10 questions to Devdutt Patnaik

1. Is it necessary to believe in fictions ?
2. What rituals of religion we should stop now?
3. What do you think about living on other planets ? Is it possible?
4. Should prostitution be allowed? Is it immoral or we should see the intentions of prostitutes?
5. According to your first chapter in My Gita, there should be no judgements. But I want to surround myself with people who are positive. Without judging , how will I find out?
6. If there is one truth in the world, won’t it make most of the religions wrong?
7. Is there any mention of atheism in vedas or Upanishads ?
8. What does hinduism say about talent and skill? Is there any thing like talent?
9. I want to meet ashwadhama . Is it possible?
10. Has 4th kalyug arrived ?
11. Do you think the concept of gods will wither away in next 100 years?
12. What is soul? 
13. Elon musk is already implanting chips in brains. Do you think similar experiments can happen on mind?
14. Do you agree with Gandhian philosophy of offering your other part of the face when someone slaps you on one side?
15. What do you think about entertainment?

10 negatives uses of data analytics that can happen:

1. Knowing the personality of people by looking at their Data.
2. Bombarding people with similar things they have consumed.
3. Facebook can know what things you really hate and may be serve you something accordingly .
4. Hotstar can know which cricket star you like and show you ads off that star drinking Coca Cola.
5. There will be no free will at all.
6. Car companies can know that you are looking for a car through your insurance and start showing you ads . The decision which earlier used to be random or free may not after all.
7. Dr Batra will only send mails to those people who are hairless.
8. Google knows that you searched something in 2017 and it will be reflected in your recommendations of Youtube.
9. Evening is not a time to eat. But food companies can make this a trend and serve you accordingly.
10. Every alcohol beverage can advertise because it will be cheap for them to advertise accordingly.
11. Data about children can be used to manipulate their wishes. 
12. Google can know what kind of comedy you like- political or satirical or insulting— It can generate content accordingly.
13. Google can know your reaction time to triggers/cues. Like how fast you click on an ad.
14. Using past data to predict future. Often people change.
15. If you buy coke at a supermarket, they will flood with discounts on that products.
16. Often people have guilty pleasures when they often retort to when feeling depressed. In future, people will be more depressed and companies will use it to their benefits.

10 learnings/thoughts about food:

1. Eat Slowly. You should finish your food in 20 minutes. 
2. Avoid meat. It is difficult for your body to digest it. 
3. You should not eat anything 6 hours before doing yoga.
4. Drink Lemon Water first thing in the morning.
5. There should be no concept of cheating day.
6. Dont underestimate the effects of psychological effects of activities like praying before eating, eating in an erect posture. 
7. Prefer honey over sugar.
8. Stay away from food advertisements.
9. If you want to quit some fast food, try to link the food with something disgusting.
10. Ideally, try to shift towards eating two times a day.
11. Dont drink cold waters. You should drink which has temperature within a range of your body temperature.
12. Dont watch news/negative things while eating something. If possible, avoid watching videos at all.
13. Try to do most of your chewing in the mouth. If you dont do it, the stomach has to spend energies to do it.
14. Not eating something packed in plastic will also save environment.
15. Organise everything in your food plate properly. It has psychological effect.
16. Always eat something at home when going to a city.
17. Always have a water bottle with you in summers. Sometimes you mistake thirst for hunger.
18. You can refuse unhealthy foods even if they are made by someone with love. This tiny cheat is like a hole in a big container. It will open up everything.
19. Your health should be your top priority. 
20. Be happy when you eat food. you will eat less .
21. Prefer plants over meat, uncooked over cooked and water over soda .
22. Dont drink water half an hour before or after the meal.
23. If you must eat non veg, fish is the best choice. It has omega 3 which is good for brain.

