If you're even remotely interested in mental health, you'd have heard about the benefits of journalling. While it may seem like an obvious thing today to put your feelings down on paper, the positive impacts of the practice wasn't discovered until the turn of the millennium.

In this episode, we explore the story of how a failed musician led to the discovery of psychological benefits of journalling, and how a couple of friends in search of a novel business idea gave (new) life to the famed Moleskine notebook, which embodies the idea of an elegant journal.

I invite you to think about what could result from each of us broadening our horizons, and diving deep into something that intrigues and excites us.

I started doing that recently, on my Substack. And it's been thoroughly rewarding.

Check out my recent deep-dive: Why are we missing awe in life?

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Happy New Year! In the first episode of 2025, we travel back to Florence in the medieval ages, and how the adoption of double-entry system of accounting inadvertantly led to the rise of sketching, and thus, more realistic art.

How are you documenting your intellectual journeys this year?

Here is how I am doing mine—through longform reflective writing and sketching:

Why are we so tired all the time?

Why we understand time wrong

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Did you know that no other animal really laughs? The closest to laughing is the "play sounds" that some apes make when tickled. So then how come humans laugh? And why did we evolve to wield and perceive humour, as a species?

In this episode, we trace the origins of the funny bone, and discuss why we often don't need impeccable jokes to make us laugh.

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I now have a YouTube show! Check out To Your Heart's Content where my co-host Deepak Gopalakrishnan and I interview a broad range of people who are in the business of Content—from musicians to marketers and artists: https://www.youtube.com/@TYHC-6PC