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When I wanted to study more, my mother threw me out of the house with a badminton racket and shuttlecock.
On work-life balance
Delegating 10 hours of quality work, seven days a week is for a person who is occupied in passionate work. Someone who wants to engage in loads of hard work, without requiring much food and hunger, neither any other leisure except 6 hours of night’s rest.
One determinant of this kind of working schedule is age. Most people who work so much is because they have explored everything else, and nothing clicks but this. Experience is influent, and makes us a thick skin in creating our work and thinking about it most of the time in a day.
The foundation for this kind of daily regime was laid out back in school when after finishing homework and learning for the next day’s class, when I wanted to read extra books, my mother would appear from somewhere and shriek. She would throw me out to the garden to play badminton with any little friend whom I could catch, for not less than an hour. Initially I hated my P.T shoes, now I just do some stretching at this age.
While writing a research analysis, I was thinking, that it does not take as much time as it used to when I first started. To write a literature review it hardly takes 3–5 hours for me. I have practiced. It does feel good. I…
