List of Indian actors who are speaking on BLM and their fairness cream ads, a thread :

We’re all in the Garden, so much of the time, but we exile ourselves with every thought. Adam and Eve’s sin was not greed or concupiscence or even credulity; it was looking elsewhere for what they had already.

This is how I get kidnapped, isn’t it?

If you are in your twenties, with no kid, little responsibility, and you're not taking risks, what are you waiting for?

If you end up micromanaging, why haven’t you hired better? If you’ve hired well, why are you still micromanaging?

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When someone who has less than you congratulates you for something always take out the time to thank them back. They have chosen to appreciate over getting jealous. The world needs more of that.

A job opportunity led me to think deeply about what I want to do in life. 💭 alfredlua.com/job-opportunity

My first company @twitch sold for a billion dollars. My second one lost $75 million in 36 months. People love talking about success, but today I'm going to talk about failure. It's time to be honest about Atrium:

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You can attract people with the way you look, but you can only keep them with the way you think.

Books are uniquely portable magic ~ Stephen King. 💯 In the company of William Dalrymple at 📍beautiful Jaswant Thada, Jodhpur. #GoodreadsWithAView #BooksWorthReading

"Just as water becomes corrupted unless it flows, so idleness wastes the sluggish body." - Ovid (Letters from the Black Sea, I.5)

I regret working out and getting fit - Said no one. Ever.

Maybe wanting to conquer the world shows only that one has an insufficient sense of the world and an unrealistic sense of the relation between its size and one’s own. But wanting to conquer the self? Manageable, perhaps.

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

India’s Population: 138 crore highest selling book in any year: max 1.5 lakh Most top books are motivational. Motivational books are like sports shoes. The joy of buying them makes you feel you’ve solved all your problems. But neither is really used by most except for status.

If you’re Asian, you’ll probably understand the feeling of guilt when you have “fun.” Ingrained in us to view any activity that doesn’t improve our professional life as useless. This is one reason why we’re “high achievers.” Con? Sometimes. Don’t kill it. Tame it. Be aware of it.