1/ Decades of work from multiple different subfields within psychology all point toward the conclusion thaThought-Provoking Life Lessons from the Book
1/ Decades of work from multiple different subfields within psychology all point toward the conclusion that regularly resting your brain improves the quality of your deep work. When you work, work hard. When you’re done, be done.
2/ For many types of work—especially when pursuing innovation—collaborative deep work can yield better results.
3/ Distraction remains a destroyer of depth. Therefore, the hub-and-spoke model provides a crucial template. Separate your pursuit of serendipitous encounters from your efforts to think deeply and build on these inspirations. You should try to optimize each effort separately, as opposed to mixing them together into a sludge that impedes both goals.
4/ Spending time in nature can improve your ability to concentrate. This resource is finite: If you exhaust it, you’ll struggle to concentrate.
5/ When walking through nature, you’re freed from having to direct your attention, as there are few challenges to navigate (like crowded street crossings), and experience enough interesting stimuli to keep your mind sufficiently occupied to avoid the need to actively aim your attention.
6/ If you simply stop whatever you are doing at five p.m. and declare, “I’m done with work until tomorrow,” you’ll likely struggle to keep your mind clear of professional issues, as the many obligations left unresolved in your mind will keep battling for your attention throughout the evening (a battle that they’ll often win).
7/ Great creative minds think like artists but work like accountants.
8/ By supporting deep work with rock-solid routines that make sure a little bit gets done on a regular basis, the rhythmic scheduler will often log a larger total number of deep hours per year.
9/ The five most common desires that a deep worker fights against include, not surprisingly, eating, sleeping, and sex. But the top five list also included desires for “taking a break from [hard] work … checking e-mail and social networking sites, surfing the web, listening to music, or watching television.
10/ You can expect to be bombarded with the desire to do anything but work deeply throughout the day, and if you’re like the German subjects from the Hofmann and Baumeister study, these competing desires will often win out.
11/ You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it. Your will, in other words, is not a manifestation of your character that you can deploy without limit; it’s instead like a muscle that tires.
12/ The key to developing a deep work habit is to move beyond good intentions and add routines and rituals to your working life designed to minimize the amount of your limited willpower necessary to transition into and maintain a state of unbroken concentration.
13/ You don’t need a rarified job; you need instead a rarified approach to your work.
14/ Deep life is not just economically lucrative, but also a life well lived.
15/ Skillful management of attention is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improving virtually every aspect of your experience.
16/ This concept upends the way most people think about their subjective experience of life. We tend to place a lot of emphasis on our circumstances, assuming that what happens to us (or fails to happen) determines how we feel. Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on.
17/ The advantage of cultivating concentration so intense is that there is no attention left over to think about anything irrelevant, or to worry about problems.
18/ If it’s high-tech, we began to instead assume, then it’s good. In most cases, it is actually not.
19/ Most people assumed (and still do) that relaxation makes them happy. Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging. The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.
20/ Big trends in business today actively decrease people’s ability to perform deep work, even though the benefits promised by these trends (e.g., increased serendipity, faster responses to requests, and more exposure) are arguably dwarfed by the benefits that flow from a commitment to deep work (e.g., the ability to learn hard things fast and produce at an elite level).
21/ High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus).
22/ When you switch from Task A to another Task B, your attention doesn’t immediately follow—a residue of your attention remains stuck thinking about the original task. The concept of attention residue helps explain why the intensity formula is true.
23/ Deliberate practice cannot exist alongside distraction, and that it instead requires uninterrupted concentration.
24/ To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction.
25/ To learn, in other words, is an act of deep work. If you’re comfortable going deep, you’ll be comfortable mastering the increasingly complex systems and skills needed to thrive.
Hope these deep lessons will help shape up your thought process to some extent and help you lead a better life. ...more
I, hereby, list down the 26 inspirational lessons that i learnt from this awesome book. I know that I need to keep practicing these learning day in anI, hereby, list down the 26 inspirational lessons that i learnt from this awesome book. I know that I need to keep practicing these learning day in and day out. These learning are worded and appended in a way that makes it easier for most of us to understand and absorb...
Thought Provoking Life Lessons from the Book 1/ A wise person should not ignore life's pleasures, but should always remain conscious of how easy it is to be enslaved by them. You have to be prepared for those pleasures disappearing in no time. 2/ Present is all that exists, and is the only thing that we can control. 3/ Things that we love are like the leaves of a tree. They can fall any moment with a gust of wind. Everything that we have, and everyone we love will disappear at some point. We have to be mindful of this, without being pessimistic about it. It should help us love the present moment and those who surround us in this moment. Keeping this in mind helps helps us avoid excessive pain in times of loss. 4/ There is no perfect strategy to connecting with our Ikigai. Don't worry too much about finding it. Life is not a problem to be solved. Just be busy with what you love, at the same time being surrounded by people who love you. 5/ We don't create the meaning of our life, we discover it. 6/ We each have a unique reason for being, which can be adjusted or transformed many times over the years.
Daily Health Habits - Secrets to long life from Super centenarians (110+ age) Japan has the highest life expectancy in the world. Okinawa has the highest life expectancy in Japan, and it is remarkable considering the fact that it was one of the worst affected provinces after WW/II. 1/ Japanese stop eating when their stomachs are 80% full. 2/ Just like exercising for the body is important, exercising for brain is also important. Otherwise, it can stagnate and go out of shape. In fact, the brain needs a lot more stimulation to stay in shape. As you get habitual of things, the brain develops neuronic bridges that can do things automatically for you, just like learning to drive a car. When this happens, it doesn't need to think anymore, unless it confronts with new information. It is like a person just eating and doing no exercise. That is why it is so important to expose yourself to change, even if it means stepping out of your comfort zone and feeling anxious. Dealing with new situations, learning something new everyday, playing games, and interacting with others seem to be effective anti aging strategies for mind. 3/ Stress is a proven killer. So, while challenges are good for keeping mind and body active, we should adjust our high stress life styles to avoid premature ageing. 4/ While sustained, intense stress is a known enemy, low levels of intermediate stress have been shown to be beneficial. People who maintained low levels of stress, faced challenges and put their soul into their work lived longer than those who chose a more relaxed lifestyle. Financial Freedom gives you an opportunity, not to retire and relax, but to burn yourself in things that you love doing. 5/ Relax. Slow down a little. Eat and Sleep well. Everything is fine. Life is a marathon, not a 100 m sprint. 6/ Keep your mind and body busy. 7/ People with clear purpose never retire and continue in their area of passion till their last breath. 8/ If you want to stay busy (one secret to longevity) when there's no need to work, there has to be an Ikigai on your horizon, a purpose that guides you throughout your life and pushes you to make things of beauty and utility for the community and yourself. 9/ Smile. Say hello to people. 10/ Work very hard, but on your ikigai. Working hard doesn't mean you have to take it too seriously. Effort is important, not the result. You have to enjoy what you do. 11/ Spend your morning in your vegetable garden. 100% of interviewed super centenarians kept a vegetable garden. 12/ Do many different things every day. Always stay busy, but do one thing at a time without getting overwhelmed. Not even one of the interviewed person was ever seen doing nothing. 13/ Celebrate little things. 14/ People who live the longest are not the ones who do most exercises but the ones who move the most. Metabolism slows down 90% after 30 minutes of sitting. After 2 hours, good cholesterol drops 20%. Just getting up for 5 minutes is going to get things moving.
