U can carve YOUR own way !

"Stop telling kids they can be whatever they want to be. You can be whatever you're good at, as long as they're hiring. And even then it helps to know someone." -- Chris Rock Got me thinking -- we usually tell our kids that they can become 'anybody' they want when they grow-up which is totally alright but at the same breath, we forget to 'stress on the fact' that for that 'anybody' to happen, they need to work hard(est), persevere, have right connections, a mentor who gives them an opportunity, lots of luck and so so many other things which again have to fall at the 'right place and at the right time' for them.  My daughter is 7 years old and she wants to be an astronaut when she grows-up, which is totally normal at that age but as a parent, it's my responsibility to figure out her 'talent' vs the 'resources available', as she grows-up and course-correct where needed and steer her ambition in the right direction so t...

There is a saying that, Children 'walk' to school, they 'run' back to home.  School from home is quite a paradox. I believe (even though many would disagree), children are not built to learn from their homes. Home means comfort, home means they are free to do whatever they want. Childeen can study at home but cannot consistently learn at their homes.  Apart from the curriculum, a school teaches the importance of discipline, punctuality, curiosity, peer pressure, the way to conduct and carry oneselves, the social fabric, excel in sports and extracurricular and many such things. Exams in schools teach us how to work and perform under pressure, the importance of deadlines, the knowledge and the ability to reproduce that in exams and many many more. I still believe, schools lay the foundation on which a child goes on to build his future.  Now, a computer screen has replaced the school environment and from what I have seen it is not even doing half the job what a school does...

The society around us has defined leadership in millions of ways and even when you search for the definition of a leader, google comes up with this - a person who leads or commands a group or an organization and that's were the narrative fails, if you ask me. A true 'leader' is the one who strives to create an environment where people can express themselves fearlessly, a trait which is very rare in a corporate world and usually not associated with being a leader but then that's where the 'difference of opinion' arise.  We have always associated a leader with a larger than life image who is followed by everybody but in reality what we need is a person who can lift everybody around him and make them even more smarter, and bigger. He gets the desired results but at the same time makes his team/people even better than he found them. A leader will always look and protect his tribe. On the other hand, managers get a set of tasks done by their employees on a daily basi...

I read about a phrase today called 'hindsight is 20/20' which means one is able to evaluate past choices more clearly than at the time of the choice. Got me thinking - don't we go back to the early 2000's, quite often, and regret that we could have taken some bold decisions, could have done things differently, could have ventured out on our own or could have followed our insane dreams but we didn't because, who knows, we thought things were not stable enough or we were not courageous enough, not wiser enough or inspired enough or may be lazy enough or were just plain ignorant.  We are currently living in the most trickiest times ever, so, can we, for a change, instead of whining, worrying, complaining about the pandemic; we can do something that we always wanted to do, take some bold decisions that we always wanted to take, make those changes in our lives, go for that goal, try to live that dream, to venture out on our own, run that marathon or write that article or...