Salil Jha's Blog: The Naked Soul Blog

The fall colors are taking over the New England region. There is beautiful fall foliage all around. So naturally, I thought it was a great day for reflection.

What came to mind is who the people are I admire the most, and what I can learn from them and apply to my life and my two blogs: The Art of Travel and The Naked Soul.

“I integrate timeless wisdom and exponential technology to expand healthy human potential and tell stories that spark courage and curiosity.”

People I Admire

I will highlig...

“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”
— Chinese Proverb

This ancient Chinese proverb distills a profound truth about human learning, wisdom, and transformation. In a single sentence, it maps the stages of engagement: passive reception, observational memory, and active participation. Each level takes us deeper—from shallow awareness to embodied understanding.In a world overwhelmed with information, where hearing and seeing dominate our daily experience, this pro...

Today marks the 10 years since the beginning of our relationship. Back in January 2014, in the snowy winter during the MLK long weekend, we decided to start our relationship by going on a scenic train ride in Upstate New York. This was our first out-of-state travel together as a couple. This was the moment when we both knew that this was a journey that would last our lifetime.

From First Date to Forever

In these 10 years, we have made countless memories, overcome difficult circumstances, started...

The Ancient Greeks believed that the best way to understand human nature is by using philosophy, which uses logic and reason to arrive at the truth.Philosophy dates back to ancient Greece before Christianity was even invented.Socrates was one of the first philosophers who used a method called ‘dialectic’ in order to question people’s opinions on certain matters, and then he would go on rants about how they were wrong or misguided.Fun Fact: The word philosophy originated from the Ancient G...

यह वाक्यांश “मुझे पता है कि मुझे कुछ भी नहीं पता है” आपको परिचित लग सकता है। ऐसा इसलिए है क्योंकि आपने इसे किसी दोस्त से या स्कूल में सुना होगा या कहीं पढ़ा होगा।

यह एक सुकराती विरोधाभास है।

यह मुहावरा, “सुकराती विरोधाभास” एक स्व-संदर्भित विरोधाभास को संदर्भित करता है, जो कि सुकरात के उच्चारण में उत्पन्न होता है, “जो मुझे नहीं पता कि मुझे नहीं लगता कि मैं जानता हूं”, अक्सर “मुझे पता है कि मुझे कुछ नहीं पता है” के रूप में विरोधाभास है।

निम्नलिखित सोक्रेटिक विरोधाभासों में से कुछ हैं:

जो मैं नहीं...

Many of the beliefs traditionally attributed to the historical Socrates have been characterized as “paradoxical” because they seem to conflict with common sense.

The term, “Socratic paradox” can also refer to a self-referential paradox, originating in Socrates’s utterance, “what I do not know I do not think I know”, often paraphrased as “I know that I know nothing.”

The following are among the so-called Socratic paradoxes:

What I do not know I do not think I know
No one desires evil
No one e...

What is ‘love’? That is a question that has been posed to us thousands of times, and it is one that humans do not seem to be able to answer. We have no idea what love actually is, or how it works. Nor do we have any real way of defining it.

So today I will share some of my thoughts on Love:

To me, Love is the only real thing in life. Without love, everything else would be meaningless. This is what I think of ‘what is love’.

And what is this feeling of love? Love is the feeling you have when you ...

Below is what GPT-3, an AI neural network has to say on Philosophy. I am both amazed and worried. Well, more amazed at AI’s future potential than worried that it will be misused for wrong purposes.

(But that’s a topic for another blog. For now, let’s listen to what this wise AI has to say to us mortals.)

Part 1

Humans are strange creatures. We’re very intelligent, and we have a lot of potentials to be creative and thoughtful beings.

But we’re also very limited and incapable of fully understanding wh...

There is a lot of chatter going on around coronavirus and its comparison to flu and whether all this panic is justified or moronic!

Well, my goal in this short post is to share a different perspective so we all can have more insights into what it is that we are dealing with and how they should personally approach it.

Lets say there are two diseases: Disease X and Disease Y

Disease X infects 50 Million people in the world each year (and has been around for over a century)

Disease X kills...

At some point, the 10X rule stops working if you are a Solopreneur.

Say you are an artist, writer, blogger, YouTuber, musician, designer, tutor, baker, and so on. (Someone without the long leverage of new technology or capital. Which would be most of us.)

Say you just published your first blog or released your first song. Or you printed your first t-shirt design. Or wrote the first chapter of your book. Or, recorded the first podcast. Or, sold the first bracelet through Etsy.

Say you get some...