Growth Mindset

Where Words Become Keepsakes

👁️ 5 viewsThe Making of a Voice: Satinder Sartaaj Before Sai
Before Sai could become a song, it had to become a way of living.
This first movement looks at Satinder Sartaaj before the stage—his years of study, his grounding in Punjabi and Sufi literature, and the quiet discipline that shaped his voice. It traces the making of a scholar-poet who learned to listen long before he learned to sing, and how restraint, routine, and patience prepared the ground for a song that would later speak in the language of remembrance.

👁️ 18 viewsThe Learning Mindset: 8 Simple Practices That Boost Your Intelligence
We live in an age of quick fixes — apps, supplements, and “hacks” that promise instant intelligence. But the real path to getting smarter lies in eight timeless habits: teaching to learn, walking for clarity, writing to remember, focusing deeply, and staying humble. Each one trains not just your memory, but your mindset. Because the secret to learning almost anything isn’t what you study — it’s how you live.

👁️ 22 viewsZikr in Six Movements: On Sai by Satinder Sartaaj
Some songs do not demand attention. They wait.
Sai is one such song.
It does not arrive with certainty or spectacle. It repeats, softens, and slowly asks the listener to step aside. Over time, it began to do something to me—not intellectually, but inwardly. It thinned the noise. It changed how I listened.
This six-part series is not an analysis in the usual sense. It is a long act of listening—moving through hunger, lineage, surrender, silence, and return. A way of sitting with a song that refuses to end, and seeing what remains when the self grows quieter.

👁️ 36 viewsSauron Without the Ring: What Happened During the Lost Years
After watching the extended editions with my daughter, a simple question lingered: where was Sauron while the Ring lay forgotten for centuries? The answer reveals Tolkien’s most unsettling idea about evil.

👁️ 34 viewsThe Pen of Middle-earth, Part V: The Slowness of Creation – What Tolkien’s Pen Teaches Us
Part V reflects on the deeper lesson in Tolkien’s writing process — the virtue of slowness. His dip pens, pauses, and deliberate strokes shaped not only his words but his imagination itself. This chapter explores how friction, patience, and craft can transform the way we create.

👁️ 31 viewsStephen King: The Master Of Strange Premises And Unsettling Truths
Stephen King has a talent for turning the strange into something uncomfortably familiar. His stories may start with bizarre premises, but they always land somewhere deeply human. This essay explores why his worlds grip us, and how their film adaptations continue to shape modern storytelling.



