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Since pandemic hit - we've seen many feel-good, positive, inspirational and motivating stories of people from all walks of life. We've seen front line workers, policemen, the general public and looked at the problem from different categories that we are used to buying into. Ever wondered how the pandemic has affected athletes? Not the ones who are getting to play now, like cricket, football, etc, but the high performance athletes who rely on events to showcase their weeks of training and compete with the greatest rivals to better themselves?  This one by Sporcks, a Spanish high-performance socks manufacturer - dedicated for triathlon, cycling and running did just that. All these high performance athletes depend on an end goal as a way to benchmark their efforts and use it as a carrot to motivate themselves to train, improve and get back to doing better than their earlier performance. But with the pandemic - all major sports events were cancelled and along with that - all their

 Dave Chappelle last month had released a video on Youtube titled "Unforgiven". This is the second one that I saw after his earlier one titled 8:46. There was one thing common in both.  It was a stand up routine but wasn't meant to be funny. There's a misconception that every stand up comedy show has to be extremely funny all along. But that is dead wrong. Stand up comedy should be funny - but should leave you with a thought you've never had before. It should be able to pull an "Inception" on you and plant a thought that makes you a different person. One that thinks a little differently than before. I watched both of these and laughed very little - but both were so immensely engaging.  Stand up comics are great narrators. Are amazing story tellers. And beautifully insightful. We watch them for their stories - not just for their jokes.  I like a more intellectual comic. Which is why I avoid most Indian comics who address the young millennials and yet rela