The Elephant's Artist

  Consuming news, a vicious circle of overburdening of problems that we cannot influence. The best analogy put forward in ‘The Guardian’ article on the hazards of the overabundance of food which can cause obesity, diabetes when not consumed consciously. “But most of us do not yet understand that news is to the mind what sugar is to the body.” -Rolf Dobelli from The Art of Thinking Clearly It is easy to scroll through your phone and continue mindlessly ingesting new information on situations and problems you cannot rectify and doesn't bring much value into your lives. The plus point is that it can turn into a few minutes' topics for a conversation in a group setting if you remember it. What people don't realize is that this approach of keeping yourself preoccupied for the sense of “keeping busy”. It's not doing much other than making us passively involved in an overwhelming information-generating system of news that most likely everyone else has access to as well. News h...

When you ask people about what they want to do in this world, what's their purpose? They often have something to say about adding value or leaving an impact in the world, one way or the other. But what exactly does adding value or having an impact mean? Sure we can't expect everyone to be as gifted as Bill Gates or Nikola Tesla or what not to invent a product that changes a billion lives nor we can expect all people to rule a country. So what do they mean by having an impact on our society? In a make-belief world, like we are in, it's easy for us to get swayed away by big words and talks on how people who have made success happen for themselves define their success as a proclaimed magical formula for us to accomplish something too. Maybe we do find a certain pattern for a few of these successes but as a whole, your success is subjective to your belief system and passion. Some of us spend a lifetime working towards a dream, some work on finding what it is, some have a dream...