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Mastery by Robert Greene

A non linear self help book

Audiobook with a running length of more than 15 hours!

One of the best books to read mainly because the narrative is full of stories of successful people! Then again many of the stories do not start with success but with struggle!

The review here is a long summary for those with less time and a preview for those those who may make time to read or listen to this one day!

How the weakness or the challenges are overcome and how they triumph!

In the case of some of them the success is actually realized much later in life which shows that life is not a race!

The summary of the book can be found in some specific points like

You must first discover your life’s task: Find your unique calling or vocation that aligns with your innate interests and passions to provide the necessary motivation and focus.

Finding a mentor is the most common theme but you must make sure that you get detached from the mentor when the time comes! Sometimes your experience itself will be your mentor! In the case of Faraday; he found his mentor but later on he realized that the mentor was limiting him and he had to break free and that was the best decision!

Another important trait is to gain social intelligence and understand human nature, people’s intentions, and how to work with others without being naïve. This is a critical skill to develop alongside your craft.

Study and absorb the details of your field until the knowledge and skills become effortless and intuitive. He also mentions how at least 7- 8 years is required for skill acquisition! In fact the brain rewiring takes around 10000 hours!
At which point the skill becomes natural! It becomes automatic or effortless after 20000 hours apparently!

So good things take time! Which is why we need to develop a long-term perspective: Understand that mastery is a result of time, intense focus, and a commitment to a lifetime of learning, not just talent!

Finally you must awaken your creative mind by moving past the apprenticeship phase to experiment, take risks, and synthesize knowledge from different areas to create new ideas and solve problems in innovative ways!

Most of these points are mentioned by narrating stories from the life and times of many successful and famous and some not so famous but still very successful people!

There is such an astute dissection on some important events of these people that this particular perspective is amazingly new and refreshing!


Charles Darwin and his life of chance! Studied barnacles for eight years before developing his theories, exemplifying the long apprenticeship needed for mastery. In fact he was a big failure and the chance to go in the ship was an after thought! On top of it all he was actually being prepared to join the clergy! Instead he came up with an theory which shook the world!

Leonardo da Vinci was a son with dubious father who had lots of time but no company! He also had access to paper and nature! He used them both and how! His early work, like painting an angel in a biblical scene, showed intense observation and detail, using scientific rigor in his art.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Used as an example of a natural prodigy who achieved mastery. But the real story is much more complex! He was a natural who was used by his father who was also his first mentor! Very soon he was the source of income for his whole family! So even though he was doing good by doing basic work he was not happy since his talent was not being utilized fully! One trip changed everything and he never looked back! He got separated from his father and their relationship was broken forever but his talent got wings and that created history!

Benjamin Franklin life from a normal leader to the president demonstrates the importance of social intelligence and the strategic use of networks to achieve mastery.

He talks about Paul Graham who is a contemporary example of a master in the tech world. He introduced radical changes in the way you invest in techs all over!

The story of the Wright Brothers was very enlightening starting from their work as cycle mechanics! Their dedication and experimental approach to flight are highlighted as a path to mastery! In fact their cycle shop was known for repairs and innovations! With a zeal for experimentation and research their crux was innovation which finally lead to the first flight and how!

Henry Ford: A key figure in industrial mastery and how his assembly line tech was used after careful observation and patience.


Temple Grandin was born with autism and had immense fear of human contact but needed them anyway! Then how she saw the cattle hug machine calming the cows made her try it and then rest as they say is history!
A contemporary example of a master in a field that uses a unique perspective. She developed a hugging machine for both cattle’s and for those special humans with autism and is now an expert in her field!

Other experts who were mentioned were done with special emphasis on how their struggles taught them! How mastery takes time! How you can be different and still be better! How innovation takes time!

The lists include John Coltrane a musical master, Martha Graham a modern dance master and our own V.S. Ramachandran whose work is used to illustrate pursuing opportunities within and related to one’s current field!


One of the most interesting story is about this boxer who becomes a coach at the middle part of his life after so many big failures!

The boxer Manny Pacquiao, who is used as an example of a master alongside his trainer, Freddie Roach. Mastery highlights their dynamic as a successful mentor-student relationship where Roach pushed Pacquiao to become a dominant boxer.

Greene discusses how Pacquiao was a promising but “middling one-punch fighter” until he began working with Freddie Roach.

Roach recognized Pacquiao’s potential and helped him develop his skills, with the two creating a powerful interactive relationship.

