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Perfection is often mistaken
One of my favorite interview question is “what is the worst thing about you?”
It is uncanny how many times I have heard the response, “I am a perfectionist. I fret if things are not done the right way.”
No you are not. Because here is what most people mean to say – “I fret if things are not done my way.”
There is nothing such as a perfectionist. Instead, such individuals are accuracy seekers. Fervent truth seekers. They will make sure things are beautiful and they function accurately. Not perfectly. Accurately.
The iPhone wasn’t the perfect phone. It still isn’t.
It’s an accurate phone. Accurate lines. Accurate design. Accurate experience.
Don’t seek perfection. That is elusive
Seek accuracy. And ship fast.
You deserve more
The past weekend led a bunch of us to realize that we are always surrounded by people that are always working hard. Never stopping. Never believing that it’s over. Never saying I quit.
And when we meet them, life forces us to say “you deserve more”
These 3 words are powerful. They represent faith, belief, blessing, honesty – all rolled in one.
These 3 words come without initiation. The other side rarely agrees. It’s their karma, they say. And that’s what makes the statement even more powerful.
Compare this to “I deserve more”. That smells of entitlement, at times narcissism, almost always blind belief.
Makes the world kneel in front of you
Make it say “you deserve more”
Teach me
Teach me
When you utter these 2 words, several things happen in tandem
You accept you don’t know
You accept you are willing to learn
You acknowledge the opposite person for what they know
You are ready to submit yourself
It’s unfortunate that most people end up using am entirely opposite term instead
Show me
Remain a student
Aug 5th
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to this. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of an organization, long suppressed, finds utterance.
A celebrity’s life
I have always maintained this. The day one acquires leadership role in an organization, the individual doesn’t have a private life anymore.
Even outside of work.
What you say
How you said it
To whom you said it
When
Where
Why
Everything is measured
Everything
And your conduct, the morals you stand for, the standard you set, defines your leadership.
Not your performance
Sense of entitlement
As a country, we are used to being served. There have always been people around us, giving us what we want.
Maids
Helpers
Petrol pulp attendants
The kirana store that delivers, on credit
And that’s given us a false sense of entitlement
My admission is the responsibility of the government
My job is the responsibility of the school
My growth is the responsibility of the company
Guess what.
It’s not.
The sooner we realize that our life is our own responsibility, the faster we will get on our way to having a memorable life.
We are all we need
Leaving for work early
There is something magical about leaving for work early
Little traffic around
You get to see the journey in a different light, observe the signals, realize how wide the road actually is
You don’t brake often
You don’t accelerate unnecessarily
You optimize for your fuel
The stress is invisible, there is no reason for it
This is incidentally the same impact waking up early has
On your mind
Don’t let the alarm clock start your day
You do it for yourself
What’s the deal with money?
We grew up without money. Ma and Papa worked all their life and couldn’t make enough to save. Yet they gave us the best life they could. We went to top schools. Had a fulfilling childhood.
But I grew up looking at my parents having a life of struggle. Of unfulfilled desires.
A life where they had to trade one desire for another.
And almost always they traded their own for ours.
So I grew up hating money. It seemed to be the source of our misery. The only thing missing.
Here is the deal about hating money.
Rarely do we realize when it converts into submission. When money makes us it’s slave.
We think we are winning against it.
When it’s quite the opposite.
I learnt early on, not to respect money
Instead dismiss it, respectfully
It’s like oxygen. You need it. But you rarely stop to feel it’s presence.
You just have it.
Or you don’t
Opportunity cost doesn’t apply to your actions
Opportunity cost is a concept meant for business. Not for human actions.
For human actions we always best the full cost. Not the incremental one.
It’s not just one more abuse
Or one more one night stand
One more act of bribery
One more act of fraud
One more act of cheating
It’s all of them put together. Because the most recent one is as grave as the first one.
Your reputation today is a reflection of what you did this morning!
Yesterday doesn’t matter
Hans Zimmer
Do you know of him?
I didn’t till about 6 months back.
And then I realized
I have known him for a long time. For a really long time.
Because he has composed music for almost all the movies I have ever loved.
At times, you don’t have to be visible to create an impact.
Almost always, the impact thus created, is more ever lasting!
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