Blog | A field called you

2024 Nov 07

What you know is not as powerful

As how you came to know it Suppose you know 2+3 =5 or Earth has seasons This by itself has no meaning What makes it meaningful is when you know The relationship between variables - the way they influence each other In what situation does this knowledge become applicable However, what makes it powerful is when you realise How you came to know it – associated ...

2024 Nov 04

How do you get ahead of 99% of the people

By leaving the queue To buy a movie ticket from a counter Is not the same as the need to be defined by some external standard Both create queues One looks like a queue Other feels like a progression One makes you efficient Other makes you complete One frees you at the end Other conforms you if it ends One is the no-brainer ...

2024 Nov 01

In your madness

Lies your genius Your psychology is your perspective Your perspective is your madness Your inclination makes you you Your soberness takes you from you In your propensity you find your complementarity Just like the way pieces of a jigsaw puzzle come together to make something new Find your tilt And light will wash you Its not madness Its you!

2024 Oct 30

Are you a glass pane

Then why is everyone walking through you Are you a thermometer Then why is everyone asking you how is the weather Are you a roundabout Then why does everything go in circles around you Are you a gas burner Then why are you always cooking things Labels don’t describe you adequately Yet you run after them Who are you

2024 Oct 29

Why poker players are poker faced

Because with experience you realise The setting plays a role - be it the room, table, players, or small talk But the cards in hand are more important And the skills can make good of a bad hand However, it is the mind that transforms the skills into mastery And even then, to win is not guaranteed It hits you – like a curveball that turns The settings ...

2024 Oct 26

You may dodge bullets

You can’t dodge yourself The matrix is within What you see, understand and do Shows what you are dodging inside When you plug in to yourself You find your groove You fire Inside the barrel of every gun are spiral grooves that make the bullet spin faster, stay stable and acquire accuracy in its flight path. The gun and the bullets it fires are ...

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 ...