Life goes on ..........................

Self control is one of the key variables that drives success in life, however you may define it. And now self control has been linked to glucose levels in your blood! That means, what you eat and when you eat has a role in your success or not in life. Lower glucose levels have been tied to poorer self control in studies recently. You need a steady blood glucose level to get through the temptations in life! Complex carbohydrates are the way to go. Of course physical activity is linked to your level of self control as well. Exercise helps you avoid thoughtless decisions and actions, which means you need to put more thought and action into getting a workout whenever possible without falling to the temptation of avoiding it. Apparently recharging yourself with a good night's sleep is also essential if you are to have sufficient self control in a world full of distractions. Healthy food, exercise and sleep are thus key to your future! These were available aplenty historically - so were ...

Don’t hold on to anything. You came into this world with nothing and you will leave it with nothing……sure you can keep your ashes in orbit until singularity happens again probably if you keep hold of enough money and make necessary arrangements in advance. Those ashes don’t help anyone and leave a carbon footprint as well! What you can leave for posterity is a copy of your genes and that doesn’t cost you much including kitting them out to succeed in life. Beyond that, use whatever you have to help your fellow travellers in this journey. Gates and Buffet are doing that and a whole set of folks who they could convince to do the same are doing that too. Life is commerce in essence. But the spoils of commerce, once you have managed to usurp as much as you can – through crook or fluke, which are both random, should be spent to help those who got the short end of the stick in their own random walks. If you keep holding on to those spoils, one of the following is bound to happen: 1) The benef...

Live in the present. There’s no such thing as ‘I shouldn’t have done that’. Whatever you have done has happened already. There is nothing much you can do about it unless you fancy travelling in time or something. All that has happened in the past is experience for you, life experience. If you don’t do much, then you don’t get much experience either. With experience comes the ability to rebound and resurrect. Everything that happens is random. There is no such thing as good luck or bad luck. Living is just taking chances every moment. And there is no way you can decide to take the right path since no path is right until hindsight. Even if in hindsight you feel and others feel that you took the right path, everything that happens from that point on is still random. So what looked right in hindsight at T can look wrong in hindsight at T+1 or T+2. To hell with hindsight then. The best path forward is what your gut tells you is the best path forward. Don’t trust any guru or any consultant o...

If you want something you read to stick in your memory, please read sections of it and write down as much of it as you can remember immediately after. If you keep doing this for each section, you are likely to remember more than if you had just read the material a few times. Even writing down just the relevant points immediately after reading wouldn’t help as much. If you can’t concentrate when you are trying to read, the best medicine is to take 5 deep breaths. You should start by exhaling fully – count to 10 slowly – and then inhale deeply and exhale fully counting to 10 slowly. Do this 5 times and you will be ready to read and absorb anything in your memory. Whatever you are trying to learn, please always try to apply it to a real life situation, whether it be math or physics or chemistry or business studies. That way you will understand the concept and will not forget what you learned that easily.

God's Own Country needs God himself/ herself to come down (or teleport in) to save it. Talent is few and far between though graduates from engineering colleges abound. The mushrooming of engineering colleges in Kerala, promoted mostly by the current day robber barons here – their flagship businesses are mainly selling liquor, real estate development and influence peddling either through the political or religious hot buttons – has brought down the quality of engineering grads to a pitiable level. The lecturers in these colleges are usually those who graduated a year earlier and couldn’t find a job. And that too in a place where anyone with a beating heart can get a job. Which leads to another question – how in the world are IT companies that employ graduates with such low skill levels making money and paying them salaries? It is either because such companies have a tier of employees with several years of experience that actually do most of the work while the new recruits get traine...