Category: Sugar Words
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Disruption for Your Life’s Japanification
Japanification, as defined by most economists and news articles, occurs when a country experiences chronically low interest rates, low inflation, and little or no growth. Consequently, the standard of living remains stagnant for years, with no improvement. Japan was the first to undergo this phenomenon, hence the term, but many developed countries are also currently…
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Escaping the Time Trap: Unleashing Creativity’s Clockwork Magic
When you step into a friend’s room and your eyes land on a painting or a guitar, you can’t help but ask, “Is that yours?” They reply in a soft, almost nostalgic tone, “I used to paint or play…” Each time someone inserts “used to” before a beloved hobby, a rush of curiosity surges within…
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Distraction from Life and Death of Art of Living
Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.” (More on this later) – this is the quote that has stuck with me and it is from the book The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. For the past few months, I have been trying to follow through the above mentioned book/ course,…
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Is it Truly Possible to Do it All?
Yes, if you have qualities like magic cooking, photographic memory, unlimited social battery, etc. Or if you are in a dimension that offers 30 hours a day and 500 days a year. So the short answer is – No But the right question is – What does “Doing it All” mean? For a long time,…
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The Right Way to Digital Detox
The minute you think about digital detox, there are one of two thoughts that come to you. One – it is too hard and not possible because my whole life revolves around devices. Second – I don’t need a digital detox, because I can handle it. Both of which stems from the fear that when…
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The Discomfort of Becoming Better
“I write this in a state of mind when I was unable to write anything.” I feel there comes a time when what you are really good at does not flow so easily. On most days, you have the stability to not let it worry you much, but when part of your livelihood depends on…
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I Believed in the Kindness of the World to Find Peace
Like most kids, I had also grown up listening to how one needs to be cautious about the world and people’s intentions. On top of that, I had my fair share of experiences that compelled me to guard myself. But the question that I have been pondering on lately is – what are the consequences…
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Why Take Rest from Being Creative?
We all have a false understanding of creativity, where we are forced to believe that we are supposed to create continuously. Considering we are constantly consuming content, which is produced at such a fast pace, that we are not even able to give thought to half of what we read, watch or listen to. We…
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How Living Alone Changed Me
I had heard so much about living alone, and all the pros and cons that come along with it. I started living away from my parents around 5 years back, but for the first time, this year I lived alone, without any roommate, and though I thought it would not be very different from living…
