THIRTEEN - a podcast for Being & Creating

Truth, when believed, is a lie. The extension from our previous episode, in this episode we converse to investigate the distinction between intrinsic and mythical reality and what happens when we 'believe' in a 'truth'. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.creating13.com You may f...

If what I believe in is different from your belief about the same matter, and if either of us believes our version to be true, then is truth absolute? If the truth is relative, then what is absolute? In this episode, we take an abstract conversation in attempting to find the nature of truth, of this very moment. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, plea...

If you have ever wondered and are bewildered by where that creative thought came from or what is the root of that idea that changed the entire course of events, this conversation might perhaps offer some insight. This podcast, therefore, is for those who are, in their mundane life, constantly finding or seeking to find a sense of creativity. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends...

"I'm not comfortable talking to her...", "Presenting this in front of the board is beyond my comfort zone...", "I'm uncomfortable doing that..." All these are stories we have created to make ourselves comfortable. In this podcast conversation, we look at what becomes available should we choose to step beyond the story that we have created about comfort and discomfort. _ If you like this episode, s...

Have you ever noticed that a great barber takes all the time in the world to prepare then spray cold water on the face, apply the foaming cream, and gently lather? After spending about 4-5 minutes in this prep, in a matter of a few seconds, he shaves the whole face! In this episode of our podcast, we are conversing exactly about this analogy! _ If you like this episode, share this with your friend...

In our today's conversation, we discuss the nature of being original and being authentic and the distinction between the two. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.creating13.com You may follow us on Twitter:         www.twitter.com/creating_13 In...

As Sheldon Cooper says in one of the episodes of Big Bang Theory, "Whenever a zombie bites you turn into a zombie, but whenever a Mummy bites, you turn into some schmuck with a Mummy-bite!". Just like a Mummy, a Pattern too is coming from a past, and breaking that pattern could seem schmuckly disturbing but isn't real! Breaking of an order though leads to new creations...  In our today's podc...

Continuing from last week's conversation, this week we dive deeper into the topic and enquire, where the sense of 'being' comes from? What does experience and sense of being really mean? How do we construct it? These, and many more questions we try to embark upon in this episode of the podcast. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on...

Where does the sense of 'I' come from? When did I identify myself as 'I' for the first time? How was this identity build? In this conversation, we try to inquire and identify the origin of 'I' in its form and essence. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe us on your favourite podcast platform or by visiting www.creating13.com You may fol...

The whole conversation of "Living like a Chimp!" was triggered from one of our earlier podcasts. The context of this conversation being, while there are many resemblances between humans and chimpanzees, a chimpanzee does not have the ability to comprehend the future or bring complex references from the past and then create an imaginative world within this moment and experience emotions for things...

While Karma & Kriya both mean action and/ or deed - both are inherently different. One is determined from the past and one is generated in the present moment, one is involuntary and is present whether we want it or not, the other is voluntary and requires our total involvement, one is cyclical and the other is linear. What does it really mean? In this podcast we discuss our thoughts and notion...

There are many commonalities between a film and a life. In both we involve ourselves deeply, we believe certain parts of it to be true and distance ourselves from certain parts - based obviously on our convenience, we exude our emotions and experience a form of an expression. This candid conversation, rather a khichadi of our thoughts is abstract, random and we hope that provokes our audience to t...

A seven-year-old overhears a young couple's conversation about the plan to buy their first car and asks them in all seriousness, "so, what is your budget?" As hilarious as the situation is, the question perhaps is unwarranted. But we all do that, we all behave like that. Have we noticed our own yap? If you're brave enough to get confronted, then this podcast is surely for you... _ If you like this...

As the title of this podcast says, this conversation focuses on the diminishing culture of reading books. While reading was a means to gain knowledge, it probably is an outdated and inefficient medium today, and therefore has diminished in the era of the internet. However, like a candle that reinvented itself through its aroma, symbolizing a quiet moment or a romantic expression, it is, perhaps, t...

Our life is driven by reasons - in the present world that we live in, more than ever before. Are reasons real? Do reasons have validity? Does this world, the universe, mother nature function on the fundamental basis of reasons? While we may hastily say a big YES, in 'reasons' more than one, the answer could simply be a big NO! What is it then beyond all the reasons we perceive? We try to touch thi...

"My body is craving for tea". In this sensation, I realize that there are three types of cravings. One, a craving that is an innate or a primal one. In this type of craving, our body tells us that we are lacking a vital thing within, and therefore we feel the need for it. The second type of craving is a sensorial one. A sensorial craving emerges mainly to satisfy the sensorial pleasure. The third...

A chain smoker knows that they need to quit smoking; an alcoholic knows the ill effects of alcohol on their body; an unfit, overweight person knows that they need to eat right or hit the gym! Yet, knowing isn't producing the results. We all know, yet we fall short. There is a world of a difference between knowing and doing simply what we already know. Today's podcast is exactly about that! _ If yo...

Words Create World - we say something, collectively we agree and then we create the world we live in. On the other hand, we create our own inner world with our own words, and do not even realize that we've made some mess? Let's look at this inner world that we create with our words in this podcast. _ If you like this episode, share this with your friends. For more such podcasts, please subscribe u...

This is an abstract podcast looking at the meanings of words and the way similar seeing meanings become vastly different in their essence.  Within our language, we use words with understanding the meaning of the word but often we overlook the essence - the root of that word. There are different words in a language that seems to have the same meaning but at the core, their essence is worlds ap...

Habit Hacking is not a "How to" podcast. It's a podcast that discusses and builds on one of our earlier podcasts "Habit vs. Lifestyle". In this podcast, we bring a premise looking at our tendency to pursue as good habits - be it of organising work or managing time about might actually not be a habit, but a culture. It could be a culture to break away from our habit of getting distracted! Timeboxin...

Smriti is an architect by qualification, designer by profession and a yoga enthusiast and instructor by passion. While she has been exposed to yoga since her early childhood, it is in recent years that she developed her liking towards yoga and she diligently uses it to practice mindful and holistic living. She says that the stride on the path of yoga is a lifelong journey. Through this conversatio...

Have you ever heard Sachin Tendulkar complaining about practicing too hard or Bhimsen Joshi whining about doing eighteen hours of riyaaz a day? If at all we've heard, they would be acknowledging and being appreciative of that activity. This holds true for all individuals - famous or not - to be enjoying and immersing in an activity that they love. For some, if they're lucky, the activity they love...

We're born curious. We want to not only observe and learn everything but also simply enjoy it - then be it cycling, swimming, or playing frisbee. Slowly, that as a daily activity transforms into a habit. A habit, that we then label either good or bad, judge it, and do it consciously but also forcing ourselves into it. It becomes nothing but a pattern. Lifestyle, on the other hand, probably could b...

Many times, we come across parents and elderly commanding their children “please concentrate”. Is concentration really that important? Is it what we actually want to say to that child? Or, sometimes, do we mean to say “pay attention” and use the word “concentration” instead? Since childhood, we have – particularly in India – been exposed to these two words “attention” and “concentration”. In today...

Abhishek Upamanyu - the stand-up comedian's line imitating his father, “…arey tum subah jaldi uthh ke toh dekho!” (… just wake up early and see the difference for yourself!) struck a chord with the youth – particularly the children of Indian parents. What’s this fascination with waking up early? Is it really beneficial? Or it’s not everyone’s cup of tea? Our conversation in this podcast intends to...