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Paul Graham Interview Link

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 This is an extract from the Brain food (Shane s weekly Newsletter. Below link is an interesting link  https://brownpoliticalreview.org/2020/03/bpr-interviews-paul-graham/ In this one question which i am quite impressed (It is the idea of hobby getting converged with yur work of course reaching that financial state too)

Senior Citizen: How to invest during Covid19 times !!!

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  In India We have a lot of people running around with Conflict of interest [They recommend you some product and they earn commission out of it ] . After all everyone has to earn bread and butter but problems come when they push us a high commissioned product and keep their interest before us.  I tell you to avoid Relationship Managers (Especially bank). I have the same problem mentioned by you for post office guys. Highly unorganised and you need to again and again ask them for interest certificate ,  renewal. it s a pain in the digital world they have not evolved . Things have become so easy now a days in bank and mf front .  We can go in this order or priority before you make any investment. Please give all nominations properly for all investments 1. Emergency (1 Year of Expenses in Easily accessible Fixed deposit) - Estimate Honestly how much Monthly Expenses and extrapolate it . See if your employer offers health insurance else increase the Health emergency amount to 10 -15 Lakhs

How can I make the most of this?

I read every week on thursday   James clear 3-2-1 Newsletter  whatever happens in life . It consists of all short and sweet 2- liners with in depth meaning . Writing regularly has been in my wishlist for sometime .  In his newsletter he always gives one question to ponder over . I used to think on that question for sometime every week  but never write down anything. This time thought could list down (Because of COVID19 all fast routine activities have come to a standstill) Question to Ponder : How can I make the most of this? This here refers to me - >  I rephrase this question for me how can i make use of the WFH (Because of world wide spread covid19 ) General core theme of life does not change (Being fit is still an important priority among all ) Generally we humans move a lot to accomplish our day to day tasks . With this curfew kind of situation need to tweak our schedules(Walking and Cult.fit schedules have got impacted). But WFH poses a challenge of demarcati

1st Week of August challenge

This week I am taking up a new challenge as i discussed with one of my cousin I would be updating about my progress on every saturday to him so that i would become more accountable and increase proficiency over other areas where currently i am not concentrating 1. Less Fb and twitter time 2. Articles read - List of that make and Write down the take away immediately in the evernote 3. 5 Hours of Physical activity 4. Start off Meditation/Sandhyavandanam. Daily once Hanuman Chalisa 5. Sleeping at 11 PM 6. Clear off all the Income tax stuff 7. Kick start the new investment 8. New  Skills Acquire and Linkedin Grooming by sending out recommendation 9.  Income tax completion 10. C&Q 11. On your toe in job - Increase the no of defects in this month , better than last month 12. Book mv tickets 13. Book wipro chennai tickets 14. Book Praveen s marriage tickets 15. Plan and book chennai trip for father s check up 16. Book mysore tickets 17. redeem icic mf

A Lesson learnt this week

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Actually I belong to a close knit family where each of our cousins are like real brothers and sisters.And being the younger one I troubled them a lot (Not now) . Once I became matured I started learning many things from each one of them. It really helped me to become a better individual as different people in our family have different great Qualities. I try to emulate the qualities which could bring me closer to my goals One of cousin s father was not keeping well and a great gentleman who has got a lot of respect from my grand father and other relatives. A certain type of skin infection did not give the leeway to spend some more time in the earth. He is a man who listens and respects everyone  and gives them the best possible help from his end. We had to make a quick travel plan , My entire family has to travel down to Chennai to participate in the last rites. We were Unsuccessful in finding out the cause of this incident ! Why him ! This has been  constantly asked by my f