Category: Social
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How our beliefs & habits get built and why we need to break some!
Source: http://www.flickr.com/ Our beliefs build our character and habits shape our personality! Are our beliefs or habits gifts from destiny/divinity or products from our genes or DNA? Many tend to believe that it is; but that is not true. Our genes or DNA may influence some tendencies e.g. not recognizing impending dangers like legendary car racer…
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Can you live happily ever after?
Source: http://www.flickr.com/ Prince got married to the princess and they lived happily ever after! Story ends here. If you get relegated in history at the time of your happy moments, you are supposed to have lived happily thereafter, since no one has further information about your life!! Does that happen in reel or real life? First…
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Good has limits; but bad knows none!
Source: http://www.flickr.com/ When going is good, we see no limit! Then, a stage comes when we start to take U turn. Good starts to become grim be it growth, success or relationship. Our belief that sky is the only limit gets grounded! To be truthful, “Sky is the limit” is only a phrase. Contrary to popular…
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Being in double mind is indeed a double trouble!
Source: http://www.flickr.com/ “Shall I do it or better leave it”, “This would work; no, it may not” or “Shall I frankly say that; but it may annoy her” is a regular struggle, most have in their minds! One of my former colleagues in USA was a group leader. He was intelligent, technically sound and in very…
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Hard work doesn’t give shine; being smart and savvy do!
Source: http://www.flickr.com/ Hard work in any walk of life is desirable; but that is not good enough to give you the required visibility, shine and success! There are regular debates, at times acrimonious ones; whether employees of an organization should work hard and long hours as opposed to what is smart working. Most corporate managers take…
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(de)Merits of Multi-tasking!
Source: http://www.flickr.com/ Most believe that multi-tasking is more efficient than doing single task at a time. General perception is that you can do it faster through multi-tasking and quality can still be achieved. Human mind is such that it is always loaded with multiple thoughts. It is rare that only one thought is crossing our mind…
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Many try to trade off good karmas with grim ones; does that work?
Karma is a relatively new addition to English dictionary; so for the sake of clarity, let me explain its basic meaning. Karma means one’s deeds, doings or thoughts and effect, which one would experience as a result of the same. Our life embodies karma and therefore, life and karma are inseparable. Karma is completely secular…
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“Being in rush” is being in reverse gear!
When you are running short of time, you want to make up by rushing up. If you believe that you can really make up that way, you need to rethink! Research shows that you actually lose more time; the perception that you have saved time is only an illusion!! Factually speaking, you go in reverse…
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Beauty and Banes of becoming or being Big!
Size and figures matter to all of us. Notion of what size or figures are appropriate or optimal varies from things to things. We would try to explore whether there could be a universal definition or norm for what is right. Companies, which are small in size, find it hard to survive in face of…