THIRTEEN - a podcast for Being & Creating

How to consume information in the new age? (E·135) We're discussing a topic that touches upon the aspect of content consumption in the new age, and learning. Especially in today's world, where there are multiple means through which we're constantly consuming content, is having information equivalent to knowledge. Sure, etymologically speaking knowledge is derived from the word “know” and therefore the two words information and knowledge can be synonymous. However, semantically speaking they are worlds apart. Perhaps information is cheaply available whereas what we make of that information can determine one's knowledge. This conversation is about understanding this aspect of consuming information in the new age. _ Our aim at THIRTEEN is to find meaning in the everyday mundane and help people find their purpose and inner balance. Please share your thoughts, feedback and comments. Subscribe to our channel and share the content with your friends and family. _ THIRTEEN is a podcast that acknowledges the mundane and celebrates the everyday. Through this podcast, we intend to raise innate and inner questions that we all have but have never paused to ponder upon. We hope that we'll leave you with some fodder for thinking. This podcast channel belongs to Prasanna Shivakamat and Shantesh Kelvekar. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe to us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@13podcast

Slowly and steadily, we take our own city – whether we've immigrated to and made our home or whether we're born and raised in one – for granted as we get used to it. And, in our own city we may become a part of a routine. To explore our own city, we need to become a traveller in our own city. In this conversation, we share our thoughts of being a traveler in our own city. _ Our aim at THIRTEEN is to find meaning in the everyday mundane and help people find their purpose and inner balance. Please share your thoughts, feedback and comments. Subscribe to our channel and share the content with your friends and family. _ THIRTEEN is a podcast that acknowledges the mundane and celebrates the everyday. Through this podcast, we intend to raise innate and inner questions that we all have but have never paused to ponder upon. We hope that we'll leave you with some fodder for thinking. This podcast channel belongs to Prasanna Shivakamat and Shantesh Kelvekar. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe to us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter:       www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram:  www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook:  www.facebook.com/13.podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@13podcast

A lot of youngsters find it difficult to deal with failure. One of the main reasons we hypothesise is the way our competitive education is structured along with the modern upbringing of children. How do we deal with failure? What becomes available when one is capable to deal with their failure? In this conversation, we try to dig this subject. Please listen and share. _ Our aim at THIRTEEN is to find meaning in the everyday mundane and help people find their purpose and inner balance. Please share your thoughts, feedback and comments. Subscribe to our channel and share the content with your friends and family. _ THIRTEEN is a podcast that acknowledges the mundane and celebrates the everyday. Through this podcast, we intend to raise innate and inner questions that we all have but have never paused to ponder upon. We hope that we'll leave you with some fodder for thinking. This podcast channel belongs to Prasanna Shivakamat and Shantesh Kelvekar. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe to us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter:        www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram:   www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook:   www.facebook.com/13.podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@13podcast

Continuing from our previous conversation about creative block, in this conversation, we try to find the genesis of creation. We look at if we can find a means of creating. What role does Artificial Intelligence have to play in creation in the coming future? We also look at the three facets of creation that bring to realization of thought into manifestation. Probably from that purview, there is no threat from AI to our identity or our creation. Let's look at a diverse conversation of random thoughts and try to make meaning through that. _ Our aim at THIRTEEN is to find meaning in the everyday mundane and help people find their purpose and inner balance. Please share your thoughts, feedback and comments. Subscribe to our channel and share the content with your friends and family. _ THIRTEEN is a podcast that acknowledges the mundane and celebrates the everyday. Through this podcast, we intend to raise innate and inner questions that we all have but have never paused to ponder upon. We hope that we'll leave you with some fodder for thinking. This podcast channel belongs to Prasanna Shivakamat and Shantesh Kelvekar. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe to us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter:        www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram:   www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook:   www.facebook.com/13.podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@13podcast

We've been offline lately, and that's because we've been swamped with work. Real apologies for being inconsistent for that. We've also been feeling a little creative block, and instead of trying to find a solution for this issue, we thought of recording our conversation to see where it takes us. We all are creative individuals. Yes, even the so called “non-creative” ones. We're all creating something all the time. If not anything, at least the stories in our head. But an intentful creation requires a state of flow, and sometimes you feel stagnated – like what happened to us. We hope that this conversation allows us to A. find the creative side that resides within us, and B. find ways for mending through this creative block… Let us know your thoughts. _ Our aim at THIRTEEN is to find meaning in the everyday mundane and help people find their purpose and inner balance. Please share your thoughts, feedback and comments. Subscribe to our channel and share the content with your friends and family. _ THIRTEEN is a podcast that acknowledges the mundane and celebrates the everyday. Through this podcast, we intend to raise innate and inner questions that we all have but have never paused to ponder upon. We hope that we'll leave you with some fodder for thinking. This podcast channel belongs to Prasanna Shivakamat and Shantesh Kelvekar. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe to us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter:        www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram:   www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook:   www.facebook.com/13.podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@13podcast

