What can you learn from MS Dhoni?

Dhoni teaches us the following life mantras  :

1. Success isn't limited by how small your hometown is. It's as big as the world you take on.

2. Chances are like heartbeats. You can't afford to miss a single one.

3. Destiny is no excuse for failure.

4. The gap between victory and defeat is large but not infinite.

As far as cricket is concerned, one can learn from Dhoni that: 
It is not the runs but how you run the game that wins it.

Last but not least,
Believe, and the world is yours.

Source:Quora(Vinay Sharma).

What are some lesser known Gmail tips and hacks?

Every Gmail user has two email addresses.

For example: if you have a Gmail id: xyz@gmail.com, the second one isxyz@googlemail.com.

This will be useful for opening multiple accounts in a website or app.

For example, In Redbus mobile app, if you are new user (i.e., if you use new email id) you will get flat 100 rupees off on ticket booking. If you have already used xyz@gmail.com you can still use xyz@googlemail.com and take advantage of the offer. You will receive your ticket to your normal inbox itself. Thank me for saving your time from creating a new email account.

Ref: All Gmail Users Have Two Email Addresses


The dots in the Gmail id doesn't matter. 

Lets say your gmail id is someone.initial@gmail.com, then if somebody is sending email id to so.meoneinitial@gmail.com orsomeoneiniti.al@gmail.com then the email will be delivered tosomeone.initial@gmail.com inbox itself. 

Create unlimted email ids by adding + anything to your email id.

Say your email id is xyz@gmail.com, then if you add any letters after your name by adding '+' symbol, the emails will be delivered to xyz@gmail.cominbox itself. This is a nice trick when you are registereing in a suspicious website. Some websites will sell your email ids for money, and the buyer will spam advertisemts to your inbox. Say http://randomwebsite.com  is a suspicious website and you want to register in it for some reason. While registering give your email id as xyz+randomwebsite@gmail.com. The emails from the website will be delivered to xyz@gmail.com, and you can simply fliter out the message from this website by typingxyz+randomwebsite@gmail.com in search box. Also if you find that the spam mail have the receipent email id as  xyz+randomwebsite@gmail.com, then it means that http://randomwebsite.com has sold your email id.
Source:Quora(Vijayenthrian Subramaniam).

What are movies that you immediately need to see a second time?

These are the most confusing movies That I have seen and it's obvious that you have to watch them at least two times.
Primer: A low-budget time travel sci-fi. It's unlike any sci-fi you have ever seen. You won't be able to understand it. Take it as a challenge.
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2001: A Space Odyssey : The last 15 minutes of this movie are brilliant. Nobody knows whats going on unless they read the spoilers.
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Donnie Darko : A mind-bending sci-fi. It's brilliant. You will have to watch it at least twice.
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Memento: Proves that Chris Nolan is a genius. A brilliant masterpiece. 
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Mullholland Drive : Only David Lynch can make such movies. I didn't understand it so I had to watch it 3 times.
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Inception : Its not that complex but still needs a second watch.
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Eraserhead : Second movie from David Lynch in this list. I had no idea what was going on, when I watched it.
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Mr. Nobody : Arguably the best movie of Jared Leto. It's about the last mortal man on earth who can live different lives (or maybe not)
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The Tree of Life : I dont have words for this movie.
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Paprika: An animated flick (It’s similar to Inception)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Cloud Atlas
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
Triangle
Lost Highway (David Lynch)
The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
Vanilla Sky
Inland Empire (David Lynch)
A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
You must watch every single movie directed by David Lynch.


And these are the movies which are so AWESOME that you need to see them a second time. Movies that have been mentioned in the first list are not mentioned here .

