26 Aug
Philosophy

What is Philosophy? Why should we learn philosophy?

Philosophy is understanding of life and its meaning. It helps to bring out many truths and realities of life.

It covers many topics such as nature of time, life, death, ethics, morality, purpose of life, thoughts , logic, language etc.   

Philosophy helps us to understand this world, its hidden realities and our relationship with this world. This makes us wiser and improves our rational thinking. These understandings make our life easier.

It enhances our problem solving capacity and logical reasoning.

The most important thing in philosophy is questioning. And when you question everything and challenge every pre conceived notion, it is the beginning of your philosophical journey. Asking right questions help you in getting right answers.

Socrates once said “ The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing”.  And this quote is like a gem for learning anything.

Eastern and Western parts of the world have different philosophical thoughts developed over thousands of years. Western philosophy talks more about ideas, principles, logic, rights while eastern philosophies talk more about eternal nature of reality, existence and freedom from everything.

Both philosophies are important in their own ways.

Our goal is to learn philosophy from greatest of philosophers as well as to learn from our own personal experiences.

Thanks for reading

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21 Aug
Finance

Two golden rules of investing

We invest to earn money. That is why it is necessary to follow some basic rules before investing our hard earned money. These rules are vey basic but if followed, it can prevent us from big shocks/ losses,

Rule No. 1 Cap the downside –

It is very necessary to cap downside. It means limiting the amount you can loose.  One big loss can end everything you dreamt about.

In other words, take small risks. Take small risks that can give big returns.

Definitely there are investments that have high risks and high returns. But such investments are not actually investments but just gambling. So avoid high risks as far as possible.

Reasons you should avoid gambling:

Scenario (i) If you win a gamble, you will think about gambling more and more. And this would lead you towards bigger gambling. And once you loose a big gamble , loss will be so big that all your past profits will be wiped out. And obviously you will loose because you can not have 100% or even 50% success rate.

Scenario (ii) If you loose a gamble, you will think about recovering at least the amount initially invested ( just google sunk cost fallacy). And this will lead you to gamble again and again. And once you started making gains, you will follow the above thing again and ultimately end up loosing money. 

We must understand that sometimes gambling may make us rich but richness will be there for very short time. “Gambling brings temporary success and permanent failure”.

Rule No. 2 Asset diversification –

It means to put eggs in different baskets. Always diversify your asset so that even if you loose in one asset, you are gaining in other asset to nullify the loss.

Remember that asset class should be limited. Just invest in 5 to 10 different asset class. It is because you focus is limited. You can not focus on 20 different asset classes and so never invest in 20 different assets. “Focus on everything means focus on nothing”.

The above two rules seems obvious. But they are not easy to follow. They looks easy but your greed and fear makes these rules harder to follow. Therefore put your greed and fear in check before investing.

19 Jul
Finance

How Big Boss make money?

As big boss is trending now a days, most people have this question in mind about how big boss makes money?

We’ll not discuss revenue streams only but also the tactics big boss use to market it.

So let’s find out how big boss makes money:

1. Sponsorship – Sponsorship is one of the best ways to earn money for any show whether it’s big boss or KBC or The Kapil Sharma show.

In big boss OTT2. Vimal is the main sponsor of the show. There are other special sponsors like Vicco Vajradanti Sugar Free Paste, Paytm etc.

These brand deals gives crores of revenue to these shows.

Read Impact of foreign language on a country you should know?

 

2. Advertisement revenue – When you see shows like big boss, you have to see ads every few minutes. These ads are also one of the big funding machines for these shows.

Mostly these two streams of revenue are dominant in both TV shows and OTT shows.

3. Promotions – You might have seen various film stars promoting their films on big boss, specially on weekend ka war. Big Boss charges fees for the same and that makes it 3rd source of revenue.

Till now we have discussed how big boss earns money

Now let’s see some tactics used by the show to gain more TRP

1. Special guests – It invite special guests to the show for some tasks. Many people watch the show just because their favourite guest is on the show. Yes this is not a big marketing tactic.

2. Bringing celebrities to the show – Many celebrities are invited to the show. For example – Siddharth Shukla, the great Khali etc.  Now in OTT season youtubers are also invited. And we know that youtubers today have far more viewership than TV actors and many film actors.

3. Controversy – This is one of the main TRP builder thing for the show. There are many controversies that had been created by the show. The show even brings people who already had controversies in their past.

Big Boss want to get your attention. And because of that it tries to establish new controversies between your favourite creators so that you continue to watch the show and fight over social media. And your social media fights creates more attraction to the show than it could gather on its own.

 

17 Jul
Philosophy

Impact of foreign language imposition in a country

Language is a very effective means to spread mental colonization. Most people are not aware about this.

Let’s understand the power of language. Let’s view this from Indian perspective.

In India, English which is a foreign language is more respected than local languages. People who speak English are seen as intellectual. Its funny but people see a foreign language as status symbol. No doubt, people should learn English as it is one of the business language. It helps to connect people from different culture. But it never means that you forget other local languages. In the end, language is just a means of communication. It does not tell anything about your intellect.

When you forget your local language, you only consume content having foreign language. You read foreign books, you watch foreign TV series, you read foreign newspapers. You have very little connection with your local environment. Now foreign country can easily influence your opinion. You can be easily feeded things with foreign propaganda. You will be taught foreigner’s version of history. The same foreign country will influence your culture as culture has lot to do with culture you see daily on your screen. You have given your control to a foreign country.

The same things applies with products you consume. Globalisation is best. But your country should also have stakes in production systems. Your country should also own atleast one social media.

This blog post is not to interrupt your integration with culture of foreign country but just to make you aware that you should not forget your own roots. Just maintain balance between two. Reason is that you may be accepting other people around the globe but you do not know how other people see you. And we should learn this lesson from history atleast.

I hope you understood the importance of understanding local language too.

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14 Jul
Philosophy

Why humans are unhappy?

Humans have a problem. They need something to be happy. In other words, happiness is dependent on something.

We know that nothing in this world is permanent. Everything is temporary. So the thing on which happiness of any person is dependent will also be temporary.

So happiness comes and go. 

But there is a secret to remain happy permanently. And that is making your happiness dependent on something permanent. I will not tell you what is permanent. You have to find that! And yes there is something permanent in this universe.

There is another way to remain happy. Do not depend on anything for happiness. I mean do not take things seriously. You are just a drop in the ocean. You are nothing. Just accept this fact and have no expectations from anyone or anything.

We will talk about this thing in detail later.