Get Epic Shit Done - Ankur Warikoo

Part - 1 (Managing Your Life)

“Dedicated to all my teachers, most of whom do not even know me” are the first lines from the book.

Hola Readers, It’s been a while since I started reading this book and believe me these lessons have been the best I have learned. Not that I have never heard or read them from other persons but the way it has been explained with example and Teacher - Student Scenario makes it very easy to understand and implement. In this blog we are going to look at some of the important points I have came across and personally found useful. As the author says not all things may fit for you and you may have to find the perfect chair that fits you…but that is only possible when you try out different options.

It was a dream come true to get the personally signed copy from the Author 🥳, the inspiration and legend himself.

P.S.:- I have not yet completed the full book. Will publish part- 2 and more once I finish that.

Here are the points I felt would be useful to you too 😉

1. The worst use of your time is comparing yourself to others. When you know yourself and have real conversations with yourself there is no need to look at having some imaginary conversations with others. If you are better than what you were yesterday, that is all that matters.
2. Being an effective communicator is not so much about speaking English fluently or acting confidently. It is simply about understanding the emotions of the person you are communicating with.
3. If you want to grow, you need to change the fixed mindset to a growth mindset. For example after failing to do something…fixed mindset will think “I’M a failure” whereas a growth mindset will try to learn from it and reattempt, and they will think “Ahh! that was a failed attempt”. Entitled people don’t grow. They wait to be grown! Because they believe the world owes them everything they desire.
4. Before you decide on the answer, ask yourself if you have asked all the difficult questions. Instead of losing sleep over the right decision, take the decision that you want to take and figure out what to do if the decision does not workout for you.
5. You will be able to manage your time only when you understand your relationship with it. Ask yourself these questions and you will see change in how you were managing the time. (1) Why did you do what you did ? (2) How did it make you feel at the end of it?
6. When we waste time, we make ourselves feel guilty, which makes us waste even more time. Guilt game will never bring-out the best in you, instead it destroys you more. You should focus on managing what you could do better by taking better actions.
7. There is line by Anthony De Mello that says: Examine what is said, not who speaks. We all have faced this. Criticism from our loved ones hurts us because we have put them on a pedestal. However, true love also means showing the mirror. Only when we separate the message from the messenger will we able to truly reflect on what they are trying to tell us.
8. Even in our darkest moments, when we think we don’t have a choice, we always have a choice.
9. Reading replaces mindless entertainment with learning and eventually leads to enlightenment. When you read, you use your visual sense. During this process, you cannot do anything else - write, speak, listen, anything - because everything is now a distraction taking you away from reading. So a suggestion is to start building a habit of reading, it can be anything…newspaper, comic book, novels etc.
10. Meditation does not make you control your emotions. It makes you aware of them. Suppression and being witness to your emotions are two entirely different things. Suppression is feeling those emotions actively but not doing anything about them or doing something and regretting it. Neither of these is the right tool to deal with negative emotions. The only way to deal with them is to be intensely aware of your emotions. Which is what meditation teaches you.

NOTE- All the above points are taken from the book and I don’t hold any rights for the same. It was just published with the motive to spread a message.

This was all about Part-1 of the book. Will be coming up with other parts soon…stay tuned for it…till then

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