Eating Habits - Secrets to long life from Super centenarians (110+ age) 1/ Eat a bit of everything. Variety is key. Eat a wide variety of foods, especially vegetables 2/ Okinawa people rarely eat sugar, and even if they have to, its cane sugar. No sweets or chocolates. 3/ They have extremely low salt intakes. - less than 10 g of salt per day. 4/ Eat less than you feel the urge for. This saves significant energy consumed in digestion. Even more efficient is the 5:2 diet, means eat regular for 5 days and fast for 2 days. This allows the digestive system some rest as well. 5/ Jasmine tea (green tea with jasmine) or white tea is the best for reducing blood cholesterol levels and fights free radicals. 6/ Eat lot of citrus fruits. They have chemicals which prevent cancer, diabetes and obesity.
Interesting Discoveries from the book 1/ Wabi Sabi It is a Japanese concept that shows us the beauty of fleeting, changeable and imperfect nature of the world around us. Beauty can be found in things that are flawed and incomplete. In fact, the Japanese believe that such things resemble the natural world more closely and hence must be valued. It is quite opposite to the western way of thinking which strives for perfection in everything. 2/ Ichi-go ichi-e It is another Japanese concept which can be translated as 'This moment exists only now and won't come again'. A deeper understanding and appreciation of every moment can help us lead a happier life. 3/ Anti-fragility Fragile gets weakened when harmed. Resilient or robust resist the shock and stay the same. Anti fragile gets better when harmed. Fighting for financial freedom adds anti fragility to your financial life. By adopting an anti fragile attitude, we start to love setbacks, because each setback is an opportunity to grow. We find a way to get stronger with every blow, staying focused on our ikigai. 4/ Logo therapy This was popularised by Victor Frankl and it essentially is a philosophy which helps you find reasons to live. He believed that everything can be taken from a human but one thing - the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given situation 5/ Flow It is a state in which one is so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter. The experience itself is so enjoyable that people would do it for the sheer sake of doing it. To achieve flow: a) Choose a moderately difficult task, b) Have a clear objective, c) Concentrate on a single task at a time. Human brain cannot multi task. We feel we can do so but what is actually happening is that we are switching between many tasks very frequently. This drains energy....more
Everyone interested to invest in the enigmatic world of Stock investing must read this book because: 1. New Innovations The book incorporates 8 (Eight) Everyone interested to invest in the enigmatic world of Stock investing must read this book because: 1. New Innovations The book incorporates 8 (Eight) new Innovations - formulas and techniques. These are a first of a kind in stock market arena. We need to get them copyrighted though. 2. Everything is Real The book is jeweled with real examples, real numbers, and real stock situations - right out of my own portfolio. There is nothing assumed about the stock investment process. The process works and works practically. 3. Experience Matters The crux of my 20+ years of experience in the stock market, as well as 45 years of life experience, has been stitched in a beautifully crafted story form. 4. Learning Stocks via a story The story format of stock learning is also first of a kind - where a stock writes its own biography and in the process, teaches how humans usually handle a stock and what is the right process to do so. 5.Simple is Powerful The lucid language and a simple story with real life examples are absolutely easy to understand and grasp. This will be, perhaps, the first book on stocks depicted in a simple story form - making finance easier than ever before. 6. The Lessons There are 83 unforgettable lessons - each one supported with real data and real examples. 7. A Cohesive Strength This book will form a cohesive combination with my first book (From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom), which is already a bestseller ! ...more
This is what I learnt from the book: 1/ It is difficult to love people who see everything as only black or white... More so when they themselves decideThis is what I learnt from the book: 1/ It is difficult to love people who see everything as only black or white... More so when they themselves decide what is black and white. 2/ Children are not your coloring books that you fill them up with your favourite colours. 3/ If you have some talent and you don't hone it, you are being a hindrance in God's mission. 4/ We often do mistakes, and big ones - including betraying someone's trust. Good people feel the guilt of those mistakes. To overcompensate for the guilt, they do great work. True redemption is therefore, when guilt leads to good. In the end, God will forgive everyone. 5/ It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better and because bad people also can become good. But when they are doing bad,you have to stand up to them....more
1. One who pursues a goal of even mindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss. He knows that'll man arrives and departs penniless. 1. One who pursues a goal of even mindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss. He knows that'll man arrives and departs penniless. 2. Plants have a sensitive nervous system and a varied emotional life. Not only plants, the life force in metals like tin respond positively or negatively to a stimulus. 3. Distinctions of important and unimportant are unknown to the Lord. 4. Never believe that you live by the power of the food and not by the power of God. Money, food and everything else are merely his instruments to sustain your life...only as long as he wants to. 5. How short is human memory for divine favours. 6. Attachment is blinding 7. Good and sensitive suggestions should instruct the sensitive ears of children. Their early ideas long remain sharply etched. 8. Be comfortable within your purse. Extravagance will bring you discomfort. 9. It is true that a man incurs the debt of a minor sin if he is forced to kill an animal or any other living being. But man's body is considered more precious than any of the other lower forms because of unique evolutionary value owing to its unique brain and spinal centers. No lower form is so equipped. 8. Thought is a force, even as gravitation or electric. 9. A guru does not accept a disciple's help unless it is offered cheerfully. 10. Imagination is the door through which disease and healing enters our body. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill, the unrecognized visitor will just flee away. A subtle spiritual structure is hidden behind the bodily mechanism. 11. Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead body. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife - effective but unpleasant. Candour with courtesy is helpful and admirable. 12. So long as you breathe the free air of Earth, you are under obligation to render grateful service. 13. The hard core of egotism is difficult to dislodge except rudely. 14. A worthy leader has the desire to serve, not to dominate. 15. Just as hunger, not greed, has a legitimate purpose - so the sexual instinct has been implanted by nature solely for the propagation of species. 16. Be softer than the flower where kindness is concerned, stronger than the thunder where principles are at stake. 17. Strive for a two fold existence. The soul must stretch over to have cosmic experiences, while the body must perform its daily duties. 18. Thoughts are vibrations in the space. A trained mind can receive the desired thoughts broadcasted by others, and also broadcast the thoughts - guided towards a specific person - by sheer will. 19. None other than the man is the instigator of the causes of whatever effects are now prevelant in his life. 20. The wise man defeats his planets i.e. his past by transferring his allegiance from the creation to the creator. The more he realizes his unity with the spirit, the less he can be dominated by the matter. 21. Man is a soul and has a body. 22. A master willingly sacrifices a portion of his bodily wealth to lighten the misery of his disciples, by even a taking a disease onto the himself , thus canceling the effect of some of their bad karma. By putting on the ailments of others, a yogi can satisfy, for them, the karmic law of the cause and effect. 23. If you don't invite God to be your summer guest, he won't come in the winter of your life. 24. God does not reveal himself to a seeker who is satisfied with any lesser attainment. 25. Those who habitually speak the truth develop the power of materializing their words. Truth is God. Man usually puts his trust in tangibles. When a person comes for healing, a Guru may advise them to wear a bangle etc.. These bangles and jewels, in addition to their electromagnetic healing potencies, also diverts attention from Guru.. thus avoiding the deadly ego. 26. Science is fit indeed to discover, and keep discovering the laws of already existing cosmos but powerless to detect the law framer. 27. Maya is duality. Rise and fall, day and night, pleasure and pain, good and bad evil, birth and death. It is the very fabric of creation. Electrons and Protons, action and Reaction,north and south.. Everything is dual. To rise above the duality of this physical outer world and seek the unity of creator inside us is one of the biggest objectives of human race... Something that they realise after wasting many thousand births in this duality of maya. 28. Great saints can do as they wish with their bodies, knowing it to be a manipulatable form of condensed energy. 29. Lord Shiva is spirituality designated as the king of yogis. 30. On occasions, an avataar may not caste any shadow or make any footprint on the ground. 31. The one who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachments, treads the sure path of enlightenment. Liberation is dependent on inner, rather than outer, renunciations. 32. Everything on earth is of mixed character. Like a mixture of sand and sugar. Be like a wise ant, that seizes only the sugar, and completely ignores the sand. 33. The mere presence of a body signifies that it's existence in made possible by unfulfilled desires. 34. Best human endeavour is of no effect if it has not God's blessings behind it. No effort is complete without prayer. It is a call to humility. 35. A man who has reformed himself will reform thousands. 36. Breath serves as the subtle link between body and soul. The flesh of a man could never carry on any activity or manifest energy, were it not for the life currents transmitted by soul to body via our breath. 37. Man's conscious state is an awareness of body and breath. His subconscious state, in sleep, is temporary separation from body and breath. His super conscious state is a freedom from the delusion that existence depends on body and breath. 38. God lives without breath. The soul made in His image becomes conscious of itself, for the first time only during the breathless state. 39. Life by life, each man progresses at his own pace, be it ever so erratic. 40. Every spiritual mystery will ultimately solved for the devotee by God himself. The final mysteries of God are not open to discussion. He who knows tells it not. He who tells knows it not. Lord alone is the teacher. 41. Spiritual truth, as with any other truth, belongs to the Lord, and not to India or any other country....more
I, hereby, list down my Top 15 learnings from this awesome book. These learnings are worded and appended in a way that makes it easier for most of us I, hereby, list down my Top 15 learnings from this awesome book. These learnings are worded and appended in a way that makes it easier for most of us to understand and absorb.
