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Rich vs Wealth

Becoming rich is nothing but having lot of money to spend at your disposal .
Wealthy is something different different from earning lot of money.

Wealth is state of living where you have independent and self-reliable, you have control and autonomy over your life to a large extent and also have control over what happens in your life. It is like you running your life with full control or is life running you around. Being wealthy enable you to run your life but just focussing on earning lot of money may lead to you being controlled by the circumstance.

Being wealthy means having enough money that makes you confident and secure, wealth is also having healthy relationships with your family and community, being wealthy means staying healthy and fit physically mentally and emotionally, wealth is also and you are doing a job that you find meaningful and have a sense of control which earns you money. Wealth is defined by the stuff that you own that others cannot take away from you.

~Praveen Jada

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Misogi

In traditional Japanese culture, misogi involves immersing oneself in cold water or standing beneath a waterfall to purify the body and mind. In samurai tradition, it helps warriors build mental clarity and gain a deeper understanding of themselves by pushing their limits.
More recently, the word misogi has taken on a broader meaning. It can mean difficult challenges in nature, or taking on challenges that radically expand your sense of what’s possible.

~Praveen Jada

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Intrinsic and extrinsic values

The magnificence of who is are is far greater than the fantasies you impose on yourself

To be a master of your destiny and deny to be victim of history.

Intrinsic values do not need the motivation of punishment and reward but external values need reward and punishment for us to do them. For example if a boy is passionate and interested in playing video games he doesn’t care about whether he would win or lose the game. He is just motivated internally to play and play to win the game. Even if it doesn’t win he would still continue to play for the sake of it just because he loves playing games. But let it say that you have to go on a diet or program because of any reason other than you truthfully realizing that health and wellbeing is the top most priority for you, you would continue stay on track until every this is smooth. You would go off-track and stop it as soon as you face any disturbance or any negative life stress. You would only do it if everything and everyone cooperates and goes as per your plan.

~Praveen Jada

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Don’t meet your heroes; they may let you down

As the saying goes “Don’t meet your heroes; they will only let you down.” Maybe all over heroes and idols may not be heroes after all because they might have achieved greatness in one field by ignoring all the other fields. They may have become hero in one aspect of the life by neglecting all the other aspects of their lives. They are who they are for what they sacrificed to do what they loved the most.

For every great person that you admire because of his innovation and creative ideas, you would also hate him and do not like them for their weird lifestyle and crazy behaviour.

~Praveen Jada

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Risk is what is leftover after considering everything

Risk is what is leftover after we have thought, planned and prepared for everything. Risk is the residue that we never though of. Risk is something that is unexpected. Risk is something that catches you off-guard. Risk is something that is so small and trivial that has the chances to be ignored only to be exploited later.

~Praveen Jada

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Beliefs are catalysts for our decision making

Psychologically we can define beliefs as the subjective truths or biases that we have ingested and formulated for ourselves to efficiently function in the real world. Beliefs may help us to be efficient but may not be effective always because they are polluted. Beliefs are highly influenced by our biases that we created for ourselves all throughout life. Beliefs must evolve and meant to be changed as we become mature in life.

In a way a belief is nothing but a thinking process that you have created to save your mental resources. That means when you come across some situation in life your response would be mentally less stressful when it is aligned with your beliefs and more effort full if it is not a line with your beliefs.

~Praveen Jada

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Design your lifestyle around your values

The quality of your life depends on how well you create your lifestyle around your standards, rituals and values and not he other way round. You may not have an efficient and optimal life if you design your values and standards around the things that are not either urgent or important to you. You cannot do what you are meant to do in life by running around doing stuff that is important to other people or urgent to other people.

~Praveen Jada

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Artificial intelligence cannot create fiction

AI can write an amazing story which exists but it cannot write a story that doesn’t exist. AI can curate information very intelligently but as of now AI cannot innovate or create information that does not exist.

AI can write a wonderful fiction book gathering information from different resources but it cannot create a brand new frictional novel.

~Praveen Jada

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Trick is in preparation and planning

The trick is not in thinking and feeling about what happens during the tough times recession, natural calamities, economic disasters, like war times rather the trick is in preparing and planning for the worst moments in the life. Because humans beings would always do the same things when we face with some unknown, unfamiliar and uncertain situations. They create immense fear when we are not in control of the situation. So the easy and simple thing to do is to immediately get into survival mode and become self centred. This mentality in people and leadership may lead to irrationality which leads to hasty short sighted decisions which would cause for the turmoil to the general population and more damage in the long term.

~Praveen Jada

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These days having less is more peaceful

Having many priorities in a day is equal to having no priority at all.
Having more choices may dilute decisions making. Having less choices will allow us to choose the best stuff available with more contentment.
Having more things and larger things need more maintenance.
Having more comforts and luxuries may not necessarily lead to more happiness.
Having more hospitals and better drugs may extend lifespan but may not lead to better health span of population.
Settling with one life partner is more peaceful and fulfilling then keep dating different people.
Having more gyms may not increase more people who are fit.

~Praveen Jada

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