## Quotes I phrase when I can find my words - The career ladder is designed to help the organisation, not the individual employee. - When it comes to change, the dose makes the poison. - The satisfaction of being present in the journey and trusting the process is almost always greater than the satisfaction of result, but much harder to realise than the latter. This is one of the reasons most people tend to think of themselves as goal-oriented, while in reality it is the process that gets you the goal. - Don't try to be the cautious person at work. Be the person who people turn to if they need something audacious to be done efficiently. - Every time you come across a close one with a point of view different to your own, expect the outcome of any debate to be in the worst case, a crack in relationships and in the best case, strengthening of the bond via mutual respect of having a civil, clarified thought process. The choice is yours. - The hardest thing about productivity is its *definition*. - A lot of my writing never makes it past the initial draft because I "write for clarity". So, I don't care once I have understood my thoughts. - The novice fears nothing, for he is unaware of the effect of failure. - Every time you feel like someone is wronging you, try to understand if it is a mere cultural difference that your brain is mis-interpreting. - In anything you ever do in life, the only thing that matters is "intent". Go with intent, perform with intent, analyse with intent, fix with intent, think with intent. - Most times, its better to forget the end goal and stick to the process. The process needs to be the goal itself. - Routine is the hardest part of life. It is also the most rewarding. - A company is like a sports team. When you are winning, even the big mistakes are forgiven and joked about. When you lose however, even the smallest issues become large points of conflict. - Irrespective of your efforts and results, you are indispensable. Applies to any part of life. You are never ever entitled to anything. - Leadership's decisions are hard to understand, not because they are stupid. But, because they see things differently than you do. It's important to recognise this difference before conflicting. - How do you eat an elephant? Piece by piece. - Not my thought per se, but thought of this while having to analyse a larger SQL Server file with multiple moving parts - Life is not always easy. When things look bleak, what you do, makes you. - We all have an obligation to ourselves to not waste the individual talents that we have - We can't choose the circumstances we are put into by others. We can however choose our response to these. - Life is easy. Everything around us is trying to propel us forward in some way or the other. All we need to do is let go of the anchors we hold so closely and deeply in our minds. - Replacing a bad process with a bad, but shiny process is a fool's errand. - You don't ever fail until you decide that you have failed. - You don't ever get more than what you can handle. If you are sick, if you feel like life is hard on you, just take a step back and you will realise that you can always handle anything that comes your way. - The more things you have strongly held opinions and beliefs on, the easier it is for the world to make you feel bad. [Keep Your Identity Small](https://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html) ## Words that flow out of my heart during times of emotional turmoil ### overachiever. the hardest part of being a constant overachiever and overthinker is not the fact that I can’t achieve what I want to. It is that I can’t recognise my achievement even when everybody around me shouts it into my ear. Once a task is done, I look for the next one to rack my brain and energy on. And when the condition of my psyche and body prevent me from completing what I started, I enter into the boxing ring of my imagination to demolish the very foundations of what makes me an achiever. The skills that keep me alive and breathing and productive, I spew hatred at those very skills. I expose my naivety to myself and that scares me. Am I so small a person? Am I just this much? Why am I not more? Why am I not where I want to be? ### teaching is responsibility. as a person who can think, who can introspect, who can sit down with uncomfortable ideas; I have in me an ability to teach and communicate my ideas. as someone with that ability, it is my responsibility to the world to create. i must create to make the world a better place, even if that world of mine were limited to a handful of those who read what I write, who hear what I speak and who learn from what I do. ### kill expectations. expectations need to be drowned as soon as they arise. expectations are handcuffs. they are weights tied to the ankles. they are locked doors that have no key. expectations burden the creative mind. expectations hamper the idea of joy. higher the expectations, worse the satisfaction. for he who expects to tread on the moon, climbing the everest may seem like a common affair. and for he who expects nothing, completing a hike might mean the world. ### disappointment. high standards, low capabilities. a fleeting feel best left alone. engage with it in any way and watch your mind descent into a downward spiral of self blame.