality and effort. Those girls mean more than anything money could buy. pic.twitter.com/Jv2GpysJds
Fair is foul, foul is fair from Macbeth. It just takes moments to destroy lifetime principles and moral compass but the guilt stays for a lifetime. People who do not share your values will Rob your happiness.
Feed the Angel in you. Starve the devil in you. Never compromise yourself for situations, a dignified death is better than a guilt-ful life. Knowledge doesn't come from being employable. True knowledge is the quest to go beyond boundaries, learn and share and be a true seeker of self.
Small Appreciations go a long day. One of my EMDS friends gave his feedback for my blog. He scored more than me in all semesters :). His positive feedback is a little encouragement to share more as I learn.
Also, Quora follower gave me loads of encourage for the optimism and positivity.
Yea, Like what we feed in us, the kind animal or the cruel animal makes the differences.
Feed the angel in us and the devil will find its way out.
Two movies I saw recently did hit me hard - Aruvi, 60 Vayathu Maniram. Both movies depict the life beyond the materialistic, consumerist world. Driven by needs, Driven by money. My life has slowed down a bit very much. I neither look for money, nor look for attention, nor run around my goals.
A lot of self learning, some personal goals to do big in AI for social cause. When knowledge runs supreme you know what you feed your mind. I really like the analogy. Our mind has a black dog and a white dog. White - Kindness, empathy, care. Black - Anger, Jealously, Cunning. Its in us what we feed the most that in-turn feeds our habits, thoughts, actions.
A certain amount of education, decent amount of money, live independent because when you can't earn money then you get dictated what life is. The run for knowledge needs education and money. There is a thin line to balance the world else we will end up in the same race. Stay awake and be aware.
Enough life, lets pause it, slow down. Took a long walk and stopped to drink few tender coconuts, bought some fruits, looking at busy life and wondering everyone running for their goals / dreams / money ......
Quest for knowledge fuels the learning. Einstein, Richard Feynman, Michael Faraday, Galileo - Great physicists and mathematicians are self-taught to a great extent. Personal learning can make miracles and passionate efforts will never go waste.
Relationships, Friends, Jobs, Places they happen / change from time to time. Some people come for short duration, some people travel for sometime. Wish them all good and bless them for the time of their life they shared with us.
In the end, The person you love and care the most should be the *self*. The *kinder* the self *tougher* the spirit. Success has a lot to do with mindset.
It's been three years since my Dad passed away. Be it for getting my admission for first standard, fighting for my XI admission both my Mom & Dad struggled for it.
Our heated debates on choosing Hindi as a second language. Always he used to set me a high bar in both education and professional life.
As time progressed the gap between us widened and yes time flies. He always wanted a four-wheeler. A year ago I got a four-wheeler but my Dad wasn't there. Things my parents wanted me to achieve in my life took time.
He was known for his passion for work. There is both good and bad in every person around us. If we keep judging everyone we will be left alone. Sometimes it's better to be kind and spend the time than just regretting with past memories. I am not sure If I fulfilled all my duties as a son.
Probably I learnt everything late in my life :(. The differences we have with people in our life is nothing when compared to our short timeframe of life. Letting the kindness grow in us is what matters in the end.
Sometimes loneliness does give the required mindfulness to understand our life in detail.
Its been few weeks I am off from Road Trips. I have never missed my Black Angel for so long. But these days turned out to be marathon of learnings. For every door that closes there is something that is open to move forward.
Often I read through a lot of concepts again and again from multiple sources. It is repetitive but I find the break / intuition for newer perspective only after a certain momentum / practice /involvement. Also, Every new revision provides a little more clarity on the dark areas.
Learning - Coding up - Fixing own mistakes - Read Research papers - Blogs - Again Repeat Cycle.
Ideas can be put in cold storage after they reach a certain level of outcome. But ideas to have the freshness we need to document it / with enough details to reuse it fresh with all the pointers learned.
