Prachi is a psychologist and therapist living in Mumbai, India. She holds a postgraduate degree in sports psychology from Stirling, Scotland, and minor degrees in counselling psychology and a BA in psychology from Mumbai, India. After a year of interning in England as a sports therapist, she is working as a behavioral therapist for children with special education needs. She has been working as a therapist for 2 years currently, and her experience ranges from knowing and understanding people of different ages.

She is the only child in her family, so it got lonely a lot of times. With time she got into the habit of being lonely and therefore started finding solace in nature, books, automobiles, and music. With an early diagnosis of mild ADD, getting interested in anything was a huge task in itself. An introvert at heart, books are the best friends that she could ask for. She is especially fond of thriller, mystery, and detective stories and loves reading Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle, along with various comic books. She loves hiking and going on nature trails with her bike.

Being born in the outskirts of a big city like Mumbai made her realize the huge difference in the life of cities and small towns. She has travelled extensively to different countries and enjoys travelling. That made her appreciate the countrysideeven more because of its slower-paced environment than the fast-paced running of the cities. These subtle learnings increased her interest and curiosity about human thoughts and behavior and all different kinds of sports, music, history, and art, which made her passion for writing a way of narrating her personal experience.

The increasing interest in watching different kinds of sports during the Olympics made her stronger in identifying the strategies and plans that different sports use. She was in awe of the strength and the mental capacities that the athletes have when they are on their stage to perform.

Learning and knowing about things that have always influenced human behavior is the reason why she chose psychology. When she was a child, she was fascinated by history and art, realizing that they talk in detail about human society and its development in these subjects. She believes that every subject, all of us are linked among each other and would love to explore all with meeting new and different kinds of people every day.

Knowledge and wisdom are brought not just by bookish knowledge but by getting out in the world, understanding people, their experiences, culture, and much more. Embracing and understanding the different perspectives of different individuals is a foundation for deep and profound learning. Each person carries a different and unique bank of experiences, skills and insights that is shaped by their upbringing, environment and tradition.

Beyond facts, wisdom comes from understanding the nuances and the necessary underlying principles of human experiences. We learn empathy by stepping into someone’s shoes, understanding their motivations, and appreciating their experience and values. This will lead to adopting critical thinking, adaptability, and a way of holistic, worldwide thinking of different complexities. There is never one way of learning; there is a spectrum of valid approaches and beliefs.

Sharing knowledge about something, small notices, and things that might go unnoticed is something that she wants to talk about. Our world has humongous knowledge about it, and there is a lot left. We have not even scraped the peak of the iceberg. There are a lot of things that we don’t know about.

Meeting different people in daily life and learning about their lives gives me a new perspective to appreciate life in every sense. The ‘world’ certainly seems too big but feels closer when we find people who we can talk to without hesitation. With billions of perspectives in mind, it is a pleasure to show the world a single person’ stories.

The motto in her life is a quote by Annette White, which says, “If you never dream, you will never know the endless possibilities of what you can become.” There are times when in this rush of achieving things we fall behind on fulfilling our dreams. Some of us get so far behind the life that we wanted that we completely forget about our inspiration and will to live for ourselves. It’s a sad part, but we are losing the curiosity and imagination the more we grow up.

Her target, especially with her articles, is not only to gain the facts about the topic but also to develop curiosity about the topics that are right in front of our eyes but not talked about enough.