Vishal Kataria

Simplifying the complexities of life. Tweeting to help you become more effective and discover your purpose in life.

[Vishal Kataria @Vishipedia]

10 simple yet smart tips to sharpen your business #writing in 2 minutes. A thread (1/n)

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

"A civilization is rebuilt by builders, not by commentators. By those who believe that truth exists and is worth devoting oneself to."....

.... exactly, civilization cannot be sustained by those who can deconstruct everything but do not know how to construct anything

[Vishal Kataria @Vishipedia]

If we feel children take what they have for granted, it’s because we haven’t shown them what gratitude looks like.

No one is born with gratitude. It’s a value that gets instilled in children by watching their parents and elders practice it.

[Paa Kwesi Acquah @xkwesi]

@Camp4 Society cheers those who look the part but respect those who walk the path.

[Vishal Kataria @Vishipedia]

The baddest spear in the history of the dubya dubya ee

[POOJA!!! @PoojaMedia]

Mum left daughter with her Dad & WWE 🤣😭

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

A typical week across the various deployment projects @TheOceanCleanup:

- a land owner showing up to land rental negotiations with machine guns
- components stuck in customs
- a contractor accidentally driving their excavator into the river
- plastic survey cameras stolen
- geotechnical survey showing soil is more tricky than thought for the anchor piles
- being notified there a gas pipeline running under a proposed deployment site but no one knows exactly where

This work is never boring.

[Vishal Kataria @Vishipedia]

“Most things in life are easy to learn but hard to master.” — @Nicolascole77

Doing something twice is enough if you want to learn for the sake of it.

But you don’t become as good, rich, or famous as you expected after 2 tries. That takes years.

[Vishal Kataria @Vishipedia]

Life is a game.

The results you get are rewards for how you play.

If you want better rewards, figure out how to play the game better.

[Vishal Kataria @Vishipedia]

"He once told reporters he doesn't remember what the feeling of playing without pain is."

He kept playing (and winning) for 19 years with it.

No wonder we saw all heart when we saw Rafa, on or off the court.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Rafael Nadal was diagnosed with Müller-Weiss syndrome at 19 years old. The navicular bone in his left foot was collapsing. There is no cure. The condition is degenerative. It only gets worse.

The navicular is the keystone of the human foot. It catches the head of the talus and connects to the first three toes. It absorbs the majority of load when you change direction. In tennis, players change direction hundreds of times per match. On clay, where the surface forces you to slide into every shot, the stress on that bone multiplies.

His sport demands exactly the one thing his body could no longer do without pain.

He won 22 Grand Slams after the diagnosis. Fourteen of them at Roland Garros, the clay court tournament that punished his foot the hardest. His record there: 112 wins, 4 losses. A 97% win rate across 23 years at the single venue that required the most from the bone that was failing him.

For context, the other Grand Slam dominance records: Djokovic at the Australian Open has a 91% win rate. Federer at Wimbledon had 88%. Nadal's 97% at Roland Garros isn't just the best in tennis. There may not be a comparable number in any individual sport at any single venue, ever.

He once told reporters he doesn't remember what the feeling of playing without pain is. The condition is most common in women aged 40 to 60. He got it at 19 and kept winning for 19 more years.

The Rafa documentary drops May 29. During the French Open. The tournament he won 14 times will be happening without him while 300 million subscribers watch what it actually cost him to own it. He turns 40 on June 3.

Netflix timed this so the stadium that was his is full of players trying to fill a void that 97% says might be permanent.

[Vishal Kataria @Vishipedia]

All consumption and no creation makes Jack a dull boy.

[Vishal Kataria @Vishipedia]

The power of commitment and consistency.

Lessons for us all to learn, especially in causes that don’t “make money.”

[The Better India @thebetterindia]

In Nagaland, people once trapped these birds in large numbers. Today, they gather to watch them rest during migration. But the change did not happen overnight. See how it came together. #WildlifeConservation #CommunityLedChange #SaveOurWildlife #InspiringIndia #SustainableFuture

[Amur Falcon Conservation, Nagaland Wildlife Story, Community Conservation India, Migratory Bird Protection, Environmental Success Story]

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[Vishal Kataria @Vishipedia]

@Dearme2_ "Work and love." -- Sigmund Freud

[Vishal Kataria @Vishipedia]

@SchrodingrsBrat Success gets determined by the gap between decision and execution.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Living in a place with great weather, in a walkable neighborhood, with family you love, friends you wanna see succeed, in a society made of respectful and purposeful people, with functional and safe public transport, a place that feels like home, that’s already wealth.

[Vishal Kataria @Vishipedia]

@higgsyxh @asanwal Yes. Now we should get it in schools too, so rubber ducking is SOP for ALL people.

[Vishal Kataria @Vishipedia]

The people criticizing Master Tabahi are the ones who secretly feel guilty about being couch potatoes, but can't admit it.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

This young man from Biaora, M.P, was criticised for claiming to have cleaned parts of a river just in order to gain social media views.

Well, we usually complain that social media rewards the trivial rather than the meaningful

So If a desire for ‘likes’ can become a force for good that’s fine with me…

Bittu Tabahi from Biaora is my #MondayMotivation

[Vishal Kataria @Vishipedia]

@sanjeevsanyal Our prompt also matters.

For instance, when I ask Claude to steelman an argument against my PoV, or coach me like a Soviet-era Cold War judge, it's pretty direct and cold, and tells me what I need to hear even if I don't want to.

[Vishal Kataria @Vishipedia]

An underrated aspect about wealth.

Only the people who have it understand it.

[Naval @naval]

Wealth is the ability to make things happen.

[Angad Daryani @AngadDaryani]

I know that @PMOIndia cares about air quality deeply. We would love to have PM @narendramodi use the entirely made in India @praan_inc HIVE instead of the Chinese import purifiers. HIVE is anyways a 2-3 orders of magnitude improvement over those. Can we guarantee AQI <10 as our commitment?

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

INSV Kaundinya doing its first night sortie

[Vishal Kataria @Vishipedia]

@DaveJackson In the age of automation, doing the things that don't scale have a fanbase of their own. (No pun intended.)