Saath Hai to family, bikhar Gaye to patthar ke tukde
15/05/21 Today is the International day of Families, a day to commemorate the strongest part of one’s household & what gives every individual a sense of belonging & affection. The family is what keeps us all together & elevates us towards a brighter & better future. Remember that you don’t choose your family, they are […]
Sunk Cost Fallacy
14/05/21 The film was dire. After an hour, I whispered to my wife: “Come on, let’s go home.” She replied: “No way. We’re not throwing away three hundred bucks.” “That’s no reason to stay,” I protested. “The money’s already gone. This is the sunk cost fallacy at work—a thinking error!” She glared at me, I […]
The happiest people in the world are not those who have no problems, but those who learn to live with things that are less than perfect.”
13/05/21 A group of graduates, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups – porcelain, plastic, […]
Have Faith
12/05/21 Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youths’ rite of Passage? A father takes his young son into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. The son is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through […]
What’s your “4-minute mile”?
10/05/21 Every game in life is actually played on a 6-inch ground – the space between your two ears. We don’t live in bungalows, duplexes or flats. We live in our mind which is an unlimited area. Life is great when things are sorted and uncluttered there. Keeping the mind messy ruins this real home. […]
One day, Thomas Edison came home and gave a paper to his mother. He told her, “My teacher gave me this paper and told me to give it only to you.”
09/05/21 Edison enquired from her, “What is written on the Paper?” His mother’s eyes were full of tears as she read the letter out loud to her beloved child, ” Your son is a genius. The school is too small for him& doesn’t have enough good teachers to train him. Please teach him yourself at […]
Dont wait for things to become better
08/05/21 Treat life like one of those races in nursery school, where you race with a marble in a spoon held in your mouth. If the marble falls there is no point coming first. Same is with life, where health and relationships are the marble. Coming first counts only with the marble still in the […]
The curse of Overconfidence
07/05/21 The youth are always high on confidence, like the motorist who has just learned to drive and starts speed racing the car only to increase the chance of an accident, be vary of ‘The curse of Overconfidence.’ I remember an old saying from my college days, “Confidence is I can kiss my girlfriend, but […]
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” wrote Blaise Pascal in the 17th Century.
28/05/21 Action Bias In a penalty situation in soccer, the ball takes less than 0.3 seconds from the player who kicks the ball to the goal. There is not enough time for the goalkeeper to watch the ball’s trajectory and react. He must make a decision before the ball is kicked. Soccer players who take […]
Tithing or Dasvandh
06/05/21 The ancient Babylonians practiced a vital law that was the cause of their immense prosperity – The Tithing Law. They used the tithing law, which involves giving one tenth of all money or riches that you receive. The Tithing law says that you must give to receive, and the Babylonians knew that the practice […]