The Complete Guide to Fasting Book Review Fasting is Lindy. Religious traditions have incorporated fasting for thousands of years to help their followers overcome the ills of abundance and ensure their long-term survival and growth. Fasting as a practice is very simple of adopt and incorporate into day to day living. Fasting works via negativa, …
Skin in the Game Book Review We have experienced number of situations in personal and public life where the decisions are made by some but the consequences are borne by others. This is a very common example of absence of skin in the game. Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is filled with …
All of us struggle with ‘luck‘ and its ‘meaning‘ in our lives, particularly when life doesn’t go our way. This article ‘Luck is not Meaningful Enough‘ is based on a thought I tweeted. Humans are ‘Meaning’ Machines Let’s say you trip over something during your daily walk and break your leg. Hypothetically, of course. (I …
How to Become Rich Book Review This book How to Become Rich: 12 lessons I learnt from Vedic and Puranic Stories is based on stories and concepts about money from Hindu mythology. The book draws a parallel between the modern concepts of wealth, exchange, taxes, money, investment, return on investment using the concepts from Vedas …
The Bed of Procrustes Book Review This book is filled with aphorisms – an observation that contains a general truth. Basically a rule of thumb. Usually true, but not always. I love aphorisms, proverbs, sayings, tweets as they distill wisdom in condensed form, in easily disgestible bite sized chunks. The book is similar but longer …
Awareness: The Key to Living Book Review An eye opener on the concepts of Thought, Words, Past, Present, Future, Meditation and most importantly Awareness. Together with Learning to Silence the Mind and The Mind this book helps you get clarity on the workings of our Mind and makes you aware of the need for Awareness. …