🏋️ Health
The last couple of weeks have been strange. If you’ve been following these notes regularly, you probably know that my health wasn’t at its best. My gut wasn’t cooperating, my head felt heavy most of the time, and honestly, I felt mentally fried. Even simple tasks required more energy than they normally would.
The good part is that despite all of this, I didn’t gain weight. Sometimes maintaining is also progress. My weight stayed stable, and that itself feels like a small victory considering the amount of stress I was carrying. The weather is changing again, and every year I realize how much I dislike this transition period. It affects my mood, my routine, and sometimes even my energy levels.
One thing I did this week was cut my hair again.
Back to the buzz cut.
Back to basics.
There is something oddly refreshing about removing unnecessary things when life feels cluttered. A buzz cut doesn’t solve any problem, but it reminds me of simplicity. And right now, simplicity feels important. Less noise. Less distraction. More focus.
I also want to get back into the gym properly. The last few weeks were inconsistent because my body needed recovery more than intensity. But now I can feel myself slowly returning to normal, and with that comes the urge to rebuild the routine again.
💻 Work
This week was probably one of the most important work weeks I’ve had in a long time, not because of success, but because of what it taught me.
On the 3rd of June, I had a conversation that completely shifted my perspective. I received some extremely useful feedback. The kind of feedback that doesn’t just help you improve a project—it helps you understand yourself.
And whenever feedback arrives, I think every person faces the same choice.
You can choose learning.
Or you can choose ego.
I’ve never liked ego. Every time ego enters a room, growth quietly leaves. Ego convinces us that we’re already right. Ego tells us that criticism is an attack. Ego makes us defend our position instead of improving it.
Discipline, on the other hand, comes from the same family but behaves completely differently.
Ego says, “I already know.”
Discipline says, “I can learn.”
Ego protects identity.
Discipline improves identity.
So this week, I consciously chose learning.
This project was probably the first project in a very long time where I genuinely felt I couldn’t pull everything together the way I wanted. I’ve mentioned this in previous blogs too. There were multiple moving pieces, multiple experiments, multiple attempts, but the result wasn’t where I wanted it to be.
For almost one and a half weeks, my mind felt completely fried.
I kept thinking about what went wrong.
I kept thinking about what I could’ve done differently.
And honestly, that process wasn’t comfortable.
But now I realize that discomfort was necessary.
Because this experience showed me how I operate under pressure. It showed me where my communication breaks. It showed me where assumptions create friction. It showed me the gap between what I think I’m doing and what is actually happening.
And those lessons are valuable.
Painful.
But valuable.
We also released a new film this week and continued building the video series. Watching ideas become something tangible never gets old. Even when the process is messy, there is something magical about seeing a project move from imagination into reality.
And now, my focus is shifting back toward my own film.
I’m around five minutes into it. The foundation is built. The world is established. The characters are there. Now comes the difficult part—the actual story.
The interesting part.
The part where things can either come together beautifully or completely fall apart.
Let’s see what happens.
📖 Learning
One of the biggest ideas I came across this week was Occam’s Razor.
It’s a problem-solving principle that says:
The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
And the more I thought about it, the more I realized how often we complicate our lives unnecessarily.
We build theories.
We imagine hidden motives.
We overanalyze situations.
We create stories in our heads.
But most of the time, the answer is surprisingly simple.
Maybe the communication wasn’t clear.
Maybe expectations weren’t aligned.
Maybe the process wasn’t working.
Maybe the thing you’re avoiding is exactly the thing you need to fix.
Simple.
Not easy.
But simple.
And that idea connected beautifully with the feedback I received this week.
Because the feedback itself wasn’t complicated.
It wasn’t some hidden secret.
It was simply pointing out things that were already visible.
I just needed someone to help me see them more clearly.
Another thing I learned is that growth is rarely dramatic.
We imagine growth as some life-changing moment where suddenly everything becomes obvious.
But most growth happens through small realizations.
One conversation.
One mistake.
One uncomfortable truth.
One piece of feedback.
And then slowly, over time, those things compound.
☕ Small Wins
The office has basically been running on birthday energy lately.
Last week it was Khushi’s birthday.
This week it was Sam’s birthday.
And while these moments might seem small from the outside, they remind me of something important.
Life keeps happening alongside work.
There will always be deadlines.
There will always be projects.
There will always be stress.
But there are also celebrations.
Random conversations.
Shared jokes.
Small moments that make difficult weeks easier.
I’m genuinely grateful for the people around me.
Not because they make things easy.
But because they make things meaningful.
I don’t write everything publicly because some memories are better carried than documented, but I know that being around people who challenge me, teach me, and help me grow is a privilege.
And I don’t take that lightly.
📚 A Line from a Book (and Beyond)
This week’s line isn’t from a book.
It’s from a principle.
And honestly, it’s one I’ll probably remember for a long time.
“The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.”
Sometimes the answer isn’t hidden.
Sometimes we’re just looking too far away from it.
🧠 Brain Refreshment
This week’s biggest mental refreshment came from understanding the difference between ego and discipline.
It’s a subtle difference.
Both require confidence.
Both require conviction.
Both require belief.
But only one creates growth.
The more I thought about it, the more I realized that discipline is actually humility in action.
Discipline accepts that there is always something left to learn.
Discipline accepts that mistakes will happen.
Discipline accepts feedback.
And most importantly, discipline keeps moving.
Ego stays stuck.
That distinction alone gave me enough to think about for the entire week.
🎶 Music
Fucking! Talha Anjum is back MF! Its Monsoon season guys
https://open.spotify.com/track/23vaRAT9zTj5hXhMacy2hc?si=42789ab99c4e472d
Shor: Talha Anjum
✍️ A Poem by Me
Sikhega utna seekh,
Jab girega toh uthna seekh.
Meaning
Learn as much as life is willing to teach you.
Because eventually, you will fall.
Everyone does.
And when that moment comes, the lesson won’t be how to avoid the fall.
The lesson will be learning how to get back up.
Because success doesn’t belong to the people who never fail.
It belongs to the people who keep standing back up.
💭 Closing Thoughts
If I look back at this week honestly, I don’t think it was a successful week.
But I do think it was an important week.
Success usually confirms what you already know.
Failure teaches you what you don’t know.
This week forced me to look at myself honestly.
Not the version of myself I want people to see.
Not the version of myself I imagine becoming.
The real version.
The one that still makes mistakes.
The one that still gets overwhelmed.
The one that still has things to learn.
And strangely, I’m grateful for that.
Because every setback gives you a choice.
You can spend your energy protecting your pride.
Or you can spend your energy improving your craft.
One path makes you louder.
The other makes you better.
I want to keep choosing the second one.
The weather will settle.
The health will recover.
The next opportunity will come.
The film will get finished.
And when those things happen, I want to be ready—not because I want to prove someone wrong, but because I want to prove to myself that I learned something from this phase.
As strange as it sounds, this week wasn’t about achievement.
It was about awareness.
And awareness is usually where growth begins.
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