10 changes from previous centuries that we take for granted in this century:

1. Not dying due to factors unknown to us/famine/war .
2. Connected with people who are in other countries. 
3. Knowledge/Information is not held by certain schools/governments. Everything is free now.
4. We can contact anyone in an emergency situation. 
5. Better mortality rate of children. 
6. Wide reach of new sports and yoga. 
7. People can think beyond normal things. 
8. More food production from limited land.
9. To connect with better minds around the world.
10. Ability to travel from one place to another and comfortable travel.
11. Information about government policies.
12. I can read books.
13. Anyone can do anything because of youtube. (DIY)
14. Anyone can get educated in less cost.
15. Anyone can study from best teachers of world( coursera / khan academy)
16. Exploitation is stopped.
17. House prone from rains.
18. No compulsion of serving in army.
19. More choices to choose from.
20. Elimination of repetitive jobs. 
21. Immigration
22. Women living their life on their own conditions.
23. Less dependence on natural forces.
24. Listening to your favourite music.
25. Mobile phones.
26. Travelling is easy because of information available.

10 learnings of childhood that I find entirely wrong:

1. Exercise in the morning after having breakfast.
2. Drinking water from a tap in convex posture.
3. Exercise over yoga/meditation.
4. Similar uniforms indicating to children that they are same.
5. Revision is way to study for tests.( Recall is better)
6. English/Literature should be only studied for exams.
7. Cricket is the best sport to play.
8. Its okay to watch others play( Being a participant is lot better than being a spectator.)
9. Textbooks are the only books in the world.
10. Chocolate is the reward. 
11. You should serve cake/samosas on the bday. 
12. We can do other activities( like watching tv/talking) while eating. 
13. Teacher’s should only give information. 
14. Quantity matters more than quality.
15. Concept of Summer homework .
16. No one objecting to children drinking coke. 
17. No one telling me that enjoyment(activity) is important than entertainment(passive).
18. You should try to impress others.
19. Reading religious scriptures without understanding their meaning. 
20. Coming first in the class means that you are extraordinary.
21. Only some students should do the running.
22. Only some talented students can learn Math. Anyone can learn it.
23. You cannot go beyond the class syllabus. 
24. Sq3r was the best studying method.( It was not).

10 things i will take with me if i go to live on an island:

1. Books/Kindle 
2. A yoga mat
3. A diary
4. Sport shoes
5. A water bottle
6. An eye patch for meditation
7. Another Kindle
8. A swiss knife
9. Audio Recorder/Video REcorder
10. Posture corrector Belt
11. Noise Cancelling headphones
12. A piano or something with which i can create music

10 predictions about how life is going to be millions of years from now:

1. Homo Sapiens won't exist.
2. May we will have different countries occupying different planets.
3. The next species wont have bodies but may be chips interacting with each other.
4. There may not be the concept of food. It might be about ingesting tiny capsules.
5. Every organism with a power to go out anywhere even outside of solar system.
6. A species with the potential of doing things which are not physical or cognitive. 
7. No concept of reproduction. 
8. No concept of owning things. Live where you go.
9. Every possession squeezed into a small box.
10. Species having little connection with each other. 
11. Artificial General Intelligence being the brain of new generations.
12. No exploitation of natural resources if they exist!
13. Concept of virus replacing the concept of diseases.
14. Evils like ego and pride being removed from the society. New evils come in that place.
15. Time travel being a real thing. 
16. No repetitive things ever. A new thing is created everyday. 
17. Religions destroyed completely. 
18. Immortality being a real thing. Some new way of disappearing from body or suicide kinda thing.
19. I hope that books still exist. Placing your head on a book to gain everything from it is a possibility.
20. Change from industrial economy to knowledge economy to "everything new" economy.

10 fictions/ fake news created by brands::

1. CocaCola -- linking itself with youth and energy .
2. Maaza ads-- linking with sensual pleasures.
3. Axe deo ads.-- linked with confidence.
4. Bira 91-- An alcohol brand sponsoring a sports touranment.
5. Mcdonald:: Sponsoring olympic events
6. Dream 11: A digital game company sponsoring a physical sport tournament ICC world cup.
7. Facebook: Telling that we need to connect with everyone. 
8. Tiktok-- By telling people that this kind of entertainment will help you.
9. Movie Stars-- Promoting products they themselves dont use.
10. Royal Enfield:: That a bike is object of pride.

