It suddenly occurred to me that the rat race I am immersed in do not necessarily have to be a greedy selfish affair between me and the world, for me to become wealthy. Of course that is the traditional point of view, and that is why the getting rich game is labelled as a rat race. However, the second definition of being wealthy is equally rewarding and satisfying. A definition of being wealthy. A definition of Wealthy In this definition, being wealthy is never about the amoun

Waggle dance - the story of randomness It's not only humans know how to dance and convey a message. Honeybees also do this, not for burning calories after full stomach, but to inform other bees of potential direction of flowers. If one bee finds out there are flowers in a part of the forest, after returning they would do a waggle dance in front of other worker bees to show exact location of the honey patch. Most of the bees would follow this advice but 20% of the bees ignore

A Harvard lecture on what is moral ambition I was listening to a Harvard lecture by Rutka Bradman the other day and it was about how intellectually gifted students or intellectually superior part of the population end up in doing some mediocre selfish game played in corporates, finance, And other fixed categories of workforce in our society. According to him majority of these people by the end of their life, are not happy about what they have done or accomplished in their car

Someone told the life is about balance. If you compare the life to a balancing act in a circus there is some similarity. It seems easy when we are just spectators. Even laugh when someone try to balance a ball on a stick on tip of their nose. Even harder is to eat an apple while balancing the stick and the ball. But there is a problem. The difficulty doesn't come from not only the act of balancing but also from the fact there are multiple elements in life to be balanced. And

A description of a Wednesday morning, casual but as seen from a philosophical point of view, of not wanting happiness

False information. What is true is not defined. If you look at truth value of any statement, it appears there is just a dilemma about what amounts to a 100% truth. But, when we consider the collection of information that we have made over the years, this is vast. If we consider total number of books written, total number of articles published, pictures taken and drawings painted. Human civilization has achieved a pinnacle of information. Fact that no single person can go thro

Imagine you try to describe taste of orange to someone else. You would first start describing the fruit. Which is the size of a Golf ball, orange color fruit of citrus family. It is round than a Lemon, but taste less sour, and bit sweet than other fruits of this class. Once you finish the obvious you will start to describe it more. If your friend has tasted apple, pineapple and lemon, you can say it is Not like apple, not like pineapple, but a mixture of pineapple and lemon.