Personal Development Blogs

Research shows that an average person unlocks his phone around 150 times per day . On average, we humans spend 6hrs a day on our mobile phones. That's like 1/4th of our life spent staring at a screen emitting harmful blue rays. Honestly, cell phones are pretty addictive and it's tremendously effortless to get hooked on them. This addiction occurs as it stimulates our brains by sprouting an excessive amount of dopamine and giving us the experience of high-level instant gratification. Our brain values instant gratification more than the delayed benefits and that's what cell phones give us. The harm that these devices cause is not clearly seen instantly but over large timespans, it reduces your productivity, lowers your concentration, wraps your view of reality, increases stress and anxiety, worsens your sleep quality, and results in a number more issues. Trust me, when you reduce your screen time you get the privilege to experience the real joy and happiness life has natur...

You are deep into sleep and your alarm rings. You get up half-awake and get into your bathroom. You turn on the shower and oops! You forgot to switch on the water heater and feel a sudden shock sensation as the cold water pours down. We all can relate to this annoying situation. But what if I told you there are some shocking great benefits of cold showers that may shock you even more than those unexpected cold pours themselves.  The process behind this habit is well explained in the book The Wim Hof Method, written by an extreme Dutch athlete, Wim Hof (also knowns as the Iceman). When you get into cold showers, the body immediately alarms you to get out of it or increase the temperature. Why? Because it takes a high level of mental toughness and the ability to expand your comfort zone to take a cold shower. When you resist your body's temptation to avoid the cold shower, you program the brain to develop a high level of adaptability to situations like this which are out of your comf...

We all know those people who proclaim to be the most motivated person alive by ranting about his ambitious plans and goals to everyone. Before they even start executing the work needed, they'll bombard you with the positive outcomes they will attain and feel so excited as if they have already achieved their goal. Having ambition is nothing unique. Everyone has ambitions and probably millions of people have the same as yours. In reality, nobody cares about what comes out of your jaw. Everyone judges the results and not your motivation and the reason behind it. It's like sharing your goal is almost useless and even negative in some cases. Let me explain how.  There are 4 types of people on this planet:  Those who talk about the work and do the work;  Those who talk about the work but don't do the work.; Those who neither talk about the work nor do the work; Those who don't talk about the work but do the work; The most successful people fall under the last category. Instea...

Do you know the one most common habit among the top 1% of the best of the best leaders? It's reading books and absorbing information. LEADERS ARE READERS . The average person reads two books a year but an average CEO reads 1 book a week. Elon Musk (Founder of Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI, etc.) grew up reading two books a day, according to his brother. Billionaire entrepreneur, David Rubenstein reads six books a week. Mark Cuban, speeds more than three hours per day reading books. So why is reading books so crucial for success to be bestowed upon you?  Reading is to your mind, like what exercise is to your physical body. It is your best mentor for success. Books have knowledge that is gained by decades of experience by successful people. So you can transfer decades of experiences that made those leaders successful in just a couple weeks or less! That is why this habit is powerful and justifies the statement, " THE MORE YOUR LEARN THE MORE YOU EARN ." Today I’ll discuss 3 excepti...

  Have you ever heard of those child prodigies who seem to have one of the brightest future ahead but soon their position from the top of their competition starts to degrade rapidly as time passes by? Well today, we will be discussing the reason behind this bizarre scenario.   The relative insignificance of talent is clearly seen by the downfall of child prodigies. Some children who possess extraordinary talent from their childhood do create remarkable careers for themselves. But the bitter truth is, most don't. As a matter of fact, a study of 210 on child prodigies conducted in 2010 revealed that only 6% of child prodigies went on to sweeping achievement in their adulthood.   The reason behind this peculiar reality is, that when these children attain a really high rank in their competition without much effort, it results in the poor preparation of adversity that lies in their future. And with the passing of time when they see their peers catching up and their ...

The human mind is duplex in nature. The conscious level of the mind is able to reason and make decis i ons, such as where to live and what to eat. The subconscious is responsible for the body’s functioning, distinctly out of conscious thought and control; no one has to make a conscious choice to have a heartbeat, for example. When the conscious mind thinks thoughts repeatedly, they become embedded in the subconscious mind. Unlike the conscious mind, the subconscious mind doesn’t reason or differentiate between good and bad. Regardless of whether thoughts are negative or harmonious, the subconscious mind responds by sending out vibrations in accordance with those thoughts. Beliefs that arise in the conscious mind get planted in the subconscious mind. The universal law of action and reaction ensures that a belief, whether positive or negative, will produce a reaction from the subconscious mind in time. The subconscious mind does not judge thoughts it receives from the conscious mind. The...

The philosophy of the more you work the more results you will attain is pure hogwash. The people who get the most amount of efficient work done don't work as hard as we perceive them to. So how to get great quality results with minimum effort? In today's topic, I'll be elucidating one of the great principles mentioned in the book HOW TO BE A STRAIGHT-A STUDENT by Cal Newport.  Cal Newport, during his freshman year in Dartmouth College, worked excruciatingly hard but wasn't able to see the results he desired. The following years, he went on a hunt for the discovery on the secret to what keeps the top students at the top of the their competition. What he discovered was that the best students weren't necessarily the ones who worked the hardest. And this seemed pretty fascinating to him! He ended up interviewing some of those top students who weren't ''grinders'' from elite universities around the country and finally found the answer. So this is a si...