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Recently, I’ve heard people say they’re passionate about other people’s passion. At first, I assumed it was just another form of mimetic desire, wanting what others want. But it’s not. It’s something subtler.

We are always been drawn to people who come alive when they talk about what they love, the way their eyes shift, their tone deepens, their whole body syncs to that one thing. You can feel their pulse in their words.

It’s not that I want to do what they do. It’s that I’m fascinated by the flow state they’re in. That flow where time dissolves, where they merge with what they’re doing. That aliveness is magnetic.

What draws us isn’t their craft. It’s the clarity that comes when purpose and presence align. It reminds you that somewhere within us, we also have something that could make us feel that alive.

Being passionate about other people’s passion isn’t imitation. It’s resonance. You’re not chasing their path but you’re remembering your own capacity for depth.

Let others’ passions remind you that aliveness is contagious, not competitive.

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Yesterday, I found myself in a long conversation about everything career, money, love, success, failure, marriage, children, routines, health, rest and what not. Somewhere between all those words, I realized how much of life we build to escape something deeper, the quiet space inside us that has no clear/definite answer.

Maybe all these pursuits are ways to keep ourselves entertained, to avoid the weight of that silence/void within us. We chase goals, ideas, people, and meanings not because they will complete us, but because they keep the void at bay.

The irony is, our brain feels rewarded not when it finds the answer, but when it searches for one. We are wired to seek, not to rest. The mind keeps running, chasing afraid that if it stops, it will disappear into nothingness/abyss.

But what if that nothingness isn’t as empty as it seems?

The more I observed, the more I felt that self-awareness is not an escape from the void. It’s a doorway into it. You begin to notice how your mind rushes to fill every silence. Be it with people, work or hobbies. Awareness doesn’t instantly bring peace; it just shows you the mechanism. Yet, once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

Stillness, I think, is what happens when you stop fighting that void. It’s not about silencing your thoughts or meditating endlessly or giving up curiosity. it’s about allowing the silence to exist without fear. The void remains, but your resistance softens.

And then something shifts. The same space that once felt unbearable begins to feel light. The emptiness turns into a kind of quiet peace.

When the self stops searching for peace, the absence of that search is peace.

The void becomes peace not because it changes, but because you do. When you stop naming it, judging it, or running from it, what’s left is stillness itself.

Maybe that’s what it means to really know yourself . To become intimate with the void, and to find that peace was never outside of it.

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With the rise of the digital world, staying rooted in the physical one takes intention and effort.

I am trying to follow a simple rule. Limit my internet use. My phone plan runs for three months with limited data. What began as a cost-effective choice slowly turned into a conscious practice. So, when I go out, limited data makes me pause before every click and it filters what truly matters from what’s just noise.

Still, it’s not easy. The internet is stitched into everything. For eg, Google Maps, Strava, UPI, Rapido or even WhatsApp. Even a simple SMS feels like a relic as it exists only for OTPs. I’ve tried cutting digital clues with wallpaper, minimal apps, fewer notifications but complete detachment isn’t realistic. Some days, I am bounded to recharge a one-day data pack and get back online, just to finish something that can’t stay offline.

That’s why I began reaching for hobbies that don’t need gadgets like oil pastels, real books, small hands-on things and trying to meet friends. They remind me that presence has texture/emotion. Still, even they demand a trace of the internet. To share a piece of work, or simply exist in the loop. It can’t be fully avoided.

It’s not exactly friction that the internet creates, but something subtler, a quiet thing with how I experience the world around me. It lowers my in person effectiveness, my ability to stay rooted in what’s real and immediate.

I keep wondering if it’s just me. Or if we’re all, in our own ways, trying to rebuild a life that can balance between being connected and being present.

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It might sound absurd, but it’s true. You have nothing to prove to anyone. Not your parents. Not your friends or enemies. Not the people who doubted you.

Every time you do something just to show you’re worthy, you subtly agree with the belief that you weren’t enough to begin with. That’s the trap.

Of course, your role as a parent, a professional, a partner, or a friend demand effort, work, performances and accountability. But effort given from alignment feels different from effort driven by validation. One expands you, the latter exhausts you.

There’s a quote that says,

Don’t become what you hate.

And that’s what proving does, it quietly turns you into the very person whose approval you once craved.

