Where do our kids get their values? Are you comfortable with the values they learn in public school? How about on MTV, cable or other television? Are reality shows actually reality? Do you think modern music teaches them about love and romance? Maybe going to the movies is better and seeing Academy Award [...]
When faced with a new challenge, forget about acting fast. Instead start a three-step process to formulate the best solution
In these turbulent times, everyone wants you to act quickly.
Don’t. It’s a trap.
The strategic moves needed today depend on your ability to make smart decisions—not fast ones. Particularly in times [...]
What’s the best way to solve a problem?
I really don’t think there is one way to do it. And the ways you can use to solve a problem depends on the problem.
But I have found a few tips that have helped me solve problems more easily. I seldom use [...]
Here are 16 things I wish they had taught me in school (or I just would like to have known about earlier).
1. The 80/20 rule.
This is one of the best ways to make better use of your time. The 80/20 rule – also known as The Pareto Principle – [...]
The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful. – Dalai Lama
Life could be so much better for many people, if they would just spot their negative thinking habits and replace them with positive ones.
Negative thinking, in [...]
Once upon a time, there was a king who ruled a prosperous country. One day, he went for a trip to some distant areas of his country.
When he was back to his palace, he complained that his feet were very painful, because it was the first time that he went for [...]
How feminism has made men’s lives safer — and women’s more dangerous.
By Jennifer Foote Sweeney and Alisa Smith
Feminism, real or imagined, has long been praised and blamed for a whole pile of societal developments, crises and trends. But it has emerged recently in unlikely quarters: as a major factor [...]
The results of recent Lok Sabha elections have driven home the very disturbing fact that politics in India is fast becoming a family business. If this trend continues, as indeed it will unless major changes are made, India will soon find itself being ruled “democratically” by just over a thousand families who will [...]
All living beings are afraid of pain. You will find that people don’t fear death as much as they fear the pain they may undergo at the time of death. Many are afraid of poverty, many of relationships failing, and others of disease. The root cause of all these fears is the pain [...]