Reminder of Superpower Superpowers are not lost. They are forgotten or taken for granted. The best way to develop superpowers in others is to remind them about it. If you are a person of credibility or someone in authority remind others of their superpower and they will start seeing it again in themselves. Kalpana Chawla …
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Readiness for great ideas There is no dearth of ideas to solve a problem. However, there is a reluctance to accept a good idea as it requires courage to change and imagination to see a different possibility. As leaders, you may find yourself fighting hard to convince the people around you of an idea. It …
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Removing the creases from our chutes Parachute jumpers follow a unique practice to hang their reserved chutes every once in 60 days for 24 hours to let the creases out, and get the life back into the material. What can we do to remove the mental creases that we have accumulated over the years of …
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Obaitori – Every flower blooms in its own time When everyone sees everyone else as their competitor in the mad rat race, Obaitori, a Japanese idiom, comes as a great mental model to instill sanity in us. It refers to the four trees – plum, apricot, cherry, and peach that bloom at their own time …
The difficult part of learning Learning is hard if it requires us to let go of our own personal truths. Indian philosophy uses the term Avidya. It means the presence of mistaken conclusions about ourselves and the world that we value as knowledge. The only way to learn is to ask ourselves if what we …
Valuing surplus time We value money over time. As Seneca rightly said – “People are frugal in guarding their personal property, but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.”The decision to spend time is driven by the need …
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Relativity and coaching In a recent behavioral science conference, that I attended, one of the themes that was reiterated was being multidisciplinary in approach; Bringing concepts from different fields to solve a problem. Upon reflection, I found it relevant for coaching. One example is that of the concept of Relativity. The main idea of relativity …
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Perfection trap There are three dimensions to perfectionism I have to be perfect Others expect me to be perfect I expect others to be perfect It becomes hard to zoom out and see that the very trait which we think will makes us successful will eventually sabotage our success and rob us of a rich …
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Indicator of calmness The test of calmness is not the absence of stress but our ability to handle stress and come back to equilibrium as quickly as possible. Our threshold and our time to recover are good indicators of how calm we are as a person. Working with intensity Whenever I have spent more time …
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