Category: Million Words Project
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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0019 + 0020 – My Dual Perception of Mahabharat (2)
This post is part of a series on the Mahabharat Epic. If you want to find the other parts, click here. These posts are all about my thoughts regarding the Epic and the greatest thing for me is the ability to connect with you, so, share your thoughts and opinions and let’s learn about this…