10 questions to any neuroscience expert::

10 questions to any neuroscience expert::

1. Should we advise people to play more fitness related sports over waiting sports? ( Football over cricket)
2. Do genes have any effect on memory power of a child?
3. How many people we should be friends with in a lifetime?
4. What happens to prefrontal cortex when we take neurotic drugs?
5. Is there a difference in impact on brain if we do yoga or gym?
6. Whats the importance of spine in functioning of brain?
7. Should there be any apt time about when we should make decisions?
8. Can you tell me a bit about the evolution of brain?
9. Is there any difference in reading from paperback or kindle with respect to brain?
10. What are the locations where we should avoid reading at all.?

10 questions that i will ask a girl on a date:

1. Books: Fiction or Non Fiction?
2. Travel Place: Mountains or Beaches?
3. A music concert or A movie theatre?
4. Running or Gym or Yoga?
5. Go to a comedy club or a dance club?
6. A movie or a tv series?
7. Cooking food or eating outside?
8. Facebook or Twitter or Instagram?
9. Watch Sports or play sports?
10. If you have lots of free time, what would you do?
11. Vegetarian or Non Vegetarian?
12. Solitude or a group meetup?
13. Where will you travel- Africa or Asia?
14. If you had a movie on you, what will be its name and genre?
15. One thing you cant live without?

10 things to do on your Sunday Review:

I think everyone should have a sunday ritual where they should sit and analyse their past week and plan for the future week. Try to limit the new information you consume on that day.

1. You should list down achievements of the week 'Things you only did this week'.
2. Observe the daily dairy and see if mistakes are getting repeated.
3. Observe the most productive day and least productive day. See if it has any relation to food.
4. Also see your screen time and see if it crosses limits.
5. Dont forget to increase meditation time every week. Its damn important.
6. Also observe the conversations you had with your friends and were they worth it ? Its okay to cut down on people/conversations which does not increase the quality of life.
7. Try to not open mail on sunday. You dont need to watch ads of unneccesary products. 
8. Social Media/Internet is a big no. They take away a lot of your time. You dont know when your 5 minute break turns into 2 hours leisure time.
9. Try to write all the new concepts on one a4 sheet to recall . 
10. Dont take this sunday as 'whatever you can eat' day. Your food will have effect on this thinking activity. 

10 questions to any brain expert:

1. What is happening when people multitask?
2. In regards to meditation, what happens to brain?
3. As this economy is becoming knowledge economy, is there a limit to information that a human mind can process?
4. Is neuralink ethical according to you?
5. What is the biggest turning point in the evolution of brain?
6. Do mind resides in brain or do you believe in soul?
7. What are the effects of exercise on brain?
8. How is sex/orgasms perceived by brain?
9. If genetic engineering becomes a common thing, what will be greatest achievement in regards to brain and what is the biggest loss?
10. When technology is used by disabled people to move things in the physical world by the neural control, can that thing be used by normal people? If yes, is it ethical ? 

10 questions to Yuval Noah Harari:

Yuval Noah Harari is one of the prominent thinkers of today's time. His books mainly cover the history of homo sapiens and future of this world with AI and genetic engineering.

1. Who is going to be more important ; Politicians or Technocrats or Scientists?
2. How do we prepare our children for the future?
3. Do you pray?
4. Should we eliminate competition in education system to teach our children about humility?
5. What will be your top 3 most stupid events by homo sapiens?
6. How do we know what information is relevant for me?  There is always a fomo attached with everything.?
7. How do you pick up books to read?
8. Ethics is important today more than any time in history. Should a human have good ethics or good intentions?
9.  How do you make decisions?
10. How much do you depend on algorithms?