The partnership led to Pacquiao developing a devastating right hand and exceptional footwork, contributing to his successful career as an eight-division world champion!

The way the author uses these life stories to get his point across is simply energizing since they are all true! The stories take time to get to the point and it is slow! Which is how true success and mastery should be!

The end note is about  the mention of the intermaxillary bone in the context of the scientist Goethe.

The book discusses how Goethe was determined to find the non-existent intermaxillary bone in humans, which at the time was believed to only exist in lower animals, to prove a connection between all life forms. Through extensive research, he discovered remnants of this bone (part of the larger maxillary bone structure) in the upper cheekbones of human infant!

Goethe is of course Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Greene describes Goethe as the epitome of the Renaissance ideal of the “Universal Man”—a person with deep knowledge across various fields like with the example above.

Greene mentions how to utilize your working environment.  The author notes that Goethe spent a period in a petty court culture but, rather than engaging in the pettiness, used the observed behavior as material for his later plays and novels.

All in all; when you get live examples you do get energized! There is a level of reality which drives you forward! One book can do it for you or many but this is certainly one of those books which can inspire you!

Cognitive Dissonance! Do not get scared by the complicated name!

Giving complicated names to simple things is the best way to sound scientific and be taken seriously!

There is a novel called The Psychology of Stupidity! Yes! It is a very intellectually put novel about, well stupidity! In one section of the novel the author mentions how if you wear a white coat while telling something, you are more likely to be taken seriously! Even if he or she is actually not being serious!

In the same way Cognitive dissonance is just a complicated name for a very simple phenomenon which we face each and every step of our life!

Cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort experienced when a person holds two or more contradictory beliefs, values, or attitudes, or when their actions contradict their beliefs.

People are motivated to reduce this uncomfortable feeling to achieve internal psychological consistency; in simple there are conflicts within our minds all the time and we strive to strike a balance!

The core of cognitive dissonance is an inconsistency between cognitions (thoughts, beliefs, or opinions) or between a cognition and a behavior.
The most common example is smoking! There are in fact many doctors who may smoke! They know it is wrong but they still do! That is the conflict!

The obvious discomfort is that the same doctor who smokes may even tell his or her patient that smoking is bad! This clash of ideas or beliefs produces feelings of unease, guilt, shame, anxiety, or stress. The greater the importance of the conflicting beliefs, the more intense the discomfort!
The discomfort may actually make him or her smoke more!

Then again many times there occurs a motivation to alleviate this tension and  individuals are motivated to change something to restore balance.

The most common response is not to change the behavior (which is often difficult), but to change the attitudes or beliefs to justify the behavior!

The most direct, but often hardest, approach is usually not taken!
For a smoker, this would mean quitting smoking!

The common approach taken is justification or the cognition!
In this the individual may create explanations or excuses. A smoker might tell themselves that the health risks have been overstated or that smoking helps them manage stress, which is a valid concern for them!

He or she would opine that the stress is more dangerous and acute than smoking which is in fact a slow poison!

In fact we constantly face this conflict in our life and try to justify or make excuses rather than change the habit which is actually the proper solution!

A person who values health but eats a doughnut might tell themselves, “I’ll exercise more tomorrow” or “I deserve a treat once in a while”!

Someone who believes in protecting the environment but throws trash on the ground might justify it by thinking, “It’s just one piece,” or “someone else will pick it up”.

The most common is how someone takes social pressure!
He or she may laugh at an offensive joke to fit in, then feel shame for going against one’s own values regarding kindness or respect!

He or she may actually tell the truth in a post but then take it out or edit it so that it will not be considered rude or offensive! Then struggle with his or her conscience!

Then again; all these are fairly limited to the human! Just the fact that you are getting this whole feeling means that there is some humanity left in you! So if you feel Cognitive dissonance once in a while or many times then that simply means that you are human!


Of course a super human of sorts was our dear Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya!
Jai hind!

We all know the adage; quit while at the top!

But do you know who are the quiet quitters!?

Now with the advent of social media it may seem like a new trend but the fact is that it has been there for long!

The quiet quitters continue to fulfill their primary responsibilities, but they’re less willing to engage in activities known as citizenship behaviors

That means that they just work as a compulsion and nothing more!

They continue to do what is in their job description to keep their position. They however do not go the “extra mile”!

They decline to volunteer for additional tasks, work longer hours, or participate in optional meetings. They are psychologically detached from their work and are not striving for promotions or praise. 

Most of the experienced people you see in an old established firm or even an old bank are doing just this! The classical meme of a public sector bank employee gone for lunch is a case in point! They have no intention to innovate and no incentive to work with enthusiasm!

