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Book Review: Irrationally Passionate by Jason Kothari

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About Book & Author Irrationally Passionate by Jason Kothari is a book about dreams, struggles, and achievements. In this book, Kothari has shared his life-changing events and incidents tha t helped him develop his entrepreneurship skills. He has been open and honest about his life struggles such as facing bullying, coming face to face with gangs in Hong-Kong, to being almost lost to addictions – everything has been conveyed as it is! There has been no shying away in expressing the journey. And, these things make this book more interesting to read. I just dived into it and kept reading it in a smooth flow. The writing is in story-telling style, which keeps the interest together. The language is crisp, easy, and simple to understand. Since, the author has been open in conveying his life experiences; it makes the story relatable. For example: bullying is something that happens with a lot of people and while reading Kothari’s account, many people would empathize with him. Similarly

The Imperfect Perfect ‘Me’

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Since childhood, I had dreamt to a writer. I didn’t know what it will require or what skills I should develop before starting my writing journey. I only knew that I love writing as it is a channel of emotions. Little did I knew that I would be judged on basis of my grammar, context, content, spellings, and thousands other things that come along it. I wasn’t perfect – I knew it since beginning. But, everyone wanted me to be perfect. As I started to write, instead of focusing on the feel of what I had written, I was pointed out my mistakes. They said I have lots of potential but need to work on my grammar. They made sat with me and pointed my flaws; so I can be perfect.

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I shifted this blog by shifting it to a website. I thought, I will be able to create a full-functioning website, which pays and gets me fame.  I also roughly invested 20,000+ in it. But, I guess, I wasn't lucky enough. After collaborating with people, who would help me in running it, my website failed.  I realized that my ambitions were too big than the reality. I had to shut it down and here; I am taking a U-turn and coming back to blog of words.