So, here we go with our 15 greatest lessons from this book that influenced me immensely.
1/ A human is not a being; he is a becoming. He is an ongoing process – a possibility. If there is any limit to what we can achieve and become, to the possibilities in life - that limit is created by us and no one else. Our mind is as powerful as we think it is. [ Recommended Book --> 'Dream' On by Manoj Arora]
2/ Right now, your idea of who you are – your sense and experience of who you are – is very strong. You are here as an individual, but what the trees exhale, you inhale, and what you exhale, they inhale. Or in other words, one half of your lung is hanging up there. Without it, your lungs within would be dysfunctional. Yet, in your experience, you think this individual is everything. As an individual, we cannot achieve much- rather it is difficult to survive beyond a few seconds. If we are so dependent on the world around us, then there is no place for ego and self centeraism in case 'you' achieved anything.
3/ Reading a book to know about yourself is silly. You are here, alive and kicking! It is alright if you are reading a book to get inspired to take a step inward, but if you want to know something, you must look inward. The entire knowledge of the universe is zipped inside you. You may look out for some specific information,but this informationis useful only if you have visualised it inside, connected it inside to some thoughts, beliefs qand actions in life. The power will come from experience the outside information inside.
4/ What about your system? This is the gadget. Every damn gadget has come out of this. What percentage of this gadget do you think you are employing? It is well below one percent, because for your survival process, to conduct your life in the material world, you do not even need one percent of your system’s potential. Your body is capable of perceiving the whole cosmos. We are much more powerful than anything outside us. Survival is not what we are here for. That is extreme underutilisation of our capabilities.
5/ Any animal in nature – whether a worm, insect, bird or animal – is made far more capable than you. The human body has come with a different capability altogether.
6/ Most human beings instead of looking beyond the needs of survival, have just raised their standards of survival. We are raising the bar, but it is still only survival. This is an unintelligent way of using the human mechanism which has come with a different possibility altogether.
7/ The quality of your life is decided not by what kind of clothes you wear, what kind of car you drive or what kind of home you live in, but by how peaceful and joyful you are within yourself. This is essentially the quality of your life. Everything else is done to get there. If this does not happen, everything else goes waste. Happy and Peaceful life for our own self is the end purpose (the root cause) of everything that we do - be it helping others, taking care of our families, charity, social work, building a great career. In the end, we are only looking for experiencing and sharing happiness.
8/ Where the receptivity is in your hand and where the giving nature of the feet is – if these two things are connected – you may achieve in a moment what you cannot achieve in years of sadhana. It is with that hope that everybody is diving for the feet all the time, hoping that somewhere they may connect. Hands are for reception and feet are for giving. That is how these sense organs have been designed. This is also where the age old Indian tradition of touching your elder's feet find its unique relevance. You are trying to recieve something extraordinary from someone.
9/ Temples were never built as places of worship or prayer. In a temple, nobody leads you in prayer as it is done in a church; you are just left alone. You are supposed to sit there, that is all. These were energy centers which handle that dimension of the impact on your life which comes from the outside.
10/ Health is not the goal of life. There are more people on this planet healthy and miserable than unhealthy and miserable. At least if you are unhealthy, you have a good excuse for your misery. Health and misery, you have no excuse Health is important, very important - but it can never be the goal or the purpose of your life. Just like money, it acts a means to achieve your end objectives. At the end of your life, you will leave both your health and your money but your mission could be carried on by the next generation.
11/ The air that you breathe, the water that you drink, the food that you eat, the land that you walk upon, and the fire of life in the form of the life force –if you keep these controlled and focused, then health, wellbeing and success in the world are assured.
12/ As a little blade of grass has shot out of the earth, you are also like that – a little mobile, that’s all.
13/ Smear the earth upon the body. By just being in touch with the earth, the system will start reorganizing itself. The body is reminded of its own nature in a very fundamental way, and that reminder must be on all the time. Get off your high cot, just sleep on the floor. You can clearly notice that there will be a great sense of health in your body. in the first one-and-a-half feet from the Earth, the thickness of the pranic vibration is a lot more than it is above. As it goes up, it becomes thinner and thinner. Stay grounded and down to the earth - literally :)
14/ In today’s water supply system, water is pumped forcefully through a pipe, and it may take fifty bends before coming to your tap. By the time the water lands in your house, they are saying that sixty percent of it will be poisonous –not chemically, but because its molecular structure will have changed. It may not be contaminated the way you normally look at it in terms of bacteria, but just the force of travel is making the molecular structure change in such a way that it is no longer beneficial, perhaps even poisonous. If you hold this water in a copper vessel and keep it there for ten or twelve hours, the damage will undo itself. Step by step, we must keep improving. Atleast in our house, we have taken a step to drink overnight stored water from an earthen pot. We do not keep water in our refrigerator and never drink it directly from the tap. When you come to our house as a guest, this is what we will offer you as well.
15/ If with just a thought or a look, you can turn the water in a vessel sweet, then with the right kind of attitude, focus, and attention towards it, can’t you turn sweet the water in this vessel of the body? If you turn that water sweet, you are seventy-two percent sweet. Positive vibrations, thoughts and our subconcious mind can act wonders. We can charge the water we drink, and if we are 75% water - then a lot of positive energy is likely to go inside us. As it is said, our thoughts create our destiny.
