This is for the minority who wants to create something - a blog, book, a smartphone app or music or it could just be one article on something very detailed (this is really fun try this). Anything ART which you look forward to create. The first step is deciding you want to do it, the next is doing it. And a very important part of the latter is getting ideas.

The best part is we all have ideas maybe some of us have better ones than others but they are there. This is how you should go for it.

1. Alone

Recently saw an article titled "individualism is dead" like it was ever mainstream in the first place. They were kind of covering how nobody wants to do anything by themselves like go out alone, read, take a walk etc. But if you are going to be creating something then it can only be done alone.

Like I said we all have ideas if we really want to, the problem is they're buried under all this distraction and constant stimulation our brains are so used to now. You must stop them. And here alone means away from your phone, internet, people, music, porn. Cut out all distractions. Spend time alone and do the next thing in this list. Music may at times help in getting thinking started but it's important to stop and be just alone.

I find going to heights with cool breeze and a good view very helpful, like beautiful mountains you know but unless you are around there, the closest is your terrace! And this takes time and effort.

2. Hard Thinking

Most people 'think' that thinking is an automatic process which is something your brain is doing all the time on its own. Maybe for some people this is true but hardly for everyone. The above step will certainly help in getting some thinking going on but that has to be pushed forward with great effort to build up.

3. Logging

Most annoying part about getting ideas is when they do come you are either busy doing something else to start work on it or you are just not in the place where it just goes by. The worst part about this they just won't come back no matter how simple they seemed to you when they first appeared in your head. In my personal experience it's happened 100s of times something really interesting crosses my mind and I either think of it as "this sounds simple, I'll start on this soon" and later it's just not there, kinda like how it happens with dreams, you just don't remember them.

This is where logging comes in. Writing your ideas down would be nice, but time consuming and logistics come in. You can't take notes while commuting or while on your bed in the night. The solution is audio logs. We all have smartphones for a recording device and it's blazing faster compared to writing. You can just go on recording everything as it comes into your head and be done with it.

4. Engage With Ideas

Books, blogs, podcasts, movies, twitter, quora, news, people etc. Use all these resources, they are good fuel to keep your mind active and thinking but it does get tricky, you may end up in a shell where you feel you are just automatically copying ideas from other sources. You have to work that out.

In writing you can try asking yourself how you agree with a book or a blog post or a podcast and what parts you think can improve and write those into your blog posts. Bring up some on going issues with your friends to see what general ideas are in the market place and offer your views. These sometimes lead to intense debates and are super fun too.

Read some such lists and was disappointed. Most are the silly 'first pay check makes you happy' and 'Mondays are awful' kind, probably articles bought from content writers. And seriously how happy is the first check going to make you at 15k/month.

So I make some more observations.

1. It's almost like college.

This is especially true if you were a straight-A student. Just another place where you go in the morning and out in the evening, surrounded by people falling around into your age group. There you had professors, it's a boss here. There it was casuals, here formals (at times not even that).

2. The Salary Is Never Enough



You may skip this if your starting package is 6Lacs+. You just won't connect with us on this point.

Beer nights every Saturday. Movies the next morning. And you always have buy new clothes to look your best at work right? It's just not your fault. Add to that oversleeping and taking the rick to work instead of walking. Oh! and forget getting anything from dear parents anymore, in fact they may handover a few bills to just "take care of it and we'll see later".

3. Worrying About How Your Experience Will Count





Again. You may skip this if your starting package is 6Lacs+. The glory is all yours here too.

For the rest of us though it's a constant worry in the back of our heads with great plans about changing the job next year for that 15k increment.

4. About Mondays

  "Mondays suck" is kind of on top on some such lists, I don't fucking get that. Such thoughts only come to your head if your work ethic is like that of a bonded slave laborer in which your job is a necessity imposed upon you by society and you feel entitled to a good life and standard of living which should be provided to you without you having to earn it.

When you develop a work ethic where you a confident man trades his skills and creates value for someone and earns his living on this planet—Mondays are awesome.

