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A Letter To The SIP Investor (opens the original)
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Dear SIP Investor,Life’s hard, right?In the last few quarters, you may have felt like the biggest loser.You patiently invested in mutual funds, hoping for the best.But look at the mess we have on our hands. Markets are behaving like a 97 year old desperately searching for his Viagra. And to add to that, nobody- not even the experts who were giving hot tips on Zee Business- know what the f**k is happening.With the war, oil shock, AI mania, rupee devaluation, recession fears and everything else- l
Why I’m Suspicious Of “Life Goals” (opens the original)
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A lot of self-help people and gyaan-givers in general endorse the idea of having life goals.But I’m suspicious of this idea.And I’m going to give you a set of (escalating) reasons behind that skepticism.A clarification is in order first. I’m not arguing that setting life goals is a bad or useless thing. Doing it can be good for people who need a sense of direction in life, or who benefit from knowing exactly where they need to reach because it produces action.That said, here’s my counterargument
Prepare For A Psychological Upheaval (opens the original)
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I recently wrote about how freedom comes with a price tag.Today, we’re free to decide what to believe, where to live, what to work on. But that also places an unbearable burden on us- because for the longest time, we had the support of our community and institutions to answer all of these big questions.So when we try to live life without religion or community, we’re very prone to feelings of loneliness and anxiety.And it is this very anxiety that creates the need to escape.The deep psychological
The Price of Freedom (opens the original)
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I have been thinking about a question.With the acceleration of the meaning crisis and a rising number of people saying they don’t know if their life has any meaning, I wondered:What’s new about this thing?Did people in the previous centuries and millennia also face the same kind of crisis?If yes, how did they solve it?Studying the evolution of our attitude towards and our quest for meaning, I realised something.This problem, as a mass social condition, is new. Individuals have always experienced
Maybe You're Wrong About Rituals (opens the original)
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I think we moderns are committing a triple fallacy when it comes to rituals.Here’s the crux of the matter:We look at old rituals with suspicion and steer away from them because we’re too rational and scientific - but that is wrong, because we fail to notice how a lot of them are quite beneficial. We think we’re “beyond” them, which ignores the many modern rituals that we unwittingly participate in ourselves- which is ironic. And finally, we fail to notice how many of our modern rituals are actua
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