Calling Out and Calling In. I figured out the importance of that differentiation and was able to delver deeper into the meaning and difference as I read Loretta Ross’s new book Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel. We don’t agree with everyone we come across. People at work and people in life. Most of them we can get by, … Continue reading Calling In by Loretta Ross: Book Positive
In Ichiro Kishimi‘s ’The courage to be disliked‘ there is an interesting sentence that comes to me over and over. It goes something like this, or that is how I understood. “Happiness and self worth comes from being beneficial to the community, by being of use to someone else.” This is a profound and deep idea in a world where time and again people feel … Continue reading Happiness of being used
Sometimes you feel there is no option to slow down and we have to keep running ! I listened to the Ted Talk by Carl Honoré in 2010 and then I read his “In Praise of slowness” and even connected with him on LInkedIn. Well that was a time when LinkedIn was all fancy 😜 I should be honest that my life has been anything … Continue reading Slowing down with Carl Honore
I recently read ‘The 4 stages of psychological safety’ by Timothy Clark. A book that is among the many books on my manager‘s desk. I love it when you have books around you at work. It is a sign telling you there is room for improvement for everyone. I have been reading the book for past few days as it is also a topic often … Continue reading The 4 stages of Psychological Safety
One of the most important books I have read in the recent times is The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder. Written by Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao. The title itself speaks a lot as there are times when we find the reverse manifest itself. It becomes so obvious that it is easy to do the … Continue reading The Friction Project Book
How is technology and our online interactions impacting us? The even more important question is “how is it impacting the younger people”. I can attest that it has significantly impacted me at this age and when I took a 90 day detox it made me realize how much my online persona had eaten into the actual me and in a way altered me. I agree … Continue reading The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt | Book Positive
Sharon McMahon‘s ’The Small and the Mighty‘ tells you the story of 12 Americans who changed the course of history. School Teachers, a telephone operator, a poet on a train, a young boy detained in a Japanese concentration camp (We still call it internment camp when it was really a form of incarceration) and others. Common people like many of us and that reminds me … Continue reading The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon
Reading through 350+ pages on stupidity… On the psychology of stupidity to be precise. A few things have become clear. I have been stupid way more times that I will publicly accept. And everyone I have known has been stupid in atleast on one occassion. They might not accept but I have felt so. And that is ok in my opinion. It is nothing to … Continue reading How Stupid Am I Really ?
Book Reviews Vlogs, which I call Book Introduction, are one of my most favorite videos. I have a personal benefit when I do Book reviews. One is that I get to connect with some of the Authors. Another reason is that doing a vlog of the book will help me solidify what I understand from the book. I usually create the video much later and … Continue reading 319/365 Book Reviews Vlogging
I had started reading memoirs very actively sometime last year and I might have mentioned that here as well. I found that to be a good blend of both non fiction and story… A mix of both worlds… Recently I read this interesting book by Nadia Wassef – Shelf life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller The book is about a bookshop Diwan that Nadia started … Continue reading EP 266 (202/365) Shelf Life by Nadia Wassef
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