"It is not over until you Win" by Les Brown is a book that lists down some of the success principles which may not really be new in success literature"It is not over until you Win" by Les Brown is a book that lists down some of the success principles which may not really be new in success literature, but what makes this book unique is the uniqueness of his story and presentation of success principles in a rather refreshing manner.
I, hereby, list down the 14 of my learnings from this epic book. These learnings are worded and appended in a way that makes it easier for most of us to understand and absorb.
So, here we go with the list of 14 of my Book Lessons from this book that influenced me immensely.
(1) It is important to enjoy those times when life smiles at you. Do not spend all your time planning for the next goal, rather do spend time to enjoy some of the milestones that you have already achieved.
(2) Nobody has all the answers all the time but there is always a way. You got to believe in the fact that if there is a problem, there has to be a solution. It may take time, effort and energy to discover it, but the fact that there is a solution, should never make you lose hope.
(3) You are always more powerful than the conditions that surround you. There is immense power in you. You are HIS creation, and how can HIS creation be weak or fragile? You must believe in your enormous potential, and leave a lasting impression around the world.
(4) If you risk your life staying in a zone which is comfortable and secure, you may regret not exposing your talent to the world. If you truly believe that your potential is enormous, the only next thing that is going to stop you is the lack of ability to come out of your comfort zone.
(5) Fear death, if you want to, but don't fear life. Learn to live before you die. Each one of us have the same beginning and the same end. It is the journey inbetween that we can script our own.
(6) Be careful what you dream and expect. You might just get it, or it may get you. Your thoughts and dreams are energy. They are transmitted to this Universe, and they come back to you in the form of your destiny.
(7) Leave it to the woman you love, to remind you of your Values and the person you are. That is why a woman can never be the same as a man. She has some unique abilities, wisdom and talent that a man is not designed to possess. You must trust your Intellectual Companion to show you the right way in the direction of your values.
(8) The only person who can potentially stop you from achieving your dreams is the person standing in your shoes. What you get in life is what you subconsciously you believe you deserve. Your conversations and self talk with yourself holds the key. Your self confidence in your own abilities will define where you end up.
(9) Time just sneaks away before you can get a sense of how much has already sneaked. If you have unfulfilled dreams, write them down and go after them right away, with a sense of urgency. Time happens to be your biggest asset in life. If you are spending your time on the things that you do not love to do, you are just wasting your life. In fact, time is the only currency.
(10) To reach success, you have to pass failure. It is OK to try and fail rather than not trying at all. Failures add meaning, texture and value to our success. Not only that, failure is critical and mandatory for success. You got to prepare yourself, and failure is what will teach you and prepares you for success. Each setback and failure is a little nudge from HIM to Dream On.
(11) Momentum while chasing your dream is vital. It opens up enormous unseen opportunities. There has to be an urgency to succeed. Your generated momentum will help you overcome many obstacles which you would otherwise find more difficult to overcome or will spend more than the required time and energy to do so.
(12) You have to push at the edges constantly because you never know when life would give in a little and open up new opportunities for you. Coming out of your comfort zone involves trying new things, and making yourself push hard and become uncomfortable. But you gotta keep doing that to explore beautiful new destinations for yourself....more
(1) After your basic needs are met, Money does not matter until you have found meaning in your life (2) Measure your life by purpose accomplished rathe(1) After your basic needs are met, Money does not matter until you have found meaning in your life (2) Measure your life by purpose accomplished rather than profit accumulated (3) With hard work and persistence, after leaving the herd, massive selfish transformation is possible. (4) Haven't found your purpose yet? Have patience. It exists and hasn't yet been fulfilled. (5) Listening intensely is a far more value adding skill than speaking immensely. (6) When your faith is tested, you have to believe that there will be light ahead and continue moving forward. (7) Our life, with all its luxuries, is a result of sacrifices by our past generations. We owe so much to them and to the world around us. (8) A common need that spreads across cultures and countries, among wealthy and the poorest is the need for proper education for their children (9) The biggest of dreams often start with the smallest of asks (10) You can start something big no matter how small you begin (11) Friends are the family you choose (12) Speak the language of the person you want to become (13) The statements from others that your mission is impossible is one of the surest ways to unite your team into a rebellious outfit that can go on to prove everyone wrong. (14) Find one person from the audience whose lit up the most listening to you. If you can motivate just 1 person in a room in every session, that's enough to create a revolution. (15) You never realize the value of something until you face the prospect of losing it (16) When you are a part of something that you truly cherish, you have to defend it against many outside distractions and temptations. Whenever faces with competing opportunities, always be guided by your Values rather than perceived necessities (17) If you want to be realistic, go somewhere else. This is a place for dreamers (18) Creating something new is easy. Creating something that lasts is the challenge (19) What seems like overnight success actually takes years of hard work, toil, persistence, setbacks, failures and lots and lots of learning (20) Value every rupee you earn. Value every rupee you spend even more (21) In trying to protect the interests of an organization, never undermine the interest of the employees. They are the organization. (22) We all make mistakes. It's the weak who make excuses too. (23) Failure is a necessary step before achievement. In fact, it often accelerates it. Biggest opportunities are not found in the midst of success but in the methods through which we address failure. (24) Make the smaller decisions with your head and the bigger ones with your heart. (25) Change your words to change your worth (26) You may be safe but I am free (27) No one likes someone who is one dimensional (28) Be a great speaker. Be a greater listener (29) If you want to go faster, go alone. If you want to go farther, go along with some one (30) The difference between good leaders and great leaders is in the detail. (31) Establish or adopt a system where nothing falls through the cracks. Every follow up or response is critical. (32) The hardest climbs are the ones that yield the most rewards (33) I wasn't this serious about my goals initially. But the more people doubted me, the more committed I became. (34) The sexiest part of our body is our brain. (35) Lack of access to education is not just a concern but a crime (36) If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough. (37) Organisation growth is rarely linear. You can't look at the past to determine the future. (38) The single most important factor for a youth is that they don't have the experience to know what is not possible. Your life should be a story that you are excited to share (39) The most direct route to Happiness is to create something for someone else. (40) Inside every single person lies an extraordinary story waiting to unfold ...more
1/ Do something in this lifetime that no one has ever done before. That is how he made his goal to be the best Olympian ever. Dream big. Learn from new1/ Do something in this lifetime that no one has ever done before. That is how he made his goal to be the best Olympian ever. Dream big. Learn from new obstacles and challenges. Transform yourself.
2/ When I was in school, a teacher said that I would never be successful. Things like these stick, and then motivate you. Yes, they do. Negativity around you can push you into a corner OR can pull you out of your comfort zone to break the shackles and write your own destiny. It all depends on how you tackle the power of this negative energy.
3/ Nothing is impossible, and because nothing is impossible, you need to dream big dreams. What you achieve is decided by the size of your dreams. Keep no inhibitions in your mind. Dream big, because nothing is impossible. Nothing is unattainable. You need to break the imaginary wall of excuses that you have created around yourself. Ask "Why Not" more often to yourself. Challenge your abilities.
4/ The will to succeed is everything.