Thought journaling is banal activity but a necessary one, just like breathing. It is a cathartic process that allows us to not only shed our burden but also to bring an inner clarity. In this episode, we shae our experience with journaling and the role it play in our life. _ Our aim at THIRTEEN is to find meaning in the everyday mundane and help people find their purpose and inner balance. Please share your thoughts, feedback and comments. Subscribe to our channel and share the content with your friends and family. _ THIRTEEN is a podcast that acknowledges the mundane and celebrates the everyday. Through this podcast, we intend to raise innate and inner questions that we all have but have never paused to ponder upon. We hope that we'll leave you with some fodder for thinking. This podcast channel belongs to Prasanna Shivakamat and Shantesh Kelvekar. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe to us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter:        www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram:   www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook:   www.facebook.com/13.podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@13podcast

Goal setting is confused by us as the first step towards our goal. What if, setting of those goals is not the first step, but rather an opportunity to acknowledge the mundaneness in the stride for achieving something big? This conversation is about discovering that for us… _ Our aim at THIRTEEN is to find meaning in the everyday mundane and help people find their purpose and inner balance. Please share your thoughts, feedback and comments. Subscribe to our channel and share the content with your friends and family. _ THIRTEEN is a podcast that acknowledges the mundane and celebrates the everyday. Through this podcast, we intend to raise innate and inner questions that we all have but have never paused to ponder upon. We hope that we'll leave you with some fodder for thinking. This podcast channel belongs to Prasanna Shivakamat and Shantesh Kelvekar. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe to us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter:        www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram:   www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook:   www.facebook.com/13.podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@13podcast

When I was growing up, I thought that meditation was that yogis and sanyasis did. They all had to leave their home and renounce their material possessions and go in search for enlightenment. As I grew, I thought the purpose of it is for inner peace. We often get confused with meditation with these extremes. There could be various reasons that we choose to meditate. The other part is that meditation need not be about closing the eyes and becoming quiet or focusing on one's breath. Meditative quality comes with immersion into whatever we're doing. _ Our aim at THIRTEEN is to find meaning in the everyday mundane and help people find their purpose and inner balance. Please share your thoughts, feedback and comments. Subscribe to our channel and share the content with your friends and family. _ THIRTEEN is a podcast that acknowledges the mundane and celebrates the everyday. Through this podcast, we intend to raise innate and inner questions that we all have but have never paused to ponder upon. We hope that we'll leave you with some fodder for thinking. This podcast channel belongs to Prasanna Shivakamat and Shantesh Kelvekar. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe to us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter:        www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram:   www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook:   www.facebook.com/13.podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@13podcast

Among the several definitions that we byhearted during our schooling was of Newton's First Law of Motion. It states that every object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled to change by an external force. Likewise, we all resist change unless it is direly needed. We cocoon into the comfort and conform to a set routine. Why change is necessary? What does change offer us? Is it a choice, or an inadvertent event? All of this in our this conversation. _ Our aim at THIRTEEN is to find meaning in the everyday mundane and help people find their purpose and inner balance. Please share your thoughts, feedback and comments. Subscribe to our channel and share the content with your friends and family. _ THIRTEEN is a podcast that acknowledges the mundane and celebrates the everyday.   Through this podcast, we intend to raise innate and inner questions that we all have but have never paused to ponder upon. We hope that we'll leave you with some fodder for thinking.   This podcast channel belongs to Prasanna Shivakamat and Shantesh Kelvekar. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe to us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter:        www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram:   www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook:   www.facebook.com/13.podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@13podcast

