Simple Words of Wisdom

  (3 minute read) It does not take a genius to say that we all become happy and sad numerous times. For most of us, happiness giving moments are very few, and the remaining time is filled with frustration and boredom. We all want to be happy. We all do everything we do for the sole reason of becoming happy in life and yet we don't succeed a lot. What is this mystery? Why can't we live happily ever? Can we?  In this  series of articles ,  “Decoding Happiness”  we will try to understand the reality of happiness.  In this series of articles, we will shed some light on different aspects of happiness one by one. This is the  Third article  of the series. We recommend you read the  other two article as well  so that these articles together make a better sense. Click on the following links to access the other two articles: Article 1:   Ice cream cannot make you happy Article 2:  Stop worrying dude! We want to make these articles a learning experience for you. We want you to freely com

(3 minute read) When I was in school, one day, one of our teachers encouraged our class to appear for Special Class Railway Apprentices ( SCRA) exam. The exam is held at national level. When he told us no one of got excited about the idea as in that year, they had 16 positions (only!) to fill. We mentioned it to him that Sir, there are only 16 positions and he casually replied that “so what if there are just 16 positions, you just need one!” While he was certainly true, we didn’t really bought the argument and thought him to be kind of crazy to say so! We are estimated to have 130+ crore people in India. A majority of our population is young and given that we also have a high rate of unemployment the number of candidates competing for any job position is very high. Also due to a high percentage of young population and a few number of good institutes,  the same is true for admission to these elite academic institutions. But do we really need to worry about the number of competito