Activities – Prashant K Sharma

In my free time, I like to engage in following activities:

Reading books
Online Learning
TED videos
Playing Carrom, Pool, Squash etc
Having discussions
Watching movies and web-series
Roadtrip
Exercising physically and mentally

Recently I have found myself enjoying penning down my thoughts as well.

Books I have read…

Some of these are my best friends and will visit them again soon. 🙂

Books in Queue…

There are still more books in my collection which I have to read. I need to be more disciplined and probably more skilled to read and understand them.

Feynman Lectures in Physics 1
Feynman Lectures in Physics 2
Feynman Lectures in Physics 3
Euclid’s Window
Brilliant Blunders
Chaos
Birth of a Theorem
6 Not so easy pieces
Genome
Impulse
In search of schrodinger’s cat
Is God a Mathematician
Physics and Philosophy
Predictably Irrational
The Selfish Gene
The equation that could not be solved
What is Life?

Waiting to make new friends 🙂

Recent Courses…

I have been doing some courses to become less ignorant and more aware about my surrondings (mostly around science and technologies). It is always a great pleasure to know something new.

TED Talks…

I just love to watch TED. It gives me very fullfilling, wholesome experience which takes me to another level. Gives boost to my inner curious child. One of the most deeply satisfying experience.

Carrom…

Carrom is the most engrossing game for me. I love to play for long hours…learning new shots, new strategies…making new friends. Phew…Missing it now a days.

Contact me if you are a Carrom enthusiast. 🙂

Movies I like…

Is it fun to watch movies!!! Of course! Though, I am crazy about some of those more than usual 😛

Favorite Web Series…

Always avoided this engossing activity for a long time (during my bachelors and masters studies, where people spend most of the time with it). I am still very particular about choosing which one to watch.

Credit for watching some of these goes to my friend Gaurav who introduced me to these.

Places I have been…

Sometimes, I like to visit places. My preference is usually to go by bike as I like riding bikes. Sometimes my scooter gave me nice company too. With a bike every trip is a Roadtrip. 😛

Exercise Time…

Physical:

Push-up, Chin-up, Squats since my childhood. Credit to my dad to introduce at an early age.
Morning running. Started late in my life. Gives me strength: mental and physical. Ran many 5K apart from my routine run. Dared to participate and complete Half marathon.
Cult-fit, my first ever formal ‘gym’, for cross fit. What a lovely place it is! Learnt many body-weight exercies there.

Mental:

Sudoku: It has been long time since I completed a Sudoku-book of my friend. Thank you Nipun. 🙂
Solving Puzzles is what life is all about. The satisfying experience of solving a puzzle is truely unimaginable. The maths behind those are even more mind-boggling at times.

Fasting:

Multiple successful attempts at water-only fasting lead me to the following observation about fasting and myself:

Mental peace and harmony
Kickstarts metabolism
Digestive system cleansing
Increases Focus and determination
Feel more awake all the time
Body becomes more energy efficient
provides you a platform to explore new taste immediately after fasting
and last but not the least, 7 days fasting resulted in 4 kg of weight reduction (as compared to 2 kg reduction by working out 1 hr daily, burning around 500 cal).