10 ways we are giving our attention to useless things

1. We are bombarded with a superfluous amount of songs. May be we should find a better way to relax. Those singers dont deserve your attention.
2. It should not matter to you what is the movie of the week or best movie of the year. Peter Thiel rarely watches any movie. 
3. Watching Friends again and again. Its funny that you should rely on other things to laugh. I know Friends is funny but watching it again is not a productive thing to do.
4. Facebook/Instagram-- The negatives far outweigh the positive ones. To find one good thing, you have to go through tons of bullshit. So please.(a big full stop here)
5. Following personal lives of any famous stars. In the last century, how the actors/sport persons lived their life never mattered to us but today we have become increasingly interested.
6. Playing games on phones: 
7. Deriving entertainment from screens.
8. Using utilities to complicate our life than simplifying.
9. Do you really need whatsapp when you can easily text someone?
10. "What is this person thinking on this national topic??"

10 Learnings from Ryan Holiday's Conspiracy book:

1. If you think something is having a bad influence on society, would you fight it yourself or would you leave it on Karma or on other people?
2. "“When personal gossip attains the dignity of print, and crowds the space available for matters of real interest to the community, it “destroys at once robustness of thought and delicacy of feeling. No enthusiasm can flourish, no generous impulse can survive under its blighting influence.” ”- Harvard Law Review
3. “ For every dollar in revenue that Gawker makes, how much economic value is it destroying, for Peter and for other people?”      Replace 'Gawker' with any social media platform and 'Peter and for other people' with yourself.
4. One of the remarkable things about Peter is that he is a voracious reader. He has read a lot of literature of every kind from war strategy to political ideologies.
5. The habit of Peter Thiel to bet on dark Horses is what made him a billionaire. This quality is observed in this book also.
6. Often in conspiracy, the success of one side depends on the disillusionment of other side. Here, Gawker never knew that Peter Thiel, the man they outed as gay in 2007 was funding this case and when they did come to know, the trial had destroyed Gawker completely.
7. "Culture eats strategy" The reason binding these all conspirators was so strong that they never flinched.
8. “And so it is that even setbacks can contain opportunities within them, if conspirators are patient and resourceful enough.” Patience is the most important trait when conspiring. 
9. Peter thiel and his team prepared for worst case scenario by conducting not one but two mock trials. 
11. “Grandmaster José Raúl Capablanca”—Thiel’s favorite chess player—“put it well: to succeed ‘you must study the endgame before everything else.’”

10 MNC's that might use algorithms to manipulate you:

1. Amazon knows what kind of things you buy and they will show you that ads.
2. Facebook may know that you like to travel and then bombard with travel ads.
3. Youtube knows how long your attention span is for different type of content.
4. Tiktok might know what you like most- porn or talent.
5. Instagram knows that you look up to celebrities more than you care about your friends
6. Google know your overall personality .
7. Swiggy/Ubereats might know the common time when you order and what you order. They know that you like sweets or spicy food. 
8. Uber knows that you might be an impatient person who constanlty checks the position of driver after every 1 minute.
9. Twitter might your political inclination.
10. Finance companies can use your monthly spendings to sell you appropriate credit cards/loans.
11. Quora knows that even in reading, what kind of content you like to read?
12. Music streaming companies know what kind of music you like and they can order a ai robot to produce that kind of music.

10 negative features of Facebook:

1.  Notification about birthdays of people
2. Showing what people liked or commented.
3. Showing when your friends tag someone.
4. Notification of 'You have a new friend suggestion'
5. Diversification of like button.
6. Story option
7. Friends liking any facebook page
8. Mobile website making it compulsory to download messenger app
9. Using data to target ads
10. Basically everything else 

10 things world can learn from Chandigarh city

1. Chandigarh's way of designing roads in a way that traffic never gets accumulated.
2. Parks in every colony.
3. Bus transport system reaching every point of city.
4. No vehicles can be parked on road
5. How a city is capital of two states of India
6. How a city can be kept clean
7. How the roads once made can not be broken by rains
8. City loves to drink as beer is cheap.
9. A garden from waste materials
10. World class universities.

10 questions to Prof Barbara Oakley:

Barbara Oakley is the instructor of famous online Coursera Course "Learning How to Learn'.

