Kheer Ganga, Himachal Pradesh.

#JournalEntry : The most common question I get about my trip is "Why are you doing this?" They usually think I crave adventure and hated my job, or rejected capitalism or the hustle. But no its not that.

 

It is because of two ideas that I have read. One was from Malcolm Gladwell's book "Outliers". He studied what makes people extraordinary. Like Bill Gates, The Beatles,etc. He came up with the catchy theory : 10,000 hours. If you do something for 10,000 hours, you will become an expert in that thing. That seemed to be a common denominator in the subjects of Gladwell's book. Ofcourse it's a catchy theory and probably not entirely true, but it certainly got me thinking: What would my 10,000 hours be? What would I dedicate myself to?

 

And my answer was writing. That realization changed my life. I knew I had to get busy about the business of my calling.

 

Then I read a quote, often attributed to Benjamin Franklin, "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

Done