We all read biographies, autobiographies of various people. And the takeaways from these readings are the experiences, the memories, and the learnings they had in their life. Now, if these experiences, memories and learnings is what makes them, then if we're able to put what is our perceived future in the hindsight and see the person we have become then we can clearly see the possibility of making who we are is within ourself. In this conversation, we're trying to see how our experiences, memories, and our learnings shape who we become, and if that can be consciously done. _ Our aim at THIRTEEN is to find meaning in the everyday mundane and help people find their purpose and inner balance. Please share your thoughts, feedback and comments. Subscribe to our channel and share the content with your friends and family. _ THIRTEEN is a podcast that acknowledges the mundane and celebrates the everyday. Through this podcast, we intend to raise innate and inner questions that we all have but have never paused to ponder upon. We hope that we'll leave you with some fodder for thinking. This podcast channel belongs to Prasanna Shivakamat and Shantesh Kelvekar. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe to us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@13podcast

In this episode we look into various means and methods through which we can calm the internal conversation. A word of caution though, this episode is not essentially a “how to” but more of a quest in finding these means of relaxation. In that sense we're not attempting to prescribe any means or methods to relax your mind, rather experientially find if those ways work for us and then choose whether to engage with these means and methods. _ Our aim at THIRTEEN is to find meaning in the everyday mundane and help people find their purpose and inner balance. Please share your thoughts, feedback and comments. Subscribe to our channel and share the content with your friends and family. _ THIRTEEN is a podcast that acknowledges the mundane and celebrates the everyday. Through this podcast, we intend to raise innate and inner questions that we all have, but have never paused to ponder upon. We hope that we'll leave you with some fodder for thinking. This podcast channel belongs to Prasanna Shivakamat and Shantesh Kelvekar. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe to us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@13podcast

Self-care is not a discipline, it is a choice. Often, we struggle in defining what is right for us. Well there isn't one right answer. However, learning to exercise the appropriate choice can do wonder. In this conversation, we're not discussing what is the right choice, for most of the time we already know it. We're neither discussing how to exercise the right choice, simply because that too we already know. But we're discussing about acknowledging the choices we're making and simply being able to observe them. What power will that unleash? We try to find it for us, and we don't know even if we succeed. May this conversation trigger some thoughts in you as well… _ Our aim at THIRTEEN is to find meaning in the everyday mundane and help people find their purpose and inner balance. Please share your thoughts, feedback and comments. Subscribe to our channel and share the content with your friends and family. _ THIRTEEN is a podcast that acknowledges the mundane and celebrates the everyday. Through this podcast, we intend to raise innate and inner questions that we all have, but have never paused to ponder upon. We hope that we'll leave you with some fodder for thinking. This podcast channel belongs to Prasanna Shivakamat and Shantesh Kelvekar. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe to us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@13podcast

There are innumerable shades between black and white. But when it comes to life, we seldom want to acknowledge, let alone see those in-between shades. We want to be definitive, judgemental. What happens if we find the path in-between? Does it alter our perspective about life, about the situation? We try to find that for ourselves through this conversation. _ Our aim at THIRTEEN is to find meaning in the everyday mundane and help people find their purpose and inner balance. Please share your thoughts, feedback and comments. Subscribe to our channel and share the content with your friends and family. _ THIRTEEN is a podcast that acknowledges the mundane and celebrates the everyday. Through this podcast, we intend to raise innate and inner questions that we all have, but have never paused to ponder upon. We hope that we'll leave you with some fodder for thinking. This podcast channel belongs to Prasanna Shivakamat and Shantesh Kelvekar. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe to us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@13podcast

Often we confuse “my failure” as “I'm a failure”. Failure is an event, not a person. The conversation is about understanding this distinction and the power of celebrating failure. _ Our aim at THIRTEEN is to find meaning in the everyday mundane and help people find their purpose and inner balance. Please share your thoughts, feedback and comments. Subscribe to our channel and share the content with your friends and family. _ THIRTEEN is a podcast that acknowledges the mundane and celebrates the everyday. Through this podcast, we intend to raise innate and inner questions that we all have, but have never paused to ponder upon. We hope that we'll leave you with some fodder for thinking. This podcast channel belongs to Prasanna Shivakamat and Shantesh Kelvekar. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe to us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@13podcast

This is not a video on how to practice mindfulness. The internet is flooded with content on that subject matter. This is a conversation touching on the aspect of why one needs to consider practising mindfulness, and how can we make ourselves comfortable with our with our emotional vulnerabilities, and why is it necessary to discuss on this subject openly without a sense of shame or guilt. _ Our aim at THIRTEEN is to find meaning in the everyday mundane and help people find their purpose and inner balance. Please share your thoughts, feedback and comments. Subscribe to our channel and share the content with your friends and family. _ THIRTEEN is a podcast that acknowledges the mundane and celebrates the everyday. Through this podcast, we intend to raise innate and inner questions that we all have, but have never paused to ponder upon. We hope that we'll leave you with some fodder for thinking. This podcast channel belongs to Prasanna Shivakamat and Shantesh Kelvekar. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe to us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@13podcast