5/ In a weird way, my broken leg gave me a sense of urgency which later on proved to be a big positive for me. A setback usually comes with a negative mask but is usually there in your life to transform you, provided you are willing to learn and accept the fact that it is mandatory for you to face setbacks, if you have to elevate yourself. Every setback is a little nudge from GOD for you to Dream On higher in life. It is only after you have transformed, and you look back at your life in retrospect, that you realise the importance of those setbacks in your life.
6/ You can't Dream up confidence or self belief. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability. To gain confidence, action - rigorous action - is mandatory. You have to be on the ground and try it out. Once you have achieved or are close to achieving or are improving, you start getting confident about yourself and your abilities. There is no other way. There is absolutely no other short cut. Your ability has to be demonstrated on the ground. You just cannot acquire confidence via mere visualisation or dreaming big or reading about successful people.
7/ I never ever train against other people. I train myself to win against the clock. I never aimed to be the best athlete ever. I always aimed to be the best athlete I could be Competing with others is a sure shot recipe to create stress for yourself, and also to put a limit to your potential. You can enjoy a blissful life with achievements far exceeding anyone else only if you win against the clock. What do great champions like Tiger Woods say after any event - I was good in the last round, I could manage the last lap pretty well today... Not like... I was worried whether I would be able to beat him. Great champions have no competition. They are always competing with themselves.. And that's where they are always focused.
8/ Attitude, Action, Achievement (AAA) - That is the order in which you can expect to achieve things. You are going to be an Olympic gold medalist in Attitude long before you have a medal around your neck. Your Attitude in life determines your Altitude. That's exactly how important Attitude is. Give it any lesser priority, at your own peril. Your mastery and achievement in your craft is mandatorily preceded by your mastery in Attitude and then a mastery in your action. It is only after that you can think of achieving something extraordinary.
9/ People always step up and do things out of the ordinary at the Olympics The environment in which you perform creates a big impact on your own performance. In marathons that I have been personally running every year, we call it as a "Race Day Magic". Keep yourself in great company so that you can brush your thoughts with the greatest around.
10/ Set your goals high. Then work rigorously every day to achieve them Setting your goals is very important. But the challenge only starts there. It is the day to day work that you have to perform to achieve your goal that is going to test you. Focus on the daily routine, the daily process and do it consistently to achieve your goals. Hard work, skill, patience - all are important, but daily consistency is the key.
11/ Greatness comes from longevity It is good to achieve your goals. But the journey from Good to Great comes only if you achieve them over and over and over.......again and again. You have to go out and prove that your achievements are not fluke.
12/ I tried to do something bold at Athens, and failed. But it is trying that matters. Achievement is important, but trying is what is vital. Achievement is not feasible without trying while vice versa is not true. You do not learn when you achieve, but you learn and improve only when you go out and try.
13/ It takes time, energy, heart and soul to get things done. If I was sometimes not in the right mood to practice, I had to get myself in the right mood. How you feel is how you think, and how you think is 100% in your control. No situation, no person, nothing outside you can impact your thoughts, unless you allow it to. If you are not feeling like chasing your goal today, then change how you feel by changing what you are thinking.
14/ To focus, understand "WIN". "What's important now". When challenged and stretched, understand what is important now You may be deep in shit, but being there, forget where you were earlier in favourable times. In that tough situation, you must focus fully so that you can come out of it. Do not keep comparing it to your earlier situation. Focus, Focus hard on your current situation and think about what best can be done now. Do not waste time. What is important now is what will matter later. A champion can deal with any kind of pressure under any circumstances.
15/ No one is more important than anyone else to be treated any differently We were all born equal. We had our fair share of opportunities. Though we achieve different levels of success, we play an equally important part in the drama of life, and in the success of others. No one can achieve anything of one's own. Everyone needs immense support for success, and therefore everyone has an important role to play.
16/ However difficult your goals may seem, there is nothing that is not possible, as long as you keep dreaming on the possibilities (after winning the 7th gold at Beijing by 1/100 th of a second) Never let anyone tell you that anything is impossible. Because nothing actually is.
It is often not big changes, but small ones, that spark big influence in our lives. If ever there were small things that you could potentially achieveIt is often not big changes, but small ones, that spark big influence in our lives. If ever there were small things that you could potentially achieve you extraordinary results, you ought to read this book. This book has the potential to impact your daily life by bringing in the minimal changes and achieving remarkable outcomes... Do you already follow some of them? Read on..
"The Small BIG" by Steve J Martin / Noah J Goldstein and Robert B Cialdini is an awesome read. There are 52 small changes mentioned in the book (perhaps one for a week) that you can bring in yourself or your environment to bring in extraordinary results in your life. You may be aware / may have read about some of these in one form or the other but I have listed 20 of my Book Lessons that influenced me sharply.
(1) Social proof - the evidence of crowd The evidence of crowd following a specific thing is a big influencer to people behavior. Our behavior is largely influenced by the behavior of others around us. So, while selling a product, if you can highlight the number of positive feedback, reviews etc, it influences people to take a decision too.
(2) Reason not required People who get influenced by the decision of the crowd often do not know or do not want to know the reason for their decision.
(3) Specific Evidence More specific is the evidence, more is the probability of others to follow. It is advisable to give real time specific information when talking about any concept or product.
(4) Uniqueness People seek to define themselves based on what makes them unique. If possessing a specific product or a concept will bring people in a unique category, they are more likely to go for it.
(5) Client's Success One of the biggest way to motivate an employee is to remind him / her of the significance of his / her role to client's success
(6) The Broken Windows phenomenon The Broken Windows phenomenon suggests the importance of keeping small things neat and tidy and how these positively influences others.
(7) The sweetest word Our own name is the sweetest word we hear. Use the recipient's name quite often in your communication with others to keep them interested in what you are trying to convey.
(8) Ask questions to confirm decisions You can persuade people by asking questions that plan and confirm their decision rather than a question which could confirm or negate a proposition. As an example, if you are pursuing a key person to attend a meeting, instead of asking 'Are you attending the meeting today?', you might ask a confirmatory question 'What are you doing just before our meeting today?'. Whatever be the answer of the person to the later question, you have got a confirmation for the meeting in any case.
(9) Lock people to commit to decisions You can lock people to commit to decisions by letting them know that the decision is implementable in far future rather than in the near future. This is especially true if they are not very sure of their decision today.
(10) Meaningful distractions Meaningful distractions for people waiting in queue can drastically reduce their frustration and improve loyalty.
(11) The Right Seating Arrangement A circular seating arrangement nurtures collaboration while a square or rectangular seating arrangement promotes uniqueness and ownership. So, depending on the way you want to drive the meeting, you might choose an appropriate conference room.
(12) Unsure Experts People expect experts to be certain about their opinions. But it is only when the expert expresses uncertainties that people are truly drawn into what they are saying. This is perhaps because they believe that no one can know everything, and an honest expression of uncertainty goes a long way in building the trust factor.
(13) Room Size People are proven to think more creatively if the room has a high ceiling or, even better, is an open lawn. So, it is not only you feel better in an open space, but also think better and more creative. Another reason, I should again start sleeping in an open terrace rather than an air conditioned room.
(14) Visualisation Once again, it is proven beyond doubt. You can recollect all your power by writing down or visualising your powerful moments from past.
(15) Questions and Questions There are no silly questions... Ask questions, ask help as often as you can.
(16) Be the first one While negotiating, be the first one to place an offer and make sure that the offer is as precise as it is feasible. The first offer becomes the baseline and drives the entire negotiation discussion.
