SyllabuswithRohit

Sometimes people say that we should live for others, not just for ourselves. But many people say this only to make their own selfishness look good. If you really ask people who work in public jobs, most of them do their work to help themselves, not others. Many people do wrong things just to get power or big jobs, and that shows their real aim is not always good. Actually, wanting to be important...

What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be, that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them, as was in thos...

Hsin Hsin Ming is a very old poem from China. Sometimes it is also called Xinxin Ming or Xin Xin Ming. All these names mean “Faith in Mind Inscription.” People say it was written by a Zen (Chan) teacher named Sengcan, who was the third important teacher in Chinese Zen Buddhism. But some experts think the poem was written after Sengcan’s time, maybe during the Tang dynasty, by someone in his tradit...

Many people believe that the reason we are alive is to be happy. This idea feels so natural that we don’t even question it. It seems like our whole body and mind are made for this belief. We keep wanting things and try to feel happy by getting what we want. But this idea is not really true. The world doesn’t work in a way that helps us stay happy all the time. In fact, life often gives us trouble,...

Thinking, Fast and Slow is a book by a psychologist named Daniel Kahneman. He spent many years studying how people make choices. The book explains how our mind works in two very different ways. It also shows common mistakes we make when we think, choose, and judge. These mistakes are not only for “other people.” Almost everyone makes them, even smart experts. Kahneman says we have two thinking sys...

This story is short, but it cuts deep. It takes place late at night in a small café. An old man sits alone and drinks brandy. Two waiters watch him. One is young. One is older. That is almost all that “happens.” Yet the story shows big feelings in small moments. The old man is rich, but he is sad. He once tried to end his life. He cannot hear well. He likes the café because it is bright and clean....

00:00:00 What’s New in Computers and AI00:17:58 How AI Will Change Work00:27:53 What AI Can Do, What It Can’t Do, and Its Future01:11:37 AI That Works Really Well Demis Hassabis01:32:22 The Future of Knowledge01:46:21 John Jumper (Nobel Laureate)02:03:02 How We Get To AGI02:26:09 Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI02:47:18 The Next Big Step for AI is Learning About Space and Place03:03:05 How t...

The Garden of the Prophet was written by Khalil Gibran as a sequel to The Prophet. It continues the story of Almustafa, the wise man who once spoke to the people of Orphalese before leaving them to return to his homeland. In this second book, Almustafa reaches his own country, finds peace in nature, and speaks again about the meaning of life and the spirit that connects all things. Almustafa now l...

Education is about learning and understanding the world. There are two ways people can learn. The first way is the natural way, where a person learns from what they see, hear, and experience themselves. The second way is the artificial way, where people only learn from books or what others tell them, without experiencing things for themselves. When someone learns the natural way, they see things,...

Human existence is marked by inherent vanity — a deep futility that permeates the very fabric of being. This is revealed in our relationship with Time and Space: infinite and indifferent forces that dwarf the finite individual. We live only in the fleeting present moment, which becomes the past instantly and loses all reality. What exists now is soon reduced to nothing, and the present always slip...

The Katha Upanishad is an ancient Hindu philosophical text that explores the nature of the Self (Atman), death, and liberation (moksha). Structured in two chapters, each with three sections (vallis), it presents a dialogue between a young boy named Nachiketa and Yama, the god of death. Through this conversation, profound spiritual insights are conveyed. The Story of Nachiketa and YamaThe Upanishad...

This volume presents Heraclitus’s surviving sayings—short, flinty aphorisms—framed by front matter. The world’s account (logos) and the world’s process are one “fire”: not literal flame but a metaphor for ceaseless transformation and meaning-making. Because all changes, language must be tight, metaphorical, and self-questioning. Wisdom begins by “inquiring within”: know yourself, then notice how e...

This strange sentence comes from a writer named Michel de Montaigne. He lived a long time ago in France. He read many old thinkers, like Plato and Seneca. They all asked the same big question: how should we live, knowing we will die one day? Montaigne’s answer is bold: when we study philosophy—when we think carefully about life—we are also practicing how to face death with calm and courage. What d...

Franz Kafka’s short book begins with a shock: Gregor Samsa wakes up as a “monstrous insect.” This line is famous. It feels odd and funny at first, but it is not a joke. The change is real, and it forces us to ask big questions in a simple way: What makes a person a person? Is it the body, the job, or the love from others? Kafka uses a strange event to show the truth of everyday life. He shows how...

