Why do you want to learn new things?
What I want is to get better and wiser each day by building a knowledge graph of this world. I need to build up my confidence in myself and my work. If I can learn to provide value through my ambitions then I can make my living doing what I love. I want to have great thoughts, imaginations, ideas and experiences. I don’t know another way to test my potential and see if I am capable of it until I understand what exists outside of me. One of my favourite quotes is “Lifelong learning adds years to your life and life to years.”
How do you stay productive to get things done?
I have built habits that help me to give input and make progress each day. Developing self-discipline and commitments are not like being very rigid and just working every second of the day, rather it’s about having the freedom to do the things we want. I think the environment is the key when it comes to managing yourself. It’s not just about our conscious thoughts and actions but also our subconscious mind where some of our actions are triggered automatically which can break or make our success. Exercise and meditation are important parts of my life to stay healthy and energetic to work towards my goals. I try to read books and watch courses about productivity so that I can manage multiple things in my work life. I also use many tools and software to help me to multiply my efforts, use technology to create systems and stay on track. Digital devices are an integral part of my life but I try to limit my usage so that not to let devices use me.
What is your life’s task?
Create something, meaningful, useful and impactful. Help those who can’t help themselves, those of us who are underserved, and those of us who are in need and unaware of the opportunities that can make a difference in their life as well as society. I want to make my family satisfied and enlightened. I’m grateful for having a great life and I want to repay it by doing hard work. Use my resources deliberately and not waste them.
What are success and achievement mean to you?
I think success is like the iris of our eye, different for different individuals. For someone, success might be to put food in our bellies and for someone, it might be to take it out of it. Sometimes, Wealth is a success as well as a failure. So no standard definition.
Success is on the horizon. There’s no end but by working towards it we get to experience and explore what amazing things this amazing world has to offer. Many people including me go to others to ask them how to be successful. But we don’t realize that even they don’t know how they did it. They just did what they’ve done because it was the logical thing to do. They did it every day. It was tough, but they did it anyway. And one day they got the result and people who were just watching them called it a success.
My success lies in the inputs and things that I can control. I can’t control how much money I’ll earn but I can control how much value I create. I can’t control how many followers I get but I can control how many posts I publish.
How do you enjoy your life?
Spending time with my family and friends. Like helping my mother in cooking. Helping others by sharing my resources and experiences. I love drawing and painting. I like to watch awesome movies and documentaries. I like comedy, I watch comedy videos and read jokes and also tell jokes. I like to play video games with my friends in my free days. I like to play cricket and run on the ground. Sometimes I like being lazy and sitting and staring at the world around me.
Can anyone learn to draw?
Yes of course. Drawing is less about doing and more about looking clearly. Looking at what’s being overlooked using the sensory which is our eye than the memory. Not getting distracted. Keeping patience. Getting the strokes to build upon to make the final piece to enjoy the infinite joy. Becoming the master is another thing but if you just want to explore different mediums and bring your imagination and observation to the paper then you just need to make yourself sometime and let your hands do whatever is possible.