5. Grown Up Yes. Grown Up No






Remember how during school days, every year you would say to yourself "now I'm in 6th, not a child anymore" then "now I'm in 10th, not a child anymore", then college and now while receiving your first pay check you will not tell but ask yourself whether you finally are an adult or not.

After all earning your living is an important part of the "become an adult" ritual. Next is marriage and parenthood (which I'm working to change). The final I'm sure is death.

6. Friends Or Colleagues

This confusion is the result of society constantly feeding us the idea that everybody at work is just waiting to fuck you over so you should always watch out. In a field like marketing this is probably the case, it's skill less work so attracts halfwits anyway, bitching and back stabbing comes easy—empty mind, devils home and all. In a tough demanding environment like programming this is not the case, they run on logic after all.

7. Is This For Me?

Now this is for software developers. By the end of your first month when you realize it took you a week to get that continuous integration to work, you tell yourself you're done. Then there's all those hours spent on stackoverflow scavenging for ready to use code. 

And now that it's once started you are probably going to do for most if not the rest of your life!

Can't think of a equivalent for other fields here, sending emails and calling comes naturally to most of us.

8. Office Dating 


In this area too we're always told how things can get really bad and messy. It's not even really that serious. The worst is a break up and you two never talking to each other—no victims. So you should just go for it if you into someone. And obviously you will keep most of it outside the work hours, because work is just too sacred, of course unless it's marketing, in that case you're just paid for this practically.

India is going through a phase. Divided between eastern collectivist culture and also learning and witnessing the wonders of western individualistic culture. Of course there's going to be lot of confusion around and like pimples on a teenager's face, the first signs are clearly visible in the dating sphere.

1. Commitment As An Achievement



I'd say there are more girls in this category because commitment just means a lot to the female species. Any evolutionary biologist will tell you that. The people here cannot be single. Cannot. They'd probably lose their night's sleep if they go single a little while longer.

The best part is how they treat singles. They scoff at them with jibes like "anyway you are eternally single" (true story)  totally unaware that the statement is more of a confession of how insecure they are on their own as an individual. Otherwise who else types 500 messages on whatsapp daily!

And of course anyone with this kind of insecurities with high-speed internet and facebook..you know it!..sudden speeches, pics, quotes, hashtags and updates of how much in love she is, always there like those pop up ads. Here's one:


2. Sex As Achievement




A breed not far away from the one above on the genetic hierarchy. This one has mostly guys. If insecurity of being single (as friends are not) is the problem above, here it's the numbers game to brag about during the next beer council. And it's fun in the beginning till he reaches into his pocket, takes out the phone and wants you to see her pics and messages she sends him. From that moment anything he says feels like he's on the ground grabbing your legs, his forehead to your feet and pleading: "please..please..please look i'm not a loser i'm not not i'm not..26472 girls were naked with me in the last 4 years i'm not a loser!!!"

3. Sex As Taboo 


 
Finally something to place both genders in. It doesn't worst than this. There are couples going around together since 3 years and have not done the deed! There are weird posts going around about "it doesn't have to be about crossing one's limits always", just wonder whose fucking limits they talk about. There's probably no other fucked up view about sex than this one. Completely missing the point that sex in it's simplest form is just this amazing experience and pleasure that two people share together and you don't have to approach it with all the baggage of religion, culture and what your parents will say.

4. Singles

never change!

 
They are smart people. Just not being in any of the above categories automatically makes you above avg intelligence. Their lives are not so easy though. The world is full of the three above. My theory—most are there just to avoid ending up in the three on top, and they get the correct definition of sex, so most are probably looking for a No Strings Attached arrangement (fucking rare to get!)

Aliens are all the craze these days. Thanks to History Channel for that. We all have a love-hate kinda relationship with aliens. And while India TV's got all the real secret footage and the American government hides all those spaceships in area51, we decided to bring you 5 best alien-esque theories we've come across. 

Not to say we will do better than this guy though ( cuz he's got all the special connections or maybe just take a closer look into his eyes..thinking what I am?) :

1. They came to earth long back!

"HOLY.........!!!"