Dream More - Learn More - Achieve More. In the end we are here for a short while. Lets make a meaningful learning and have a positive impact.
Different States of Emotions Feeling Broken is a state of mind Feeling Defeat is a state of mind Happiness is a state of mind Past is an event which does not reflect the current state To stay in the present state is the most skillful thing to possess
Focus now for Unseen Beauty of Future Focus will reflect the determination Determination will reflect in the attention to details Detailing will reflect in insights Insights lead to knowledge and learning Learning reflects in better perspective
No matter how bad is the past but focus on the present can entirely create a beautiful future. Detail your life and make it beautiful, better and focused
App that will collect data about activities, communication and report you with insights about your activities
The difference is
It will collect your data from applications (UberEats, Paytm, WhatsApp...) you provide access to
It will anonymize your user information to generate crowd intelligence
Option to destroy it with your consent (Charge a little$) - Revenue Model
Recommend you based on data we collected
The purpose is for emotional wellness (Online Time Spent / Emotional wellness by parsing your text / communication)
Hope this idea works safeguarding both privacy and anonymity. Today I don't have an option to erase my data from google / twitter / linkedin. When I sign-up I *never read* (My-Bad) all the terms and agreements. I hope sometime we will find companies which will delete data with our consent.
I celebrated my christmas with kids @ http://swanthana.org
I spoke to a few kids. Somewhere I felt their eyes also carries the sadness of loneliness, longing for care. I hope I can bring a little smile in them by sharing some things that makes them happy.
Yea, Helping someone who is not related by blood or relationships and making a positive dent always gives a sense of happiness. Its a small world and we are here for a short time. Be kind, Help someone. Stay Happy!.
Seeing people happy who were once known to us is a better feeling than hurting them. Friday I'm going to celebrate Christmas with kids in Orphanage, It's going to be a memorable day in my life. Leave a little sparkle wherever you are :)
Today is a beautiful day to remember. Winning a hackathon after 2 years. Last I won in 2016. Till now I had several failures. Today is a great day to continue learning and keep mastering deep learning.
Stay humble, focused and determined even if you fail, take risks stay grounded and keep learning, keep coding.
Long before you were born I started loving you I can't wait to hear your smiles and your first cry I dream of holding your hands teaching how to walk I dream of seeing you running all around in your early ages I am waiting for those sleepless nights and endless run following you I am waiting for the day for my shoulders to pain holding you I am waiting for the day for your hugs when I am back from work I dream of you my angel My dreams, My cries, My happiness, My life is all you Waiting for my dearest angel!!! Your Loving -Dad- I hope after years years, I can share it with my kids. Brighter future, Keep Dreaming, Keep Going!!!
Oh yeah the people close to us will always advise us forever. My mom, my siblings, friends, everyone. The people who were once close to us or people in our family/friends keep hurting us. We get hurt only by people close to us. Some relationship is by blood, some by situations, some by places we travel...The irony is we can't get hurt by people other than who are close to us. It's hard to sort out but again we can't let go some blood relationships. Pause the moment, disconnect the thoughts, only time can make this less conflicting. Hurting back does not solve anything good. Anyway, they were once on good terms with us. Seeing people happy who were once known to us is a better feeling than hurting them.
"Let the heart be big even when the cash is less :)"
When we can't hurt strangers we can't hurt people close to us. Let kindness and happiness shine everywhere.
I went for a long walk alone in a stretch, After going for a mile I hit upon a block, I stumble and find it had hurt me enough, after a bit of scrutiny and pause, I walk forward the next mile, Again, I was hit by another obstacle. Mmmm, I stop look back and observe what did I do wrong for getting hit, After a brief pause, I again start walking. After a few miles, I pause and look around if those blocks are still there. Here the time to pause, time to reflect, time to recover is all part of the journey. For every few steps we go forward we look back or look around to observe, understand and reflect.
