‘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; […]
Action Bias
15th September, 2023 “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” wrote Blaise Pascal in the 17th Century. Action bias is to look active, even if it achieves nothing. We all fall to this bias in our daily life. We go to a doctor and he diagnoses it […]
Happy Janamashthmi!
7th September, 2023 Krishna was born in the darkness of the night, in the locked confines of a jail. However, at the moment of His birth, all the guards fell asleep, the chains were broken and the barred doors gently opened. Similarly, as soon as Krishna (Chetna, Awareness) takes birth in our hearts, all darkness […]
’The responsibility is yours’
2nd September, 2023 Martin Luther King Jr. stated in a 1953 radio address, “One of the most common tendencies of human nature is that of placing responsibility on some external agency for mistakes we have made. We are forever attempting to find some scapegoat on which we cast responsibility for our actions.” We all tend […]
Do you have a mountain to Climb?
1st September, 2023 If two people want to climb a mountain, what’s the most important thing they need? Is it equipment? Or training? Favourable weather conditions? Teamwork? Luck? The answer of course is that while they need all of these for sure, the most important thing they really need is the mountain itself. In our […]
The Last Dance
31st August, 2023 I recently had the opportunity to see the must watch Netflix documentary “The Last Dance” – about the Chicago Bulls’ dream run through the nineties winning six titles in eight seasons. Whilst everyone talks about teamwork as a takeaway from the documentary, I feel this documentary is all about leadership. Phil Jackson, […]
What does Freedom mean to you?
14th August, 2023 As we complete our 76th year of Independence, let’s spend a moment on What does Freedom actually mean to me? At different life stages, it meant different things, Freedom is not a concept carved from stone; it is malleable and personal, always shifting shape depending on where you find yourself. “Freedom means […]
‘Seventeen Inspiring Words’
13th August, 2023 As we get ready to celebrate our 77th Independence Day, I am reminded of the seventeen most inspiring words in 20th century American history which were spoken by John F. Kennedy, around mid-day, on January 20, 1961, in Washington, D.C. The occasion was his presidential inauguration, and came as he was concluding […]