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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 to face. From breakups to closure happens over email or WhatsApp et all.
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.
From crap like cola to nachos, we have celebrity endorsements. We are sold an idea of becoming like someone.
Why do we have to become someone?
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 burn yourself over the action of others?
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:
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 vice and becoming a better version?
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 yourself and let me know why are you using hyperlocal apps, hotel aggregators app or a travel aggregators app?
Is it for service or cheaper price?
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 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, upbringing or DNA?
Jiddu Krishnamurti says “freedom begins once we get over the fear.” Fear comes with mental misery.
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.
I read “Trillion Dollar Coach”, a book on Silicon Valley’s most loved and successful coach. The list includes Steve Jobs, Sundar Pichai, Marissa Mayer, Eric Schmidt to list a few.
Bill also served as CEO at Intuit and worked with John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins. He also served on boards of many companies including Apple.
These are some important takeaways:
It appears to me that someone took a presentation slide and made a book out of it. But an easy read, unlike million other self-help and leadership books.
