Posted on 19 June 2009 (Views: Popularity: 35%)
We human beings have this common habit of forgetting the joys and remembering the bad times. We never ever think of being happy with what we have. I don’t say that we should not pursue success, money, fame or love. I just want us to remember the reason why we want success, money, fame or love. Read more »
Tags: car, childhood, family, Happiness, Pursuit Of Happiness
Posted on 31 May 2009 (Views: Popularity: 34%)
The one speech I personally loved, albeit not attended live, was made by Mr. CV Narasimhan as part of introducing MS Subbulakshmi to the United Nations audience. It epitomized brevity, but stayed with me for a long time. . Read more »
Tags: CNBC, CV Narasimhan, Graduation, MS Subbulakshmi, Paparazzi, politicians, Visweswariah Technological University, VTU
Posted on 27 May 2009 (Views: Popularity: 34%)
We do not want to wait at the traffic signals; we do not want to wait in the queues. We do not even wait for our salary (hail the credit cards, we can shop now and pay later) to buy what we want. Is impatience really a virtue? Read more »
Tags: beauty, facebook, GPS, Happiness, Impatience, Phones, Salary, Virtual World
Posted on 13 April 2009 (Views: Popularity: 22%)
Risk and Reward are two words that have always gone well together – like peanut butter and jelly in some ways because one is sweet and the other salty! The culinary experts advocate a pinch of salt in the most sweetest of desserts to give it a nice twinge – maybe they need to be told the reference to risk and reward!! Read more »
Tags: advocate, Financial post, Peanut Butter, Reward, Risk, Salt, Warren Buffet
Posted on 01 April 2009 (Views: Popularity: 57%)
You may try to fake your body language to give a different signal to others after studying all these. You may succeed awhile; your body language will reveal the real ‘you’ ultimately without you recognizing it! Read more »
Tags: Body Language, Feeling Guily, Hand to Cheek, Legs Crossed, Rubbing the Eye, Walk
Posted on 01 April 2009 (Views: Popularity: 16%)
Considering Barry Schwartz’s rare expertise in analyzing the economics side of human psychology, he couldn’t help bringing up the fact that the incentives (bonuses) augmenting the rules being part of the economic problems we are dealing with. Read more »
Tags: anecdote, Barry Schwartz, incentives, Operations, Psychology, Right Thing, Rules, TED, TED Lectures, Wisdom
Posted on 31 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 21%)
Women send approximately five times more body language messages and gestures than men in the same time period. Body language has proven to be our most reliable indicator of how others feel about us Read more »
Tags: Body Language, Body Weight, Chair, Clothes, Gestures, Mirroring, Nervousness, Pupil
Posted on 30 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 22%)
When you’re in an environment bustling with people your posture becomes an immediate telltale sign of your confidence and composure. Your stance literally makes a stand for you, delivering a clear message about how you should be treated. Read more »
Tags: Blinking, Body Language, Clothes, Collars, Fingernails, Genitals, Hands, Interviews, Lage Raho Munnabhai, Lint, Presence, Shirt, Shoulders, TIME
Posted on 29 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 30%)
About a decade back I studied materials on Body Language and observed people on this unconscious communication. The book said “after reading this the whole world will look different through your eyes”. I ventured to compile interesting facts on this subject. These may help you in your job interviews. Read more »
Tags: Blinking, Body Language, Clothes, Collars, Fingernails, Genitals, Hands, Interviews, Lage Raho Munnabhai, Lint, Presence, Shirt, Shoulders, TIME
Posted on 28 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 17%)
M-B test has been quite popular in the corporate circles and is used in identifying an employee’s personality type and assigning tasks accordingly. Now, a website called Typealyzer has come up with a new tool that determines the M-B personality type of a blogger. Read more »
Tags: Blog, Extraversion, Feeling, India Special, Introversion, Intuition, Judging, M-B, Myers-Briggs, Perceiving, Personality, Psychometric, Sensing, Typealyzer
Posted on 27 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 11%)
Make no mistake – playing by the team and working as part of a larger ecosystem is more important today than ever before, but let us consciously make an attempt to encourage and reward individual brilliance as well. Read more »
Tags: Chauffer, ecosystem, Edison, Einstein, Invention, Newton, Opportunity, Patent, Scientist
Posted on 22 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 11%)
It was really hard at the beginning as I found my thoughts wandering all the time but I found that once I was able to exert control onto myself consciously in the form of being in the moment, I started looking at possible approaches to daily situations that I am not sure I would have thought of, earlier. Read more »
Tags: Alankaara Shastra, Boatman, Chidambara Rahasya, Psychological, Rahasya, Sahitya, scholar, Tharana Vidhya
Posted on 09 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 13%)
While it is important to worry about extremely important things in life, it is equally important to keep ourselves reminded of the good things that we have done and the memorable times that we’ve shared with our loved ones. Don’t worry, be happy. Read more »
Tags: Albert Schweitzer, Authentic Happiness, Dont Worry Be Happy, Happiness, University of Pennsylvania, Upenn, Worry
Posted on 27 February 2009 (Views: Popularity: 12%)
These days it is seen as important for one to highlight one’s contributions in a competitive workspace – in avenues like the performance reviews, there is a specific opportunity for the individual (by way of what’s referred to as self appraisals) to highlight one’s own contribution. Read more »
Tags: Appraisal, Controversial, grandmother, Humility, Prejudice, Pride, topic
Posted on 26 February 2009 (Views: Popularity: 36%)
Mahabharata has been one of the greatest sources of knowledge and wisdom for time immemorial. It has been one of the greatest epic which was the base for the most scared book, the Gita. With this period dawned the current era of Kalyug, when treason, treachery, corruption etc. were born Read more »
Tags: Arjun, Draupadi, elders, Gita, India, Kalyug, Kunti, Mahabharata, Pandavas, Shishupal, Solutions