Many employees turn to quiet quitting to cope with stress and prevent burnout. Many times though it stems from a lack of appreciation which leads to a feeling of being undervalued, unrecognized, or taken for granted. 

This can happen also if you have a bad boss! Then again you can never have a good boss! But issues like bad management, lack of growth opportunities, or a feeling of being just a number can contribute to this behavior.

Though it is a seemingly slow process if left unaddressed, quiet quitting can have a ripple effect, leading to decreased overall productivity and efficiency.

It can also lead to lower employee morale and a stagnation of innovation!

Another major side effect is the extra work and burden on the remaining engaged employees who may then go on the same path in future!

It is the primary duty of the management to mitigate quiet quitting! The management usually would feel that they can always get someone new and ‘cheap’ but then it is actually bad in the long term!

A good management and a proper HR would actually create a safe space for employees to voice concerns and provide feedback without fear of retaliation! They must also implement robust recognition programs and ensuring competitive, equitable pay. Most importantly they must provide clear pathways for career advancement and ongoing training opportunities.

These are of course a Utopian dream! If you do not want to be a Quiet Quitter; well try out some new hobby (sketching and blogging comes to my mind!)!

Remember that having a bad job is much better than having no Job at all! 

So be quiet and don’t quit! Only then you will be great or be remembered! Like we remember the Kannada legend Gangadhar Vithoba Chittal!

Karnataka Rajyotsava week!

SHubh Ratri! Jai Karnataka Jai Hind!

This is the organ which has made many surgeons, well experienced!

By the way there was a time we could even eat Grass or tree bark which was because of this very organ!

Now it being one of the smallest organ in the GUT; has the most content dedicated in the surgical textbooks and the most space in the clinical experience of a GE surgeon!

Then again its namesake also forms a part of every text book!

Now every surgeon would have understood the organ!

It is the Appendix!

The appendix was thought to be the diminished remnant of the long caecum, which herbivores have to help digest cellulose. Evidence suggests that our evolutionary ancestors used their appendixes to digest tough food like tree bark!

Now we’re herbivores at heart, but we don’t need to digest cellulose, so the appendix was considered redundant in us!
But not now!

It is now known to have a useful immune and microbiome function, particularly as a “safe house” for beneficial gut bacteria that can repopulate the gut after illness!

While the appendix can be removed without causing long-term health issues, its evolutionary persistence suggests an adaptive function, possibly even linking to longevity due to its role in immune and gut health!

The appendix contains immune tissue that plays a role in the immune system, especially in early life.
It contributes to the maturation of B lymphocytes and the production of antibodies.
The appendix has been shown to have endocrine cells that produce hormones important for biological control in fetuses and young adults.

One of the most important roles is that the appendix is considered a “safe house” or reservoir for beneficial gut bacteria.
This is helpful in repopulating the gut!
During an illness like severe diarrhea that flushes out gut bacteria, the appendix can provide a source to repopulate the gut with beneficial flora!

It apparently also helps maintain the balance of good and bad bacteria in the digestive system!

Research has found that mammals with an appendix may have a longer lifespan compared to those without one, potentially due to better immune function and protection against infectious diarrhea!

Now now! Those without their appendix do not have to feel left ‘out’!

If the appendix is removed, other parts of the gut will take over its functions, but the absence of the “safe house” may slightly increase the risk of infection from certain pathogens! So if your appendix is out; try to eat healthy and clean!


And if you are out of country, it is when you miss it the most! Especially your own state and place!

Happy Karnataka Rajyotsava!

A dedication to one of the gems of Kannada!

Shubh ratri…

Do you know what is the Miller-Urey experiment?

Of course for that you must know what is the Oparin-Haldane hypothesis!

So the Oparin-Haldane hypothesis proposes that life arose from non-living matter through gradual chemical evolution.

In the 1920s, Alexander Oparin and J.B.S. Haldane independently suggested that Earth’s early, oxygen-poor atmosphere and energy sources like lightning or UV radiation allowed simple inorganic molecules to form organic monomers, which accumulated in the oceans to create a “primordial soup”. These building blocks then linked to form polymers, which eventually assembled into self-replicating, cell-like structures!

In simple terms; life came out of non living matter!

So in 1952  Stanley Miller and Harold Urey, conducted a landmark experiment that demonstrated that organic molecules (the building blocks of life) could form spontaneously from inorganic compounds under conditions thought to have existed on the early Earth!

