🧠🔍 Why You Should Not Take Things Personally! (Repost from @Life_neil)

🌍✨ Society is a different beast altogether. Got another insight today about why well known people are highly polarising. जाने माने लोगो को कुछ लोगो से बहुत प्यार, और बाकियों से धिक्कार क्यों मिलता हैं?

🔗📈 And there's another correlation to how polarising one can be with how 'impactful' one's life has been. Jisne जितना ज्यादा decisively काम किया, उसके लिए उतने ज्यादा differing opinions.

🌟🤔 Some examples that come to my mind are Henry Ford, Elon Musk, Virat Kohli, Cristiano Ronaldo so on so forth.

🏛️💡 Society as a whole has contempt for concentration of power. It views individual power as a threat to its survival.

💭👥 While at an individual level, one might fancy getting power and having possibilities of gaining power, the thought process changes as soon as one becomes a participant in a society.

🗣️👀 It's no secret that Group Think is a reality. We think, behave and act differently in our individual and social spheres. Which just brings me again to the same point.

❌💬 TAKE NOTHING PERSONALLY.

🛡️❤️ If society hates you, it's for self preservation.

🔄🚶 Similarly, NEVER BECOME COMPLACENT, चने के झाड़ पर कभी नही चढ़ना।

💞🌿 If society loves you, it's again for self preservation.

👁️💪 Just make your own opinion matter in your eyes. It's easier said than done but self esteem and confidence are muscles you need to develop against resistance everyday to see long lasting results.

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Every attempt 🥲

Feeling Unease, Sense of No Motivation and Experience Depressive states has nothing to do with success:

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/19/health/michael-phelps-depression/index.html

The most effective way to just hang on during this phase is to "Open Up and talk about your feelings"!

The community always has your back, you’re always welcome to talk about anything within the cycle of this exam at @UPSCneil and beyond this exam at @LIFE_neil!

📅🚨 UPSC PRELIMS POSTPONED BY 3 WEEKS:

🔚📣 The official notification finally puts an end to the speculation and insider-giri for better.

🎓🔄 For you as students, absolutely nothing changes. Instead, it creates an opportunity for students with mental fortitude.

🛌📉 Most people will now start going easy, as this additional leeway of 3 weeks will make people complacent.

🧠🔥 Some students will lose the mental battle in the absence of the right direction and right mental conditioning, burning themselves out before the match even begins.

📚💪 Your job is still to:
- 📖 Stick with the basics
- 🧐 PYQ Analysis
- 📚 Complete as much optional as you can
- 🏆 Be Mains ready by at least having finished the syllabus once
- ✍️ Answer Writing and Flash Notemaking can be postponed for the time between Pre and Mains.

🌊⛵️ As I said before, “सब एक ही समुंदर के गोतों में हैं, जो अपनी कश्ती लहरों के साथ चलाता रहेगा, और ख़ुद उसमे Anxiety का छेद नहीं करेगा, will get the best chance to clear.”

📩💬 Feel free to let me know if any doubts or follow-ups at @UPSCneil

🍀🌟 Best wishes

National Park Series for Prelims 2024

Beautiful visuals can help in learning things in an easy manner.

Watch this short in national park series so that you can memorize location of national parks more organically -

https://youtube.com/shorts/3_7WRCHy0NU

Postponement does call for a chill sesh at @LIFE_neil

Sherlocking IGP

UPSC Interview: How to be self-aware?

https://youtube.com/shorts/C9_0uUm30Mw

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For Prelims, we’ve done over 1750+ PYQs from GS and CSAT in a way never done before. No free video can ever match that quality of analysis, the demo and testimonials are a proof of that.

Similarly for Mains, integrating the Art of Answer Writing with 2013-23 PYQ analysis is a first of its kind initiative.

For details:
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Best wishes.

😟🌪 Sometimes, the WORST thing to happen to you, is

🌈✨ The BEST thing to happen to you!

🎬🔎 https://youtube.com/shorts/VIfJX4Cd6lQ?si=inbXejzPuXXhdbOh

💭🙏 Let that sink in!

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Mains Strategy Video
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Mains as an Optimisation Problem
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Mains23 Analysis
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Mains: https://youtu.be/6qCR3waptcc

Physics: https://youtu.be/HZ1RhrEJZHI

UPSC Aspirants when they see their scores in mock tests

While the short has been made in a lighter vein, it is an unfortunate truth that many candidates lose their self-belief in before the actual Prelims due to the nature of mocks and hence, the low scores.

Remember that the results are in reference to your score in the actual exam and not the mock tests. There are many rank holders who were not scoring 'well' even one week before Prelims but went on to get a rank.

Now on to the short -

https://youtube.com/shorts/DQL-4B2IXws

Watch the funny short, laugh a bit. Happy studying!

For people who wanted to get started with Ethics:

Ethics Bootcamp Post:
https://t.me/UPSCneil/13548

Blueprint to Analyse Good copies:
https://youtu.be/y9X_CUzcuBU

Minutes from Online meet:
https://t.me/UPSCneil/17305

Doc shared:
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This is what the endgame with Sherlocking Mains Module look like.

With Prelims postponed, if one wants to continue Mains prep in line with PYQs, Basic Sources and Logical Reasoning, Mains Sherlocking will help.

Details:
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Can ping @helpdeskupsc for module related queries if any.

Sherlocking IGP

UPSC Interview: What is crony capitalism?

https://youtube.com/shorts/DCnsuatSIIM

Enrollment Related Info:

The access team has passed on certain requests to me and hence it becomes imperative to convey the same to students planning to enroll.

- Currently we don’t have an end to end automated access which means that it takes 24-72 hours to provide the video access post admission formality. Your patience is highly appreciated at that point and you’re encouraged to keep revising the basics so that post access you can use the course in the best possible way.


- Before paying, always confirm the name that shows up on upi. It’s linked to my account so my name will show up i.e. Neelkanth Bhardwaj. This is also why we provide upi in a separate message so you can directly copy paste. There have been a couple instances where instead of copy pasting, students have manually typed and made a mistake. Due diligence is essential for civil servants prior to getting enrolled, I’m sure you’ll take care of it.

I’m sure we’ll make best use of the modules and of my experience moving forward.

For any academic queries, continue to ping here on @UPSCneil.

For module related queries, kindly ping @helpdeskupsc.

Wishes!

This is what the endgame with Sherlocking Mains Module look like.

With Prelims postponed, if one wants to continue Mains prep in line with PYQs, Basic Sources and Logical Reasoning, Mains Sherlocking will help.

Details:
https://t.me/Neil_You/1118

Can ping @helpdeskupsc for module related queries if any.

For people who have joined us recently, this is a short 'About Me':

https://youtu.be/ncpYKH0OfRQ?si=cXoVhDh_oCvrtA_C

Final Attempt Results:

HCS 2021: Rank 93

UPSC 2022: Marks 947(AIR 527 scored 946, total selected 933)

IFoS 2022: Marks 878(AIR 67 scored 877, total selected 147)

Open Sherlocking Session for Way Forward and Doubts:

Day/Date: Saturday/23rd March

Time: 5PM

Link:
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All enrolled and non-enrolled students are encouraged to attend.

Video regarding UPSC Prelims Postponement

Video regarding strategy in light of the postponement has now been published. The video is only about 5 minutes long but have tried to cover most of the doubts and have also dispelled some myths.

https://youtu.be/U4pMdGWSPfw

Will be very helpful in prioritizing certain aspects of the preparation and using the extra time well. Wishes!