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One could get trapped if he were to recognise the beauty of the world and times we live in without knowing about his own life enough

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Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself"

I am not sure whether I agree with the above quote but perhaps we'll find out in time

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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

- George Bernard Shaw

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Movies games music books are the only gods

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Societal tantrums drag so many down. No wonder they have the highest share

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Money and idiotic emotions cost us so much of innovation time

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Genetic storage will prolly save much of human curiosity time wasted in exploring the world

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No emotions and you could so much time

With emotion its beautiful and ugly with lesser time

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So relatable after 80 years. yet so pure

I stumbled upon a book which is an autobiography of natoram sekhsaria towards the end of the book he wrote something which i’ll be posting here but I wish or im sure every early twenties would long for the timeline of events that he had : I had achieved everything that I had set out to do in life. I was a small trader who became a successful industrialist. My father was a modest businessman whose most generous gifts to me were ethics, spirituality and the belief that if you work hard, you will achieve your goals. I was lucky to get into chemical engineering and blessed to have had the option of joining my family’s cotton-trading business despite my engineering degree. Fortunately, I did well in everything I tried my hand at, including manufacturing a commodity about which I knew very little. I was able to assemble a great team of professionals from the earliest days and together we built the country’s most successful cement company. I had structured and executed the biggest Indian corporate deal of the era. Now I had a seat at the high table of the captains of the Indian industry. I had made enough money for several generations of my family. Doubling that was not going to change things any further. Did I want more money, a few more zeros added to my personal wealth? No. Did I want to own a yacht or a plane? No. Did I want to build a mansion? No. I still lived in the same house where I grew up as a child. These things never attracted me. I never wanted to become a Birla or an Ambani. I had no ambition to establish a family business dynasty. All I wanted in life was to go on holidays with my family, be with friends, eat good food, read a good book and have a nice drink. It was the simple pleasures of life that I longed for, rather than leaving behind a family legacy. I was fifty-four, too young to retire, many would say. But in my mind, I was ready to give it all up. Considering the state of my health, I did not see myself doing this high-stress job in my sixties and seventies. There was also another practical issue at the back of my mind. Most of the small group of senior executives, who had helped build the company over two decades, were themselves close to retirement or getting there. Considering my health and state of mind, I was not sure I had the energy to build a new team. Sure, I would have loved to have one of my children run the company. But my son Pulkit, who had been on the board of Gujarat Ambuja since the mid-1990s, was not interested. Similarly, my nephew Harsh, who was also on the board, was averse to shifting to Mumbai. My daughter Padmini was already married into another family. The two Neotia brothers, my partners and co-promoters, were already in retirement mode. It was now increasingly clear to me that the Sekhsaria–Neotia control of Gujarat Ambuja was in its last stages. Unlike the vast majority of other Marwari business houses, ours was a one-generation gift that would end once I called it a day. Would I feel a sense of loss when I gave it all up? Not really. The Bhagavad Gita, which has been my companion through thick and thin, had prepared me. Like many others, my big takeaway has been the chapter about duty and devotion called ‘Karma Yoga’.

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I could see it now. So much yet so long?

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My vision of the future is of an exciting world of superior goods and services, where every nation’s stamp of origin is a symbol of quality, and where all are competing for the consumers’ hard-earned money at fair prices that reflect appropriate rates of exchange. I believe such a world is within our grasp. The challenge is great; success depends only on the strength of our will. - Akio Morita

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Knowing when to stop or continue is the key to success. - Akio Morita

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What you learn in school only becomes useful when you add something to it that is yours, and you do it yourself. - Akio Morita

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THOMAS AQUINAS

Thomism:

Aquinas asserts God is the supreme origin of knowledge, and humans are capable of understanding aspects about God through processes of rational thought and divine revelation.

Also, there's an objective moral order we can discover through reason.

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DAVID HUME

Principle of Empiricism:

Hume asserts that all knowledge derives from sensory experience.

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Karma yoga : Action

Bhakti yoga : Devotion

Jnana yoga : Knowledge

Raja yoga : Meditation

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8 desires in everyone's life :

Body

Wife

Children

House

Vehicles

Money

Acceptance from society

Control over ones career and progress