The path forward isn’t to stop caring. It’s to care differently. Do the work because it feels right. Build because it fulfills you. Not to silence doubt but because you no longer need to.

Learn to pause between the stimulus and your response, that brief silence is where power lies. The day your actions stop being reactions, you’re finally free.

Cheers!

PS: maybe to self (that’s a bigger and never ending trap, lol)

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There’s a quote I once came across that caught my attention few days yet I ignored.

Follow your plan, not your mood.

The truth is, I never really managed to internalize it fully. It’s easy to understand but hard to practice. Following a plan, especially when emotions pull you in different directions, requires willpower or sometimes, a strong reason that reminds you why you started.

There are no playbooks or shortcuts to switch off emotions and instantly operate from your logical brain. It takes conscious effort.

What has worked for me, though, is keeping the end point/result in mind, the satisfaction of seeing the work completed. Sometimes, even creating a little fear of missing out if I don’t stick to the plan helps. It’s a mental nudge that keeps me from drifting.

Over time, this practice slowly builds into a habit. It creates a quiet sense of self-awareness the kind that reminds you that discipline often begins where motivation fades.

Try experimenting with this mindset and see how it works for you.

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LinkedIn is buzzing with advice that agricultural graduates or the education ciricullam need to adapt to the agri-tech and startup ecosystem. True but slightly misplaced. Most of these students were never built for, nor placed in, that ecosystem.

Reality Check

B.Sc. (Hons) Agriculture is a four-year professional course. Before a decade, it existed almost entirely in government institutes and sub-campuses, private colleges had limited management seats. Students were largely from agri backgrounds or focused on competitive exams like IAS, where the degree offered an edge.

Course content is diverse, but placements were narrow. The seed, fertilizer, and pesticide sectors dominate hiring and favored men for fieldwork and travel. Salaries are modest. Compared to startups or business, exams like UPSC, TNPSC, SSC, Bank SO and more, remain more attractive for stability and pay. Even now.

Digital marketing and the startup boom are changing awareness. Success in agri-business requires the 3 C‘s: confidence, clarity, and capital. Graduates usually have confidence and clarity or the subject expertise but lack exposure to fundraising platforms and problem-solving in business contexts. Agri incubators at sub-campuses and NABARD funding exist, but growth is slow relative to tech.

Two Very Different Paths

Path 1: Tech Entrepreneurs in Agriculture

Building technology products to solve agricultural problems, where entrepreneurship and tech are core. We have few to quite alot now.

Example: soil-testing apps with IoT sensors, AI-based crop disease detection, marketplaces connecting farmers to buyers, raising VC funding and scaling fast.

Skills needed: Coding, product management, pitch decks, microeconomics, growth hacking.

The gap: Agri students haven’t learned coding, SaaS, or fundraising. it’s essentially a career change.

Path 2: Agriculture Experts Leveraging Technology

Deep domain knowledge is core, technology is a tool.

Example: improved farming practices using WhatsApp or simple apps, contract farming networks, value-added agri-products with tech-enabled logistics, and more.

Skills needed: Domain expertise, supply chain, farmer relationships, quality control, and growth.

The gap: Much smaller. Students have expertise; they need exposure to business fundamentals, basic digital tools, and access to working capital.

Why confusion happens?

Path 1 is popularised because it’s visible across all platforms, fits the disruption narrative, and scales theoretically faster. Tech entrepreneurs dominate the market. But most real agricultural impact will come from Path 2: biology, soil, and seasons can’t be hacked. Farmer trust comes from demonstrated expertise. Sustainable margins come from operational excellence, not just platform effects.

Path 2 needs incubators aligned with agricultural cycles (experimentation takes 6–12 months, not weeks), working capital for 3–5 years, mentorship, negotiations, partnerships, and market analysis

Agriculture itself is still largely untapped. Early adopters are entering, with rising focus on health and quality food. Once demand for quality food scales (maybe organic or natural), the sector will explode but unlike tech, it demands multiple stakeholders experts, farmers, labor & land, private tech, policymakers and markets.

The foundation is already there. With more experiential learning and exposure to business models, graduates can bridge traditional education and the emerging agri-economy if the system catches up. Most advice-givers don’t distinguish between the two. They often equate ‘agri-tech’ with tech entrepreneurship, while agriculture also greatly benefits from domain experts who apply technology thoughtfully rather than aiming solely to become startup founders.

