The Exasperated Man

This is a continuation of my post titled – The Hedonic Treadmill.  Please read the other blog post. There was so much I wanted to say in The Hedonic Treadmill , but then I thought I shall put it in a different post to give things more clarity. The fear of missing out is in all of us. In fact FOMO is good. Without FOMO we would never evolve. We would never learn new things. But like I already stated in my previous blog post, balance is essential. If things could happen progressively governing the balancing rule, everything would happen good in life. Quiet: The power o f int r overts in a world T hat can't stop talking by Susan Cain , was the book which gave me huge insights about introverts and the power of just sitting in silence without talking too much. When I took this book in my hands, I was skeptical that this book is going to speak on and on about how introverts are the greatest people, in a biased context. I soon found out that the wri...

Everybody Lies! If you’ve seen the popular Television series House MD, you’ll know what I am talking about. Now let me tell you something. Everybody is insecure! That might appear bad, only when you associate insecure as something bad. The word insecure itself is a simple one. It means “In” “secure”. To be “in” “secure” is to build a wall around us for the sake of our security. Insecure is good, only until some degree. Insecure helps us. Insecure protects us from trouble. The little squirrel is going to run away from you even if you try to feed it the most delicious food on earth. It is insecure. It is how it survives. Though it misses away from being romantically involved in your fascinating pet care (mew mew mew mew mew mew mew mew mew mew); it would get hunted easily if it wasn’t insecure. But we are not squirrels; though they are so cute. We have the ability to distinguish when we can choose to be insecure and when we need to let go. That primal ins...

Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat. lt's not a goddamned seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go! - Tyler Durden - Fight Club Scientist have discovered that Will power is like a rationed product available to you in limited quantities. The more will power is exercised in one area of life, the weaker it is in another area of life. Of course will power is like a muscle which can be strengthened through practice, but that's not the point here. The point it that, like time, will power is available in limited quantities to exercise in daily decisions. If you are gonna continue to use will power in every activity, you are gonna burn out eventually. A life lived happily is a life which is well automated which does not allow you to make daily decisions.   “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées The previous quote is so deep that it makes me tingle to just read i...

I am gonna give my opinion about to-do lists. The simpler the to-do list, the more better it is to manage and follow through. I write down whatever I got to do, whenever I remember something, on a piece of paper I carry around. I have to remember to carry just a pencil and a paper. When I complete the task, I strike the sentence/task through. Simple. No hassles. No annoying reminders. I like the feel it gives me whenever I complete the task and strike it through, using the pencil; Makes me want to do more. Now after my Android Phone Pitched in, I found an app replacement for the paper and pencil. The application is, "Do it tomorrow". Search it up in Google play and download it. The interface is pretty simple and similar to my paper model. I add entries in the application, and when I complete them, I can strike them through. Whatever I did not complete today automatically gets moved on to tomorrow. Simple. Flawlessly simple. Try it out. I...