When we are focused to move forward irrespective of the things that happen around us, We will be reaching our destination faster than the rest. I always keep focussing on things I wanted to understand, absorb all the knowledge around us. I really hope to make big in AI for a social cause. I keep failing with Startup Ideas but I keep learning with every failure.
Life is good when I am with books, Life is great when I feel I have learned something newer today. I wish I find someone who has the same vision and perspective for startup. Keep Learning, Keep Growing
Keep in mind, Go faster so that you can live life more, learn more, Make the best use of knowledge, Rest in books, Learn from books.
I wish to smile at death for all the learning I carry with myself and hope to be an inspiration
We may feel Low / Depressed only when we focus on that moment/person
Different paths and Different stages have different possibilities
Be the kind of person to attract the caliber you want someone in your Life
Focus keeps you going, Focus on being happy with yourself
Visualize the goals, Affirmation for optimism, Get out and Take Risks, Self-care, and focus
Consistency and relentless Focus next six months, this will put forward next five years of Life
Career/ Character/ Life is a marathon that needs consistency/focus to be happy with what and where you are in Life, I hope to smile the moment of death with Satisfaction of a well-lived life
Debating on past events, emotions, reactions and trying to repeat it again is a worthless pursuit. In a nutshell, the events have ended. Finding fault/ playing it back will serve no good purpose. Life holds the key and lock for every act we are involved with. Key is to look at it as a point of reference and look with a bit of kindness and accept we are all humans, don't find fault stay kind. Sooner or later things will be fine.
Live a life where each day adds up to the purpose. However little let there be meaningful progress. Let's Keep Going!!! I lived a beautiful life Wondering this is all I am Life was beautiful like the sun shining I was filled with joy and enthusiasm Those moments of failure pursuing my goals hit me hard Those moments of people leaving me broke me down It was dark and there was no hope I wandered to find myself only to be lost again Some stars need darkness to shine I found my stars in the darkness I understood I am an outlier To be truly alive and walk on what you believe, you have to be an outlier The new me taught me to be humble, kind and patient At last thanks life for making me understand life is short, embrace kindness Keep Learning, Stay Focused, Keep Growing Leave a little sparkle wherever you go
Emotion is determined by motion / action Every day you got to have time for yourself (10 Mins) 3 Minutes of gratitude (Health, Focus, and Hard work) Take control of environment else environment will control you What excites me is seeing a person die with a smile in the face - Mother Teresa Life is constant growth, Train your mind and body You should be happy most of the time if not all of the time Take time to disappear by doing things you like to do, Leave a little sparkle wherever you go
Looking back at 2018, I have immense respect for the time, the lessons life gave me.
It broke me to build me up emotionally It showed me failures and gave me rewards for resilience It showed me the lowest point of life to make me Strong, kind and patient Success made me humble, failures made me passionate of next step for success
I turn to people/books/ ted talks/travel for answers which I don't have anywhere to look up to. Some answers I find in books, some answers in travel, some answers looking at other people lives, some answers when I feel the emotions.
We all look out to get the spark / feel the spark to understand more about ourself. A blessed year.
Mass of men lead lives of desperation - Henry David Thoreau
Key Lessons
We cannot change unless we accept it - Carl Jung
Our feelings of guilt, anxiety, guilt are a direct result of an inadequate approach to life, communicate as signals of change
Come in terms of the world, know possibilities and limits
Distraction or Drugs in long run exacerbates the problem
Safe road is road of death
Accept change needed, find what type of change needed ?
