Making plan and sticking to it. Being pro-active. Improving yourself continuously. Living by the expectations. Keeping the promises. These are mantras of success. The effectiveness of these rules is proven by the general consensus in placing high value on these qualities. However, it appears that there is another aspect of these collective ‘matter-of-fact’ rationality. There …
Month: March 2015
Doubt vs. Confidence vs. Over-Confidence
While doing mathematical problems in school days, I remember feeling over-confident in my abilities after correctly solving a few problems. This over-confidence lead to less alertness, and falling prey to making mistakes problem-after-problem. When starting new projects, doubt steals part of my presence. "Am I good enough?" "Will I ever get this done?" "What if my …
Deadlines
I’m listening to a man on the radio explain that it’s too late to limit the world to 2° C of global warming, the level identified by climate negotiators as the threshold beyond which the world faces “dangerous” consequences: acidification of oceans and extinction of many species in them, the gradual disappearance of island nations …
Living Vipassana 