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How not to live life

No bullshit, no advice

Neil Kakkar
4 min readFeb 2, 2019

I’ve come across a million bullshit posts across the internet telling me how to live my life. Wake up at 6 AM. Don’t drink. Never snooze. Keep grinding. Buy this course. Decide to live your life. The heck?

I hate being told what to do. Specially by random strangers on the internet with zero credibility.

So, if I were to write something like that, I had two rules:

  1. Don’t write bullshit
  2. Don’t tell anyone what to do

Keeping these two rules in mind led to this anti-life post. It’s a manifesto to remind me something needs to change if I see myself in it.

I’ve been guilty of everything below.

Accepting everything

What you think, you become.
What you feel, you attract.
What you imagine, you create.
— Buddha

I’m bad at Math. I just am.

I’m bad at making conversation.

This job sucks. I’m doing it anyway because I need the $$$.

I work late because the boss asked me to.

Friends cancel on me all the time. I guess it’s okay, they’re busy.

I can eat whatever you like. Even if I don’t want to.

Neil Kakkar
Neil Kakkar

Written by Neil Kakkar

I write about Code and Life philosophies. Sometimes both. | https://neilkakkar.com | Engineer @PostHog | Write (Code). Create. Recurse.

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