I STARVED MY CRITICS OF ATTENTION

I STARVED MY CRITICS OF ATTENTION explores what happens when
you stop trying to answer every critic and start answering only to your
purpose. You get your life back—your time, attention, energy, peace, focus
and future. In this deeply personal book, Dr. Abhishek Gilara shares a
simple but powerful realisation that came during one unusually peaceful
Friday: the world had not become quieter; he had simply stopped listening
to what did not deserve his attention. As visible growth came, so did opinions.
Some admired his discipline, while others questioned his unconventional
routine, continuous learning, intense work, health-conscious lifestyle
and refusal to live according to what others considered normal.
Instead of spending his life defending every choice, he chose a different response: keep working, keep learning,
keep building, keep growing. Through five deeply personal chapters, the book explores why attention is one of
our most valuable assets, why criticism must be separated from useful feedback, why visible success often hides
years of invisible preparation, and why the strongest response to doubt is often not an argument, but consistency.
Why give hours of your life to someone who spent only seconds criticising you? Not every opinion deserves a
reply. Not every critic deserves your attention. Not every misunderstanding needs correction. Not every comparison
deserves participation. And not every person needs to understand your journey for you to continue walking
it. This is not a book about becoming deaf to criticism; it is about becoming wise enough to know what deserves
listening to. Take the lesson. Correct yourself where required. Thank those who genuinely help you improve.
Then leave the noise behind. Every minute spent unnecessarily defending yourself is a minute that could have
been invested in your health, family, work, knowledge, character, spirituality and purpose. People may see your
success and call it overnight. They may see the bamboo, but they never saw the roots—and that is all right. You
do not need to explain the roots. You only need to keep growing them. Ultimately, you have a choice: feed the
critic or feed the purpose; feed comparison or feed growth; feed anger or feed peace; feed the need to prove or
feed the person you are capable of becoming. The one you feed will grow. Perhaps the greatest answer you can
ever give your critics is not another sentence—it is a better life. Let your discipline answer. Let your consistency
answer. Let your character answer. Let your peace answer. Let your growth answer. And if nothing needs to be
answered at all—let silence answer. My growth speaks to them, not I.