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The Top 10 Myths of Minimalism

Minimalism is a relatively new concept and something that is still misunderstood. And as negative as it may sound, sometimes the best way to explain what something is, is by clarifying about what it is...

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Why Are You Doing Your Day Job?

If there was a way to measure the dissatisfaction that people experience as a result of their day jobs, I think it would show an increase as time has passed by. For example, dissatisfaction in the 60s...

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The Misinterpretation of Minimalism

The concept of minimalism is continually gaining momentum around the world, especially in the western countries. It’s about time that people realised the fact that a relentless pursuit of materialistic...

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Finding Ourselves by Focusing on the Essentials and De-cluttering Life

When I was in college, I was heavily preoccupied by the Sherlock Holmes series of books written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My tolerance for fiction based work was slightly more those days than it is...

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Are you an entertainer or just the audience, a producer or just a consumer?

There are two types of people in the world – the entertainers and the audience. The producers and the consumers. The investors and the spenders. Which side you belong to is determined by how you spend...

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Choice May Not Always Be Such a Good Thing

I’ve always been intrigued by the notion of choice. The amount of options we have with us when it comes to choosing literally anything has always been on a perpetual rise. While on the face of it, it...

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We Are Guilty of Over-Complicating Life

One of the major factors that had an infuence on me as far as taking the decision to lead a life based around my passion was the concept of minimalism. Minimalism is not as much about cutting expenses...

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Understanding Simplicity With The Example of a Bucket and Water

All our desires can be categorized in two ways – those that result because of our genuine nature, and those that result because of our past conditioning. The latter are always bound to result in some...

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A Unique Way of Understanding the Nature of Work and Purpose

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. – Confucius Let’s be honest. By now, we all have been bombarded so much by this “do-what-you-love” notion that it just doesn’t...

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