Category: Books
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High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest
High Adventure is a very straightforward account of Hillary’s experience summiting the mountain; how he got into climbing, his early climbs, and a chance to join the Everest expedition in 1951, the challenges they faced, nearby explorations in 1952, and finally reaching the summit in 1953.
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
I’ve been listening to the audiobook of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi the past week. Mihaly is a Hungarian-American psychologist known for his work in positive psychology, happiness, creativity, and flow theory. I’ve been reading about being in Flow for a while, which is defined as a state of mind in…
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Zen: The Art of Simple Living
At some point in our lives, all of us wish our life was different–well, not just different, but better. Maybe you’ve imagined what life would be like with a better job, a bigger house, improved health, or whatever “better” is for you. The truth is, many people are worried and confused about how to live…
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No Filter – Inside Story of Instagram
“In 2017, there was a widely popular study by the Royal Society for Public Health in the U.K. that named Instagram the number one worst app for mental health for youth, specifically because it drives people to compare themselves to one another and fosters anxiety.” Instagram is an app that most of us are so…
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The Lonely City
There’s a popular movie called Her (2013) in which the protagonist falls in love with the operating system and there’s a quote in there which says, “How can one feel so alone in a city full of millions”. I was rewatching bits of the movie last week which reminded me of the first book that…
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Getting Projects Creatively Under Way
Getting Things Done. Every day of our lives, we’re trying to get shit done and keep a tab on the countless projects we start and dream of starting. Personal and professional to-do lists, catching up on world news, creating content for LinkedIn, Twitter, IG, Clubhouse, Tiktok, etc., etc., dreaming new projects; the list is endless.…
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Book Reflections: November and December 2020
Hello and Welcome to 2021! This is a delayed post of my book reflection series for 2020. I read a total of 50 books the past year, a huge jump from the 12 books in 2019. Below is a short reflection/review of the books I read in November and December. As always, there was a…
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Book Reflections: September & October 2020
Welcome to the 5th issue of 2020 book reflections. It’s been a great year for reading and discovering many gems in literature. From classics of the 1800s to books published this year. 2020 Book Challenge Update:Goal set in January: 24 booksBooks Read as of 2nd November: 42New Goal: 50 books by end of year You…
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Book Reflections: July & August 2020
How is it September already! It feels like yesterday I was at Bangalore Airport in January, contemplating buying the biography of Steve Jobs because it was 600+ pages. And just last month, I finished the lengthy novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and ordered the mighty 1200 page War & Peace. It’s not my first…
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Reading 100 pages a day
While listening to the Tim Ferris Show with Brandon Stanton (founder of Humans of New York), Brandon talks about his life before pursuing photography; purposeless, and not happy with what he was doing. In the quest to find meaning, he committed to reading 100 pages per day, mostly biographies. He believes biographies are the “best…