(17) Cost Saving When selling, don't just focus on cost savings for the client, but highlight what could potentially be done with the saved cost, thus leveraging the concept of Cost of lost opportunity, if the client does not go with you.
(18) Chasing Goals - Small Area Hypothesis When starting to chase goals, focus on the smaller achievements in the early phases (like 10% done rather than 90% remaining) and on smaller pending activities at a later stage (like 10% remaining rather than 90% done). This is called small area hypothesis and keeps you motivated towards your goal.
(19) From a Distance Taking a physical step back and viewing the task from a greater distance can reduce your perception of how difficult the task of actually is. So, if you're stuck with a stubborn problem or are not able to take a decision, actually take a few physical steps back from the problem and re-think.
(20) Peak-End Effect / Duration Neglect Every experience has a 'peak-end' effect i.e. we tend to remember the peak experience and the end of the experience e.g. Remember one of your older vacation and you will realise that we remember usually the best / worst experience of the vacation and then how the vacation ended, completely forgetting the rest of the duration. This term is also called as duration neglect. So, to create better memories for your lifetime, you may reduce the number of days of your vacation but ensure that you have the thrillist adventure possible and wind it up with a great last day.
Important is that all of these extraordinary results have been proven scientifically by more than one research and study. Go, pick your small change that can influence your results significantly. ...more
Invest in companies with great businesses AND great management, then mostly leave them alone.
In investing, it is not necessary to do extraordinary thiInvest in companies with great businesses AND great management, then mostly leave them alone.
In investing, it is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. Do ordinary things well. Same holds true with life.
Facts do not cease to exist, either because they are unpleasant or because they are ignored.
Noble intentions should be checked periodically against results. Accounting numbers are the language of business and as such are of enormous help to anyone evaluating the worth of a business and tracking its progress.
However, accounting is but an aid to business thinking, never a substitute for it.
Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.
Managers that always promise to ‘make the numbers’ will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.
The intellect should be the servant of the heart, but not its slave
It's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.
Manic-depressive personalities produce manic-depressive valuations.
Price and value can differ; price is what you give, value is what you get. You can't make a good deal with a bad person.
Should you find yourself in a chronically-leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
It's not what you've got - it's what you do with what you've got. We are willing to look foolish as long as we don't feel we have acted foolishly.
Speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest.
You can be highly successful as an investor without having the slightest ability to value an option. What students should be learning is how to value a business. That’s what investing is all about.
The declines make no difference to us, given that we expect all of our businesses to now and then have ups and downs. (Only in the sales presentations of investment banks do earnings move forever upward.)
In the stock market, what the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.
Occasional outbreaks of those two super-contagious diseases, fear and greed, will forever occur in the investment community. The timing of these epidemics will be unpredictable. And the market aberrations produced by them will be equally unpredictable, both as to duration and degree. Therefore, we never try to anticipate the arrival or departure of either disease. Our goal is more modest: we simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Stocks can’t outperform businesses indefinitely.
When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night’s sleep for the chance of extra profits.
The most important thing to do when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked. A promise is no better than the person or institution making it.
the most elusive of human goals - keeping things simple and remembering what you set out to do.
Anyone who says money can’t buy happiness simply hasn’t learned where to shop....more
My learnings : (1) As much as winning is sought after, losing is also an integral part of the game. (2) The players age or rank does not count beyond a My learnings : (1) As much as winning is sought after, losing is also an integral part of the game. (2) The players age or rank does not count beyond a point. (3) When you look back from a winning position, you tend to forget all the toil and slump. (4) You need to believe that you can win irrespective of your opponent. For that, visualization is very useful. (5) We Indians are making progress in every tournament. We are making it difficult for our opponents and that's the point media misses when they say that India lost. (6) I couldn't keep explaining myself to everyone. I must focus on my game and the game would do the talking. (7) If through my efforts, there are youngsters who can today consider badminton as a viable career, I am ecstatic! If they can dream of reaching the top, my success has been worthy. (8) Parents should start enrolling their kids in sports early, preferably between the ages of five and eight, to recognize their children’s potential. (9) I recommend that children study as much as possible. Sportspersons’ career spans are limited and they will need to be employable once their sports career is over. (10) There is a certain responsibility that comes with success and I have learnt that one is never fully prepared for it. (11) I am not the most talented player in the world or in the country, but I have made up for what I lack in talent with hard work, commitment, and focus. I think that this combination works no matter what you do in life. (12) Finding something you love to do and giving it your all is a great life mantra to have. (13) Having Dreams is a positive sign of progress and of creative minds. (14) Education is as important as sports....more
An inspiring tale of a young boy who learns to dream, who rises from a failure to be the most successful author, who realizes that we are sent here onAn inspiring tale of a young boy who learns to dream, who rises from a failure to be the most successful author, who realizes that we are sent here on a mission, and that we must drive our passion to discover our mission and then chase it. Awesome life principles and values woven in a simple and powerful story of this boy......more
My learnings : (1) There are two things that make today the greatest entrepreneurial age: 1. We have access to teachers like never before. 2. You can sMy learnings : (1) There are two things that make today the greatest entrepreneurial age: 1. We have access to teachers like never before. 2. You can start a business from home while still working at your job (2) No job is guaranteed. A job is always at the whim and mercy of others. If you truly want security, you would be better off relying on yourself (3) People are trainable. They can be trained to be either employees or entrepreneurs (4) The reason there are more employees than entrepreneurs is simply because our schools train young people to become employees (5) Yet to hear any parent say, ‘Go to school so you can become an entrepreneur (6) If you’re the leader of the team and you’re also the smartest person on the team, your team is in trouble (7) CEOs give their employees just enough money to afford food and shelter and a hint of medical care. The employees would then be forced to work long hours at difficult jobs. It is the same with slavery. Slavery was abolished. Freedom has to be earned. (8) To be successful in school, you had to take tests alone, else you are stamped as a cheater. In real world, to generate wealth, you collaborate to create win-win during testing times. (9) Many people think that a leader's role is to solve the problems of the team. No. It's role is to identify the best person in the team to solve the problem. The team solves the problem as the leader provides the tools and environment to help the team communicate effectively. (10) Sales is done one on one. Marketing is sales done via a system (11) Security and Freedom are direct opposites. The more security you seek, the less freedom you have. The people with the most security are in jail. If you want freedom, you need to let go of security. Employees desire security. Entrepreneurs seek freedom. (12) Setup a business. Automate it with a perfected process. Come out, and setup another one. Go on. Keep yourself free..always. Process is the key. ...more
My learnings: (1) Adversities always presents opportunities (2) There is a larger energy or force than can crush our ambitions and goals in the blink ofMy learnings: (1) Adversities always presents opportunities (2) There is a larger energy or force than can crush our ambitions and goals in the blink of an eye. The only way forward is to survive, and then rebuild your life. (3) Our country needs citizens who trust their individuality which cannot be manipulated by people with unscrupulous agendas (4) It does not matter how large or small your sphere of activity is, what matters finally is the commitment that you bring to your work. (5) Destiny, traditions, situation will test the women again and again. Yet, she will find a way to guide her family out of any crisis and she will do it with such love that it will inundate your heart. (6) When faced with adversity, we discover hidden resilience and courage - something that already existed. (7) Books gave me dreams, which became mission. (8) Events of great magnitude shift something with in us at a fundamental level (9) When we reach pinnacle of success, we tend to ignore the numerous sacrifices that have gone behind it. (10) In sadness, you are truly alone. That's when your true self is revealed to you (11) The best way to win is not to covet the win too much. Keep a calm and open mind to new challenges. (12) The line between leadership and bullying is a thin one. (13) Our mind is unbelievably elastic and can expand as much as we let it. The belief in yourself that comes along in life changing. ...more
