Right now I'm at such a point where I have to choose the career path I want. I really love science, mainly astrophysics and astronomy, but the problem is that people think I am pursuing these fields just to land in a job and work 9 to 5. That's not the case. I am studying science because I love it not because I want to get a job. My parents do not understand this concept. A few days ago I was at my grandmother's place and I realized that my father has already told her about my business idea. She said to me "Business is meant for those whose parents run businesses, not for those whose family has been working 9 to 5." Well, these were the exact words she said to me and it hit me quite hard. I know what my purpose in life is - studying and learning about space and doing MY OWN WORK. @Krishna Neel Asked me a very deep question "What would you do, if you got 100 trillion dollars?" My answer was simple - I would study science. Ask this question to yourself, start journaling and THINK. If you face problems in finding your purpose, read the book IKIGAI. It will help you a lot. "First discover your WHY, then you will be one step closer to finding your HOW." - Madhur Arora Thanks.

heard someone said that his life started to get better when he actually experienced the idea of "whatever you lose in life is going to be replaced with something better". This hits a lot for me, how about you guys? love to hear your thoughts/opinions 😊

If journaling for you is basically “paper-vomiting” all the anxiety and stress from the day, and it causes you to feel more activated, you need to move it away from your bedtime. Matt Walker (one of the best sleep scientists) pointed this out on the podcast with Chris Williamson. Away from bedtime means about 2–3 hours prior to it. Now, this is obviously painting ideals, as for most of us, the most convenient time for journaling was always about the last hour before bed (or I suppose). And that can still be—maybe just move the hard decisions and writing about stressful stuff earlier, and for the evening, just keep the basic, calm evaluation of the day. This all makes sense, but it still kind of surprised me when I first heard it. Did you know about this?

Let’s get this out of the way: 80-hour work weeks aren’t for everyone. But for some of us? It’s just what happens when you're obsessed. Here’s what it really looks like: - Wake up, no shower, no breakfast, straight to the desk. - Eat while working (I even schedule “eating work” – tasks that don’t need typing or speaking). - Gym, sauna, walks = my only "breaks", and I socialize during them. - No Netflix. No video games. No doomscrolling. My lifestyle isn’t about hustle porn—it’s about aligning life so deeply with your work that it becomes play. And no, it’s not torture. It's fulfilling. It's energizing. It’s “I get to do this” instead of “I have to.” The key mindset shift? 🎯 Work isn’t something I force myself to do. It’s something I’m lucky to do. That’s why 80 hours doesn’t burn me out. It fills me up. 💬 Curious—what’s your current ratio of “I have to” vs. “I get to” in your work?

This post is going to be perhaps a weird one, one that might not be grasped immediately. I will be sharing with you an insight I learned about from a book called "Awake: It's your turn". It's a book about awakening in simple and practical terms. I myself haven't experienced awakening yet, so I am just copying this "awakened insight" from this book — I haven't experienced this reality yet, meaning that a lot of this will be paraphrasing and/or directly copied from the book. Warning: this might seem like just some mental gymnastics or perception jargon, but it is not. This is something that comes from "waking up" from reality. Awakening is something so profound that it is indescribable and unexplainable through language and concepts. ---------------------- A Shift in Identity A practical way to describe what occurs during an awakening is to say that it’s a shift in identity. It is a shift in what you take yourself to be. Specifically, it is a shift from continuously referencing concepts and beliefs about who you are for a sense of identity, consistency, meaning, and fulfillment to resting in and as consciousness. Until awakening occurs, we continuously and without noticing it, take ourselves and our experience to be defined by thoughts and concepts. This means that our identity is intimately tied into thoughts and beliefs, whether we know it or not. Once identity shifts from thoughts to the source of thoughts, a dramatic transformation in the way you relate to reality has taken place. This doesn’t mean there will be no thoughts. What it means is that your identity isn’t threatened and fractured by fluctuating and inconsistent beliefs about yourself and the world on an ongoing basis. Imagine you are standing in a meadow at night. You’re looking out onto a clearing. In that clearing is a large pond. The sky is cloudless and there is a full moon shining brightly on the pond from directly overhead. There is a brisk breeze sweeping across the meadow. Because of the wind, the surface of the pond is turbulent. Due to this turbulence, there is no complete reflection of the moon appearing on the surface. There are only tiny dancing shards of light shimmering here and there. You could say the moon appears “fractured” into many pieces on the surface of the water. As you stare at the surface of the pond, you are mesmerized by the dazzling display. Let’s further assume that since you’ve been standing in the meadow, you haven’t averted your gaze away from the surface. You have no knowledge of anything but the surface of the pond. For all you know, there is no meadow, no wind, no sky, and no moon. Furthermore, the water hasn’t calmed enough to see the full lunar reflection as a single whole. You fail to recognize the moon in the sky as the source of the reflection on the pond surface.