‘The Salmon Run’
10th August, 2023 All major animal groups including birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, mo insects & crustaceans migrate hundreds and thousands of miles and the trigger for migration my be local climate, availability of food, the oppressive season or for mating purposes. It is only we humans who are afraid to change and tend to […]
‘Which Fish Are You?’
9th August, 2023 Three fish lived in a pond. Their names were “Plan Ahead”, “Think Fast” and “Wait and See”. One day they overheard some men making a plan to go fishing in their pond the next day. They also mentioned about casting a net and selling fish in the market. “Plan Ahead” said, “I […]
‘The revealing powers of seeming irrelevant details’
8th August 2023 The world-famous chef Heston Blumenthal was once asked, before trying the food, can Heston tell if a chef/restaurant is good? “Yes, almost immediately after I sit down,” he said. “As soon as the butter is brought to the table.” Butter, he said, is an indicator of whether or not the chef has […]
Don’t be Paranoid – Be Pronoid
4th Aug, 2023 I got introduced to a new word – Pronoia in psychologist Adam Grants book I read recently, ‘Give and Take’ in which, he writes about pronoia. Pronoia describes a state of mind that is the opposite of paranoia. Whereas a person suffering from paranoia feels that persons or entities are conspiring against […]
Order In Your Surroundings, Order In Your Head
1st August,2023 Rafael Nadal says the toughest opponent in professional tennis is his internal dialogue. “What I battle hardest to do in a tennis match,” he writes in ‘Rafa,’ “is to quiet the voices in my head, to shut everything out of my mind but the contest itself and concentrate every atom of my being […]
Are you Ready to Grow 100 X
1st Aug,2023 I recently wrote a blog on the ‘Pygmalion Effect’ (https://sandeepsahni.com/the-pygmalion-effect-2/ ) which essentially talks about Expectations, and how they are a self-fulfilling prophecy. High expectations shape high performance – Low expectations shape low performance. Pygmalion Effect is named from the Greek myth of Pygmalion, the sculptor who carved a statue of a beautiful […]
‘Reference Group’
25th July,2023 Jim Rohn said: “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” The people you spend the most time with shape who you are. They determine what conversations dominate your attention. Audit the people around you. Make sure that you’re spending time with people who are in line […]
‘The Law of the Seed’
24th July,2023 Have a look at an apple tree. There might be hundreds of apples on the tree, and each apple has ten to twelve seeds. Now that’s a lot of seeds! We might ask, “Why would you need so many seeds to grow just a few more apple trees?” Nature has something to teach […]
Kaizen
21st July,2023 Benjamin Franklin said, “Little strokes fell great oaks.” The Japanese have talked for centuries about Kaizen, which means ‘small continuous improvements.’ Instead of trying to make radical changes in a short amount of time, if you can just make small improvements – just 1% better – every day, that will gradually lead to […]
Social Loafing
12th July, 2023 Social loafing refers to a psychological phenomenon which states that the employees working in a group, underperform a given task in comparison to their potential, ultimately hindering the group performance. This is because they develop a casual attitude towards the assigned responsibilities by putting in their least contribution and thus, relying upon […]