Indiaa Indiaaah – What a Shami Final
16th Nov, 2023 In my Book, ‘Dear Son -Life Lessons from a father.’, one of the most important chapters is titled, “Talent is not enough” Most people feel that if they have talent, they will surely succeed, but there are enough examples of highly talented people who have not succeeded or who have failed close […]
Day 5 – The final day of the Diwali Festivities – Bhai Dooj – The day of love between siblings
15th Nov, 2023 The festival of Bhai Dooj has a literal meaning attached to it. It is made up of two words namely- “Bhai” meaning brother and “Dooj” meaning the second day after the new moon which is a day of its celebration. Bhai Dooj or the teeka, as it is popularly known in the […]
‘REST’
21st Oct, 2023 “If a plant only gets sunlight, it’s very harmful. It needs darkness too, In the darkness, it converts oxygen into carbon dioxide. We are like that too. We need periods of doing & periods of non-doing.” ~Robert Pirsig According to the Dictionary, “To Rest is to cease work or movement in order […]
‘Autotelic’
16th Oct, 2023 Autotelic activity is one we do for its own sake because to experience it is the main goal rather than to achieve some external goal. From the Greek auto (self) & telos (end)—an Autotelic is “someone that has a purpose in, and not apart from, itself.” As opposed to someone who focuses […]
‘Doing the right thing’
10th Oct, 2023 Lessons learnt from school and our experiences as a child shape our values & behaviour. Doing the right thing generally means making decisions that are not based on your own personal needs, that don’t expand your popularity, or enforce your personal beliefs. It means doing what is best for the greater or […]
‘The 212° principle -That little extra’
6th Oct, 2023 Everybody knows that at 99°C, water is hot, very hot, and we also know that at 100°C, water begins to boil and becomes steam. Sam Parker and Mac Anderson expanded on this simple metaphor in their short book, ‘212°: the Extra Degree.’ They wrote, ‘Raising the temperature of water by one extra […]
‘Lessons from Sports’
27th September, 2023 With the Asian Games going on & the nation getting ready for the Cricket World Cup, I am reminded of a chat I has with a friend recently. One of my friends asked “Why do you pay so much money for your son to do all his sports”? Well, I have a […]
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 […]
Challenge The Traditions
14th September, 2023 A little girl was watching her mother prepare fish for dinner. Her mother cut the head and tail off the fish and then placed it into a baking pan. The little girl asked her mother why she cut the head and tail off the fish. Her mother thought for a while and […]
’Believe in yourself’
13th September, 2023 Faith, hope & belief in yourself is a theme that resonates in what is described as the greatest cricket match ever played: the one-day international match between South Africa & Australia in Johannesburg in Mar 2006. At the time, the record for the highest score in a 50-over game was held by […]