Number One in F1, 10 Film Recommendations, and the Trust Equation
weekly recommendations + learnings + featured blog posts + reviews
Amongst the many films, I saw this year, in different languages and self-proclaiming myself to be a movie animal, I wondered why not create a list of some of the best films I watched, a combination of multiple languages and share it in time to watch before the end of the year.
The beauty of this particular selection of films is that not only do they have a good storyline, good direction and a good cast, but they also touch upon either a good message or concept that is different with layers beneath to take away something from.
Check it out here - 10 Films to Watch before the end of 2022
Edition 143 of The Last 7 Days (28.11 - 04.12)
my weekly recommendations of What To Read, What To Listen to, and What To Watch.
What To Read:
Number One in Formula One – Leadership lessons from Toto Wolff and Mercedes, the team behind one of the greatest winning streaks in all of sports. Check it out here.
A neuroscientist shares the 3 exercises she does to stop stress and anxiety—in ‘just a few minutes’. Read it here.
Amazon Is Signaling its India Fatigue. Read here.
What Is The E-Rupee? Read more here.
The Stunning New Planets Discovered In 2022, So Far. Check it out here.
What To Listen:
On The School of Greatness, three experts on sleep (Dr Peter Attia, Andrew Huberman, and Dr Matthew Walker) share their tips and advice for how you can sleep both longer and deeper and the benefits sufficient sleep can have for your body. Listen to it here.
On I How Built This with Guy Raz, Steve Kaufer talks about how he got the idea for Tripadvisor in 1998, how his business plan failed and the pivot towards reviews, and more. Listen here.
Humans seem to be the only animals that cry from emotion. What makes our tears so special? Listen to it on the Unexplainable podcast here.
On Image + Sound Lab, director Joseph Kosinski and his sound team discuss their groundbreaking work on the hit sequel, Top Gun: Maverick. Joining the discussion are re-recording mixers Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor, as well as supervising sound editors James Mather, Al Nelson, and Bjørn Schroeder. Check it out here.
In this in-depth interview with Tom Clarkson, Daniel Ricciardo explores his decision to spend a season off the track and how he hopes it will boost his career and life outside racing. He reflects on why he left Red Bull in 2018, details his struggles at McLaren and explains how age, pressure, confidence and rest affect his performance. Listen here.
What To Watch:
What actually happened at the MrBeast Burger world record opening day? || Colin and Samir take us behind-the-scenes with MrBeast. Check it out here.
On The Bombay Journey, Rishab Shetty, director, writer and actor of Kantara, talks about the budget and making of the film, his training for traditional folk dance, the art of Kambala, making movies in regional content and more. Watch here.
Sahiba Bali, actor, content creator and brand manager at Zomato, in her TED Talk, talks about the art of being a juggler and balancing everything that comes our way as an opportunity or challenge. She explains how she juggled between so many options and making sure that whatever she pursues, she performs it dutifully. Watch it here.
Stand Up Special of the Week – Tathastu (Starting from Zakir Khan’s early school days ,the performance is a ride where the audience gets a peek at the family he was born in, the characters he grew closest to and his young years bloated with aspirations of becoming an RJ. He goes onto share a few personal learnings on stage as he tries to make sense of his journey thus far.) Now streaming on Amazon Prime here.
Movie Recommendation of the Week – The Wonder (Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl’s supposedly miraculous fast.) Now streaming on Netflix here.
You can check out the previous editions of The Last 7 Days – here.
Edition 88 (27.11 - 03.12)
The concept of ‘My Weekly Learnings’ is to share highlights and/or content pieces that caught my eye this week and provided more value than I could imagine.
Guilt is when you got more than you think you deserve.
Anger is when you got what you don’t think you deserve.
Envy is when you think you deserve it more than them.
Peace of mind is when you stop obsessing over what you deserve, and appreciate what you have. [Orange Book]
2. In hard times, people don’t want to be told to look on the bright side. They want to know you’re on their side.
Even if you can’t help them feel better, you can always help them feel seen.
The best way to support others is not to cheer them up. It’s to show up. [Adam Grant x Marissa Shandell]
3. Top 3 mistakes that everyone makes on their weight loss journey:
A. Waiting for 2023 to start eating right and exercising.
The right time is NOW. It won’t take away from the progress you make in
2023, only accelerate it.
B. Making weight loss a number game Health is not about a number, nothing ever is. If you lose weight but also lose sleep, appetite and happiness, then you are just in a lose- lose situation. Gaining health is the key to losing weight.
C. Being on a diet that promotes itself as a “lifestyle” but requires you to download an app, buy a product or pop pills. Lifestyle is about sleep hygiene, ordering out lesser and cooking in more. It’s about doing less drama and relishing your food nice and slow. It’s about exercising like there’s a tomorrow because there is one.
Keeping it simple is not as complex as it’s made out to be. Try sustainability for a change and fitness is yours for keeps. [Rujuta Diwekar]
4. The trust equation [Sketch Plantations]
5. Writer and suffragist Lucy Mallory on the power of thoughts:
“Every thought a person dwells upon, whether he expresses it or not, either damages or improves his life.”
Source: As quoted in A Calendar for Wisdom
What I Wrote This Week:
1. More grateful when you aren’t able to do something
There are three types of situations that we often come across:
A. when we’re able to do something and just go on doing it
B. when we’re able to do something and are grateful that we’re able to continue doing it
C. when we can do something but aren’t able to do it
While point A and point B specifies two types of people, the third point is when things get interesting. Read more here.
2. Too much planning leads to disappointment
Most things happen by chance. Sometimes you stumble upon something and it strikes, and sometimes a diversion from your original path gives you the intended outcome. But these are also times when we aren’t in control. Can we always leave it to chance? Therefore, we plan.
The problem is when an unaccounted factor fails the plan and it leads to disappointment. Read more here.
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