Season 2: From January 2016 to November 2016
The Bliss Catchers™ - Season 2 - November 2016
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Key Takeaways:
Srikanth Chandrasekaran: "The process is more important than the outcomes; I stay detached from the outcomes and thoroughly enjoy the process of doing whatever I love doing!" Sandeep Narayan: "Going with the flow, evolving with the path is important. Avoid all distractions and temptations, stay focused on the one thing you love doing!" AVIS: "Life is a limited period offer and if you don't use the opportunity of this lifetime now, you never will!" Quoting Rumi and distilling the learning: "Gamble everything you have for what you love; half-heartedness gets you nowhere!" 
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The Bliss Catchers™ - Season 2 - October 2016
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Key Takeaways:
Devika: "As long as I am teaching children, be it art and culture or be it Gandhian Thought, I am very happy. And Life has just kept happening - always serendipitously!" AVIS: "All human beings are embodiments of spiritual energy! We can tap into that energy only if we live joyfully. The Universe is conspiring to make things happen for us when we follow our bliss, but we must take that first step, we must latch on to the first sign we receive from the cosmos!" 
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The Bliss Catchers™ - Season 2 - September 2016
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Key Takeaways:
Veeru: "You can't do anything about the past, you can't do anything about the future till it arrives, so might as well live fully in the moment, doing what you love doing!" Santhosh: "I don't think my cup will ever be full. I want to live a Life without any regrets...so I always go out and do what I want to do!!" AVIS (sharing from Rumi): "Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. Come alive and do your own thing!" |
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The Bliss Catchers™ - Season 2 - August 2016
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Key Takeaways:
Niladri: "Make no compromises with what gives you joy and then just go with the flow!" Mathivanan: "Sometimes you have to learn to strike the balance between what makes you happy and what you have to still do...then you will reach the place where you will be inspired by the environment; Chennai's culture scene is truly motivating!" AVIS (sharing from Rumi): "When you work from you soul, you will feel a river moving in you, a joy; You too can experience that joy! But the key is to not allow the dividing line between what the world wants from you and what you want from Life to grow into a large, unshrinkable band, a gray area a.k.a the rat race!" 
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The Bliss Catchers™ - Season 2 - July 2016
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From a conservative business family in Rajapalayam to the exquisite wines in France’s Bordeaux region, from panning the insides of a car in Tokyo’s Renault-Nissan plant to counting down to cooking Top Ramen noodles for exactly 110 seconds, both Chinmaya and Satoshi-san have found their bliss! 
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The Bliss Catchers™ - Season 2 - June 2016
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We called it the special edition of The Seeker (AVIS), The Rockstar (Ramkey) and The Monk (Ramkumar)!!! |
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The Bliss Catchers™ - Season 2 - May 2016
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An IIM graduate who has been a part of the corporate rat-race, Venky decided to do what gives him joy_quizzing! From running quizzes at various forums to also holding events for learning from Sports achievers, he does it all.
Ramani, a collage artist, chose to do collage although it was an unconventional art-form and difficult to establish oneself and gain recognition. 
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The Bliss Catchers™ - Season 2 - April 2016
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Key Takeaways:
Sridar: "It is only the music that matters...." Indu: "If you don't like something, run away from it!" 
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The Bliss Catchers™ - Season 2 - March 2016
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Key Takeaways:
Sujatha: "Self-doubt and introspection are inevitable on this journey. Wanting to be doing what I love doing is what keeps me going - the challenges will be there, but you get the strength to plough on from your love for what you are doing!" Maitreyi: "I anchored within myself and also created an ecosystem of people around me who encouraged me as I made my choice to give up film-making and embrace holistic living. I focused on what made me happy by understanding what had made me unhappy." 
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The Bliss Catchers™ - Season 2 - February 2016
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Ramnarayan on whether he considers not playing for India as missing his 'bliss bus': "The game is my bliss, not the the prizes or the fame associated with it! I am happy I played the game for as long as I could."
Gowri on how she's been able to consistently follow her bliss through all the upheavals in Life: "You catch your bliss when you are ready for adventure!" Akhila on why she went away to the US and why she came back: "I guess I was searching for who I am when I went away and when I realized that my heart lay in theatre, in music and in the performing arts, here in Chennai, I simply came back!" Abhinav on how you decide on what gives you joy: "You start doing something with a reason but your reasoning evolves over time. You idea of what makes you happy emerges from confusion!" 
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The Bliss Catchers™ - Season 2 - January 2016
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Rakesh's story was all about equanimity, detachment and choosing to not just follow his bliss - food - but also enjoy it by living it every moment! Rajith's was of pinning down what can be a potential disadvantage - procrastination - and conquering it; also being sure that he didn't want to "go back to Mumbai and corporate Life"! 
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