The types of problems we teach children in schools to solve, are quite different from our real life problems. A problem you get in school are like – …
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Have you been ‘Struck by the Word’ yet?
Kabir says that we are ‘struck by the word’. My moment of being wounded happened when I read in Dr Wayne Dyer’s book these words – “You are a miracle”. …
How Alexander was defeated by his own army and what we can learn from it
How Alexander was defeated by his own army and what we can learn from it As the army of Alexander reached river Beas in 326 BC, the undefeated warrior…
One hundred people will have one hundred different meanings.
One evening Gautam Buddha was speaking to his disciples. This was his routine every evening sermon. After the sermon, as always, he said to his disciples, ”Now, go; and…
Lesson from Kyoto – Why to Create Great Memories?
During the Second World War, America had a list of Japanese cities that they wanted to bomb. Kyoto was on that list. But that city was removed from that…
Our Mimetic Desires and How they IMPACT Us
Most of what we desire is mimetic (mi-met-ik) or imitative, not intrinsic. We want to buy an iPhone because so many people have it. We want to go on…
Why Am I Often Expecting The Worst?
“I notice a lump on my leg. It looks a little strange. Has it grown? Is it discoloured? I keep looking at it and wondering. I think it’s definitely grown…
Everybody makes mistakes. Not everybody knows how to respond to a mistake.
Is that the difference between a life well lived and a life lived in a well (remember the story of the frog in the well?). What has been my…
The Wolf, the Announcement, and the Hero
Just when life is going on smoothly, along comes a setback, a #pandemic, a huge numbing loss, a heartbreak. Just when our fairy tale seems poised to come true, a wolf…
Handling Difference of Opinion
Once Mahatma Gandhi was visiting Shanti Niketan, the abode of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. At the end of the visit, before he left for Kolkata, he wrote in the visitor’s…