Category: Philosophy
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Using Social Media Effectively
If you are engaging on social media purely for your own benefit you should stop doing it, else you will enter into vicious circle and will be paralyzed with inaction or anxiety. The presence or absence of anyone should not negatively influence your thinking or actions.
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Sustainable happiness
I asked Perplexity GPT to apply the 5 why to “why should one earn a lot of money?”, here’s it’s response Would the world be a better place if we make point 5 as a priority for our children from childhood? Is it practical to do so? In this Katha Upanishad video Swami Sarvapriyananda quotes…
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Conflict Management – Kautilya’s four Upayas!
A good friend reminded me of the terms Sama, dana, bheda , danda during a recent conversation. According to Kautilya’s Arthashastra these are four methods or Upayas of dealing with conflicts or in general people related problems. He says that these Upayas can be used individually or as a combination. They mean, Sama – conciliation…
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Standard of living, products and services
“Standard of living of a country is dependent on its ability to produce goods and services.” – Gregory Mankiw In the book “Toyota Production System” Taiichi Ohno quotes Toyoda Kiichiro’s words that “Catch up with America in three years. Otherwise, the automobile industry of Japan will not survive”! That was in 1945, after that Toyota…