Category: Articles & Opinions
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The safety to be Vulnerable
Why do people go on the offensive and defensive instead of collaboration. This is something I have wondered for a long time. I personally have been doing it and I have seen other people do it. I have not understood others, I have not understood me. I think when we are confident and safe we…
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Stories that hit us hard
Dan Heath’s book ‘Upstream’ starts with a story which has come to my mind over and over. And every time it hits hard… Two people standing next to a stream see a baby floating. One of them jumps and saves the baby. Immediately they see another baby floating. The other person jumps and saves. Then…
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How we spend our days
Sometimes a whole week of work with all its turbulence, confusions, learnings and self reflections finally boils down to a few minutes talk on a Friday and you say “that was a worthwhile week… Not perfect but productive”. And yes you say a Thank You! a big Thank You ! This ‘Thank You’ can be…
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What motivated you to choose your current career?
I don’t think motivation was what drove me into my current career, it was priorities, realization and interest. As a 16–17 year old when I was in my 11th and 12th, I had absolutely no idea what I wanted from life. If you don’t know what you want to learn and you were good at…
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20/365 When you rethink, reset and reach a Win Win.
It has been 20 days since I started this project and the format was that I write the blog and do a podcast on the same topic in my Malayalam Podcast. That was going all fine till two days back I felt that approach is in a way limiting what I write here. This is…
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19/365 The Fame Trap on Social Media
The urge to be famous has created a sorts of trap in the social media era. Earlier in order to be famous one had to do something in life. May be accomplish something that had to do a lot with talent and hard work but now it is different and anyone can be famous. Sometimes…
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17/365 A Writing Project with your kids
When my daughter was in high school I had done a year long writing project with her and it was mostly a Q&A. I post a question and she answers me and then we would discuss about it and so on. We did that for 365 days. This was around 7 years back I guess.…
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15/365 My experience of not consuming news like before.
It has been more than a month that I stopped viewing the regular news that I used to watch. No YouTube, No following news channels on TV, No Social Media News outlets… nothing. That does not mean I don’t consume news. My news consumption has moved to Podcasts. very focused and as per my choice.…
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