Motivated by trends of self actualization, Acceptance on person's own nature (Ongoing)
"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life" - Abraham Maslow
"Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Thought - Selection of aim or purpose of existence
Pick something that spots your curiosity
Sowing of thought is positive sequence to build habits
Transformation it forces to undergo, leave comfort zone, self discipline, focus
When you are involved in constructive activity, feelings become perspective (David Reynolds)
Do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not (Thomas Huxley)
If you are aware of life, death live constructively and focus on building positive life
You are going to die, no reason to not to follow your passion
Lessoon #1 - Having a good day is losing sense of time. Not counting the hours / minutes and seconds of the day
Lesson #2 - Do exercise that you love (Home chores / cleaning / mopping), they too will compliment gym
Lesson #3 - Keep a mandatory to do learning (30~60mins) and journal the learning
Lesson #4 - Remember just be little better than yesterday, When there are moments on panic place the future self how you want to be seen
Lesson #5 - Work towards building a social product in AI space (Keep the dreams awake)
Lesson #6 - Code everyday
Lesson #7 - Learning path leads to the person you want to be
Lesson #8 - Take the uncomfortable conversations / discussions with self / keep your mind open / keep learning
Lesson #9 - Rehearse your brain and be truly present to things you learn at every point of day
Be a little better than yesterday
Learn a little more today
Eat a little less today
Walk a little more today
Reduce the time of bad habit you want to get rid of it
Do a bit more effort towards hygiene today
Dream about future than about past
Place the future and work towards it
Take all challenges that comes in your way
Be a Loser but not the same person
Spend time on building the future self!!!
A well-lived day is a little progress towards well-lived life
The blessings of Kali River and the breadth taking river rafting experience is truly a memorable one. The guide Bimal is from Nepal. The first few minutes of us to get down in the deep water and float with the Life jacket was amazing.
The amount of risk they endure in their job vs corporate life in Bangalore, I see the man as a real hero. Far away from home for his home, for his people, Working passionately on the job.
A bit of humor, extremely cautious, supportive reveals traits of a great human being in a person.
This made me feel light of myself from the thoughts/events that we witness around us.
Life is far less complicated when we leave things that hold us materialistically, emotionally. Spending emotions/thoughts are also like an expense. Life is also time bound. To look back each day and feel today is better than yesterday matters.
I carry with myself the spirit and blessings from Maa Kali River!!!
On the way return vehicle had issues in the electronic panel. When I called up they asked me to tow the vehicle. An alternate option is to drive slow. The vehicle is truly a rock star. It managed its best to get me back to Bangalore. I am truly grateful for the last one year It has taken me to places and being part of all good/bad of my life.
Nature and quiet environment teach a lot about the quiet, calm, mindful of our situation. Staying away from the internet is a rewarding experience.
Synthreric rocks - Nature and tall trees make us remember leave us alone. Far from the noise and pollution if Bangalore they remind the other side of the world
Supa Dam - On the way spotted on the river Shiva linga and nandi statue. The view is good. It gives a lush green view of nature and the serene peaceful Atmosphere.
Roads - Remember the lines from stopping by woods on a snowy evening. The woods are lovely dark and deep but I have miles to go before I sleep...
Keep going. Let the child in us live freely and happily....
Sometimes there is no logical perspective in life. I remember my old conversations there is no right/wrong in this world. Such conversations only reflect peoples inability to accept or takes sides of right/wrong. The mind is a very effective and manipulative tool. What we interpret, understand in terms of right/wrong comes from our ability/understanding of values. To sum up what kind of people I wish I meet in life.
What impresses me - Simple person, No party/pub, Nerdy / Hardworking yet down to earth What makes a person look good - good looks are a great way to present yourself but a good heart will take it a long way. Being emphatic / understanding is a rare trait one can have What does not impress me - The confused, hidden motives, manipulative until they can use you till the last drain of blood
There is an element of selfishness in every relationship of life but truly we don't carry anything along with us in the end. Way away from the city / sitting in the sunset and observing things settle down in front of your eyes make you feel this is a simple life.
