Learn and Share Late last year, a very inspiring tweep and fellow blogger handed me a copy of Jim Collin’s bestseller Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and others Don’t. Owing to commitments and other hitherto scheduled reads, I gave the book to my dad, who has really liked reading it. I [...]
“The will to meaning is the basic motivation for human life.” – Viktor Frankl (Holocaust survivor) A Better Understanding Seeking meaning and purpose is perhaps the singular reason that human beings progress. This is what makes life worth living, as we seek a deeper understanding of ourselves and life, despite its attendant complexities. Even in [...]
“Once awareness is free, intent will redirect it into a new evolutionary path.” – Carlos Castaneda Well, I have always believed in Learning and Sharing. Because only then can we individually and collectively become better persons, by positively affecting the lives of those we interact with. That said, I recently downloaded a very profound eBook [...]
Less is More Simplicity is a vital aspect of life that is often overlooked. Many believe that complex means more, and therefore better. The truth is quite to the contrary. In design, simplicity is a key component of a rich user experience and robust function. This has been further explored at Complit Design. Less is [...]
Critical Thinking is a vital part of development and cognition. Every action is predicated on one’s thought process, it’s therefore imperative that the thinking itself be healthy and forward-looking. Critical Thinking: Tools For Taking Charge Of Your Professional And Personal Life, was published in 2002 by the Financial Times Prentice Hall. It’s written by Richard [...]
Stress-Free Living This weekend, I came across a preview of this seemingly good book. It is titled ‘Why Make Yourself Crazy: 400 Strategies for a Stress-free Life’ by by G. Gaynor McTigue, the author of ‘Life’s Little Frustration Book’. Book Highlights 1. Do One thing at a time 2. Throw something out every day 3. [...]
Recently, I downloaded ‘What Do You Want To Do With Your Life?’ by Hans Glint. This eBook is supposedly a “Life Plan to find Your Answer”. In the Preface: “Why do they always tell us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want, and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the [...]
Sir Richard Branson Besides Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs, Richard Branson is one of those individuals I hold in very high regard. The Virgin Group Chairman is a maverick, a legend and a genius. His avant-garde way of doing things is world-renown, and it has won him as much respect as it has put him [...]
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” – E. E. Cummings Last week, I started reading The Optimist by Laurence Shorter. This is the story [...]
Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho is the man who wrote such books as The Alchemist, The Way of the Bow and Stories for Parents, Children and Grandchildren. Other books are The Pilgrimage and Eleven Minutes. Coelho’s books all tend to feature some sort of spiritual quest, written in accessibly pared-down language which leads the reader inexorably [...]
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