1. Do you believe that everyone should learn math in their life?
2. How do you plan your day?
3. What are the best activities to do to get in diffused state?
4. What made you start the 'Learning How to Learn' Course?
5. Do you think students should have day naps?
6. How do you view social media usage among the teens?
7. Is there a limit to learning /memory?
8. Do you have any better way to read books?
9. How much is the brain changed in these 2 decades compared to the last 2 decades of 20th century?
10. Have you ever studied effects of meditation on brain?

10 things/technologies which are low points of humanity:

10 technologies/apps which are low points of humanity:

1. Tiktok
2. Pubg
3. Netflix
4. Facebook
5. Snapchat
6. Ludo games/ candy crush
7. Friend making apps
8. Hotstar cricket
9. Live streaming videos/comments
10. Offering rewards on using apps
11. Attention engineering apps

10 thoughts about BCCI:

10 thoughts about BCCI:
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the national governing body for cricket in India.

1. Being a sports board, BCCI should encourage to people play more but all it does is that more and more people just watch. None of the products it endorses is a healthy brand. eg. Coca Cola, Lays, Kurkure. 
2. Cricket is considered a religion in India and I hate religions.
3. BCCI and Bollywood: Stopping this country from progressing.
4. Cricket is one of the most passive games. Even if any government encourages people to play sport, cricket should be last on the list.
5. By constantly bombarding ads while watching a match, they are messing up with the focussing power of people.
6. People watching 5-6 hours of cricket match are being unproductive for a long stretch
7. IPL, the league spanning over 50 days is another way to gain maximum attention of the people.
8. The transformation of cricket from a 5 day test to match to a 6 hour T20 match results in the changing the approach of players towards the game. Whether its good or bad is debatable.
9. Indian Media focussing on personal lives of cricket players is another negative thing of this technology era.
10. Watching someone play a sport on a screen is a silly concept to me. I cant see other's playing a sport.

10 failures of Indian education system:

10 failures of Indian education system:

1. Not teaching spirituality in schools (Spirituality and religion are different.)
2. Not enough emphasis on playing sports.
3. Students should be taught better studying methods in high schools. 
4. Inflating egos in children.
5. Meditation and Yoga are missing .
6. One free period at the end of day where students write anything.
7. Practical application of subjects is very less.
8. Reading books are not encouraged much. (Not textbooks.) In my 18 years of school, I didn’t see any teacher reading books outside of their course.
9. No study of neuroscience in high school.( A student should know how habits are formed)
10. Philosophy is not taught at all
11. Lectures on phone addiction
12. Telling the importance of solitude in human lives.

10 things/actions to avoid in solitude state.

Solitude: A way to be alone with your thoughts. Free from inputs of others.

So when you sit in solitude , what kind of thoughts/actions you should not let your mind enter?

1. Any thoughts of politicians /actors/ celebrities
2. Do not listen to songs. They are also an input to your mind.
3. Reading books. Self help books are excluded.
4. Using social media/ WhatsApp/ text messaging
5. No video should be watched.
6. Any thoughts of your friends whether they are of praise or of comparison
7. No kind of fast food should be eaten.
8. Not touching any digital screen.
9. Not talking to any person in your family even your parents.
10. Sitting in a room with less distractions/things. You should not keep books in that room because books might trigger different type of thoughts.
11. Placing a diary in front of you and writing.

10 topics/headlines of TeD talk if I ever gave one:

10 topics/headlines of TeD talk if I ever gave one:

1. Entertainment is bullshit.
2. My experiments with life.
3. Ditch the culture.
4. Read, Read and Read
5. Solitude is necessary.
6. DGAF
7. Environments are important.
8. Fulfil your dreams is a bullshit advice.
9. Technique trumps effort.
10. Why erect posture is important?
11. You should not ask me my age.
12. Eliminate the triggers
13. How I got over my porn addiction
14. Why You should read Gandhi.
15. Write everyday 
16. Why Yoga not gym.

10 questions to Cal Newport:

10 questions to Cal Newport:

Cal Newport is a famous author of New York Best selling books like Digital Minimalism and Deep work. He is one of the most practical authors of today's world.