To simulate the primitive Earth; Miller and Urey built a sealed glass apparatus. The set up included a flask of heated water to simulate the primitive ocean and evaporation. A mixture of gases above the water, including methane, ammonia, hydrogen gas, and water vapor, representing the proposed early atmosphere!

Now what do we do for the lightning?

Electrodes that produced electrical sparks to simulate lightning as an energy source. A condenser to cool the vapor, causing it to rain back into the “ocean,” simulating the water cycle!

A primitive Earth was thus created!

After running the experiment for a week, the water turned a reddish-brown color. Analysis using paper chromatography revealed the formation of various organic molecules, including several amino acids (the building blocks of proteins), such as glycine, alpha-alanine, and beta-alanine.

The experiment provided the first experimental evidence that the basic chemical components of life could be generated in a non-living, natural environment.
This was one of the first experiments to support abiogenesis!

Pioneering a new field: It transformed the study of the origin of life from mere speculation into a legitimate, testable field of science called prebiotic chemistry!

In the decades following Miller’s death in 2007, scientists re-examined sealed vials from his original experiments using modern analytical techniques. They discovered that the experiments had actually produced a much wider variety (over 20) of amino acids and other organic compounds than Miller could detect with the technology available at the time!

The fundamental principle that life’s building blocks can form through natural chemical processes under early Earth-like conditions remains widely supported! This essentially means that under proper conditions or ‘stimulation’ you can produce ‘life’ out of even a non living matter!


Then again life is characterized by your feats! Like the feats of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel!

Big salute to one of the true ‘UNIFIER’ of the nation!

Shubh ratri…

Did you know what is DID!

Even if you did know, did you know that DID in a person was the inspiration of one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s most famous novels and is a big reveal in Dan Brown’s latest one!

Also do you know Louis Vivet?

Now do not go from being a calm rational person to an angry one! That is one of the clues by the way!

DID is Dissociative identity disorder (DID) which is a mental health condition where you have two or more separate personalities that control your behavior at different times!

One of the very first case was a strange case of Louis Vivet!

Louis Vivet was one of the first people to be diagnosed with DID. He was born on February 12, 1863; mothered by a prostitute who neglected poor Vivet, he was already into crime at the young age of 8.

Vivet was arrested several times and lived in a correction house until age 18.

His multiple personalities didn’t emerge until an incident when he was working at a vineyard. A viper wrapped itself around his hand — the snake didn’t bite him, but it caused him a great deal of fear and distress. He had convulsions, and became paralyzed from the waist down!

About a year and a half into his paralysis, after a prolonged and violent episode, Vivet suddenly regained the ability to walk!

However, he acted as a completely different person. He didn’t recognize the hospital staff who had been treating him or the period of his paralysis. His mannerisms, appetite, and moral disposition were completely different from his pre-paralysis self.

Over the next few years, Vivet experienced numerous dramatic shifts in his personality. His character would fluctuate between an impulsive and dangerous persona to having a calm and gentle state to a quarrelsome, thieving persona!

The most important aspect here was the memory loss in between the changes! Each time Vivet’s personality changed, he would have amnesia for the interval during which his other personality state had been in control. He was eventually recorded as having as many as 10 distinct personality states, each with different memories, character traits, and even physical symptoms!

In most of these cases you would have a dominant personality and the original personality; most of the times they may not even know the presence of the other! This of course simply proves that your brain is one of the most powerful things in the universe!

Another powerful thing is the power of music! Which reminds me of Abhijeet Bhattacharya!

Now hope all your identities want to sleep!

Shubh ratri!

In the novel Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown; (No spoilers still!) he talks about the STARGATE project!

Now though the blog does not have direct spoilers, some details may be ‘leaked’ so if you still want to read the latest Dan Brown novel without even minimal spoilers (you still have not finished it!?) then you can stop right here!

Stargate is not a gate used by stars to enter! That is simply a regular gate!

The Stargate Project was a secret U.S. government program, primarily funded by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the CIA from the 1970s until 1995, to investigate the military and intelligence applications of psychic phenomena. The program focused largely on “remote viewing,” the purported ability to psychically “see” events, sites, or information from a distance!

You may feel that this is futuristic but news flash! The future is here!

The basic premise was an arms race of the psychic kind! A “psychic arms race”!

The project was initiated during the Cold War in response to reports that the Soviet Union was conducting its own research into psychic abilities. U.S. intelligence agencies feared falling behind a potential Soviet advantage in “psych energetics,” leading them to explore paranormal research!

