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Mohammad Faysal in a black hoodie beside the words: Slow and steady wins the race, only on the right road.Skills · · ▶

Slow and Steady Wins the Race… Only on the Right Road

Consistency alone isn't enough. On the wrong road, however steady we walk, we only reach the wrong place. We need a good direction too.

Mohammad Faysal in a blue striped shirt beside a toppling tower of bricks labelled Day 1 to Year 5, with the words: Rome was not built in a day, but it burned in one.Skills · · ▶

Rome Was Not Built in a Day… But It Burned in One

Building anything takes long-term effort, day by day. But one sudden moment, one bad decision, can collapse everything.

Mohammad Faysal with the words "Jack of all trades, master of none?" — "none" struck out, "better than master of one!" handwrittenSkills · · ▶

Jack of All Trades, Master of None? | Polymath in the AI Era

The old proverb has a modern-life edition: oftentimes better than master of one. Why broad knowledge, with mastery in a few fields, is a plus point today.

A head in profile with a dotted path that overshoots, corrects and reaches a targetPoetry & Life · · ▶

Maxwell Maltz's Psycho-Cybernetics | 5 Points in Bangla | বই আলাপ

Maxwell Maltz says your brain acts the way you define yourself. A book talk on the five points of his 21-day exercise from Psycho-Cybernetics.

An open door with a road running to the horizon, an empty chair facing it and a clock near twelvePoetry & Life · · ▶

Humayun Ahmed's Opekkha | Psychological Analysis in Bangla | বই আলাপ

Camus called hope a trap. Humayun Ahmed's Opekkha shows that trap up close: a book talk on ambiguous loss, displacement, scapegoating and generational trauma.

Book Talk cover: Abbas Kiarostami's Collected Poems, with a winding road up a hill to a lone treePoetry & Life · · ▶

Abbas Kiarostami's Collected Poems | Book Talk

Two or three lines, and it feels like a whole film. A book talk on Abbas Kiarostami's poems in Ruhul Mahfuj Joy's Bangla translation.

Cover for the poem Chokh (The Eyes) by Mohammad Faysal: a blue eye with sea waves in its irisPoetry & Life ·

The Eyes

A love poem about someone's eyes, told through the sea, clear blue water and rare stones. Bangla original with an English version.