1. Should reading books be a hobby or a compulsory thing for everyone?
2. What is your morning ritual?
3. What are your 10 favourite books?
4. How different is your life partner from you? Is she okay with your digital minimalism philospophy?
5. Anything you would like to change about American Education system?
6. Anything you miss in American universities?
7. How can someone become your friend? Do you have any criteria for that?
8. Business need social media. What is your view on this ?
9. These comedian/ you tubers believe that its their responsibility to make people smile.Your take?
10. What are your guilty pleasures?

10 examples of "technique trumps effort':

10 examples of "technique trumps effort':

1. Organise your wallet : Put amounts below 100 in first part and above 100 in second part.
2. If you want to remember something, write it in a notepad. (Keep a notepad with you)
3. Use ad blocker.
4. Use website for apps which rely on advertising model.
5. If you want to watch a particular video, download it , turn off the internet and watch it. 
6. Want to eat less, spread the food in plate so that it looks more.
7. Want to follow a schedule? Start with scheduling free time on the schedule.
8. Want to start reading? Start by reading your favorite books.
9. Want to start journalling? Put all the devices out of your room for half an hour.
10. Learn 10 words of english every day.

10 new professions that will come:

10 new professions/things that will come:

1. Robot Cleaners
2. Meditation Centres
3. Language Translator Machines
4. Robot players
5. Robots demonstrating how to do yoga
6. Invisible cameras
7. Food making machines/robots
8. Personal Masseurs 
9. Common Cars
10. Personal Mixing of songs
11. Anyone can grow fruits at any place

10 professions which will stay relevant in future inspite of AI:

10 professions which will stay relevant in future inspite of AI:

1. Teachers
2. Lawyers
3. Doctors
4. Nurses
5. Programmers
6. Writers
7. Salesman
8. Politicians/Bureaucrats
9. Psychotherapist
10. Chefs

10 gadgets of modern world that are 0 to 1:

0 to 1 means something which didnt exist before was created. Some examples of that would be the first iphone, uber, airbnb etc.

1. Iphone 
2. Kindle
3. Apple Watch/Any fitness watch
4. Defect checking gadgets
5. GoPro
6. Flour kneading machine
7. Alexa/Google Home
8. Swiss knife
9. Tesla cars
10. Noise cancelling ear pods
11. AI
12. Jiofi

My feeling about books

I was reading one book 'Activate Your Brain' by Scott Halford. I came across a quote that really describes my relationship with books.

“ And I hope that while you’re reading, you stop and think about how you feel about the topic we’re discussing. The magic lies in what you say to yourself as you read; the experience becomes a dance between the words on the page and a new, budding awareness in your brain. It becomes a book about you because you place yourself into the conversation.”

10 thoughts about wearing fashion brands/clothing

10 thoughts about wearing fashion brands/clothing:

1. By wearing any fashion brand, you are inadvertently advertising for that brand.
2. You don't need to wear different colours but you should wear clean and ironed clothes.
3. If you dress well, you have one less psychological thought.
4. Dont look at clothes of people to judge them.
5. Take off your clothes for few hours on a Sunday and do sun bath.
6. Fashion brands hit on your pride element.
7. Wear Khadi clothes.
8. Invest in good shoes. Uncomfortable shoes may disturb you psychologically.
9. Always buy your college t-shirts. T-shirts will remind you of college times.
10. Buy one new shirt every 6 months just one.

10 ways of relaxation which are productive (not distracting)

10 ways of relaxation which are productive(not distracting):

For people Relaxation means to watch movies or sports, surf social media or reply to text messages or play video games. But there are better ways to relax which will enrich the quality of our life.

1. Gardening:
2. Dance 
3. Reading books ( difficult books not pleasure ones or easy ones)
4. Play any sport.
5. Writing 
6. Doing Nothing( Meditation)
7. Building a website
8. Cooking
9. Learning a new language like Urdu, Spanish
10. Walking on a less travelled path or taking a pet on a walk.
11. Washing your car.
12. Playing with children
13. Learning to paint
14. Skyping some old friend
15. Cleaning your room
16. Talking to yourself in mirror.
17. Sitting in front of a tree.