Steps to become humble: Do some patently incredible shit.Pretend like you don't care.Make sure you toss the word luck around a lot. Alternatively, if you want to make God vomit, say it's all because of Him.If you want to go one step further, keep your voice strenuously low. As far as virtues go, humility is … Continue reading I am the greatest
Author: Srinath Narasimhan
The labour of inspiration
Whether you are into myths or not, you've surely heard about this dude, Sisyphus. He invented trekking. He was also a king. And like most kings, he was a dick. He managed to do the only thing you should avoid if find yourself in a Greek mythology: he pissed off the Gods. So the Gods … Continue reading The labour of inspiration
I don’t know how to say this
Difficult Conversations. Can we not have them? Can we just ignore them and let the consequences implode on our face in maybe say twenty years? Or should we continue to be passive-aggressive until we fall in love with each other? Anyway, here's the real question: who's your favorite Kardashian? We loath difficult conversations. Getting through … Continue reading I don’t know how to say this
How to start a cult
No one's any good at starting a cult. It shouldn't be that hard. The mistake everyone makes is going too bizarre too soon. That works only for rappers. And cats.Most of us already have what it takes to join a cult. It's just that we are already in one and from there, watching something new … Continue reading How to start a cult
Stories
Let me tell you a story about storytelling. There was this century. Not some King. Not some random ass kid -- none of that bullshit. A whole period. Once upon a freakin century. It was rough: the catastrophic progress, the mental gentrification, and dial-up Internet. The A-listers of the time were fools, dictators, and psychopaths. … Continue reading Stories
Wish list
Food. Security. Love. Respect. Wisdom. Sounds like a plan, right? According to psychologist Abe Maslow, that's us grouped by the things we need. He called this the hierarchy of needs. Maslow mummified human desires into a pyramid and concluded our journey starts at the bottom, with food - passes through three stages - and ends … Continue reading Wish list
How to get rid of fear
Paranoia. Fear's illegitimate child. Or as celebrities call it, child. We are afraid of the unknown so we begin to fill the emptiness with the worst possibilities. Knowing, however frightening the facts, gives us comfort. But in order to know, we have replaced real fears with imaginary certainties. Les Misérables. On the outside, the paranoid … Continue reading How to get rid of fear
What kills creativity?
Fourteen years ago, Sir Ken Robinson took the TED stage to answer the question the greatest writers have grappled with: "How to get a book deal?" The answer: Give a great TED talk. Sir Ken has given the greatest TED talk by various interweb estimates and the question he really asked was this: Do schools … Continue reading What kills creativity?
How to waste time like a billionaire
I have cracked the habits to become a famous artist. Get drunk a lot. Make sure you are in a state of constant physical pain. Be wretchedly unhappy. Feel lonely to the bone. Bleed out your emotions, twice a day. Die. Someday after you are gone, your work will be discovered, introduced to the world … Continue reading How to waste time like a billionaire
Unknown & you
No one's here.That doesn't scare me.It scares me to think someone may be.Every noise: the slow rustle, the distant cacophony, my own.Every movement: the bending light, the unstill water, my own.You there, unknown? It gives me a strange comfort to fear the unknown.It's my only companion.I let the noise stay:I am here. I am here.I … Continue reading Unknown & you