Blog

Complexity and divisiveness sells

There is no money and business in resolving the issues that are common to everyone, in resolving the issues that everybody is ready to cooperate with the authorities, in resolve in the issues for which everybody would be ready to join together and support life unemployment, low quality health care system and education, quality of life, poverty, proper roads and civic infrastructure etc.,

People who have the power and control would spend a lot of time on the issues that divide the people and have diverse opinions and perceptions instead of tackling the issues that are common to everyone and will unite in resolving them. Any complex issue that involves people’s emotions would require a lot of work to do and coordination between different parties. There cannot be a permanent solution. Where there is divisiveness and where there is complexity , there is a lot of business.

Even media would give lot of coverage and importance when there is an issue where people are divided and chaos. News channels keenly cover elections in those states where there is a lot of divisiveness and extreme political agenda. The more divided people are on a given topic the more coverage and money involved in it.

In a complex system try to always identify a common problem and implement the smallest solution that would lead to a big impact later like the butterfly effect.

~Praveen Jada

*Do read the Disclaimer

You identity is unique to you and not representative of a group

  • Never base your identity on politics—the world will eventually change, but you won’t.
  • Never base your identity on religious beliefs—the world will eventually change, but you won’t. Religion is opium drug of masses.
  • Never base your identity on sports—the world will eventually change, but you won’t.
  • Never base your identity on topics of entertainment or movies—the world will eventually change, but you won’t.
  • Never base your identity on a group in majority—the world will eventually change, but you won’t.
  • Never base your identity on group thinking—the world will eventually change, but you won’t.
  • Never base your identity on a famous person or celebrity —the world will eventually change, but you won’t.

~Praveen Jada

*Do read the Disclaimer

We need to stop converting wrong things into correct

Times are getting more dangerous, fearful and strange because people are trying to make unhealthy things as healthy things, harmful things into harmless things, abnormal things as normal, and false narratives into something into acceptable truths. People are forced to accept and live with hypocrisy, contradictions and oxymorons propelled by the various systems.

Again this is subjective and varies from person to person. The way certain things are normalized or not depends on the country, the culture, the law and order situation and a lot of other systems in place. We need to develop self-awareness to evaluate what works for us take decisions that are in our best interests.

~Praveen Jada

*Do read the Disclaimer

We generally do not hate the idea but hate the ideator

Many great ideas and intentions die not because we don’t like to idea but we don’t like to person who is proposing it. It’s not like people don’t like honest and sincere thoughts, but they don’t like the leader who is implementing it.

Hence we criticize and reject instead of supporting the idea that is actually good for society. Maybe partially because they don’t want the person who they don’t like to take the credit for improving the living conditions.

Our acceptance of the noble ideas that beneficial are colored by the perception of the people proposing those ideas. Majority of the times, good intentions of leaders perceived through the lens our impression of the person who has that intention.

~Praveen Jada

*Do read the Disclaimer

Only successful people accept that the life is their making

People will take responsibility for the consequences of their decisions and choices in life if they are doing well. We tend to blame external circumstances and complain if things are not working out for us. It is true that we are masters of our destiny but only the successful people accept it.

Similarly we attribute the our traumas and tragic events in life as a reason for us to become the strong person we are able to take leverage of past horrific events. On the other side we blame our traumas and negative events in life if we are unable to overcome them and do well in life.

Whether we overcome a past trauma or horror in life depends on the level of self-awareness we develop and number of times we break the survival patterns we developed to protect ourselves at the time of a stressful event.

~Praveen Jada

*Do read the Disclaimer

Grass is greener on the other side – but with a small modification

Grasses greener on the other side which is fertilized by bull shit.

We might look at the luxury items, houses, cars, lifestyle owned by others and feel envy. We need to just take a step back and realize that we only looking at the material things that others own but not to be the people who own them. When we take deep breath and come to our senses, we can actually realize that the person owning them may have sacrificed and comparimized on various aspects of life that are more valuable to us. Nothing in life comes easily. It may look simple on the surface but we tend to see the real matter when we dig deeper into it.

All of us have all rights to crave for better things in life, live luxuriously, enjoy comforts and conveniences, have power and control, want to be famous. At the same time, we need to accept the fact that exceptional life come with a package. That package has pain, struggle, suffering, compromises, sacrifices, rejections and a price tag. So accept the better things in life as a package.

~Praveen Jada

*Do read the Disclaimer

Another trick of evolution

Evolution compels and tricks us to be bigger, stronger, better, richer, more famous, conspire to have more power and control over others. At the moment we justify our means of achieving our desires which are mired with greed and compromise various things that actually matter later in life. At the same time, evolution proved again and again that the faster you gain something, higher the chances of falling down. More richer and more powerful you become, more the chances of getting exposed to opposition and enemies.

