Inspiration and Motivation Archives - Alok Govil https://alokgovil.com/category/inspiration-and-motivation/ Simplifier in Science, Technology, and Life Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:28:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://alokgovil.com/wp-content/uploads/root/cropped-alok-govil-32x32.jpg Inspiration and Motivation Archives - Alok Govil https://alokgovil.com/category/inspiration-and-motivation/ 32 32 Interview by Qeemle https://alokgovil.com/interview-by-qeemle/ https://alokgovil.com/interview-by-qeemle/#respond Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:41:39 +0000 https://alokgovil.com/?p=365 High competition has made education focus more on securing employment, has reduced interests to choosing professions, constrained learning to predefined syllabuses, and turned careers into ‘jobs’. How should young students looking forward to their lives discover the true nature of the choices ahead, and establish themselves in the society and economy? How should they even […]

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]]> https://alokgovil.com/interview-by-qeemle/feed/ 0 The Art Status https://alokgovil.com/the-art-status/ https://alokgovil.com/the-art-status/#respond Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:01:00 +0000 https://alokgovil.com/?p=360 Whether you are learning to build software, play music, or paint, the first thousands of hours go into the tools/work. You’ll make mistakes, have “A-ha” moments, outperform your own expectations, as well as fail. And that’s when you reach this what I call “the Art status,” where the tools and process become invisible, and you […]

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]]> https://alokgovil.com/the-art-status/feed/ 0 Inspiration Session at my School, Aug. 19, 2017 https://alokgovil.com/inspiration-session-at-my-school-aug-19-2017/ https://alokgovil.com/inspiration-session-at-my-school-aug-19-2017/#respond Tue, 18 Feb 2020 02:33:17 +0000 https://alokgovil.com/?p=80 Pleasure to visit Gyan Mandir Public School to inspire/guide current high school students. Glad that they could connect well with my own experiences through the school and found the session useful. 🙂 We talked about everything from how to develop new hobbies to how I had gone from being a below-average student during middle school […]

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