The Will to Win
04th May, 2023 Our lives and the work we do rarely follow a straight line, They’re a myriad of dips, twists, turns, catapults, and zigzags. There are people who see you for who you are, and there are people who see you for who you can become. Be the latter for yourself. I recently read […]
‘JUST DROPS’
19th April, 2023 Recently, when I was going to bed after using my bathroom, I started hearing sound of drops of water from the tap in slow successions, but since it was dropping into an empty bucket, I decided to let it be. But, alas! When I woke up the next morning, the bucket was […]
Get Back on your Feet..
14th April, 2023 Baby giraffes never go to school. But they learn a very important lesson rather early in life. A lesson that all of us would do well to remember!!! The birth of a baby giraffe is quite an earth-shaking event. The baby falls from its mother’s womb, some eight feet above the ground. […]
What Do You See?
11th April, 2023 A professor asked his students to prepare for the test. The professor handed out the question paper and asked his students to turn the page and begin. To everyone’s surprise, there were no questions, just a black dot in the center of the page. The professor seeing the expression on everyone’s face, […]
‘The Streetlight Effect’
10th April, 2023 An old parable sometimes ascribed to Mulla Nasreddin, the 13th Century witty philosopher from today’s Turkey, tells of a drunkard searching under a street lamp for keys he has lost because the light there is better than where he thinks he lost them. A police officer sees a drunken man intently searching […]
‘Avoid the Wrong Choices ’
03rd April, 2023 In his classic book, ‘Winning the Loser’s Game,’ Charley Ellis gives one of my all-time favourite success analogies: ‘In expert tennis the ultimate outcome is determined by the actions of the winner. Professional tennis players stroke the ball hard with laser like precision through long and often exciting rallies until one player […]
‘Problem Solved’
02nd April, 2023 The teacher wrote on the board, 36X + yx, 2/3yx+3x(66y +12x)/b =0 He turned to the students and said, “Solve the problem.” One of the students walked up to the board, picked the duster, cleaned the board and said, “Problem Solved!” Wish some of our problems had similar solutions, but many of […]
‘It doesn’t add up’
28th March, 2023 A lot of things don’t make any sense. The numbers don’t add up, the explanations are full of holes. And yet they keep happening – people making crazy decisions, reacting in bizarre ways. Over and over. Historian Will Durant once said, “logic is an invention of man and may be ignored by […]
’Winning Lobster’
24th March, 2023 Hierarchies are everywhere. It is often argued that they are a social construct, invented to allow certain people to have power over others. But not everyone agrees. While promoting his new book, ’12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos,’ psychology professor Jordan Peterson, of the Univ of Toronto, has sparked debate […]
‘What is Evil?’
21st March, 2023 I recently read a book called ‘Evil- The science behind humanity’s dark side’ by Julia Shaw. It looks at why people do terrible things. One of its points is that most evil people do not think they are doing something wrong, because they can justify their actions in a way most victims […]