The project’s main technique, remote viewing, used trained individuals, or “viewers,” to gather information on distant or unseen subjects. Participants would attempt to describe locations and objects psychically without any physical contact.

According to some sources, remote viewers worked on hundreds of missions! The most definitive examples on which even now the original members swear by were some amazing examples which include;

Pinpointing the location of a crashed Soviet spy plane.
Identifying a mysterious industrial building in the arctic circle.
Sketches of secret Soviet bases!

Then you also had questionable data one researcher’s claim of remotely viewing Mars a million years in the past!

The issue was a term which if you believe, then you are no longer a scientist! ESP or Extrasensory Perception!

Then again you have a modern “Stargate” project!

This is an unrelated (is it!?) AI initiative that has also been named “Stargate,”. This modern project involves companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, and Oracle building data centers for AI development!

This is where the old and new collide in the story by Dan! According to him, the Stargate was never a failure and it was never decommissioned! In fact with the advancement in neural integration, it was a real thing! Now whether the novel which was until now full of facts, a fiction when it comes to Stargate; is for left to your gate or opinion!

What nonsense you would say! See I read you mind! ESP! Now there may be many military secrets you may never get to know! At least now you know one! Military reminds me of ex Indian Air Force officer turned actor MG Soman aka Somashekharan Nair!

Now give some rest to your ESP reciever aka brain!

SHubh ratri!

Do you know who were Howard Florey and Ernst Chain?

Well if you have ever taken any antibiotics then you should know them!

Now do not throw Alexander Fleming at me! His observation that a mold, Penicillium notatum, was capable of killing bacteria in a petri dish was the spark that started this fire!

But Fleming actually struggled to purify the substance and abandoned his research! Yes! It would have been a full stop there to one of the most prescribed medications and possibly the best medication available to the doctors worldwide!

Minor infection would be fatal and many surgeries would not be possible if Florey and Chain had not continued what Fleming started and stopped!

In 1935, Australian pathologist Howard Florey became the head of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University. He assembled a team of scientists with varied expertise and launched a major project to investigate antibacterial substances. One of Florey’s key recruits was German-born biochemist Ernst Chain, who had fled the Nazi regime. 

Chain’s expertise was vital to the team’s success, and it was he who rediscovered Fleming’s 1929 paper on penicillin!

Which is why I always say, YOU MUST READ!

Working together, Florey, Chain, and their team, including chemist Edward Abraham and technician Norman Heatley, developed a technique for purifying and concentrating penicillin. Their process used gallons of mold broth to produce a small but potent amount of a yellowish-brown powder!

Now remember Norman Heatley! He was also pivotal in the development and he is often said to be the unsung hero of the Penicillin story!

The team proved penicillin’s effectiveness in animal tests. In a critical experiment, they injected eight mice with a lethal dose of bacteria. The four mice treated with penicillin survived, while the untreated mice died!

Human trials (1941): The first human patient was an Oxford policeman suffering from a severe bacterial infection. His condition dramatically improved after penicillin treatment, but he relapsed and died when the team’s limited supply ran out. This tragic experience led Florey to focus on treating children, who required smaller quantities of the drug.

With war raging, Florey and a colleague traveled to the U.S. in 1941 to secure assistance for large-scale production. The U.S. government took over the project, and with American and British collaboration, penicillin was mass-produced in time to save thousands of Allied soldiers during the D-Day invasion!

In 1945, Fleming, Florey, and Chain shared the Nobel Prize for their work on penicillin. 

By making penicillin a mass-producible drug, Florey and Chain’s work dramatically reduced mortality from infectious diseases and how!

Then again those days it was told that a single prick was fatal! 

But now with the rampant and blind use of antibiotics in non indicated situations and without prescription along with poly pharmacy; that future with full antibiotic resistance may not be so far!

So if you want to make future safe for your kids, make sure you do not take antibiotics like peppermint pills! On that note, do not take too much peppermint pills also! Speaking of kids reminds me of the illustrious father of two famous kids; Sivakumar! 

Really happy with this sketch!

Now stop popping those unnecessary pills and sleep!

SHubh ratri!

One of the best things the average human can do is…well; LIE!

Of course some lie out of compulsion while some become compulsive liars!

The human brain is so strong that it can even create stories along with the lie and then the truth is never seen!

Now I know you are very clever! Ok! That may be a lie! Since I may not know or you may not be clever!

Then again if you thought that only you can lie then you are not telling the truth! Apparently even animals can lie! Not lie down on the floor but the opposite of truth!

