The String Hold Effect – A Guide to Build Habits Using Habitual Winning Patterns.

Every habit simplifies an analytical routine. A habit is how your brain creates an allocated channel so that you don’t have to spend time analyzing a process each time you encounter a similar situation. This lets your mind ease itself with repetitive tasks, much like a repetitive computer program. Habits are hard to change because breaking a habit involves leaving your comfort zone. Changing a habit requires effort because, without a push, your mind won’t naturally take over. It’s your mind at war with itself. When you understand this, you may realize that once a habit is formed, it keeps…

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The Rise of Wheat and the Return of Millets: Rediscovering Our Traditional Diet

We are roti people. In India, especially in Gujarat, we consume a lot of wheat. While Gujarat is a land of diverse cuisines, and we’ve wholeheartedly embraced food culture from neighbouring states like Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh, at heart, we’re still a sugar-loving, dough-craving community. A good overview of what we eat daily is available on the Gujarat Tourism website. Our current lifestyles, agricultural resources, government subsidies, and other factors have made whole-wheat rotis a staple in the Gujarati Thali. However, in most households, daily cooking includes just three to four items: a bit of vegetables, some lentils, rice,…

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Forget Privacy. We’re About to Lose our Minds.

It’s as if we’ve extended ourselves with tech gadgets. Although the electronics are not attached to our bodies, they’ve become very much a part of us. Today, it’s impossible to think without a computer, or store your thinking without it. And by computer, I mean anything and everything that can compute.  If you read Deep Work by Carl Newport, you will find yourself going down the rabbit hole of thinking about how we handed over our life and time to mechanical and electrical distractions, and how they took over our data, and our thought process, and influenced our neurological patterns.…

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