The minimum age to get your driving license is 18. But most of us have chosen our career trajectory when we turned 16! (sic) - Ankur Warikoo Many of us walk the path laid to us by the societal norm. We get into university by 18, find a job by 21 or 22 and work in that discipline until we grow old. While that was probably the need in the 60s and the 70s, is it still the norm? What is an alternative that will allow us to find the balance between our passion and our profession, our mission and our vocation? Is there a path outside of the set template? Many Roads Lead to Rome. _ You can now watch our podcast on YouTube _ THIRTEEN is a podcast that acknowledges the mundane and celebrates the everyday. Through this podcast, we intend to raise innate and inner questions that we all have, but have never paused to ponder upon. We hope that we'll leave you with some fodder for thinking. To know more about THIRTEEN, click here This podcast channel belongs to Prasanna Shivakamat and Shantesh Kelvekar. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe to us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@13podcast

This episode is unique as well as spexial in its own way. This is the first podcast of 2023. This is also our first video podcast. As the podcast's title suggests, this episode brings forth 23 nuggets for '23. These are small resolutions that one may opt to imbibe of work on. We're making this podcast as a sort of a reckoner for us and our audience so that we can revisit this episode through out the year whenever we want to reconnect with the resolutions or find something for ourselves. _ You can now watch our podcast on YouTube _ THIRTEEN is a podcast that acknowledges the mundane and celebrates the everyday. Through this podcast, we intend to raise innate and inner questions that we all have, but have never paused to ponder upon. We hope that we'll leave you with some fodder for thinking. To know more about THIRTEEN, click here This podcast channel belongs to Prasanna Shivakamat and Shantesh Kelvekar. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@13podcast

It is that time of the year when we reflect on the year gone by and make new resolutions for the coming one. Fifteen days later, we realise that the resolutions were probably over-ambitious and we conveniently blame the circumstances for not them not working... Neither will power nor your strong intent will make these resolutions work. Then needs to be done? This conversation is about finding that for ourselves... _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

This episode is neither a moral inquiry nor a judgement on the youth of this country, but an introspective question. If about three-fourths of this nation is under the age of 35, it not only becomes an introspective question to an individual but to the entire nation! In this episode, we converse about what is happening with our eating habits and our diet, and the pain points in the system as well as within. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

In the age of social media, we have strived for instant gratification. And, this does not limit to our presence on social media, but also extends into our learning and education, our career and profession, our daily chores and life! Do we have the option to shift from instant gratification to seeking and finding constant gratification? _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

"In theory, it works. But in practice, it doesn't happen like this!", how often have we come across such a sentence? There always has been a gap between academia and professional setup, but now it is getting far more pronounced. Should we simply brace for such a future or is there a simple solution? Instead of complaining about the new generation, we need to see if there is a faultline among the senior professionals so that this gap could be fixed. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

Circumstances are limiting, aren't they? While they appear so, how can one go beyond their own circumstances is what we discuss in our today's conversation. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

There are many tools, platforms, apps, and a gazillion of YouTube videos and Instagram Reels that claim to provide a quick fix for all our barriers that come in the way in making us productive. These hacks once practiced magically transform us into super-human! Well, we all know that it's a gimmick. Yet, many times we give it a try. Is there really a hack for being productive? Why being productive is so necessary? Is our efficiency important? Or, is it our effectiveness? Let's look at that in this conversation. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

How do we make friends? Do we approach the other individual with a motive, an intention or it's a natural progression in a relationship? Is the need for friendship innate or biological or simply evolutionary? More than understanding this intellectually, in this conversation we try to discover for ourselves experientially the nature of friendships and the way we form them. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

Sachin Tendulkar recently stopped at a Chai Tapri (Tea Stall) on the way to Goa. He posted that on Instagram. That makes one wonder, how familiar a celebrity's life can be to a commoner! In light of this incident, let us recognise that with the advent of social media, our day-to-day life is now publicly presented. That combined with seeing how similar the day-to-day life is of such celebrities, makes us feel that we too are a celebrity. What is the impact this is causing on our lifestyle? Let's look at that in this episode of our podcast. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

