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Your Hesitation Comes From Your Imagination

Should I make my point, or Should I keep quiet? Should I apply for this new opportunity, or should I let it pass? When it comes to making any decision, there is this wretched hesitation that keeps dogging us. We Read more…


Burn The Boats

burn the boats

Two interesting stories from history. In 210 BC, Commander Xiang Yu led his army of invaders against the Ch’in Dynasty. While his troops slept, Xiang Yu torched his ships and then told his troops that they had to either fight Read more…


A Lesson From Google Maps

This morning, I had to drop my son at the British Council, Kuala Lumpur, for a test he was taking. But, I was not sure about the location of the British Council Building. So I did the obvious-I logged the Read more…


Twelve Ideas On Problem Solving

problem solving

Problem-solving is a vital competency and skill that everyone needs to display. It is the process by which we find solutions to our Problems, opportunities, and everyday challenges we encounter. Problem-solving is also an attitude and a mindset. Here are Read more…


Beware Of Secondary Sources

Secondary Sources

We all perceive and experience the world around us through our five senses. Of the five senses, three of them are innocent, while two of them can be sneaky. When I touch something, I feel it. It is a real Read more…


100% Commitment Is Easier Than 98%

100% Commitment

In one of the excellent books relating to the art of living titled How Will You Measure Your Life, Harvard Professor Clayton Christiansen talks about how perfectly sane and decent individuals regress into making unethical and immoral choices unconsciously.   In Read more…


Writing Is Thinking

Writing

Nobel Prize winner and Physicist Richard Feynman once said, “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.” We fool ourselves by imagining we know more than we do; we think we are Read more…