My learnings: (1) We do a mistake if we cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit. The rules that we choose to write as aMy learnings: (1) We do a mistake if we cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit. The rules that we choose to write as a society matter a lot. (2) Achievement is Talent + Practice / Preparation, the latter being the majority stakeholder. (3) Approx 10,000 Hours of practice is required to be a world class expert in anything. It takes roughly 10 years to put in 10,000 hours of practice. (4) Ten thousand hours is an enormous amount of time. You cannot do it all alone. You will need lot of encouragement, support and you cannot be doing a part time job to make your ends meet, because you will just not be be left with enough time everyday to hit 10,000 hours of practice. (5) IQ matters but only up to a point. Beyond that, its your attitude. It is just like in a basketball game, height matters but that's just up to a point. (6) No one, whether rock stars, professional sportsmen, billionaires, and not even geniuses - make it alone. They need guidance and support at the right age. Good parenting, great environment is key in producing legends. (7) When you accept a salary cheque, it basically boils down to what you feel is right vs what you can do to receive the next paycheck (8) the opportunities you are presented with for success are not only dependent on your inner qualities, your parenting but also the time you were born in this world. (9) Most air accidents are not a result of any major mechanical or technical failures. These are usually small incidents that happen one after another - which either get unnoticed or are not communicated properly in an unambiguous manner. This lack of communication has a lot to do with the culture in which the pilot and the co-pilot are born and brought up in. (10) No one who can rise before dawn 360 days a year fails to make his family rich...more
My learning: (1) If you disagree with someone, you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They wont pay any attention to you. They stMy learning: (1) If you disagree with someone, you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They wont pay any attention to you. They still have lot of ideas crying to find their way to expression. (2) Dont you have more faith in your own ideas than those offered to you on a silver plate? If yes, then it applies the same way when we offer our ideas to others. Offer ideas only if asked, and even after that, retract and let them make their own decision. (3) A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. Speak softly. Be polite. (4) Humility and praise, when rightfully used, can work miracles in human relations. (5) Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit. We cannot grow without it. (6) We might do the same thing as others, given the same circumstances. (7) Teaching children to count is important. Teaching them what counts is critical. (8) Even God does not judge. Who are you and me? (9) The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important. Make people feel important and they would do anything for you. (10) Be lavish in appreciation. People will cherish and treasure your words, and repeat them till years after you have forgotten them. (11) the rare individual who unselfishly tries to help others has little competition in this world. He need not worry about his future. (12) You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people that you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. (13) People are not interested in you and me. They are interested in themselves. When you see a group photograph that you are in, whose picture do you look at first? (14) There is nothing either good or bad. Our thinking about it makes it so. (15) A person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. (16) When your child talks to you, stop everything else and listen. There is nothing more respectful and lovable as listening. (17) Many people call a doctor when all they need is a good audience. (18) Any fool can try to defend his or her mistake, and most fools do....more
My learnings : (1) Our age is not determined by our birth certificate or calendar, but by our biological clock, which is powered by our positive thoughMy learnings : (1) Our age is not determined by our birth certificate or calendar, but by our biological clock, which is powered by our positive thoughts. (2) You dont get better and then become a public speaker. You speak and get better. (3) Enjoy everything without falling slave to anything. (4) Nature resists every change until a threshold is reached, beyond which it starts to support....more
My learnings from the book (1) If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either (2) Go narrow and deep. Ignore all the things that you could do, and My learnings from the book (1) If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either (2) Go narrow and deep. Ignore all the things that you could do, and do only the things that you should do (3) Not all things matter equally. Find those that matter the most. (4) You only have so much time and energy. When you spread yourself out, you end up being thin. (5) No one is self made. No one succeeds alone. No one. There are many people, wishes and hundreds of situations that must fall in place for you to succeed. (6) The line between passion and skill is often blurred. Passion leads to disproprotionate practise leding to higher skills leading to better results, which feeds passion further. This chain reaction spirals to extraordinary results. (7) Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that dont. verything does not matter equally. Prioritise. (8) Things that are most important do not often scream the loudest. (9) Being busy is not enough. So are the ants. (10) Multitasking is a myth. A human mind can focus on one task a time. Only involuntary tasks or automated tasks can happen in parallel. (11) Task switching costs us valuable time to reach the same productivity level as we were, before we left the task. (12) Select the right task, wotk consistently on it, make it a habit, and then you are liberated from having to monitor it ever. It is automated in your brain. (13) Will power is not available on will. It keeps getting diminished through the day as you use it. (14) Do your toughest task in the morning when your will power is at its peak. (15) A Balanced life is a myth. The reason why we should not pursue balance is that magic happens, not in the middle, but in the extremes. (16) To achieve extraordinary results, you must chose what matters mostand give it all the time it demands. This requires getting extremely out of balance in relation to other work issues. You may infrequently counterbalance to address them. (17) No one knows their ultimate ceiling for achievemnt. Giving it a shot is the only way to get an idea. (18) On the journey to achieving big, you get bigger. Achieving big requires growth, and by the time you arrive, you are big too ! (19) People who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the only ones who do. (20) think big, Aim high, Act bold (21) Keep your most important appointment with your No. 1 priority..everyday without fail (22) Until your most important thing of the day is done, everything else is a distraction (23) Turn off your phone, shutdown your email, close your beowser. Your most important work deserves 100% of your attention (24) Focus is about deciding what things you are not going to do. (25) When you strive for greatness, clutter is bound to show up because of your extremen focus on one thing. If a cluttered desk is an indicator of a cluttered mind, what, then represents an empty desk? (26) It is only when you can visualise a bigger life, can you hope of living one. (27) Whenever you look back at your life, the things that might cause you the biggest regrets are the things that you did not do. Your actions may be stupid, but it is your inaction that will cause you the regret. (28) When you dont know what matters most, anything makes sense. The best lives aren't lead this way....more
My learning: (1) It is not about how good you are, it is about how good you can be. (2) If better is possible, good is not enough (3) Often, we make choiMy learning: (1) It is not about how good you are, it is about how good you can be. (2) If better is possible, good is not enough (3) Often, we make choices to avoid conflict. We tend to take the easy road and do nothing at all, rather than the road less traveled and stand up for what we believe in. Whatever be our choice (not making any choice is also a choice), we own the consequences of the same. (4) Good or bad, we should never regret the choices we make on a daily basis. This is how we learn more about ourselves and this is how dreams are chased. (5) There is nothing like an individual's sport. There are teams behind the camera glare, working for every athlete. (6) There is nothing like a role model. There can be specific traits in a person worth emulating, but considering someone to be a role model is a farce. (7) One of the techniques to be ultra focused is to imagine your mind consisting of compartments for each activity - sports, family, friends, work etc... Depending on the moment, we must learn to unlock and stay in a compartment. (8) You can either grow or degenerate. Either of these is happening all around you, all the time. There is nothing called a "safe comfort zone". This is a convenient name depicting the process of degeneration. (9) By now, we know where real and limitless productivity comes from. It comes from challenged, empowered, excited and rewarded team of people. (10) You are highly mistaken if you think that the current way is the best way to deal with the problem. There is a better way always possible. (11) Do not focus too much on the end result. Focus on the process that delivers the end result. (12) The principle role of a coach is to become redundant as soon as possible. (13) Dont be an expert, be credible, be a servant. (14) Always be in the moment and pay full attention to the person you are talking to....more
