No Salary Month

It's going to be a dry month with Zero Salary. Yea, I got my freedom for the price.

What I got?
  • Sleep till 11AM
  • Travel as I wish
  • Learn without deadlines
  • Disconnected from world
What I missed?
  • 4 Hour commute in ORR
  • Neck pain
  • Struck in 4 walls of the cubicle
Is freedom expensive? Yes
Is it worthy? Yes

It's the same as giving your vehicle to service. I really wish I can take a month and cutoff myself every year and find something that interests me.

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Learning without deadlines

I am not sure whether Leonardo Da Vinci will be able to paint Monalisa as a sprint deliverable. Learning without deadline frees your mind. Your mind should wander, wonder and learn. Learning is a creative process to experiment and experience. This break fuels me to propel to the farthest distance in my passion for another decade.

Keep Learning!!!

Ten reasons to kill Tik Tok

1. Distraction and addiction among Teens, Youth
2. No parental controls
3. Kids creativity is killed
4. Promote dance than thinking skills
5. The likes, comments are a trap that will eat all your time
6. May be linked to poor performance at work, school in long run
7. Failure to perform at work will in turn affect personal and professional life
8. Takes away family time
9. Takes away walking time, reading time
10. Makes everyone working in silo and live in a virtual world

We have all become type of social media addicted generation, This will further lead to poor performance in education, productivity as well as loss of innovation.

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Motivation - Good Read

Source - Link

Happy Learning!!!

Interesting Read - Finding your right job

Good Read - Link

Key Notes in Screenshots


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Competency

Competency is not earned by
  • Theoretical knowledge
  • Listening to accidentally successful people
  • Listening to motivational speakers
Competency is earned by
  • Insults that push you to learn more
  • People who compliment 'You are bad' and push you to learn more
  • Experimenting
  • Reading more to understand
  • Connect the dots and make more experience
  • By being able to present, experiment, explain and push your ideas
  • Curiosity and Constantly answer-seeking mindset
Keep Thinking!!!

Guilt and Continuity

Life has a strange way of decision making where there are many relationships who influence you in your personal life decisions.

When you meet people who hurt you. You feel like its okay. Let them be Happy
When you meet people whom you had hurt. It feels shameful for what I had done
When I meet new people I want to be even more cautious neither to hurt or not to get hurt

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Understanding the Art of Finding Right Partner

I haven't learned the art of finding the right match in terms of finding a Life Partner. A lot of things play a direct role and a lot more things play a direct role.

Direct Roles
  • Education
  • Job
  • Salary
  • Religion / Divisions / Sub Divisions
  • Parents Job / Education
Indirect Roles
  • LifeStyle
  • Priorities
  • Beliefs
  • Parents Expectations vs Kids Expectations
  • Sibling Expectations
  • Location
Step #1 - What gets attention is from the filters that are 'Satisfy this education', 'This divisions/sects', ' > this salary'

Observation - Only in movies we can find rich-poor love and love beyond borders. In real life when everything is measured there is no such movie-style stories

Step #2 - Originality vs Authenticity

Observation - All that glitters is not gold. People with sole intention to cheat will be caring, supportive, appear as near perfect individuals. In real life, I have observed authentic people labeled as 'Workaholic', 'Beyond Normal Person', 'Money Minded',  ' Calculative'.

A lot of indirect factors come into play during conversations, planning, and preparations. Everything is important to be successful in life. Physics, Chemistry, and biology.

Step #3 - Call it off if it Hurts

Observation - It's better to call it off early than having a bad start. A lot of indirect factors affect the future. In this lifestyle of working - earning - save a little - plan a little - live a little there are lot of things needed in terms of preparedness. At least 80% mindset needs to match in Physics. Chemistry will be a match assuming it never fails the first few months of meeting a new person.

Step #4 - Apologize and Move on for Hidden Dowry Agenda

Observation - Guy needs dowry, girl needs a money tree. Both this mindset is prone to failure. Earning is a skill, spending is a skill, saving is a skill. Unless you clarity for all three you can never maintain a decent lifestyle till the end. If you have a lot of different perspectives in earning, spending, saving call it off.

Step #5 - Lust

Observation - With a lot of social media, lifestyle changes this is a debatable topic on what is the line of relationship and how to draw a line in the relationship. What goes around comes around. A mistake repeated again becomes a habit. Its always better to stand a few steps before the limits than regretting things done.

Step #6 - Regret

Observation - It takes an average of 3~6 months to convince a girl. A lot of indirect factors come into play during this period. You virtually know the compatibility and personality type differences in this period. After you call it off it doesn't work. This takes a lot of regret, worry, guilt. No matter who breaks up, It always hurts the person on both sides.

