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I'm passionate about

My life ambition is "Eradicating poverty". I thought about all the problems that originate from or end with poverty and found simple solutions. Now in the process to share these ideas with the world.

An idea worth spreading

I have many ideas to change the world. Solutions to poverty, global warming and air pollution are the top ones. Solutions to drought, village development, malnourishment, physical handicap and plastic are also need of the hour. Along with few innovative products and thoughts of future, you can also find concentration and capability equation and many other ideas. Visit my website to read everything. http://www.complexproblems.in/

Talk to me about

I have done extensive research on poverty and power of mind. You can discuss with me about all related topics.

People don't know that I'm good at

(1) Lateral thinking (2) I win debate whichever side I support (3) I know relation between mind & body and mind & knowledge (4) I have 64 different personalities and use them while solving a problem.

Comments

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• A comment on Conversation: The single thing the world needs most is better government. Tribunocracy is procedural change that will systemically improve government.

  May 9 2012: Dear Dale,
  
  I agree with you. Without perfect government, we cannot achieve sustainable development.
  
  I have already given an approach to elect perfect government. Most of the issues were considered in the article. Please read "Proposals of Sitaram Naik" at http://www.complexproblems.in/

• A reply on Conversation: When you have a great idea, what will you do?

  May 7 2012: The revolutionary idea of great Mahatma Gandhi needed bottom-up approach because people's support was a key to that idea. It took about 40 years for him to gain full support. That is short duration for large population of India.
  
  When we find a vaccine for a highly spreading disease, we need to go in top-down approach. Otherwise by the time we take care of our village, the disease spreads to whole world. Is it meaningful, so many people suffering when a working vaccine is available to prevent it? Success of polio vaccine is achieved only after it is implemented in top-down approach.
  
  Importance and urgency drives the approach to take.
  
  Sitaram Naik
  http://www.complexproblems.in/

• A reply on Conversation: When you have a great idea, what will you do?

  May 5 2012: Some ideas can be implemented with bottom up approach. But there are ideas that have to be implemented in top-down approach only. Otherwise our life time is not enough to complete that and world will change by then and value of our idea goes down.
  
  Read "Pollution and Global warming" article from http://www.complexproblems.in/ This solution is very urgent and necessary for the current situation of the world. Is there anybody to listen?

• A comment on Conversation: Why are humans never content?

  May 4 2012: Contentment is death because growth stops at that stage.
  
  Even people like Buddha never achieved contentment. They started searching for something more valuable. In that process, they ignored the low-valued materialistic world.
  
  As we grow and find valuable things, we start ignoring low valued things. Read this article to grow faster in life.
  http://www.complexproblems.in/Concentration.htm

• A reply on Conversation: Infant car seat idea

  May 4 2012: Sorry to discourage your idea. The car seat which allows baby to lay down is already available in market. I used a car seat that has adjustment to for sleeping and sitting positions. It can be used for rocking the baby in house.

• A reply on Conversation: When you have a great idea, what will you do?

  May 4 2012: You have discussed your idea in a forum. You have understood that your idea is great and can help large population of the world. What next? What will you do after that?
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  A comment on Conversation: How to get rid of fear?

  May 3 2012: Nice question. Answer is simple: No fear if you don't believe.
  
  When you believe the food as healthy food and eat, every article on that type of food creates fear in you. If you don't believe the food and think that every food creates some type of (minor or major) health problem for you, no fear of food. Because you are taking the food by knowing there is unknown risk. We know only few alphabets as vitamins. There are many more alphabets and symbols. So don't believe that some food is perfect for our imperfect body.
  
  When you believe you get high returns on your investment, fear starts from that day. No fear if you don't believe.
  
  When you believe foreigners or neighbours, you get fear of cheating. No fear if you don't believe.
  
  Why to fear technology or climate change? They are never same over a period of one year, over a period of a decade and over a period of a century.
  
  If you have fear of change, live one day at a time. There won't be major changes in a day everyday.

• A reply on Conversation: What is the greatest way to unlock the full potential of an individual?

  May 1 2012: I have not thought about this as I believe that every person is God (http://www.complexproblems.in/Spirituality.htm). I mean, every person is the best and the greatest. You never know the abilities, knowledge and inherent potential of a person till he/she shows it out. Just because somebody is not showing, we cannot underestimate.
  
  For sake of definition, I define a great person as "A person who defines a purpose for his/her life and works for it".

• A reply on Conversation: How do we lessen the gap between the rich and the poor?

  Apr 30 2012: To get proper political system or government, we need to read and support "Proposals of Sitaram Naik" at http://www.complexproblems.in/

• A reply on Conversation: How do we lessen the gap between the rich and the poor?

  Apr 30 2012: You are right in your context where retailers are rich and customer is poor. Just think about the opposite scenario where retailers are poor and the customer is rich. Prices go down with competition and poor people lose.
  
  To know my context, read the last section (Advantages of making people rich) of the article "Poverty" at http://www.complexproblems.in/
  
  The poverty-line concept is discouraged in this article.