There are those moments in our life which are priceless: holding your newborn, the first kiss, mothers hug. We are too busy making money. The time we devote to earning supersedes over idleness. The more and more we engulf in the daily needs forgetting these little moments. These burnt of joy which helps our heart …
Author Archives: Atul
Confusion
Confusion and misunderstanding can affect any relationship: from peers to couples to parents with kids. Our ego makes thing more difficult. Instead of empathizing with the other side, we make a judgment. How many friends and close ones have you parted away because of this? With the advancement of technology, we have stopped talking face …
Someone
Our mind is occupied with our urges. These could be self-created around our desires. Our desire to be someone we are not. Desire is like a void, the wanting to make an elephant run at a horse race. Marketers and advertisers have been selling us hope. Hope aligned with our purchasing power to become someone. …
Frustration
It is so easy to get frustrated over anything. It can be as small as over a sugary cup of tea to an illogical conversation. We will be in anger or frustration because of other party or their actions. How much help it does to us? I would say NONE Why do we have to …
Hiring
Hiring is not a challenge and is never a pain for startups. If you are running a startup, as a founder it is your job to spearhead the hiring process. Early employees are no less than owners of a startup. These simple questions will in itself give you the answers: Are you honest with your …
Competition
We are competing in every sphere of our life. From finding college sweetheart to campus placements. From promotion to offshore opportunity. Even getting love and attention from siblings and parents we are competing. What about competing with our allocated time in this life, how are we utilizing it? How about competing with ourselves, killing a …
Service
I keep hearing about the funding news and how a startup is now a unicorn. I wish there was a similar announcement of metrics for customer satisfaction. If I am paying for a service, I expect it to be delivered well. While the price of luxury has increased over time, services have gone bad. Ask …
Listen
I have never been a great listener. Ben Franklin and stoics considered listening as an important virtue. I am realizing this as my weakness and trying to work on getting better at it. At the same time, I had opinions on everything. It resulted in fostering animosity with many.
Fear
Fear brings the worst out of us. We end up imagining many unreal events. It makes us weak. Fear has fostered in creating many communities and religion. The fear of isolation resulted in forming many unwanted relationships. Why is it so easy for us to be fearful? Is it more to do with our consciousness, …
On Propaganda
Reading age of propaganda has been an eye-opener, thanks to Akshat Sir for the recommendation. These are the 15 action item I picked from the book as mentioned by the author to avoid falling into propaganda by marketers, politicians and other non-profits. Know the ways of persuasion and realize that you may be the victim …