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Shahid Insaf

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in Bombay, India
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Shahid Insaf So many. Here are my top picks:
1. Writing your breakout novel: Donald Maass
2. A man called Ove: Fredrik Backman
3. How to study poker: Sky Matsuhashi
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So many. Here are my top picks:
1. Writing your breakout novel: Donald Maass
2. A man called Ove: Fredrik Backman
3. How to study poker: Sky Matsuhashi
4. Fight like a physicist: Jason Thalken
5. Suspect: Robert Crais
6. The work of the imagination: Paul Harris
7. Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere: Adele Westbrook
8. Physics for future Presidents: Richard Muller
9. The Capitalist Manifesto: Andrew Bernstein
10. Spy secrets that can save your life: Jason Hansen(less)
Shahid Insaf During my medical school days in the former USSR, I had a psychotic patient named Yuri Makarov who kept insisting that he was the lost, illegitimate s…moreDuring my medical school days in the former USSR, I had a psychotic patient named Yuri Makarov who kept insisting that he was the lost, illegitimate son of one of the most decorated Soviet architects, Georgi Makarov. I dismissed his claims as the delusions of a very sick man until I found out that there was indeed a very famous architect named Georgi Makarov who had died under very misterious circumstances. He had a son named Yuri. When I tried to find out details about this, I was stonewalled and essentially stopped from asking more questions. I've often wondered if here was a greater conspiracy and a lot of truth to what my patient claimed. It would be a very intriguing novel to write. Maybe I will someday. (less)
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The Belated Dedication

How can one define something as complex as creativity? I've often struggled with where it really comes from. I liked drawing ever since I was three. My first was a precocious rendering of my grandmother's glasses. My interest to write blossomed in fifth grade when one of my teachers saw something in me I did not and forced me into an essay writing competition meant for ninth and tenth graders. I w Read more of this blog post »
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Published on May 15, 2017 19:06 Tags: camouflage, creativity
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“Sometimes the false conviction that you feel nothing is a defense against the realization that you feel too much.”
Shahid Insaf, 3 Tales of Vengeance

“To defeat the memory of a mistake, prevent it from turning into a habit.”
Shahid Insaf, 3 Tales of Vengeance

“There are only two kinds of people in this world who want to be miserable: poets and method actors.”
Steve Kaplan, The Hidden Tools of Comedy: The Serious Business of Being Funny
tags: humor

“To be able to say "I love you", one has to be able to say "I”
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
tags: drama

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far can one go.”
T. S. Elliot

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