Justin Brady — Lessons Learned and Short Advice
I crafted a list of 10 life’s philosophical questions that I wanted to answers for myself. I could easily answer the questions based on my thinking. I thought—what would it look like if I ask the same set of questions to the best in the world from the different domain—so…
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End-of-life Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Psychedelics Awareness
Why am I writing a post on Psychedelics? A good friend Michael Ostrolenk asked me a few months ago — if I wanted to interview William A. Richards (Bill), and my response was hell yeah.
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Esther Perel — Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
The real questions are these: Can we have love and desire in the same relationship over time? How? What exactly would that kind of relationship be?
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A Letter from My Older Self to Current Self
One morning over a cup of coffee in one hand and pen in another hand, I allowed the pen to flow on paper as if my older self—my 40 year old is sitting with me and trying to sooth and advice my current self. This short piece of exercise gave me deep satisfaction and peace deep within. This journaling exercise can be done over and over whenever you feel distracted in life, need a pause in life, or as a self-reflection.
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Courage and Hope for Love and Broken Heart
This post isn’t about habits and practices to achieve something, but rather being hopeful during the times of distress, darkness and when our heart is broken. Being hopeful isn’t easy when we are discouraged and disappointed. If ever you feel emotionally down, I encourage you to just be with your…
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Lessons, Realization, and Relationships from Interviewing 150+ Experts
I may have an unhappy day at home. Things may not go right. I can’t control – but when that light goes on, I control my environment. And then, how many people get to control their environment? So, when I hosted a radio show every night or television show every day or wrote a column, I controlled the question I would ask. I controlled my environment.
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Dr. Gabor Maté — Compassionate Inquiry, Healing the Wounds of Trauma, Authenticity and Attachment, and More
“Trauma isn’t what happens to you, it’s what happens inside you.” – Gabor Maté The very first thing I do in the morning right after waking up—I listen to Gabor Mate. Healing isn’t a linear process. The word “healing” comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for wholeness and the essential nature…
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The Creative Process, Be fascinated, Work hard, and Taking Things to the Next Level
“Instead of being crushed by the gap, I became fascinated. I wanted to know more.“ – Scott Shute While preparing for the interview preparation of Scott Shute, I found this LinkedIn article that he had written a few years. I felt a strong desire to share it with others with…
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Tim Ferriss — How To Build A World-Class Network
“Don’t dismiss people, don’t be a dick, and don’t rush. Play the long game.“ – Tim Ferriss This post highlights some of the podcasts by Tim Ferriss I’ve listened to several times which I enjoyed immensely and helped me a lot in my podcasting, how to connect with people, how…
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Attachment Styles, Communication in Relationships, Fear of Commitment and Healthy Boundaries — Lisa Scott
Attachment Styles, Communication in Relationships, Fear of Commitment and Healthy Boundaries — Lisa Scott
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Trauma and Addiction: Resources, Podcasts, Blogs, Books, and More — Gabor Maté
“Trauma isn’t what happens to you, it’s what happens inside you.” – Gabor Maté This post highlights some of the resources by Dr. Gabor Maté I read, listened to, recently which I enjoyed immensely and helped me in gaining a better understanding of myself, my own trauma, coping mechanisms, and…
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My Lessons learned on Love, Relationships, Sex, Eroticism From Esther Perel
The quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives. – Esther Perel I am very fascinated about learning new things about love, relationships, sex, and how the quality of our life shapes when we cultivate deep and rich relationships with ourselves and others. I am deeply in love…
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Susanne Grant — Short Advice From The Best In The World
I crafted a list of 10 life’s philosophical questions that I wanted to answers for myself. I could easily answer the questions based on my thinking. I thought—what would it look like if I ask the same set of questions to the best in the world from the different domain—so…
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My Short Journey: Letter To A Friend on Pain, Rejections, Experiments, Books, Meditation, and Much More
My Short Journey: Letter To A Friend on Pain, Rejections, Experiments, Books, Meditation and Much More. A friend asked me what books I have read or re-read in the last few years that might have made the most impact on my life. I thought it’s a good opportunity to reflect back in life and take notes of the books I’ve re-read so far, how I started meditation, and other resources.. Before I get into the resources—I’d like to share my short journey starting 2017 which I have never written about.
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Lisa DeAngelis — Short Life Advice From The Best In The World
I crafted a list of 10 life’s philosophical questions that I wanted to answers for myself. I could easily answer the questions based on my thinking. I thought—what would it look like if I ask the same set of questions to the best in the world from the different domain—so…
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My Recent Favorite Learning — Books, Podcasts, and Much more
This post will share the most impactful learnings that I’ve had in the last few weeks, podcasts I listened to, quotes I am pondering, etc. This is a sneak peek and not a comprehensive list. If you’d like to learn more about what I am reading, new documentaries, what I am learning new, recent podcast updates, things I am experimenting with, or anything —which I share extensively in my weekly short and sweet “Friday Newsletter”.
