by Rajan Singh | Dec 9, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
There is no such thing as ‘karma’ – good deeds don’t always generate tangible rewards. What goes around, need not come around. One might then ask: If good deeds don’t create good karma, why should we do good things? Because they are...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 8, 2022 | Productivity, High-Performance, Flow
John Maynard Keynes, the father of modern macroeconomics, had a rather optimistic view of the future. In 1930, he predicted that 100 years hence people would be working just 15 hours a week, or 3 hour shifts per day, because the standard of living would be so high...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 8, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
When I first met my Inspector General of Police (IGP) after taking charge as Trivandrum Police Commissioner, he went on a rant. He said, “I don’t know how the government posted you here and how you will handle such a tough assignment. This is really...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 7, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
A few years ago, I was on a flight from Jaipur to Bangalore. As soon as the flight took off, the plane ran into the kind of turbulence I had never encountered before — it was getting violently tossed up and down. Sometimes, it felt like the plane was in free...
by Rajan Singh | Dec 6, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
In the early 2000s, I got into the habit of regularly watching TV. Now, there is absolutely nothing wrong per se with that, but at some point, I started feeling anxious that I would miss out on some new episode or some upcoming movie. In those days, I had not heard...