Step #7 - Call out Everything

Observation - Nothing can cure pain or console someone who is affected. Emotional trauma from parents, families take a toll in this process. With both genders equally educated, working living their lives it becomes even more challenging to match at all emotional and psychological levels.

Find someone whom you can talk openly on indirect factors first then talks about direct factors. 

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Success

Success is a Vision. In measurable terms, it could be a deliverable/milestone.
To be successful you need to envision success in different perspectives.
  • Success is Strategy
  • Success is preparation
  • Success is Learning
  • Success is the preparedness
  • Success is incremental growth
  • Success is planning
New types of thinking, solutions come from closely observing, experimenting and learning the things during daily life tasks. Envision success before you embark on the Journey to Success!!!

Innovation - Generate More Ideas

  • Ideas can be stolen but not the way to generate ideas
  • Hunger to find "newer" ways to simplify, applying hybrid solutions to solve problems
  • Evaluating ideas from Research papers / Re-apply techniques applied elsewhere that can be also applied here
  • Curiosity to simplify things, Ability to solve balancing both business and tech perspective
  • Genuine passion and curiosity to solve things in the long run
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Build your Dreams

You cannot build a future by living in the past
Future belongs to those who build on their dreams
The world belongs to dreamers, innovators, and futurists

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Career milestones

Some things I am proud of :)
  • Never took credit of someone else work
  • I never got into any strong disagreement. Conveyed in a polite way
  • Took initiative for things I felt 'This has to be done this way'
Some Leaders helped me learn, experiment with my passion. I am grateful for them. Few people I met in my life, I would not have done the things they did to me If I were in their shoes. Those were the moments I decided to forget and let go to move further. Learning moments do not come from success but those were the days of rejection, slow killers of ideas in the name of 'Not a Priority Now', you are not an 'SME', we don't see value in this right now. 

Everything that pulls you down will push you with the failures it taught you. I am glad I have collected many learning moments to share those inspirational moments for students I teach, motivate people around me. 

To be successful you need to constantly improve the self. Going beyond the insecurity thoughts and encouraging others, playing a risk game not a safe zone game, Leaders who play safe zone games will neither grow nor let their team grow. Move on "be your own leader in your spirit, thoughts, and vision".

The future is built on the stones people throw at you :). Transform those hard memories into a beautiful passage for building the future.

Always do things that make you feel proud and happy!!!

Day #4 - Do Nothing Phase

Some moments of Solitude is required to bring clarity. Learning moments provide new directions and perspectives in Life. A lot of time has to be spent in learning/reading/experimenting.

My body ages not my spirit, Let my soul wander the most and find more beautiful destinations. Life is a priceless gift to seek / learn / engage in more productive things.

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Connecting with people

  • Be prepared (10x) but walk like unprepared
  • Understand their biases
  • Understand their receptors
  • Find a way they feel, 'I never thought about it'
  • If you are in the business of model building, be better at it
  • Teaching is a craft
  • Be better than your yesterday
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Masterclass

I wish One day I can sit in some resort and complete all the Masterclass courses. Amazing content


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Day #3 - Do Nothing Day

It's amazing to reverse the schedule, turn off mobile, do things when the world is sleeping. Dreamers are those who build on their dreams when the world sleeps.

My destiny is built on my passion and I will walk along the path until my last day.

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Day #2 - Do Nothing Day

I am back to my Microsoft Days where I used to stay up whole night learning/experiment with my ideas. Finally, I was able to rewrite the warranty. Now at this point in life, I am trying to become a Good Coach, Adding Meaningful Experience in my Career.

It's fun to work the whole night on things you love to do and sleep during the chaotic day time.

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Day 1 # - Do Nothing Phase

It's nice, A long day. Cooking, Sleeping, Movie time. I switched off the mobile. It's the freedom to be away from everything. Cars and Computers are my Life. Corporate Life is still a bit away. I learn for passion, work for my passion. I have always been a Winning Jockey in my Life. Do your best, Always Keep Learning.

However I feel do nothing, do something and to-do list pops up in Mind, Work in Leisure and Luxury. Trave with no limits.

Unlearn, Energize, Experiment and Come Back!!

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Next Plans

I have finally called it out for my next move. 9 Years is a very long time.