Woolf writes about a tiny moth she sees by a window. The scene is simple: a bright day, fields outside, a quiet room inside. The moth flutters, rests, and flutters again. Then, slowly, it dies. From this small event, Woolf thinks about big ideas: life, struggle, and death. The moth is a symbol. A symbol is a thing that stands for an idea. Here, the moth stands for all living things. It is small, b...

I live alone in a small flat on the fourth floor in Buenos Aires, on Belgrano Street. A few months ago, one evening, someone knocked on my door. I opened it and saw a tall man standing there. He wore grey clothes and carried a grey suitcase. His face did not look special to me, maybe because I have weak eyes. He looked like a foreigner. At first, I thought he was old, but then I saw his thin, almo...

The less we have of dogma, the less dispute; the less we have of dispute, the less misery. If that is not true, I am wrong. Religion was instituted to make us happy in this world and the next. What must we do to be happy in the next world? Be just. What must we do to be happy in this world, as far as the misery of our nature allows? Be indulgent. It would be the height of folly to pretend to bring...

00:00:00 Prologue00:13:11 Part One: The Habits of Individuals01:42:42 Part Two: The Habits of Successful Organizations02:53:27 Part Three: The Habits of Societies03:25:28 Appendix: A Reader’s Guide to Using These IdeasPrologue: The Habit CureThis part tells the story of Lisa Allen, a woman whose life was once filled with smoking, drinking, debt, and sadness. After a painful divorce, she decided to...

00:00:00 Introduction00:23:34 Chapter 1 - THE LIFE OF YOUR BRAIN00:38:54 Chapter 2 - SEASONS OF THE BRAIN00:52:58 Chapter 3 - AGING AND POWERFUL MINDS IN HISTORY00:57:26 Chapter 4 - WISDOM THROUGHOUT CIVILIZATIONS01:09:55 Chapter 5 - PATTERN POWER01:22:37 Chapter 6 - ADVENTURES ON MEMORY LANE01:36:33 Chapter 7 - MEMORIES THAT DO NOT FADE01:52:48 Chapter 8 - MEMORIES, PATTERNS, AND THE MACHINERY OF...

Nicholas Humphrey wrote A History of the Mind in 1992. He is a psychologist who studies how minds work in animals and people. This book tries to solve a big puzzle: What is consciousness? Why do we feel things inside, like pain or joy? Humphrey says consciousness is not magic. It grew over millions of years through evolution. It started as simple body feelings in tiny creatures and became the rich...

Franz Kafka wrote a long letter to his father in November 1919. This letter is famous today. It shows Kafka's deep feelings about his family. Kafka was a writer from Prague. He lived from 1883 to 1924. His stories often talk about feeling alone or scared of big powers. This letter is like his real-life story. It helps us understand his books better. Kafka wrote the letter during a hard time. H...

A woman, who just had a baby, goes to a big rented house for the summer with her husband, John. John is a doctor. He says she is “nervous” and must rest. He will not let her work, visit friends, or even write. She keeps a secret journal anyway. They put her in an upstairs room with ugly yellow wallpaper. She stares at it day after day. She starts to believe there is a woman trapped inside the patt...

Many writers have shared their thoughts about women. Schiller wrote a poem for women, but Jouy’s words feel more real: without women, life would be helpless at the start, boring in the middle, and sad at the end. Byron also said that life starts with a woman, we learn our first words from her, she wipes our first tears, and she is often there in our last moments when others leave us. Women’s true...

Enlightenment means people coming out of a kind of self-made childhood. This “childhood” is when a person won’t use their own mind without help from someone else. It is self-made when the problem is not lack of brains but lack of courage and will. The motto is “Sapere Aude!” or “Have courage to use your own understanding!” Many people stay childish because of laziness and fear. It is easy to let a...

A “scientific paper” is a short printed report in a journal. Scientists share their work mainly through papers, not books. The question here is bold: Is the scientific paper a fraud?“Fraud” does not mean fake facts or lies. It means the paper often hides how the thinking really happened. It gives a wrong picture of the mind at work. The short answer given is “yes.”Think about the usual paper. Firs...