Category: Life
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Don’t wait for the pain
I feel nature has assigned a disproportionate intensity of pain to teeth-related issues. Your heart, for instance, is so supercritical and yet so obedient (true stoic), it only raises a red flag when it nears a life-and-death equation. People die of heart attacks. It is sudden. But you can still live with all your teeth gone! Yet,…
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The crime of omission : office politics
Here is why office politics is so tricky to deal with. 90% of office politics is based on things people don’t say and things people don’t do. If you use a legal analogy, it is tantamount to the crime of “omission”. Crime of omission is something you haven’t done! failure to do a legal duty…
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Selling a product that is in the making
As a trend, creating visibility in a career or at a workplace is often prioritized before developing competence. It is like aggressive marketing even before developing a good product. Why limit ourselves to work space boundaries? Look at Instagram brands that have solid performance marketing in place. Thousands of followers if not millions, solid branding…
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Objective lens to understand mental health
People usually struggle at three levels when they try to manage their mental health. I learned about this in Jonah Hill’s mental health documentary on Netflix. One of the tools that I could really appreciate and relate to was called the three levels of life force. The three levels are like a pyramid. The first…
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The trap of being the listener
A couple of years back, during the peak of Covid, I got a call from a college friend. He hadn’t called me in years. The initial 2 minutes were spent checking on how we are keeping safe and when the pandemic is going to end after all. For the next 30 minutes or so, there…
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The trap of job identity
The video of Finnish Prime Minister, Sanna Marin went viral, a couple of days back. Why did the video go viral? Because there was a stark contrast between her personality and expected job identity. This contrast caught the eye of the masses. There is little room in our minds for an extroverted librarian. Or for…
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There is a part in the marathon where you walk
This was me in my first half-marathon in June 2022. Though I am smiling in the pic, that’s because runners care more about their appearance in the marathons. They pay for the pics. Under that smile, there is a slight disappointment. I could have done a little better but never mind, it was my first.…
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Who is a bad manager?
Do employees really leave because of bad managers? Who qualifies as a bad manager in that case? We tend to overuse the word “bad” here because we simply fall short of defining the inadequacies of a manager. The word “bad” always has a negative connotation to it. Most employees attack the personality of a manager…
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The value of decisiveness
Being decisiveness in life is like playing Tetris, every random block that emerges at the top is a decision to be made. It is your choice to not make the decision but then you also don’t get to play for long and have fun. Keeping this in mind, thought of sharing a simple perspective with…
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You always need a conflict
Growth only happens when you resolve your existing conflicts. Just recall all the movies that you have seen so far. Almost all movie scripts are based on a conflict. Here are the types of conflicts that are used in movie plots. Character vs. self (Joker)Character vs. character (Dark Knight)Character vs. society ( Rang De Basanti)Character…
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