Often I meet conflicting personalities who make me think
Being emotional is bad
Judgemental is good
Hard stance in everything
Confused in perspectives
We all believe our own set of values that gives success to us. It could be hard work, positive mindset, failures, mentors, and people who helped us in hard times. Life is a progressive realization of the state of continuously learning, seeing new perspectives, seeing ups and downs. A weekly retrospection is more important to clear off wrong ideas and judgments and also to prioritize going forward. This week positively present and a bit of confusion at times. Life will answer those questions which do not have answers for me.
Keep Smiling and Keep Going!!!
Make this life worthy enough to remember on the day of death, I am leaving as an Inspiration to the world!!!
Be an Eternal Optimist, Resilient and Never Given up person. The knowledge from learning and reading will liberate the soul.
While recovering from an injury, recovering emotionally, the last bit of emotion is often more painful in the end. I have always debated being emotions vs logical. A kind decision with empathy will always be right. A logical decision may or maybe not empathetic.
Like a snake that sheds old skin, birds which fly continents for the next season, its time to open new windows of hope, lets the scars, wounds heal and go with more optimism and hope
Time for travel, open your mind to nature, go places and lose yourself to find yourself again!!! Some scars never heal, they make you kind and empathetic
Life is good professionally even when personal space and emotions are not going great. I think both are inversely proportional in my case. The lonely nights and moments of the long drive where many ideas, thoughts, learning, continuously coding gave me the focus, pride and a bit of more perspective on things I wanted to know better.
Practice the same kick 10000 times and be better at it - Bruce Lee
Amidst all personal crisis, there is a ray of hope, thoughts, learning to broaden the perspective.
Keep Learning, Keep broadening your perspective, Keep growing!!!
Even my PC wallpaper seem to auto-suggest something coming in the horizon
More often the lessons of past come with us as baggage in the future. The thoughts/habits / closed circles of parents influence lot of our thoughts.
Can we completely liberate ourself from the influences? Assume you cease to exist from tomorrow what would you do differently today? Have I seen/learned enough about the world to die with pride? Did I teach / help / contribute to someone whom I am not related to? What's my goal for a Social Cause, Why can't I spend the rest of my life for something that is bigger / better and useful for others?
The Deep network in everyone's mind has the same fears, hope, insecurity, scars.
To move to Develop Kindness, humility, optimism, generosity and shared the knowledge we need to keep the mind open, embrace everything, pause the thoughts and slow down and accept life than reacting every single event. Thinking State!!!
Last night while driving back I observed two wheeler hit by a vehicle. There was a pool of blood and slow moving traffic. It was around 11.30PM. There were many passersby and they were lifting the person to the side of the road. There were vehicles and crowd. He was not wearing helmet. There was a lot of blood spill.
I parked the vehicle a few meters away from the spot. I felt bad for the person. He was in his mid 30's. There were people around and passersby. There were a million thoughts running in my mind
The next day for his family
How his parents will accept this accident
His kids
Economic and Emotional Dependencies
What it is for a parent to see the death of his own children
After 10~15 mins after I felt ambulance/police would reach I slowly moved on. This thought was running in my head till now. Life ends instantly shattering all the dreams/wishes/ambitions.
This life is a short life, we don't achieve anything by rushing/being more manipulative or selfish.
We are born with abundant energy, positivity, happiness. Between the early age as kids we understand everything in a 'wow' perspective with the first touch, look, feel. Everything around is a new learning every other day.
Building personality, self, habits, values, education, career, life. Our education system, parenting underlines the importance of inculcating, teaching, mentoring and bringing the kids to understand the different perspectives of life.
A true aspect of an individual is to realize the self, understand the existence, observe the moment, look at ways to contribute to taking things to a more positive level in the environment around us.
Live more than merely existing Learn more than merely doing Listen deeply than just hearing Do more than just acknowledging Feel happy to shed the past Love, Learn, Live that's all we can do in this life
Many often the struggles in life are similar to the local minima/maxima we find using gradient descent to find our positive thoughts to move forward in life. Ever minimum point appears like a global minimum and every happiness appears like a global maximum. As we move forward in next step we understand its just a local minima/maxima not a global one.
