“Being Busy”

9th March 2024 Do you know that feeling of being so busy that time flies in the blink of an eye? We’re so busy with all kinds of things—work, friends, going out, partying, holidays, etc., but being busy is not a good thing. Especially because we waste most of our time being busy. We say […]

‘Kind > Clever’

24th Jan 2024 Jeff Bezos is known for his remarkable journey from a garage startup to building one of the world’s most influential companies in Amazon. But what’s truly remarkable is this one lesson he learned along the way: which is about the power of kindness over being clever. Here’s that story verbatim that Jeff […]

‘Life is easy’

19th Jan 2024 For the last few days, my phone had been troubling me. I was facing an issue with charging my phone. Despite keeping it on Charging mode for the entire night, the morning showed 20% charging leading to frustration & all kinds of operational problems. My house experts, my family, had immediate advice, […]

‘Love’

5th Dec, 2023 A college professor had his Sociology class students go into the Baltimore slums to get the case histories of 200 young boys. They were asked to write an evaluation of each boy’s future. In every case, the students wrote, “He hasn’t got a chance.” Twenty-five years later another sociology professor came across […]

‘The Man in the Arena’

21st Nov, 2023 Over the course of his time in the public eye, Theodore Roosevelt gave a number of moving, influential, highly quotable public addresses—but none of them has the legacy of the speech he delivered in Paris on April 23, 1910 – a speech called “Citizenship in a Republic,” which would come to be […]

Do Good!

23rd Oct, 2023 There’s so much that needs to be done in this world. The question is: what can we do to make the world better? Making the world better starts with believing we can make the world better. Part of that involves doing good to others and making positive impacts on those who surround […]

‘What’s your Leadership style?’

20th Oct, 2023 Leadership has precious little to do with authority, management acumen, or even being in charge. Instead, leadership is all about inspiring people to believe that the impossible is possible, developing and building confidence in people to perform at heights they never imagine. As is wisely said, “If your actions inspire others to […]

‘Lawrence of Arabia’

13th Oct, 2023 I recently re-watched my all-time favourite & the old classic, ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ after a long time. Lawrence led the Arabs and the Arab revolt by appealing to their larger sense of purpose, pride, and the desire to come together as a people in a great Arab nation. He made them believe […]

‘Stay Positive’

22nd September, 2023 I Came across this beautiful piece of writing to overcome negativity bias & hence sharing. “What I advise you to do is, not to be unhappy before the crisis comes; since it may be that the dangers before which you paled as if they were threatening you, will never come upon you; […]

‘Contentment’

3rd September, 2023 On a 17th-century tsukubai (water basin) stone at the Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto, there’s an ancient inscription where four Chinese characters are written on the stone. Read alone, these characters are of no significance. But when combined with the borders of the central square, they can be read as “ware Tada taru […]