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A bag is heavy only when it is on our shoulders
Here are a few things I saw many people say: 1. I feel like I am old enough and should be able to manage it on my own. 2. Being a man, it is expected that I should handle these things myself. 3. This is my problem and I need to figure out the...
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Whatsapp & Slack addiction
In a 2014 study, Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia left students in a room for 15 odd minutes with nothing to do (phones were taken...
Would you swap your life?
"Would you swap your life with that of an 80-year-old billionaire?" Almost any sensible youngster will respond to this question with an emphatic...
Tolerance for sloppiness
After graduation, one of my IIT buddies, a mechanical engineer, took up a job at a large auto manufacturer in India. Once he joined the...
The trail of envy
I live in a private residential complex owned by a group of IAS/IPS officers in Kerala. And when these IAS officers retire, often as the Chief...
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Addiction
Addiction is the inability to control our urge for something that we know is harmful and leaves us dissatisfied. The more we use it, the more desensitized we become and need higher doses to get the same high. All smartphone users - does it ring a...
Life is full of beauty
The most enjoyable course I took during my MBA at Wharton was taught not by a professor, but by a librarian. In the final semester of the MBA, no more under any pressure, I took a course outside the business school with the University of...
We discover the value of anything when we lose it
The glass is not half empty. Nor is it half full. The glass is 95% full -- just that we don't look around hard enough. When we move into a new house or buy a new car, in probably two weeks' time, we start taking it for granted. We discover the...
Our mind is the manipulator
How would you feel sitting in a really, really hot room without even a fan? When we call it sauna, we would pay a good amount of money to experience it in a luxury hotel. But when it is a power cut in the summer, we would curse the heavens for the...