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2024 Oct 24

When the animals start taking selfies

You know the forest is becoming a zoo The difference between a forest and a zoo is, the forest is, and the zoo tries to capture how it is. The forest chimp is busy swinging and the zoo chimp knows it is a chimp. As children we are busy living, and as we become adults, we get busy describing living. In the process of capturing, do we ...

2024 Oct 24

When Don Corleone speaks softly everyone listens

What do I do Its okay to sell sandwiches on a busy railway platform and see movies. You need to raise your voice or you will be eating your own sandwiches daily. Its okay to not follow Don Corleone. He would make offers people could not refuse. See that name again, its like Dom Pérignon. No need to be loud or sell. Its good to ...

2024 Oct 20

I would rather have a good conversation

Than all the knowledge of the world A good conversation is transformative. It is not planned. It happens. A good conversation connects two dots in such a way that they find themselves and each other. Conversations warm your soul. A good one bares the soul. Conversations fill spaces. A good one changes the space. Conversations show the road. A good one is the fork. A ...

2024 Oct 18

What the tortoise knows

That B schools don’t tell Patience is one of the most under rated virtues. It is free but its absence can be costly. Many a things: Work best slow Eating and digestion Finding your calling Need to be left undisturbed Plaster cast on fractures Investments and compounding Fructify as per their natural time Concrete needs 48 hours to dry and 48 days to strengthen ...

2024 Oct 16

Sudden

Was real for me Maybe you have read Sudden novels. The wild west series was written by English writer Oliver Strange in 1930s. The strange fact is that the writer had never been to America. Sudden was a sharp gunfighter known for his bravery, brevity, and dry wit. He could be cool as a cucumber in the frying desert, tough as nail when the chips were down, ...

2024 Oct 13

Quit playing games with yourself

You sit in a circle that protects you Whispers in your ear what you want to hear Casting shadows of your flickering light Inside you plays your song in a loop Strings the fertile void in delight Shines your light Do you see yourself as a void complete or a circle incomplete Quit playing games with yourself!

2024 Oct 11

When you choose

Are you framed There are 3 kinds of choices we make in decreasing frequency Choices within the box Choice of choosing the box Choice exercised to expand one’s awareness & free will that creates new boxes The ease of making above choices: High Medium Low The potential impact of these choices: Low Medium High The anchor gradually shifts from inside to ...

2024 Oct 08

The idea on the back of the envelope

Needs clarity - not simplicity Be clear before being simple When you are clear you take the responsibility of thinking through When you are simple someone takes the responsibility of helping you through Clarity chomps complexity for breakfast Simplicity waits to be fed Ever ordered a simple soup or been operated upon by a simple surgeon Be clear.

2024 Oct 06

In reality we move from natural competence

To acquired incompetence And then there is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs Truth is we are born complete like the seed And then slide down to secure our safety needs It’s an upside-down world Where the race to the bottom decides the winner To know yourself is the greatest gift you can give yourself: What comes intuitively to me What do I accomplish consistently with finesse and ...

2024 Oct 04

A mile and a millimetre

Behave equal in the fertile mind A mile drive in a shiny new car A millimetre dent in the same car One is too short other too long Decades go in a blink Moments stay forever One a blur other bright and clear To see a grain of sand in the Universe And the Universe in a grain of sand A childs play for the ...