The Guide To The Attention Curious Stoic (Start Here)

Hey Reader,

Glad you are here! Out of the 1.18 billion sites (as of March 2022) on the internet, and the million other things that you could be doing at this moment, I am more than happy that you took the time to come to my online home to know more about me and my work. I am confident that you will find something useful.

This introductory post is split into 3 sections – About The Blog, About Myself, and the Current Focus of This Blog

About The Blog:

Why I write? – I wanted to transition from being a consumer to a creator, share my curiosities with the world and to connect with a group of like minded individuals. (Also read: Why I Write / What’s In It For You?)

What is this blog about? – One of the best pieces of writing advice came from the movie Tick Tick Boom, in which the protagonist is told to write about what he knows. If I had to sum up my life of 31+ years so far, it has been a pursuit of the good life. Hence this blog will be about a millennials’ experiments and findings about living a good life1 (Also read: Scope of this Blog)

How is this blog organized? (Needs to be Updated)

Categories – Happiness, Meaning, Knowledge, Heroes, Reviews, Blog Intro

Tags – Health, Wealth, Leisure, Relationships, Daily Practices, Core Skills, Positive Impact, Self Knowledge, Worldly Knowledge, Working Knowledge, Past, Present

About Myself:

  • I’m Arun Palanichami, a married millennial and a toddler parent based in Bengaluru and working in the healthcare industry.
  • I am an MBA/PGP graduate from IIM-Bangalore and have spent a significant part of my career as a management consultant.
  • I strive to be open minded, empathetic and curious about a lot of things. (if you want to know more about me, also read – Who Am I? Introducing Myself)

Newcomers, can start from my 1st series on gratitude:

  • Part 1 – Gratitude is the mother of all creativity
  • Part 2 – What am I grateful for?
  • Part 3 – The best ways to practice gratitude & when it might not work

Current Focus:

This year, the posts here will be focused on 3 major areas:

  1. Reviews (about stuff that I wish everyone knew about – these could be books, movies, podcasts, people, events etc.,)
  2. Attention
  3. ChatGPT
  4. Stoicism

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1The Good Life Framework – Thanks to Dave Evans & Bill Burnett, ( authors of Design Your Life), The School of Life (and Alain de Botton), VIA Survey of Character Strengths, Strengths Finder 2.0, Mark Manson, Tim Ferriss, Derek Sivers, Shane Parrish, Light Watkins, Elizabeth Gilbert, David Perrell, Rich Roll, and a long list

Their work has been instrumental in shaping me and have helped immensely to come up with this framework.