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I never got myself introduced to the word interdependence deeply enough. The only words I heard were dependence and independence. Dependence was framed as weakness. Independence was glorified as freedom. No one said there was a third stage, a higher one!

While reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the stages became clear. Human growth isn’t linear and it evolves through three distinct phases. Dependence → independence → interdependence. Each level demands mastery before the next one can begin. Dependence teaches survival (you do it for me). Independence teaches self-reliance (I can do it myself. Interdependence teaches creation (we can do it better together), the ability to build something larger than oneself.

Most people never move past independence. They confuse self-sufficiency with completion. But independence is still defensive. It’s about proving you don’t need anyone. Interdependence begins as a choice out of independence. At that stage, collaboration stops being transactional. It becomes generative. Win–win kinda strategy. It’s where your competence meets another’s and multiplies. It’s the evolution of independence.

Culture celebrates the lone achiever, not the integrated builder. Yet everything enduring ecosystems, partnerships, systems, nations runs on interdependence. Independence may make you good. Interdependence makes you scalable. Applies to all slices of life.

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PS: can we call this as synergistic effect?

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Order sharpens. Randomness breathes.

You can’t build anything without structure. For eg, work, routine, focus and more. Discipline pulls scattered energy into one stream. It’s what keeps the mind from dissolving into noise. When you start organising your work, your thoughts follow. Slowly, you become a system. The mind becomes an architect, efficient, precise, and predictable.

But that’s where the disorder begins. Too much order burns out the right brain or creative side. The one that dreams, experiments, and questions patterns. You start mistaking predictability for peace. The creative pulse dulls. The soul hungers for chaos, for the unknown.

That’s why randomness is not the enemy of order. It’s the antidote. The moments when you wander, explore, and break your own systems are what keep the mind alive. The art is not choosing between them. It’s knowing when to let one breathe through the other.

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Yesterday I watched F1. I don’t drive cars, never have. But the way Sunny says that he is chasing that one experience. He’s not chasing a trophy. He’s chasing that moment or the flow state. The constant roar of the engine fall silent, his thoughts disappear entirely, and the world shrinks down to the one bubble of focus. In that zone, he isn’t just driving, he is flying.

This is what psychologists call flow, a term proposed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. It’s that state where the activity itself becomes rewarding, where effort feels effortless, and time and self seem to disappear.

Flow differs for everyone, depending on the balance of skill and challenge. It’s not impossible to reach, but it requires repetitions, practice, laps gradually training the mind and body until skill meets challenge naturally.

Flow isn’t magic. It’s skill meeting challenge, over and over, lap after lap. You don’t wait for it. You train for it. When it clicks, you just do. That’s flying. That’s flow.

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In First Things First, we saw how survival comes before thriving. Secure the basics, and only then can the mind shift to growth.

But what comes after survival? That’s where Quadrant 2 enters the space of things that are important but not urgent.

Stephen Covey, in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (current read), maps life into four quadrants. Quadrant 2 is where the real magic happens. These activities don’t scream for your attention, but they quietly shape your future. Like eating well, moving your body, sleeping enough and caring for your mental health

They make up barely 20% of your daily life’s time, but they create 80% of your results. Ignore them long enough, and the system collapses.

In a tamil debate show where a youngster bragged about spending lakhs on an iphone while skipping meals. The phone might impress for a moment, but when health deteriorates, nothing else works.

This is the paradox! Urgent tasks grab us, but it’s the non-urgent, important ones that truly sustain us. Survival keeps the goose alive. Quadrant 2 keeps the goose healthy enough to lay golden eggs.

Second things do matter. Protect them, and everything else changes and sustains.

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We all want to thrive. To grow, to master, to live with purpose. But thriving is hard when the basics are shaky.

This is what I call the Survival–Thriving Law: the mind only shifts to thriving once survival is secured.

Think about it.

• In yoga, you can’t master a pose until your foundation is steady. First balance, then grace.
• In business, you can’t scale without cash flow in place. First stability, then growth. Not talking about startups here!
• In life, you can’t chase purpose if you’re still worrying about daily survival. First safety, then meaning.

It feels like a paradox. We want to optimize for the end, yet the end collapses if we skip the mundae work throughout. We want the flower, but it only blooms if the roots are grounded.

So the order is non-negotiable. First survive, then thrive. Secure the basics, then let the mind expand.

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