About

If you're going to be passionate about something, be passionate about learning.
- Daniel Goldstone

Learnosis ( learning + -osis) means a state of constant learning. This blog is a place to share my everyday experiences, which have helped me learn, to an extent, about 'The Life' in general and 'mySELF' in particular and which, I hope, will help the readers, too, in some or the other way.

I am an engineer as proclaimed by our elite educational institute M.Tech, IIT Delhi but, to tell you the truth, today I am as non-engineer as one can be. On my daughter's school forms, across the 'Mother's occupation' field, I fill 'HomeMaker'. Its obvious then that I don't feel much attached to this elite tag. Not that it didn't serve me anything - I got an easy entry into the high paying jobs of big corporates but that seems too far back in the past. Early on in my career, I realized that this IS NOT what I want to keep doing all my life. I had no clue what I wanted to do with my life, but I had this faith that I will figure it out later.

So I quit, without even blinking an eye, without any shred of doubt about my future. Okay, I was married by then, blissfully settled, and expecting a baby, but still I consider this a courageous leap of faith, even to this date, and even when my friends and family seem to secretly think it as foolish and immature.

Anyways, after quitting, I landed right into the gruelling and nerve-wracking job of motherhood which, by the way, is also the most underrated job on the earth! Initial years were so overwhelming that I had no inclination to even comb my hair, let alone think about 'the meaning of life'. As the years passed and I eased myself into the job of a mother, I started foraying into different vocations, exploring in depth whatever interested me, in a quest to discover what I am meant to 'be'.

I was already a volunteer in a spiritual organization and have read a lot about the importance of meditation, so I started by including daily meditation in my life. Initial few months were struggle, but then I got habituated and it became an essential part of my daily life. All along, I kept reading a lot of books on topics like homeschooling, how children learn or, for that matter, how humans learn, mastery in our work, purpose of life, spirituality & meditation, leadership & public speaking, and memoirs of greatest teachers & greatest leaders of the world. I dabbled into new-language learning (Kannada), to understand the intricacies of neuronal connections, our learning process so as to say, firsthand. I dabbled into homeschooling my daughter, to watch closely the learning and growth process, as it unfolded in her mind. I dabbled into short-term teaching to adults on courses like Kannada and Machine Learning. I loved playing the teacher (and I feel the students loved me too) and, for a few months, thought that teaching is my calling. But then Corona hit and everything became online. I felt no inclination to teach online, for reasons that seemed weird to my husband. So I started writing and that's why I am here!