The Interesting ones

 You'll Regret It You'll regret getting married. You'll regret staying single. You'll regret having children. You'll regret never having them. You'll regret taking the job. You'll regret leaving it. You'll regret staying. You'll wonder what could've happened if you had left. Kierkegaard understood this almost 200 years ago: "Whatever you choose, you'll regret it." Because the path you didn't take will always look a little more beautiful from a distance. We spend so much time trying to make the perfect choice that we forget-Every choice comes with a cost. So maybe life isn't about making the choice you'll never regret. Maybe it's about choosing the regret you can live with. Because you can't escape regret. You can only choose which one is worth it.

# **Katalin Karikó: The Scientist Who Refused to Give Up** ### *For years her grants were rejected, her work was dismissed, and her academic career went backwards. Then the world desperately needed the science she had refused to abandon.* In 1995, Katalin Karikó faced the kind of moment that quietly ends many scientific careers. She had spent years studying **messenger RNA—mRNA** at the University of Pennsylvania. She believed that this fragile molecule, which carries genetic instructions from DNA to the machinery that makes proteins, could someday be turned into medicine. There was one problem. Very few people believed her. Her grant applications repeatedly failed. Funding was scarce. mRNA was considered too unstable, too difficult to deliver into cells and too likely to provoke harmful inflammatory reactions. Even the Nobel Committee later acknowledged that enthusiasm for therapeutic mRNA was limited because these obstacles seemed so formidable. ([Nobel Prize][1]) And then came the h...

 **Makkhali Gosāla: The Man Whose Religion Disappeared — But Whom the Buddha Took Very Seriously** History is usually written by the survivors. Makkhali Gosāla had the misfortune of belonging to a tradition that did not survive. Around the 5th century BCE, northern India was experiencing an extraordinary intellectual upheaval. The Buddha was teaching. Mahāvīra was teaching. And alongside them stood another influential wandering philosopher: **Makkhali Gosāla**, associated with the **Ājīvika movement**. Today almost everyone knows Buddhism and Jainism. Ājīvikism has virtually disappeared from public memory. But in Gosāla's own time, he was no obscure eccentric. Early Buddhist literature itself describes him as the leader of a community, a famous teacher, and someone regarded as holy by many. King Ajātasattu is portrayed as having personally gone to hear his philosophy. ([SuttaCentral][1]) And his central idea was radical. ### **NIYATI — DESTINY** Gosāla appears to have taught an unc...

 Self Dicipline; 1.choosing is what you want the most over what you want now. 2.the days you skip are the days you needed the most 3.if you only work when you feel like it, you never feel like it enough 4.self respect, your habit show how much your value your future 5. Consistency doesn't care about your mood, show up anyway. 6.dreams don't die, people kill them by doing nothing. 7.motivation gets you started, dicipline get you finished. 8. you'll never win if you negotiating with your excuses. 9.your future self is watching don't let them down. 10. Dicipline is quietest flex succes does talking. 11. Nobody is coming to save you build your iwn rescue plan. 12. Dicipline is the bridge between the life you have and the one you want. 13. You can make a progress or make excuses not both. 14. Your habits are votes everyday you choosing who you are becoming. 15. Greatness isn't loud, it's lonely and early and uncomfortable.

Eye openers for everyone 1. If you're looking for reasons not to do it, do it. If you're looking for reasons to do it, don't do it. 2. Don't offer a lecture to a person who needs a hug. 3. No amount of anxiety is going to make any difference to anything that is going to happen. 4. How can you be ahead or behind in life when you are moving on a path that only you can take? 5. May the calm in you win over the chaos around you. 6. When you're born, you look like your parents. When you die, you look like your decisions. 7. You are here to understand yourself, not to be understood. 8. The truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth. 9. Sometimes what didn't take place was the most important thing that happened. 10. I love life because there'll always be a situation you think you'll never get over and you always do every time. 11. Stopping your worst habit would change your life much faster than starting your best habit. Fix the leak, before filling the...

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Nora Vincent: The Woman Who Crossed the Gender Divide—and Never Fully Returned -------------------------------------------------------------------- There are journalists who interview people. There are journalists who observe societies. And then there was Nora Vincent—a woman who decided that observation was not enough. She wanted to disappear into another identity and return with the truth. She never truly came back. For eighteen months, Vincent stopped being Nora. She cut her hair, lowered her voice, studied male body language, and became "Ned"—an ordinary man navigating an ordinary world. It was one of the boldest acts of immersive journalism in modern times. Unlike television reality shows or social experiments lasting a weekend, this was sustained deception. Every handshake, every conversation, every awkward silence had to be lived, not performed. When *Self-Made Man* was published in 2006, many readers expected a familiar conclusion: that she would expose the hidden pri...