My Ph.D. Journey: A Reflection on What it has Taught Me.
What’s the first word that comes to your mind after hearing Ph.D.? Maybe the highest degree, intelligent people, long years, hard journey, etc. In fact, even in my Master’s, I did not have a good idea about Ph.D. which is very unlikely (I was not even interested to be honest). People who think to pursue a Ph.D. plan it way before. By the time they do their postgraduate studies, they…
7 Things I Would Tell My Younger Self To Live Better
Have you seen those tshirts where it is written ‘growing up is a terrible idea.‘? I am sure you have. Growing up is also to some extent similar to Einstein’s twin paradox. When you were kid or teenagers, we wanted to grow up faster and become adults. But when we become adults, we again wish to go back to our childhood or teenage years. Perhaps we lose sense of of…
Top 7 Living Authors Who Can Add Tremendous Value to Your Life
Writing is one of the greatest inventions in human history. Imagine those days when there was now writing. How did people convey their ideas, insights, and information in those days? Without writing, there could be no accumulation of knowledge, no record of historical events, no exchange of information which means no books, articles, or internet. Today, all humans alive on this planet can share their ideas if they wish to.…
Three Valuable Lessons We Can Learn From Ancient Indian Education System
Malcolm X, an African-American leader once said- “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” There is no denying that a country’s future can be predicted by looking at its education system. The children of today are not only citizens of tomorrow but the builders of the country in the future. Every great leader and culture understood this. That’s why even…
Life Lessons From the Year 2020
Exactly a year back on December 29, 2019, I wrote an article on ‘how to live a worthwhile year‘. Guess what, one year has passed since then and here I am writing about the year 2020. Who thought a year back that we would witness a dramatic year as 2020. And truly we are witnessing a time that once in a century people usually witness. A major pandemic hits every…
My Learnings About Money: An Account of Personal Finance
Trust me, I never thought I would write about personal finance one day. Even when I started my blog, my preferred categories were Science, People, Personal growth, Books, etc. Two years back, I didn’t have much idea about personal finance and why I need to know about it. But in the last two years, a lot of things have changed, I have learned a bit about personal finance and realized…
Has Philosophy become an irrelevant subject?
If I ask you to do a degree on philosphy, will you do? Most probably not. From a carrer point of view you might think ‘will there is even a job for philosophy degree?’ People do what most people around him/her do. Tech is emerging so everyone want to do a degree in computer science. Perhaps you don’t even know anyone among your friends who is studying philosophy. Most young…
