Developing Habit

I am committing the following changes in my daily routine w.e.f 16-Aug-2019

1. Wake at 5 AM
2. Freshen up by 5:20 AM
3. Exercise - 5:20 AM -5:40 AM
4. Learn New things - 5:40 AM - 6 AM
5. Review Daily plan - 6 AM to 6:20 AM
6. Tennis/ Treadmill- 6:20 AM - 7:40 AM
7. Get ready for work 7:40 AM - 8 AM 
8. Teach Maths - 8 AM - 9 AM
9. Breakfast and pack Tiffin - 9 AM -9:30 AM
10. Work - 9:30 AM-6:30 PM
11. Household stuff- 6:30 PM - 7 PM (water plants, utensils)
12. Learn new stuff - 7 PM -8 PM
13. Dinner- 8 PM-8:30 PM
14. Read a new book - 8:30 PM -9:30 PM
15. Enter logs for what I achieved-9:30 PM to 9:40 PM
16. Planning for day ahead- 9:40 PM to 10 PM
17. Sleep - 10 PM -5 AM

Expected outcome

1. Learning a new skill
2. Preparing for Marathon
3. Reducing Weight by 5 Kg
4. Write a Book

Weekend / Holiday Routine

For Point 9 and 10

1. Learn cooking
2. Learn dancing
3. Learn new stuff- AI, ML
4. Teach Maths

Success

Was just reading back the Subroto Bagchi speech on Success after 10 years. Still relevant

• Success to me is about Vision. 
• It is the ability to rise above the immediacy of pain. 
• It is about imagination. 
• It is about sensitivity to small people. 
• It is about building inclusion. 
• It is about connectedness to a larger world existence.
• It is about personal tenacity. 
• It is about giving back more to life than you take out of it. 
• It is about creating extra-ordinary success with ordinary lives.

Key words that come out for me  are Vision, Imagination, Tenacity and Giving back. What I plan to do for these areas :

• Vision - To leave a legacy by giving back more to people I touch
• Imagination - Use all skills that I have today and in future to help others
• Tenacity - To achieve all goals I set for Social, Health and Financial causes
• Give Back - To society

How it ties up simplistically ?

• Learning Presentation and ML
• Helping more people I meet
• Achieve all the goals I set 
• Give back always

Deriving Purpose in Life

Let me try to answer the below questions to derive my purpose in life

• What did you especially love doing when you were a child, before the world told you what you should or shouldn’t like or do? Describe a moment and how it made you feel.
• I used to read books esp. biographies of national leaders and Nancy drew mystery novels.It was great fun going to Bal bhavan after school for the first book, read it and return before evening time before Bal bhavan used to close. I used to feel excited with the stories and books that I was going to read and unravel mysteries through these books.
• Tell us about two of your most challenging life experiences. How have they shaped you?
• Preparing for competitions i.e. JEE and CAT - It made me believe in the luck principle that is needed along with 100% effort at all times.
• Year 2013-14- It made me more attached to family and be more aligned to them than before.
•  What do you enjoy doing in your life now that helps you sing your song?
• I enjoy swimming and playing lawn tennis these days. Slogging it out helps to make me feel good.
• Common themes - Working alone, unravel mystery, luck requires hard work always
• Purpose - Lone wolf who unravels mystery by hard work

Ruchi's purpose in life -
Create new products that make sense

Explanation - She liked to cook new stuffs as a kid. She hates God related fanatism shown by people and looks for meaning that comes from healthy discussions /outcome based.

3 to 5 years - Product Manger of a Brand
2 years - After MBA,
1 year - GMAT, Kid

Philosophy and God -edx version

• God in Design 

• William Paley gave the argument in 1800s. He argued with examples of Watch in desert and squirrel natural things. Can be contradicted by Darwin theory esp. for squirrel "survival of fittest"
• To counter this Fine Tuning Argument from Roger White in MIT - Why is G constant ? why can't some of the constants change ?

• Against God : The problem of Evil

• Ghengis khan problem - Murders and rapes happened. An omniscient, omni benevolent, omnipotent God would not have prevented the terrible things from happening because although these things were individually terrible,looked at in isolation, these events were awful, the terrible things actually enabled good things to happen.Carbon levels improved because of his killings.1/200 people are his descendants 

• There is no best possible world response

• A world in which terrible things happen and we have free will is better than a world in which no terrible things happen and we don't have free will. Free will is a thing of tremendous value. And if God-- God had the power to make Genghis Khan so that he was a really nice person who didn't go around hurting anybody.But if he'd done that, if he'd created Genghis Khan in such a way as to ensure that Genghis Khan would not hurt anybody, then Genghis Khan would not have had free will. In order for God to create Genghis Khan with free will, God have to give up some of his-- God's-- power to influence the actions of Genghis Khan.
• May be God used these powers of  omniscient, omni benevolent, omnipotent to make the world better. Infinite days heaven logic.

• Pascal's wager

• It is in our interest to believe in God. Its a bet.

• Different options that people have  - Believe in different versions of God, weird God and No God. People select the one with best expected value or utility for them in after life. Its a rational decision and most people take the highest expected value. According to him, people derive the max. expected value by believing in God (Infinite) than not believing in God (Finite value)

"No one has the ability to decide to believe something at will and believe it."

Goals Update -12-Oct-17

Came to blog after ages and this is what I have accomplished after 2 years of craziness.

• Health ( Learnt Freestyle swimming. Backstroke in progress)
• Finance( Home and Car)

What I did not achieve were

• Health ( Exercise, Marathon)
• Social ( Writing a Book)

Extra things that I achieved 

• Finance (Vacations to Maldives,Mahabaleshwar, Goa and Singapore)

So the new goals will be 

• Health (Lawn Tennis, Learn remaining Swimming strokes, Running Marathon)
• Social (Writing a Book, Improve Communication)
• Finance (Switch, Add new skill for the market)