Monday, March 23, 2015

Focus

Drona was teaching archery to Pandavas and Kauravas. There was bird on top of which of which the eye was to be shot. He asked everyone what they were seeing and they
replied like they were seeing a the sky, the tree, the branches, moving leaves, the bird on which the branch was sitting etc. Only Arjuna replied that he was
seeing only the eye of the bird. It seemed like a impossible tale for me as I thought it was impossible to see only the eye of the bird without seeing the other things
surrounding it.

Only now I understood that it was a lesson about focus. It is not seeing but the ability  to look. The ability to ignore extraneous details and to just focus on
what is important. To be able to really see only what we want to see. To be able to say no to other interesting things vying for our attention. The narrower the focus
the easier it is to hit the target.

Monday, March 2, 2015

Blogs I follow and enjoy

Just wanted to quickly point you to some blogs I read and enjoy which you might like too...


Recently I discovered the blog of Cal Newport, who is extremely productive, completed his Phd, wrote three books, maintains a popular blog at calnewport.com and eagerly shares his productivity tips.

A must read:
http://calnewport.com/blog/

After these there are other blogs I read and have thought provoking posts.. you can sample them to see if you like..

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/

https://signalvnoise.com/

http://alearningaday.com/

http://www.bakadesuyo.com/blog/