Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.
Actually, everyone in India does some jugaad in their lives, whether in school, college, marriages, work etc. And most of us have different jugaads for different situations.
I'm always on the lookout for those good, simple solutions to everyday problems.
In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.
I always find myself stopping to write down ideas of things I'd like to make from computer hardware items to things new moms need - inventions to share with others to make their lives more fun or interesting or easy.
Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.
Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there's no such thing.
I wanted to automate any part of my life that I could. And the over-the-top solutions are more fun than the useful ones.
Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.
I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right.
Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.