Same applies to our thoughts of low and high points of life. Continue to rewire your thoughts, emotions and plans to compute the never give up, self-resilient and the best network that you can keep your mind in stateful, observing and mindful state.
Once a highly successful businessman, running a health insurance company was getting ready to go to his office. When he reached into his car and opened a door, a stray dog sleeping under his car suddenly came out and bit on his leg! The businessman got very angry and quickly picked up a few rocks and threw at the dog but none hit the dog. The dog ran away. Upon reaching his office, the businessman calls a meeting of his managers and during the meeting he puts the anger of dog on them. The managers also get upset by the anger of their boss and they put their anger to the employees working under them. The chain of this reaction keeps going till the lower level of employees and finally, the anger reaches to the office peon. Now, there was no one working under the peon! So, after the office time is over, he reaches his home, and wife opens the door. She asked him, “Why are you so late today?” The peon upset due to anger threw at him by the staff, gives one slap to his wife! And says, “I didn’t go to the office to play football, I went to work so don’t irritate me with your stupid questions!” So, now the wife got upset that she got a scolding plus a slap for no reason. She puts her anger on his son who was watching tv and give him a slap, “This is all you do, you have no interest in studying! Turn off the TV now!” The son gets upset now! He walks out of his house and sees a dog passing by looking at him. He picks up a rock and hits the dog in his anger and frustration. The dog, getting hit by a rock, runs away barking in pain. This was the same dog that bit the businessman early morning. Moral: This was bound to happen. Reap as one has sown. This is how the life works. While we all worry about hell and heaven based on our deeds, we should concentrate more on how we are living and behaving. Do good, Good will come, Do Wrong, Wrong will come. Source - Forward. Liked it Shared it.
Decisions always have a logic, rational, emotional perspective. Expressing things in anger/sadness / emotional also is an expression of disappointment/discontent. Any decision that we take today can be looked up as +10 years later how is this going to impact when I look back.
Thinking mindset is more important than emotional mindset. It's highly difficult to accept anything without thinking. In the Indian mindset, it is totally difficult to understand the parent's expectations.
To draw the line for expectations/ perspectives/emotions is more important to allow the self to be more rational/logical.
Keep the learning, thinking and the mind always open for the growth-oriented mindset.
My biggest asset, wealth in my life is my conscience, life, and my spirit. I have certainly seen the dead end of life and the lowest moments of depression. This life is certainly a blessing to show kindness exists. I dream to make big in AI for a social cause. All that you have for life is your dreams and working to make your dreams come true.
I am at a point where I cannot let anything be too emotional or logical. Only when the wounds go too deep you know how much pain you can withstand. Certainly, all one can have in life is a true self-acceptance, self-aware self.
The journey continues towards learning, knowledge, and kindness. Let no one hurt you and don't hurt anyone. Have the empathy and kindness and the ever better spirit to do well personally and professionally.
Calmness in mind - Relentless Fighting Spirit - Healthy body are the best one can have in life.
Finding myself and finding my true self. "Let the diamond in you give the spark and kindness that shines for itself"
Pause Life, Reflect it, Focus on the future, Adapt to it. Time, Life, Money, Learning every parameter of life has an influence on our decision. Planning for the future depends on the detailed level of thought, well laid out plans, detailed strategy and attention to detail.
Focused - Consistent Learning, Reading extensively books / multiple sources of learning. Dreams of future are more important than scars of past. Live a colorful and kind life. Stay healthy emotionally and physically. Own your life, Own your decisions. Happy Patient Life and Consistent Learning!!!
"Dreams of future are more important than scars of past" Happy Thinking and Learning!!!
Oh Yea, All my thoughts posted are my personal opinion and my inference from my experience.
Meditation / calmness / focussed quietness. If we look quiet intuitively anything that we do slowly will make us look deeply into it, check for the finer details of the picture.
