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This post has a collection of some of my favorite Westworld Quotes. I will keep adding more quotes, and quote wallpapers to this list, as and when I find the new gems. Some of them I have converted into inspirational wallpapers. Hope you will find them interesting 🙂 If you don’t know what the Westworld is, have a look at Read More …
Many (not all) of the today’s new inventions (zillions of Apps, countless Games, unnecessary Gadgets) are concerned about grabbing more your active attention & time. Illusion is so powerful that you never come to know that you have lost the precious time of interacting with fellow human beings and the real nature around you. Knowingly unknowingly we spend the precious Read More …
Seldom we avoid doing new things due to some mental blocks. For some it is fear of unknown, and for many it is inertia preventing them from breaking a routine. I feel we should always be open for new experiences in day to day life, and try to do at least something which exposes our consciousness, and mind, to the Read More …
… and finally, it happened! A political earthquake has happened in the UK and its political and economic impact will slowly spread throughout the world. Britons have voted to opt out of European Union. About 52% of the population voted to leave and 48% voted to remain. In the exact numbers, a small fraction of 1,269,501 (1.2 million) people changed Read More …
Mesmerizing spiral straicase at Kannur lighthouse [click on the photo to view in light box] I went on a bike trip to Kannur with my best buddy in the month of February 2016. We visited the Kannur Lighthouse during this trip. Visitors were allowed to visit the top of the lighthouse. To reach to the top, we had to Read More …
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, and misconceptions surrounding rewards driven motivation. Starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. See the video below, which summarizes years of ignored research, and underlines that higher rewards does not always yield higher performances. Specially, for performing Read More …
Transcript of the keynote from the 55th IIT Kharagpur Convocation “WHAT MATTERS IS NOT WHAT YOU GATHER, BUT WHAT YOU SCATTER” …. You can convince yourself about the reasons for not exercising—no time, the peer pressure to socialize, the difficulty of a club membership, and logistics problems. However even if these are valid, you can always go for a walk Read More …
Many of the problems we face in our day-to-day lives are because we do not (or hesitate) to ask! How many times you took wrong decisions, purchased something which did not fit your needs, got lost in an unknown city, or missed interesting deals; just because you did not ask?? It is difficult to ‘ask’ for help. If we ask Read More …
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly Read More …
The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered … “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or Read More …