Galileo was the one who declared that our universe is Heliocentric and not Geocentric. But we all love to live in an Egocentric world! Should the 'I' be credited for our creation, or should there be scope for chance creation? This is the conversation about that... _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

In Photoshop there is an effect the spotlight effect. This effect, say, is used to highlight a particular person in a given group of people or to highlight a particular activity of a person. In this podcast we discuss a spotlight effect that is intrinsically ingrained within us which makes us aware and alerts us in an ongoing manner hinting that everyone is watching us, judging us, and evaluating us. And, based on that assumption, all our actions, emotions, and behaviours emerge. Is the spotlight really present, or it's an effect we unwarrantedly have added? _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

Nike says "Just Do It." What does it really mean? Phil Knight's philosophy and what Nike meant to him narrated by Simon Sinek initiates this conversation, and then we try and decode what "Just Do It." means to us. _ Transcript of Simon Sinek's Audio Clip: The way that Phil Knight used to talk about Nike, I don't know if you've heard the story. He was speaking at a large conference, and he stood up and he said to the audience: If any of you have ever run for exercise, can you please stand up? Most of the room stood up. He said, if you run at least once a week, continue standing up else please sit down; most of the room sits down. He said, if you run twice a week, please keep standing. A few more sit down. He says, if you run three times a week, rain or shine - regardless of the weather, or the temperature, please keep standing. There are now barely a few people in the room, who're standing, and he looks out at them and he says that the next time you're out there before the sun is up, it's dark, it's cold, and it's wet, and you're running by yourself, we're the ones standing under the lamp post, cheering you on. That's how he described Nike. And, in an instant, you understand what “Just Do It!” means! It has nothing to do with winning. It has everything to do with trying. It has everything with doing. And, his story, his narrative, captures that so exquisitely, and when Nike is at their best, they celebrate the ones who do, not the ones who win. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

Every year the 10th of October is celebrated as World Mental Health Day. To acknowledge the day, we bring forth the topic of emotional hygiene. In this episode we discuss, the necessity, means, and methods through which one can maintain emotional hygiene and mental well-being. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

"If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it!" -Stan Lee A teenager with his personal problems and associated with an insect that creeps us all - how can he be our superhero? Well, that was the general opinion when Stan Lee proposed the character of Spider-Man. But, against all odds, the character stands the test of time and shatters all the norms that were present. This conversation is about discovering the Spider-Man that is hidden and present within all of us. _ The video link that was used in the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a8ECZ4Mz2o _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

When was it the last time that you sketched or drew something - even if with some squiggly lines? Like daily journaling, daily doodling can also bring a pause within - an experience of slowness. Inktober is like a festival started by an illustrator and an artist Jake Parker. It was started in 2009 with the sole intent as a challenge to improve his own inking skills and develop positive drawing habits. It has since grown into a worldwide endeavor with thousands of artists and individuals taking on the challenge every year. You can too. Simply, pause, take a pen, paper, and draw! _ Reference: www.inktober.com _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

The first time I came across somebody who could flick pages and read a book was Vici the robot from the 80's show Small Wonder! But that fascinated me. I had people around me who could, although not as fast as Vici, read considerably fast. And, it's a skill worth pursuing. But does it really benefit us by reading volumes and volumes of books? Let's look at that in this episode. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

An old, frail lady is watering her plants. As she does that, she is drenched in the rains. Puzzled Ruskin Bond appears from behind her back with an umbrella to shade her. And, as he brings her under his umbrella, asks her curiously, when it's raining, why are you watering the plants? The old lady replies, it's because the plants are expecting the water from me. Sometimes things don't seem to add up. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

Content is rampantly being generated. The only reason that is happening is because it is being consumed in an equally rampant manner. And if you're wondering what's rampant? Probably listening to this episode at 2x the speed might just give you the answer! _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

Ashneer Grover, a renowned venture capitalist and former MD and Co-Founder of Bharat Pe, expressed in his style his views about the youth in India. While his words seem harsh, there is a certain basis to where he comes from. One might argue about what he said is right or wrong, or his way of saying to be right or wrong, but keeping that aside, in this episode we look at s needed for the Indian youth that will not only succeed them but also secure the future of India with a strong foundation. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