  • The lord of the rings trilogy
  • Up
  • Wall-E
  • The Departed
  • Shutter Island
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Interstellar
  • Life of Pi
  • Psycho
  • How to train your dragon
  • Toy Story
  • Hachiko
  • The Lego Movie
  • Batman Trilogy
  • 12 Angry Men
  • Witness for the prosecution
  • Memories of Murder
  • I saw the Devil
  • Oldboy
  • Her
  • The Prestige
  • Bourne Series
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Into The Wild
  • Queen
  • Avatar
  • Mary & Max
  • The Boy in Stripped Pajamas
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • The Green Mile
  • Harry Potter Series
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Marley & Me
  • Fight Club
  • Despicable Me
  • Rear Window
  • Matrix
  • Avatar
  • Forrest Gump
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Schindler's List
  • Triangle
  • A town called Panic
  • The man from Earth
I know I am missing so many awesome movies but there are hundreds of such movies and I just wrote what came to my mind.You can add more in comments. I will update the list when I get time. 
Source:Quora(Prabhat Rayal).

Movies: Which are the best brain twisting psychological thriller movies ever made?

Here are  top 10 most brain twisting, psychological thriller movies .

Triangle (2009) - An amazing mind bending paradoxical movie


Inception - Dream within a dream within a dream!


Shutter Island - Woah! nothing can beat it, a psychological thriller


The Sixth Sense - I see dead people, they don't know they are dead.


Predestination - A movie about predestination paradox (Time travelling loop) It will challenge your logical thinking


Memento (2000) - A movie by Christopher Nolan, later copied by Bollywood movies like Ghajini.


Se7en (1995) - Mind blowing psychological thriller


Psycho - One of the epic psychological thriller movie by Alfred Hitchcock


Mr Nobody - I get it, It isn't exciting, but I get it


The Prestige - A rivalry between magicians and an amazing thriller


Source:Quora(Vivek Yadav)
Above listed movies are my all time favorite and I suggest everybody to watch them :)

100 Books Everyone Should Read Before They Die

Many of the books are 20th century classics or recent bestsellers - the oldest book on the list is Jane Austen's 1813 masterpiece "Pride and Prejudice." It also spanned multiple genres, with adult fiction, nonfiction, children's, and young adult novels such as "The Hunger Games" and "Harry Potter" making the list.
"With 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime, we set out to build a roadmap of a literary life without making it feel like a homework assignment," Sara Nelson, Editorial Director of Print and Kindle Books at Amazon, said in a press release. "Over many months, the team passionately debated and defended the books we wanted on this list. In other words, we applied plenty of the bookish equivalent of elbow-grease, and we can't wait to hear what customers have to say about our final picks."
Check out the final list of books in alphabetical order below.
  1. "1984" by George Orwell
  2. "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking
  4. "A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah
  6. "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
  8. "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
  9. "All the President's Men" by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
  10. "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
  12. "Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett
  13. "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
  15. "Breath, Eyes, Memory" by Edwidge Danticat
  16. "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
  18. "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
  19. "Cutting For Stone" by Abraham Verghese
  22. "Dune" by Frank Herbert
  23. "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
  25. "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn
  26. "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown
  27. "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
  30. "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
  31. "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
  32. "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
  34. "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain
  35. "Life After Life" by Kate Atkinson
  36. "Little House on the Prairie" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  37. "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
  38. "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  39. "Love Medicine" by Louise Erdrich
  40. "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl
  41. "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
  42. "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides
  43. "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie
  44. "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis
  45. "Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham
  46. "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
  47. "Out of Africa" by Isak Dinesen
  48. "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi
  49. "Portnoy's Complaint" by Philip Roth
  50. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
  51. "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
  52. "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
  53. "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  54. "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton
  56. "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
  57. "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
  59. "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
  60. "The Color of Water" by James McBride
  61. "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen
  64. "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
  65. "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
  67. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  68. "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
  70. "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
  74. "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  75. "The Long Goodbye" by Raymond Chandler
  77. "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
  80. "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
  81. "The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel" by Barbara Kingsolver
  83. "The Right Stuff" by Tom Wolfe
  84. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
  85. "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
  86. "The Shining" by Stephen King
  87. "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
  88. "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
  89. "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
  91. "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame
  95. "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe
  96. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
  98. "Valley of the Dolls" by Jacqueline Susann
  99. "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein
  100. "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak                                        
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