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My answer to  http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4977647 Indeed that most of the times, reading that one so awesome article, sitting among intelligent people everyday, and life hacking, we aren't actually anywhere near actual success, though this road (based on numerous stories we think we know) does takes us eventually towards success, but you are right up till the point that yeah, that you have to actually make something out of that environment we are given to drive  our self towards our goals, achieving which is success (one and only) But here on I disagree, that its not always a waste, here is a example: A lot of times, like during college/school, you attend a lot of those counselling sessions, where this one guy comes and leaves you impressed, you walk out of the class saying, " man! that was awesome!" to your friend and forget about it eventually. When you think back you remember lot of such instances and wonder, "did I learn anything? " " wa...

The B&C Plan So recently, I was able to get a first hand look at the questions that are generally asked while selecting applicants at Ycombinator. And together with that, the recent post about the process  here , made me think, as to "how can the questionnaire be made better? ".  So I was talking about it to a friend, and we were practically bouncing ideas from each other, and then I came up with this observation which I would like to suggest in this post.  The questionnaire did ask us about our idea, but while I was going over and over again about it, it struck me as a question : " Why does Ycombinator does not ask you for more of your 'great' ideas, and instead only asks you for your best idea only?" Now this was not hard to explain, indeed, with so many applications, even adding one more question is a huge stress on the 4 people who judge them. But when you think about it with a view of a direct  'contradiction'  of its o...

The Art of Rewarding Yourself What is meant by rewarding oneself? When should we reward oneself? Why should we do it at all? Where are the advantages of rewarding the plain old you? How should we proceed with that? These, are but the few questions that I would like to answer through this article. First of all, before we begin, I would like to point out that I'm no psychologist and this is no study based on empirical methods and statistics, but instead it is a self revelation, something I noticed in practice with myself and people around me, that I would like to share with you my friends.  Rewarding Yourself: We have learned over the years how there should be a direct relationship between effort and reward. Any effort, successful and non-successful should carry a reward of some type in order to keep people motivated. Indeed we all know that to pretty good extent, when it comes to rewarding another person, say employee, subordinates , errand-boy, family, friends, etc. N...