It's our 100th Episode! Thank you for being a part of our journey in making the first hundred episodes possible. In this episode, we look at the last couple of years and share our journey in a candid conversation. This episode is dedicated to our journey together where our listeners have been extremely generous in giving time to listen to our podcasts. In the next hundred episodes, let's play a bigger game and build this community of like-minded (or rather like-seeking) community bigger and stronger. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

We all know the story of Aladdin and his Genie. The Genie can fulfil any of Aladdin's wishes. What if we say that each one of us already have such a Genie? _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

Let me first begin by saying that this episode is not a philosophical conversation, but rather an enquiry into the construction of our own identity, and the impact it has on us. The power of "I" is in knowing it, not in knowing it as we've constructed the image of "I". A lot of times, our understanding of ourselves - as we refer to as "I" is clouded with biases. In that spirit, we intend to ask the question Who is "I"? _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

In this digital world, we're governed by algorithms. Right from content consumption to our buying habits, from personal data monitoring to tracking of our emotions, everything seems to be using algorithms to control our being. But, is that really true? Were there algorithms even before the computer codes that read our minds? Are there algorithms present in a world outside of a digital world - a real world that we live in? _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

One thing that is constantly going on along with our breath is language. And if you are, in your head wondering, "what are they talking about?", that very thought is happening in language. We think, observe, emote, feel, experience, and narrate in language. Yet, language is never taken seriously - be it in our education or in our day-to-day life. In this conversation, we look at unleashing the power and the potential of language. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

"Goli maar bheje mein, ki bheja shor karta hai" "Chaddi pehen ke phool khila hai, phool khila hai" "Jiya jale, jaan jale, naino-tale dhuaan chale" METAPHORS TELL A STORY! Metaphors are everywhere, they add a flavour to our being. In this conversation, we attempt to decipher how metaphors enrich our life. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

'Nepotism', a word made popular by Bollywood in India is the conversation today. Is it rampant only in the film industry or does it exist everywhere? Should we not tolerate it or is it acceptable? What are the reasons behind nepotism, and where does it come from? Let's look at it in this episode. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

Here are two men discussing in this conversation the casual sexism that lingers around, and what women must be experiencing. At one level, this discussion is important and on another level can we as men, even experience a fraction of what the women are experiencing? We're not sure how sensitive we're to the subject or if we doing justice to the topic. But it is high time that we have an internal conversation about our own actions and assumptions. This conversation is perhaps to instigate that. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

In the last couple of weeks, we were doing what we love. We were travelling. And, travelling brings a gush of experiences, but what is this experience offering, why we do it and more in this conversation. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

Now that we're in June, most 18-year-olds are being told what next they should be choosing. And, in those, most will be given only two choices engineering or medicine! This was a pattern in the 90's, and even in 2022 it seems to be so. Does that even seem logical? This conversation is about looking at this template of education. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

Schooling, as a conventional form of education, is templated. But, is it also losing its relevance? What does it mean to be educated and what are the shortfalls is something that we attempt to discuss in this conversation. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

If one is not self-sufficient with love, emotion, generosity, or kindness then it becomes very difficult for one to even empathize with their own self. And, in this competitive world, we're experts in creating unwanted, unwarranted pressures on ourselves. It is, therefore, necessary (and vital) to realise that it is okay to slow down a bit and to allow ourselves to be in the situation that we are in. Today's conversation on self-compassion is about finding for ourselves what it means and its relevance in the present context. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

What is it with ruthless compassion? We see it and celebrate it when we hear instances of such examples... then be it stories of Steve Jobs, Pt. Bhimsen Joshi, Le Corbusier or Mahatma Gandhi...we have seen them being ruthless (and at times almost heartless) with their pupils. Is the seemingly paradoxical phrase the basis for something genius? Or is it downright cruel? Let's look at that in this week's conversation. _ Reference to Whiplash Scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDAsABdkWSc _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

I realise that I cannot but sit idle, I always am in need of action, It is my naivety and ignorance though until now That I didn't realise Even in my inaction, there is action _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

In this conversation, the intention is not about creating a distinction between art & craft, but rather focusing on how the two play a vital role in shaping us as individuals. _ Reference: Aamir Khan's podcast - Laal Singh Chaddha Ki Kahaniyaan | Podcast 1 - A conversation during the making of a song for the film between Aamir, Pritam, Amitabh and Advait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov7-Z8m27YY _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast

This week we choose to sway away into a different topic. We touch on the topic of art and enquire what is its fundamental role. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.13podcast.com You may follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_13podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/13.podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/13.podcast