~Praveen Jada

*Do read the Disclaimer

Say this to yourself when you are rejected

My loved ones and others may have ignored me, laughed at me, ridiculed me, attacked me. All the people around me have rejected my vision and mission. But after a lot of thought i started to believe that I have rejected in the nonsense that everybody is neck deep into and I have rejected the willing to stay weak and controlled by believing the falsehood created for a common man to be dependent on system.

~Praveen Jada

*Do read the Disclaimer

Test your beliefs and destroy them if required

Your entire progress in life, health, wealth, relationships depends on dismantling the beliefs that you believe are true but are not actually working for you. Then embracing the beliefs that you believe are false and are actually good for you.

Your improvement, development and appraisal that you make in life is directly proportional to the number of times you destroy the limiting believes that created walls around your mind. Those walls need to be constantly broken to see a the other side of the world which may have a better life for you.

~Praveen Jada

*Do read the Disclaimer

3 important things to be successful

First of all you need to have a superiority complex and you need to believe that you are better than many or most of the people. You should believe that you have superior capabilities than many people which makes you different. You must believe that you matter.

Next thing is you must have the inferiority complex in the sense that you are human and you will fail and fall. You need to know that you still have weakness in your mind and you should believe that you are not enough to achieve your goal. Because of that fear you constantly strive to higher your standards.

The next one is the ability to control your impulses and emotions. Meaning the way you respond to your emotions. You must maintain composure in very intense and stressful situations. You must be calmer when there is no need to react to trivial situations.

~Praveen Jada

*Do read the Disclaimer

Meta-cognition

Metacognition is our ability to talk to your limbic brain which is responsible for our emotions . It is the ability to think about our thinking. Experience and analyze your emotions in your prefrontal cortex (logical and decision making) instead of immediately taking action and reacting to them. Think and react to your emotions which is called responding . Emotions are not bad but the way we react to our emotions give them a meaning whether they are positive or negative.

~Praveen Jada

*Do read the Disclaimer

How I assess, evaluate and buy dietary supplements online

Personally, I use below criteria to buy supplements online in Amazon, Flipkart or others.

• Reputation of the company – brand, how long it has been in market, do they have their own website, quality of info maintained in their website, do have an own store section in amazon, the supplement line they have.
• Check for certifications – FASSAI and GMP is a must. All other certificates and third-party testing are good to have.
• Quality of ingredients used in the product – are they using biologically available and active ingredients, are they including recommended quantity (mg) in each capsule, there must be least number of excipients (inactive substances used for long term stabilization).
• My first preference is Indian companies. I go for imported products as a secondary option after a lot of assessment on the Importer of the product. A good importer will give a scratch code to check authenticity of the product in importer’s website.
• Finally browse through the reviews. I rely more on my research. I read reviews only to get a rough idea. Reviews are bit tricky to assess which is genuine and manipulated. It is possible that a good product could have lower rating and a low-quality product could have great reviews. Reviews are contrived and it is a separate underground business who offer service of ‘reviews for money’.
• Supplements and vitamins by pharmaceutical companies do not need much of research because they are are well regulated and has good quality control.

~Praveen Jada

*Do read the Disclaimer

Focus on crossing the swamp, try to avoid alligators on the way

The other day I was reading a beautiful quote which said that today my goal is to swim and cross the swamp and not fight the alligators inside it. Similarly we have to choose battles in our life that we want to fight in a day in a week in a month and in years to come. When years are combined it will become an lifetime. So you have to constantly fight battles. It is inevitable that you have to trade through this unbelievably complex world which is actually rigged against you. Your main job is to play the best game with the cards that are dealt to you.

Because you cannot change the systems in place in a country, you cannot change the culture, the traditions which have been for centuries, the cannot control the uncontrollable which are abundant everywhere. Hence you need to diplomatically wade through the system and win small wins everyday in the direction of a bigger purpose and be very mindful of the evil. Fight the evil only if it is hindering your progress. First check if you could bypass and ignore it. Next check if you could change it. Next if you cannot change it, then accept the situation and adopt yourself accordingly.

~Praveen Jada

*Do read the Disclaimer

Ask yourself this questions to be in control

Ask yourself this questions
Are you focusing on what you are missing in life or what you are having in life?
Are you thinking about what you can control or the things that you cannot control?
Are you thinking about past or present or future?

You feel like a victim, helpless, useless, dependent, powerless if you focus more on what you are missing, things that you cannot control and past events of life.

You feel powerful, in control, strong, self-reliant, hopeful and develop faith if you focus on what you have, being resourceful, working on things that you can control.

You need to take lessons from your past , work in the present to build a better future. You cannot ponder over past events for long or overthink about future events which are not in your control.

~Praveen Jada

*Do read the Disclaimer