The same applies when we do things like meditation or any slow-paced activity it slows down our regular pace. We will observe the usual things in a more granular perspective.
In other terms, When we drive slow we get to observe/witness things around us. Similarly, when we stay quiet/calm and remain in empty mind it will witness chaos for some time until the dust settles down. Many things around us can be controlled in our emotions/feelings.
That's why we hear the biggest achievement is conquering self!!!
This below video shows a Buddhist monk (flying monk). It takes time to pause, look at self and understand our limits, strengths and becoming self-aware self.
Does being with a group of friends help me feel good?
Does working long hours help me feel good?
Does going back to our relationships make us feel good?
All of these are mere substitutes and placeholders in the context of time to pause the moment. The real empty state of mind is to pause this moment and see us in context of the time the emotions/ acts/thoughts/actions within ourself.
Time is a fixed dimension. Our actions vary depending on our emotions. In a way, every state of action is not a deep thought but rather a transient moment of jumping between emotions, without an end to the loop. It's an infinite loop of endless emotions of expectations - disappointments - again expectations. How far we do this? Until the last moment of the breath.
Let's stop it here, The time is fixed, We can only do a certain amount of things in the run of time vs life. The higher reason/purpose / to look beyond ourself and see ourself as an entity not as a permanent thing is more important.
Instead of planning 100 things, It is better to do 10 things with utmost attention and care. Slow down, pause life, see the moment, seize the moment, plan the life. Live Well, Live like you are known for good deeds and words.
Driving has a lot of correlation to Life, Neural Networks. The optimal speed to arrive, where to slow down, where to overtake, balancing energy to drive consistently till the end.
Life battles can be related to unexpected vehicles issues/punctures. Some repairs make us stand still for some time. Yet, We continue to go forward in facing the challenges and continuing the rest of the journey. This life should be useful and an example to look at us for kindness, hard work, and empathy. More than money a sense of achievement, a purpose to look up to.
Do everything with love, share the knowledge. Hoping to make a big impact in AI for a social cause. Driving is exactly the same as meditation. Focus, Attention, Consistency everything matters.
Dark Night - Rainy - Quiet - Calm and Peaceful Drive!!!
After all the days of life, The moment I felt I need to know more about myself. This comes out from reading Geoff Hinton Papers. From Psychology to physiology to Artificial Neural Networks.
We know our thinking, perceptions, perspectives, emotions, reactions, experiences. How all of this is bonded together to create the happiness perspective is all that we call emotional wellness. Probably the empty space in mind or creating a pause in your life to let the emptiness result in a hunch, creating some breakthrough thoughts, simplifying our perspectives those are what we call as meditation and spirituality.
Every great motivational speaker/personality Jay Shetty, Rupi Kaur, Lilly Sigh or any familiar names that pop up for our search for motivation shows us their life and the turnaround from the point of depression to self-gratification, self-awareness, and fulfillment.
Rather than being more emotional / to understand the engineering of your thinking / feeding the right thinking patterns / extracting optimism from the experiences / continuously breaking our thoughts flow in a certain direction and allowing us to experience the different emotional levels are the key for self-aware self.
A small set of experiments, perspectives, reading, research papers I intend to share going forward as part of my self-learning.
About me - Emprical Learner, Ghost Rider, Building the best deep network for a kinder, better self!!!
Take Chances, Be Bold, Take Risks, Be Yourself, Stay Motivated and Keep Rocking!!!
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"The person that you will spend most time with in your life is yourself, so better try to make yourself as interesting as possible...."
Like a drunkard, this blog is my late-night diary and serves as my graveyard shift memories. When I am not there in this world you will know what was running in my mind. Win or Lose keep the journey interesting!!!
“You live only once, If you are right once is enough”
"Always be a part of solution not part of problem"
"Yet, Taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe" - Homer
“I love the man who can smile in trouble that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.” - Thomas Paine (1737–1809), American political theorist & writer