(1) Make people feel good, because people who feel good about themselves can only produce great results (2) Observe people in your team very carefully,(1) Make people feel good, because people who feel good about themselves can only produce great results (2) Observe people in your team very carefully, and catch them. Catch them doing something right. Yes, right. And then make sure you let them know about it. (3) When pointing mistakes, do it immediately, be specific, short and talk about the act, not the person. (4) Approaching work or life without very specific documented goals is like bowling without pins or watching a football match with no goal posts. (5) Feedback is the breakfast of the champions. They always want to improve...always. (6) Everyone is a potential winner. Some people are disguised as losers. Do not let their appearances fool you....more
(1) If you think you have no time for activities that fill you with bliss, then the fact is actually, you have no intent. Everyone is given 24 hours. (1) If you think you have no time for activities that fill you with bliss, then the fact is actually, you have no intent. Everyone is given 24 hours. Organise your life in a way that you add more life to your years. (2) My home is a sacred place where my wounds are healed. It is neat, fragrant and beautiful. It is filled with positive affirmations all around. (3) The most exciting breakthrough of the 21st century will not be in the area of technology but in the notion of what it is to be human. (4) Beware of the "obvious" path of life....more
Happiness happens to be the end objective of our life, and if there is any book that lucidly explains how to inculcate happier moments in your life - Happiness happens to be the end objective of our life, and if there is any book that lucidly explains how to inculcate happier moments in your life - this has to be one.... ...more
My learnings: (1) Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is. (2) You can get everything you want in life, if you can help enough people get whMy learnings: (1) Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is. (2) You can get everything you want in life, if you can help enough people get what they want in life. (3) Just like a balloon of any color would rise in the air, it is always what is inside you that will make you rise. (4) The difference between the big shot and the little shot is that the little shot, when it kept on shooting, became a big shot (5) It is not who is right that's important. What is important is what is right (6) A person who does not stand for something, will fall for anything. (7) If you set the example, you will not have to set the rules (8) You never drown by falling in water, you only drown if you stay there. No failure is final. (9) what you see in others - exists in you (10) The greatest good we can do for anyone is not to share our wealth with them, but to reveal their own wealth to them. There is astonishing talent that resides inside a human being. (11) One person with a belief is equal to the force of 99 who only have interest. (12) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least (13) Be somebody - God does not take time to make a nobody (14) Talking is sharing, but listening is caring (15) Yes, there is a danger in setting goals but there is an even bigger risk if you are not setting them. (16) The average man on the street continues to meander through life following the path of least resistance as a wandering generality rather than a meaningful specific. (17) You are obliged to earn more than you need, because in doing so, you will create job opportunities for less privileged than you. (18) Money, assuming it is legitimately earned, is a yardstick that simply measures the service you have rendered. (19) On reaching your goal, what you become is far more important than what you get. (20) A day is a miniature lifetime. And with a lot of good days, you make a great life !! (21) Good habits are difficult to acquire but easier to live with, and bad habits are easy to acquire and difficult to live with. (22) When we give anything our total effort, we are winners regardless of the outcome....more
Read it after 10 years. What a perspective change can do to the same book. The book makes you believe in what it preaches.
My Good Reads rating 4/5
My Read it after 10 years. What a perspective change can do to the same book. The book makes you believe in what it preaches.
My Good Reads rating 4/5
My learning: (1) Everything happens for a reason. Every event has a purpose and every failure has its learning. Failure is essential to personal expansion. (2) Spend less time making a living, and far more time creating a life. (3) When we grow old, we lose the sight of our dreams and we start doing what adults around us are doing. (4) The boundaries of your life are the creation of your own self. (5) When your mind looks at the goals written on paper, it tells itself that these are the most important elements to be achieved and all thoughts which do not relate to this, go to the background and become subdued. The mind then starts to attract situations which support that goal, much like a guided missile searching and adjusting itself towards a predefined target. (6) One easy way to know whether you are chasing your passion - Do you "have to" go to work everyday or do you "want to" go to work everyday? (7) When you push yourself beyond your limits, your discover inner potential (mental and physical reserves) which you never thought you already have. (8) All the mistakes you will ever make in life have already been made by those who have walked before you. You are not the unique one facing this problem. Read the right books and you will always improve your quality of life drastically. (9) Little bit of fragrance always clings to the hands that serves the roses. Selfless service and giving is the ultimate formula for elevated living....more
(1) Does success not demand a price? No, each step forward pays you a dividend. You pay a price if you do not pursue your passion. (2) There is lot of (1) Does success not demand a price? No, each step forward pays you a dividend. You pay a price if you do not pursue your passion. (2) There is lot of competition at the top? Will that be worthwhile to reach the top? Where is the competition? Competition is all at the bottom. (3) One must learn from our mentors, watch them, study them but need not worship them, I must leave the doors open to surpass them. (4) I am going to live until I die. I am not going to get life and death confused. (5) The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than your intelligence itself. (6) Action is the only antidote to fear. Isolate your fear. Know exactly what you are afraid of, and then take immediate remedial action. (7) Motions are the precursors of emotions. We can change our attitude by changing our physical action. e.g. Walking 25% faster can boost self confidence. (8) If we think we cannot, our mind will generate excuses to support our thinking. If we think we can, our mind will generate ideas to support our decision. For sometime, just block the impossibility and let your mind generate ideas, You will realize you have much more potential than you ever thought. (9) Eliminate the word ʺimpossibleʺ from your thinking, reading and speaking dictionary. This is a word for failures. (10) Nothing grows in ice. If we let tradition freeze our mind, new ideas wont sprout. Be willing to challenge what's around you today if you want to lead in the future. (11) Capacity is a state of mind. How much we can do, is how much we think we can. (12) Ideas a re highly perishable. They need special handling and care. Every day, numerous new ideas are born, only to die a natural death because they are not immediately penned down on paper. Memory is a weak slave when it comes to preserving new born ideas. (13) Action, action, action - That's the only way to implement ideas. Action removes fear. (14) Success requires heart and soul. Unless you quit what you are doing only to earn money and where you do not have your heart and soul, and follow your passion, you will never be successful, though you may be well paid and have a financially secure future....more
A simple and motivating narration from Arindam on how to manage people and organisations well..
My GoodReads rating 3/5
My learning: (1) If there is any A simple and motivating narration from Arindam on how to manage people and organisations well..
My GoodReads rating 3/5
My learning: (1) If there is anything worthwhile to be done, then it must be done with passion. (2) A boss and an employee put together knows more than the boss. Learn to listen to your team (3) Be not afraid of growing slowly, be only afraid of standing still (4) People are an organisation's only sustainable competitive advantage. (5) Things do not turn up in this world, until someone turns them up. (6) The world stands aside, to let pass the man who know where he is going....more
Loading...
