Unwind Yourself Through What Framed You
Life based in practical insight: A thoughtful voyage across Cultures
- How We Lost Care In the Name of Efficiency, and Why It is Exhausting Us
How We Lost Care In the Name of Efficiency, and Why It is Exhausting Us Care vs Efficiency – The Monk And The Engineer In the frantic, distracted states we usually find humanity marinating in today, a childhood tale that stays with me is that of an old Buddhist monk and an engineer. The engineer on his way to work everyday sees the old, frail monk struggling to get water out of a deep well with a rickety rope. One day, the engineer installs an automated pulley mechanism to help the monk retrieve water with ease. However, the next day,… Read more: How We Lost Care In the Name of Efficiency, and Why It is Exhausting Us - Separating Provision from Purpose in our CareersSeparating Provision and Purpose in our Careers It is deeply human to pine for freedom from circumstance. We are all fighting for some sort of freedom – from suffering, anger, pain, sadness, work, money etc. In the corporate world, I came across many people looking for various types of freedoms, paramount usually financial freedom. In the realms of our careers, we have conventionally been conditioned to focus on attaining a specialization of skills or expertise, towards a long term, economically advantageous career. However, we have also pressured upon our careers, the burden of not just provision, but also a higher… Read more: Separating Provision from Purpose in our Careers
- Live a Life of Meaning by Being 5 ThingsLive a Life of Meaning by Being 5 Things Infinite possibility As I begin to write this, the Google Docs AI gives me 5 options to do some wild shit I never thought a word processing software would do. In a time where you can never read your phone, all the way to the end, we are inundated with choices that get posed as micro-decisions on us, every single day of our lives. On my desk, I have 5 screens around me which I can seamlessly switch from, each performing a certain task in optimizing this writing session of mine.… Read more: Live a Life of Meaning by Being 5 Things
- What Tomatoes Can Teach Us About Culture, and Our Own IdentitiesWhat Tomatoes Can Teach Us About Culture, and Our Own Identities We have certain unquestionable fixations that are accepted as gospel truths, almost through the entirety of our lives. They form fixed parts of our identities. We usually accept the national boundaries we were born within, we abide by a time zone, we adopt a certain way of being, living, eating, speaking, often defined by the uniquely distinct conditions that our context created. We let stories and myths, that forge a connection stretching millennia, be moulded to the times we live in. Culture, and our interpretation of our it encompasses,… Read more: What Tomatoes Can Teach Us About Culture, and Our Own Identities