It's possible that our hunter gatherer ancestors saw some real alien shit but didn't make notes, why? Because they couldn't! Language is just 60,000 years old for humans. So pretty possible those dudes ran into Boris while on their routine bore hunting.

2. They are centuries ahead of us and WATCHING!

Look at the image below. Our world has changed this much in the last 200 years only! 



For most of our existence on this planet we could only speak to the person standing next to you and today we can't digest our food all right without sharing the pics with our 2000 followers on Instagram.

Imagine a civilization 200, 600, 1000, 1Million or a Billion years ahead of us. With their level of technology I'm sure they are watching our every move. I would.

3. A super civilization kills all others to maintain the status quo.

toast!

This would suck for us. But only a bit. I'm sure they'll make it quick.

To explain further this is just a branch extending from the previous one. They are all powerful already why let anyone else in?

4. They are all around and even contacting us but our tech is just — ancient!

get the point?

And we wonder why we don't receive any signals!

Michio Kaku sums it up:
Lets say we have an ant hill in the middle of the forest. And right next to the ant hill, they’re building a ten-lane super-highway. And the question is “Would the ants be able to understand what a ten-lane super-highway is? Would the ants be able to understand the technology and the intentions of the beings building the highway next to them?

Enough said.

5.Our own existence is nothing but a computer program.

the bright side...now we all have someone to blame!

So everything I do, you do, anyone else does or is ever going to do or has done before is all controlled by the super-geek world developer out there. 

Let's all bow down and say a big THANK YOU to our GOD programmer.

We all hear stories of people going through hell and blaming the modern lifestyle. Mostly this is pinned on computers. Most jobs today are little more than staring at a computer screen whole day long for hours and all the while sitting on your butt. The consequences are muscle fatigue, knots and unrelenting pain.

But the modern world has solutions too. Thanks to the internet for that. The medical profession has failed miserably in saving us from this with all it's pain killers. Not to blame the field but doctors today are hardly interested in solving your pain but that's for another post.

For now keep these things in mind. 

pain triggers..and they love a hard press!

1. Massage

stop making those noises..

Yes. They're expensive. But avoiding them will cost you more. It's the "saving money on footwear by cutting of you legs" all over again. Constant sitting, typing, whatsapping is creating knots in your muscles especially in the back, shoulder and neck areas and only the trained fingers of a skill masseuse can untie them out. Result? Suppleness, better blood flow, flexibility, less pain, good sleep and reduces the chances of RSI and most important saves you from visiting those who know lease about these pains—orthopedic doctors aka bone specialists, trust them to prescribe medicines worth 2000 bucks on every visit with zero results. Don't trust me then read this guy's story.

Which massage you ask? Look for deep tissue massage.

2. Work Rave

you expect a caption here too?!

This is simple. You lose track of time when stalking the chick from your new acquaintance's friend list who lives in Dubai, but your muscles are just sitting there motion less and bearing all that strain of you typing, chatting, clicking and so on. They like a break as much as anyone else and Work Rave pop's up at intervals to remind you to give it to them. Like I said, simple!

3. Horrible Eye Strain

see the pink fiber like bands? Muscles, and they're tight!

Again. Start by reading the above guy's story and research. Pretty impressive. Turns out all those drops, "cooling glasses", normal glasses and dry eyes your ophthalmologist tells you about is wrong. It's your eye muscles getting all tight and strained like your back, neck, shoulder muscles. There are knots in there too, loose them up with the exercises.

4. Weight Lifting

no! you don't have to go this far.."the pics only for presentational purposes!"

This deserves another post of it's own for so many are the benefits. Probably the best invention after antibiotics, weight lifting will make your life a lot lot better. It gives you a hormonal boost, increases testosterone, builds muscle strength, bone strength and so much more. And no you don't need to spend 2 hours in the gym, just up to 45 mins, try it for a month and you will beg for it to be extended to 2 hours. 

And ladies, don't be fooled by the "it's not for women" or that you'll develop masculine bodies because of it (only if it was easy!). Of course your training program will differ but weight lifting is most definitely for everybody.