This interesting observation was stated by anthropologist Jared Diamond who mentioned that there is a species of Vervet monkeys who have a grunt vocabulary of at least ten words!

One of them is Leopard! But when two groups are fighting and one group is winning then a monkey of the losing team will climb up a tree and grunt leopard when in fact no leopard will be there! Then the animals will break the fight and climb up the tree!

Crying wolf came from our Ape ancestors!

In fact there are many such examples of lying animals with the great apes leading the list!

Great apes, such as chimpanzees, have been observed lying by hiding food, giving false alarm calls, or pretending to be strong when injured to maintain social status!

Many species, like the fork-tailed Drongo, use mimicry to trick other animals. Some birds feign injury to lead predators away from their nests, while others, such as cowbirds, will sneak their eggs into other birds’ nests!

Apparently even you pet dog can “lie” by pretending they have already done their business outside to avoid going out again!

Then you have the cute squirrel! Apparently some eastern gray squirrels will pretend to bury food in one spot to fool onlookers and then move the food to a different, more secure location later!

Now these are lying for survival! What humans do is lie anyway!
Then again it is a great truth Anuradha Paudwal is an amazing singer!

Shubh ratri…

So you dream! Big deal! Everyone does! But do you know what is Lucid dreaming!?

As Kathleen explains in the novel Secret of Secrets; Lucid dreaming is the next big thing in the study of dreams and sleep!

Many times you dream, then you wake up and then you dream again which is the continuation of the same dream and you want to know what happens!

It is like an interesting movie which you have seen halfway and you want to know the ending!

Then again Lucid dreaming is much more than that and is a prime area of modern research!

Lucid dreaming is the experience of being aware that you are dreaming while the dream is happening. It occurs most commonly during REM sleep and is considered a hybrid state of consciousness that combines aspects of both waking and dreaming. Some people can control the dream’s content, manipulate the environment, or alter their form within the dream!

The key feature is the awareness and is recognizing that the dream is not reality!

It is like a Hybrid state which has qualities of both the waking and dreaming states, with increased brain activity in some areas!

The best part is that many lucid dreamers can influence the dream’s narrative, although the level of control can vary!

Now everyone knows the most powerful computer in the universe is the human brain but most of us cannot get the full features!

It is like the app store trial version app! We have been given trial version of the brain and to access the full capability we need to pay! Of course the payment is not by money but by many techniques which supposedly gives us access to the full version of the brain!

One way is LUCID DREAMING! Since when we dream, the brain is free! Which is when we can see the full power of the dream! The brain can make stuff which is real!

Lucid dreaming has plenty of use!

Studies are ongoing for using it in overcoming nightmares! This is for those who suffer from recurring nightmares, particularly those with PTSD, lucid dreaming provides a way to confront and alter the dream narrative. The dreamer can become aware during a nightmare and consciously change the outcome, which can reduce the intensity and frequency of the distressing dreams in real life!

Similar to treating nightmares, using a lucid dream to face a fear in a safe environment can reduce anxiety in waking life. For example, someone with a fear of public speaking could practice delivering a speech to a crowd in a lucid dream! And use that confidence in the real world!

Some people have used lucid dreaming to revisit past traumas in a controlled, therapeutic way, helping them process and move past difficult memories. A study at Northwestern University found that lucid dreaming helped a research assistant cope with the grief of losing his grandparents by allowing him to talk to them in his dreams!

Many have done this when they have lost their near and dear ones!

One of the best use of Lucid dreaming is to boost creativity!
How many times you have had amazing ideas in your dream which solved most of your problems but you forget them when you get up! By Lucid dreaming you can access those solutions!

Lucid dreams allow access to the creative and often bizarre workings of the subconscious mind. Artists, writers, and other creatives can intentionally use their dreams as a canvas for new ideas or to work through creative blocks!

Research has explored the use of lucid dreaming for physical and motor skill rehearsal. When a person practices a motor skill in a lucid dream, the same neural pathways are activated as they would be in waking life. This can potentially help athletes and musicians improve their skills or allow injured individuals to continue their training mentally!

So you want to access the most useful software in the universe? Try Lucid Dreaming!

My technique is to sleep for 4-5 hours and then take a break in the morning and then sleep for short intervals like 10-15 minutes; The awareness of your dream is the first step! Later on may be you can try to innovate or find solutions!
Baby steps!

Of course it’s a nightmare when so many amazing comedians pass away! The latest is Satish Shah…
He will be missed…

Om Shanti…