Do you wait for inspiration to happen?

You see a video and feel inspired. What if you hadn’t seen that video? You read a book and feel inspired. What if you hadn’t read the book? You meet someone and feel inspired. What if you hadn’t met that person? When we leave inspiration to chance , it leaves all...

Committing mistakes

We’ve all made mistakes. We still do. We will continue to. However, the first mistake rarely brings any harm. Ignoring the mistake and not learning a lesson from it causes real harm.  Because we’ve wasted a learning opportunity. Because we might repeat the same...

Are you just one identity?

What is the role that we define ourselves by? Am I a Product Manager? A painter? An engineer? A leader? Society has trained us to believe that we should be just one thing in our life.  However, none of the successful people in history – from Michelangelo to...

Working on your strengths or weaknesses?

Strengths are our trump cards. We already have an edge over them. They make us start ahead of everyone else. Weaknesses are our jacks. We will have to work more than everyone else to even be at par. Then why is it that people are told to work on their weaknesses and...

What if our work won’t stay forever?

In Japanese culture, there is a painting technique called Buddha Board. We paint with watercolours. As the painting dries, the colours fade away, so does the painting. The work, no matter how beautiful, is no more. What if every work of ours was on a Buddha Board? It...