Many times in the past, sometimes during a random conversation with a stranger, sometimes while reading the paper or watching news I have always felt a little let down by myself for not updating myself with sufficient information on a particular topic. I have never been good with general knowledge or facts or current happenings in the country, in the world etc. I have always been too lazy to read and know my stuff. It has never done much damage because of my EQ. I can always talk about something with a total stranger and ensure that person is not bored. I have never been in situations that are awkward because I do not know what to say about something. But deep down I envy those who know stuff. Not boring useless facts. But real stuff. You see, only if you know certain things you can voice your opinion in that matter. Your brain can be put to good use if you can first assimilate information and the analyze. And its always good to know more. Just the mere activity of exposing yourself to varied aspects of life is good for you and will help you immensely. So I feel this quite frequently, I ponder about it for a while and then I let it go. But the reason I havent made any progress in this area is because I aim to know everything about everything instantly and it is quite obvious that only leads to burn out. So this time this feeling hit me when I saw Brexit on every social medial platform and I thought to myself whats that word? By then half the world knew. I quickly googled it and read all that I needed to know. What am I going to do differently this time? I have decided to select around 10 different areas of interest of mine. In these areas I want to know everything there is to know. I think if am an authority in these ten topics it is enough of an achievement for now. I want to make it an everyday ritual to read about these topics and I dont care about anything else in the world.
Here are my ten topics:
- Education-Mostly about foundation and best practices in the country and the globe.
- Marketing-I want to be updated about digital marketing , best practices, success stories
- Behaviours- I want to read as much as I can. I wish I could do a masters in psychology sometime soon.Emotional Intelligence. Psycho-metrics. I want to understand human psychology.
- Success Stories-People and companies
- Cooking-I have liked cooking since I was very young. But unfortunately this has taken a back seat in my life.I want to be a great cook so I want to be aware about various healthy recipes and global cuisines.
- Acupressure-I have recently started finding this very interesting. I want to know more and understand acupressure better.
- Age old remedies and practices- In this mad rat race where everybody is running towards the future I want to go into the past. I want to bring back some wonderful Indian traditions. I want to be able to make my life richer by practicing some of these age old practices. For example-I want to use a stone mortar and pestle to make chutney and not my electric mixer. I want to be able to to construct a house for myself with an open area in the middle. I want to do the infinite number of things that our ancestors where doing which kept them healthy and happy. I want to be instrumental in bringing somethings back and helping others experience the same.
- Yoga- I want to know more about yoga and importantly do yoga. I secretly want to be a yoga teacher :P But thats impossible now because I doubt if I can even see my feet if I stand up straight, leave alone touching.
- Movies-I want to understand how to make movies. I want to make few short films this year. I have asked Nishant for a handycam. I want to learn the basics of photography, script writing, editing etc.
- Books-I want to read the work of different authors and understand different writing styles to develop my own writing skills.
I was tempted to include politics, economy, finance, world affairs etc. But I am really not very interested. If I overhear something I may care to listen. Otherwise I dont care much. I am comfortable not knowing. Hmmmm I like my list, I never realized I was such an interesting person. :)
