Author: KARSID

  • 0029 – Secrets of Srisailam

    0029 – Secrets of Srisailam

    Reflections: Devotion and Discovery On our recent journey to Srisailam, I set off with anticipation, knowing it would be both a spiritual and personal adventure. On the way, we stopped at a Tripurantakam temple nestled far off from the Mallikarjuna Srisailam temple. There was a mysterious underground passage leading from it, though unfortunately, it was…

  • 0028 – Harmony in Design and Rituals

    0028 – Harmony in Design and Rituals

    Reflecting further on my recent trip to India, two separate thoughts struck my mind. The first one is about symmetry. Does symmetry make architecture beautiful? What is it about certain buildings that make them so captivating? Is it their shape, colour, or the way everything comes together? Interestingly, symmetry is often a big part of…

  • 0027 – Context vs Discovery

    0027 – Context vs Discovery

    The Impact of Context on Your Travel Experience Today, while out for an evening walk, my mind wandered to a project I’ve been immersed in: reconfiguring and designing my blog for the past few weeks. This led me to reflect on my recent trip to India, where I explored North India more extensively than before…

  • 0026 – Getting Motivated to Follow Your Passion

    0026 – Getting Motivated to Follow Your Passion

    Visualisation First, start by visualising yourself being in that position that you want to be in and write down an ideal day of how that may look in a diary. Just add bullet points or go in-depth but make sure you cover the full day. The power is visualisation is truly remarkable. It will take…

  • Open – Andre Agassi – Book Review

    Andre Kirk Agassi. A professional tennis player. A former world No.1. A man who holds 8 grand-slams to his name and an Olympic gold medal. The list goes on… But this is the same man who hates tennis and has done so since he was introduced to it. Odd right? In his autobiography, Andre passes…

  • 0025 – Changes I’ve Made to My Productivity

    0025 – Changes I’ve Made to My Productivity

    Alright, I know the first question to you reading this would be, what happened? Why did you miss so many days of daily blogging? Well, to be honest, I guess much of it is due to the shift in focus to my uni preparation and some of the reasoning can be attributed to my laziness…

  • 0024 – Writing is a Medium for Thinking

    0024 – Writing is a Medium for Thinking

    Writing is an incredible medium for thoughts. It’s what I’m doing now. I am thinking as I pen my thoughts onto the note-taking app I’m using. One of the incredible assets we have is the ability to ‘write’ everywhere. We have a selection of paper, sticky notes, diaries and hundreds of note-taking apps. These forms…

  • 0023 – You’re Not Busy, You’re Just Dedicating Time

    0023 – You’re Not Busy, You’re Just Dedicating Time

    This phrase is one of the best personal reminders I use to avoid the mindset of finding excuses and more importantly ‘pretending to be busy’. I discovered this around 1 year ago and since then, I have never used the word ‘busy’. If you actually think about how many times you say ‘busy’ in a…

  • 0022 – Maximising Idea Generation

    0022 – Maximising Idea Generation

    In the previous post, I briefly mentioned a method of maximising idea generation through keeping a notebook in the proximity. There is a particular system that I use which I call the Spark File having been inspired by some Internet friends. It doesn’t deserve the title ‘system’ as that just makes it seem like a…

  • 0021 – Note to Future Karthik (1)

    0021 – Note to Future Karthik (1)

    So, today is the 9th and a lot has happened since the last time I logged in to write. Primarily though, I’ve missed several days of writing and I’m already feeling like I’m being trapped by the rapidly approaching breaker. I must admit, I’ve missed some of the feelings I had from writing daily. But…