My Next to do List
  • Do-Nothing (Travel and Spend some time in Nature)
  • Spend a few days with my Mom
  • Complete pending class assignments
  • Complete the To-Do Pending Projects
  • Target 3 working prototypes in the Top to-do List
  • Unlearn, Remove and Rejuvenate Memories
  • Sleep Well, Eat Well, Rest Well
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Years and Hours Spent @ work and commute

This is an interesting observation I remembered, I have been here in my current company past 9 years
2011 - Traffic time 45 mins one way
2020 - Traffic time 90 mins one way
  • 2011 - Average 12 hours (8.30- 5.30) + Commute 90 Mins
  • 2012 - Average 12 hours (8.30- 5.30) + Commute 90 Mins
  • 2013 - Average 11 hours (8.30- 4.30)
  • 2014 - Average 11 hours (8.30- 4.30)
  • 2015 - Average 13 hours (8.30- 4.30)
  • 2016 - Average 13 hours (8.30- 4.30)
  • 2017 - Average 13 hours (8.30- 4.30)
  • 2018 - Average 7 hours (8.30- 4.30)
  • 2019 - Average 6 hours (8.30- 4.30) + 180 Mins Commute
  • 2020 - Average 6 hours (Quick Ride + Work from Home Evening Options) + 180 Mins Commute
Due to several factors, the work got swapped after office hours, commute increased. Things changed.
Time to start another journey, To reset my working clock time :)

You should work with positivity/optimism and empathy to connect, learn and understand people. You are not judged by the time you spend in the office. Your ability to connect, execute a common shared vision, influence positivity, make it a place for humor and optimism will help it take it a long way.

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My Dream of Marriage

I aim for a Zero Cost Marriage which I could never convince any of my discussions. You should spend zero expenses and do something meaningful
  • Donation to Orphanage
  • Buying Books
  • Random acts of charity
Flamboyant marriage and customs do not ensure the success of a marriage. It is the mindset/maturity that leads the way not how the marriage happened.

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What they will never teach you in Schools

  • Handle Emotional Failures
  • How to take decisions 
  • How to evaluate people based on their thoughts vs actions
  • How to question science
  • Knowing how it works
  • Importance of money
  • Caste / Religion / Superstitions
  • Financial Importance
  • Developing a Skill
  • How to earn in a part-time job
  • How to respect all jobs equally
  • Connecting science and life
  • Understand the history and avoid it happening by analyzing the present
  • It is okay to fail
  • You are not dumb if your Teacher fails you
Be a Rebel, Find your own Hero in Yourself!!!

Communication

The ability to convey your point with the same level of emotional, logical perspective is an art. Whenever we seek to explain to be in control with your flow of thoughts, the order of thoughts, validating your arguments, pause and clarify when needed requires a great amount of focus, attention, clarity, and knowledge. This is something that will be never thought of as we quantify opinions based on titles, social status.

Schools will never teach you to question because you are prepared for something which is totally different than what is needed. When the society does not reflect the values taught in schools, This means the education system failed to correct the faults in the society.

Go on, Keep Questioning!!!

The Art of Never Ending Search for Life Partner

Myself and My mom will never agree on this Lines. After my dad passed away the gap between myself and my mom had widened actually. There were several occasions where she disagreed on my choices and finally I screwed up things.

I have to apologize to a lot of people for taking time, betraying their trust. It was half baked with people valuing money, title and thinking someone who approaches means you can take them for granted.

Relocating abroad was an option at some point. But now my focus is totally into education / reaching out doing something in my line of expertise.

Continue to teach/reach out and help more students gives me immense satisfaction. Life has given everything I asked for. I wasn't clear of the person I like to meet. It's a happy ending only in the movies. In reality, we never look back on the people who left us. It took me years/months to recover/refocus back. Nevertheless, it happened because I was always switching gears towards professional vs personal life.

I hope I minimize/don't hurt anyone in this issue going forward. Better stay focused on things you can control than doing things which you are not 100% satisfied with your decisions.

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My Story #10 - Beehive in Elephant

This is another interesting experience for my curiosity. We went for a family trip to VGP golden beach. This was during my 6th standard.

As usual, I try something different and get screwed myself. We reached there, saw the beach, had some food. There were a few statues of elephants made.

These were white in color. As usual, I started exploration. I said I am feeding the elephant and started to put my hands on the elephant's mouth.

Actually, there was a beehive inside the statue (Elephants mouth). Nicely it gave me a good amount of stings.

The itching continued till the next day. I was bothering my dad to rub it. Finally, I had to go to hospital and explain the story again and get an injection to get it cured.

Exploration to stings to the hospital!!!

Happy Reading!!!

Cleaning up Home after few months

I have only met girls who said I don't know cooking, I don't know cleaning. For our mere survival, we need to be aware of whatever tasks minimum required. There were a lot of personal and professional transitions running in my life. I didn't have the mind to cleanup things at home. Everything was scattered around. Today was a decently productive day

  • Car Service
  • Home Cleaning
  • Home Mop
  • Washing & Drying Clothes
  • Cleaning up Litter

I don't go to the gym but I am very much satisfied with household chores.

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"Fight for you. Believe in you. Bleed. Cry. Conquer - Dan Waldschmidt"