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Sally Helgesen — Short Advice From The Best In The World
I crafted a list of 10 life’s philosophical questions that I wanted to answers for myself. I could easily answer the questions based on my thinking. I thought—what would it look like if I ask the same set of questions to the best in the world from the different domain—so…
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Ultimate Books I’ve Loved — Alisa Cohn, Cara Bradley, Marc Lesser
This blog post highlight the books mentioned by Alisa Cohn, Cara Bradley, and Marc Lesser on my podcast “The Nishant Garg Show”. My goal is to tease out the habits and routines from the experts in their fields. We don’t have to reinvent the same wheel when someone else has already invented it. Take the approach, tweak it and experiment with it based on your environments, constraints and variables.
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The Top 20 Blogs Visited from 2020
This is the list of Top 20 blog pages visited(in decreasing order) in 2020. Some of the blog pages are a result of the podcast.
Blog page visit is different than a podcast download/listen. Every blog page(corresponding to a podcast) covers guest details, links to the podcast, how to connect with the guests, and much more.
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The Top 20 Episodes of The Nishant Garg Show from 2020
Thank you to all of you to make The Nishant Garg Show successful and take it to the next level. It would not have been possible without your support. This podcast was launched in 2021 January, and by the end of 2020, we managed to publish 123 episodes. I hope this mission will help you live mindfully and learn new habits and routines to live with abundance and manage the struggles and challenges of life
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Lessons Learned From Tim Ferriss and Larry King To Interview The Best In The World
I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening. – Larry King Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a…
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Tools, Techniques and Basics of Podcasting to Play a Long Game
I have been asked lately several times how I started the podcast, what tools to use to record, edit, and launch, and much more. The podcast “The Nishant Garg Show” took its birth as part of my 2020 experiment in January. I wanted to give it a try for 6 episodes only to see if I really like it and want to continue. If I had set up a big goal for myself, I know I would have given up a long time ago.
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Dating and Relationships: Rejections, Confidence, Alpha Male, and Self-Reliance
I never shared that my story was captured in a video newsletter in 2017 by Corey Wayne, and this post reveals that secret. I read this 17 times in 3.5 months by July 2017.
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Happiness, Attachments, Thrills, Awareness
In the past, I continued to be unhappy in my unawareness. Now, I continue to be happy in my awareness. I can feel negative sometimes, but those negative emotions just come and go. They don’t define me, and I am not identified by them. I just observe myself in awareness and understand happiness. If you ask me-“what name would I give to the feeling after I achieve something?” I will be honest and blunt, and at the same time- I’d just say that “it’s a thrill, it’s an emotional high, and it shall soon pass.”
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Ask Better Questions To Get the Amazing Results
Asking good questions interrupts our old and natural way of thinking, and create possibilities to think differently, and perhaps in a new direction.
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Embrace Silence: Silence Is Not Empty
Embrace silence. Silence is not empty. No matter how many times you cut the silence in half, you still get the silence.
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Mindfulness: Mental Energy Recharge
Burned-down? I have been there! If you keep burning out the energy and don’t attempt to fill it — you will have an empty energy tank. Let’s recharge the Energy Battery!!!
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Mindfulness: Prioritize Good Sleep
Prioritize Good Sleep: You can rest even when you are not done. Or, you can rest when you are completely done(dead)
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Growth Mindset: Navigating Through Failures
Growth Mindset: How I applied this principle in learning English(my second language)
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Meditation: The Journey of Inner Peace
Mindfulness Matters: I have learned a lot of Patience and Kindness from Meditation. Meditation is simply closing your eyes, embracing your inner silence, observing your thoughts, listening to your emotions and inner-voice, and not being identified — by any feeling and emotion.
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Consistency wins over Intensity
Over a long-term consistency ALWAYS wins over intensity.
It is always easy to measure success in the long term than in a short time.
A lot of people give up on their dreams when they don’t see results in the short term.
Gratitude is a Practice
When life sucks, do you incline towards what you don’t have in life or do you just appreciate everything in life?
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Choose To Grow
We are spiritual beings having a human experience. We’re not human beings having a spiritual experience. Be kind and be loving.
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Create White Space
At the end of your life, you won’t say- “you would have worked more, rather you would say, you would have RESTED more.”Being busy is NOT always busy. We are constantly bombarded with new information and interruptions, leaving us very little time to think about ourselves. There is very little…
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How and Why To Be Yourself On Your First Date
Are you always successful in getting the first date but finding it difficult to set more dates with her? Do you feel like whatever you do on the first date, she doesn’t want to go out again? Have you ever wondered that why she doesn’t want to go out again…
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Raise the standard of your life!
Raise the standard of your life! Some people are so poor that they only have money. If you drive a small cheap car or if you drive Mercedes, the destination and the road remain the same.
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Have Patience with yourself!
How poor are they that have no Patience- Shakespeare.
Patience is really a virtue and so many people are suffering through this disease of impatience.
Physical Perfection — Confidence Makes You Attractive
If you fill different colors of balloons and let them go in the sky, which one do you think will go high?
The black or the colored one?
They all will go high.
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