Every week I’ll cover: Health, Learning, Work, Brain Motivation, A line from a Book, A Song I’m Listening To, and A Poem by Me.
This is my way of pausing, reflecting, and tracking where my energy is going.
Before starting, here’s a picture — the picture of Blaze.
🏋️ Health
This was probably the most tiring week for my sleep cycle. Even on days when I slept at 2 AM because of work, life, or random late-night writing, I still woke up at 7:30–8 AM. I didn’t quit the routine, and I’m weirdly proud of that. I know I need to fix my sleep, but the consistency makes me feel motivated.
Food-wise, I’m finally cutting down on junk maybe around 15% progress which is big because I’m a chronic muncher. But reducing junk is helping me wake up fresher and feel “brainly motivated.” Emotionally, this week had some heavy brain exercises too, but thanks to AK, SG, and CM for dropping those small 5% wisdom nuggets on emotional control. They actually helped.
📖 Learning
Here are the ideas I picked from the GYAAN channel this week:
- Happiness ≠ Satisfaction. Happiness is peace. Happiness is clarity.
- The root of unhappiness is obsessing over the “self.”
- Anxiety is just unresolved problems — sit with them and process.
- Don’t fight thoughts; observe them.
The last one helped me the most because I’m a very fast-reactive person. I respond emotionally and conversationally without thinking. Observing my thoughts instead of reacting changed a lot for me this week.
Another thought I noted was: “Always be there, even if they don’t need you.”
At first it felt contradictory — why be there if they don’t need you?
But then I understood: it’s not about forcing presence, it’s about being stable enough to be felt, not necessarily needed.
💻 Work
This week, work overpowered everything — and I loved it.
A complete 0-to-1 week.
I tried something new, and if it works, the VFX industry might actually get shaken a bit. Or maybe it’s just the beginning of an adaptation drift. Either way, it was exciting to build something new.
🧠 Brain Motivation
A line from the SoG letter stuck with me:
“Be in the room where you get humbled and inspired.”
It’s simple but huge.
The sad part is most people only take the “humbled” part and turn it into comparison.
Why compare?
Replace comparison with inspiration.
That’s the actual meaning of the line.
📚 A Line from a Book (and beyond)
This week I didn’t read a book I read Naval on curating people.
“Let your people be bored rather than busy. Busy minds execute. Bored minds invent.”
This hit me.
We live in a world where solving problems and making things convenient is the PMF of everything.
Creativity starts in boredom, not in tasks.
Next on my list:
Never Tell People What You Do
If you wanna listen to it first.
🎶 A Song I’m Listening To
AAPA 2 – Guru Gera, Divesh Khatana
SPOTIFY LINK
A friend shared this with me long ago. It reminded me that love isn’t a language or an accent. Whether it’s Hindi, English, or Haryanvi — emotion is what makes it real.
✍️ A Poem by Me
“Kaise ho aap? Thik ho?
Haan badia, Thik hu.”
Read it in reverse and the loop hits differently emotional, relatable, quiet.
But this loop means nothing if you never ask this question to yourself.
Meaning / Interpretation:
How long will you suffocate the fragrance of incense trapped inside a bottle?
Let those verses free — the ones locked inside ink and pages.
For me, this is about expression. Creativity isn’t meant to be hidden.
It has to breathe — even if imperfect.
💭 Closing Thoughts
This week I met a lot of old friends we went to the beach, spooky places, had late-night talks, roamed around without purpose. But one thing I noticed about myself:
I didn’t stop.
I didn’t pause.
I just kept going.
And maybe that’s the real win of this week I moved.
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