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23 unusual lessons on life, books and people

  1. You need to be surrounded by good people. It’s a need, not a “good to have”.
  2. If you cannot do big things, do small things.
  3. You are chasing the love you did not get in family, in your external success.
  4. The purpose of life is to have a purpose.
  5. You are allowed (even recommended) to step out of your lane.
  6. Life is more peaceful when you are chasing your inputs, because that is what you can control.
  7. Life is horrendous when you are looking at your likes and followers, even if you get a lot of them, because then you are chasing something you cannot control.
  8. A great book is a wisdom of a self-help book squeezed into a fiction book.
  9. You can just do things. You don’t need anyone’s permission.
  10. You can just stop doing things. You don’t need anyone’s permission.
  11. Quit judging people by their one-time (or multiple-time) acts, if they don’t affect you.
  12. A good study desk will take care of most of your productivity issues.
  13. The remaining productivity issues will be taken care of by a good night sleep.
  14. Speaking of sleep, it is not the 8 hours of sleep that matters, but the sleep that begins at 9 pm that matters the most.
  15. The book that makes you cry is the book that has done its job well.
  16. But books like these are rare, so you have to go through multiple books to get there.
  17. You always get what you are looking for in life. And in those rare circumstances you don’t get it, you hit a lottery by not hitting it.
  18. Fiction is the manifestation of self-help in a book. Which is why it is too attractive, to the least.
  19. Good people exist. You just have to become one to find one.
  20. Fun fact: We take book recommendations from people we inherently like.
  21. A bigger fun fact: You stumble upon the best books once you become a seeker.
  22. You get the most when you stop trying.
  23. Lastly, you will achieve monumental happiness when you get off social media. Misery loves company, which is why social media is designed to keep you addicted. Once you taste freedom, and you get addicted to it, the social media won’t hold you as it does now.

Published by Nishtha Gehija

Author, Ghostwriter of books for CXOs and Consultant