This blog is our space to write about our thoughts, views and notes about our travels. Osho owned 90 Rolls Royces while being a Sanyasi ….. The so-felt contradiction is very fascinating and hence the name !
Many of us, when asked the question about our life purpose or what do we want in our lives, answer ‘to be happy’ or ‘ be happy always’ or a combination of words that mean happiness or to be happy is our goal in our lives. Can happiness be the goal? Or even the life purpose? Well, I liked the article whose link is provided below.
Please do read.
While there is a lot of focus, of late, on the importance and learnings of failure, at work and also in life, going through the phase immediately after what you have termed as a failure on your part is not easy. It’s very difficult. It looks great when you read such stories of failures in fiction books and the occasional movies.
Having gone through bankruptcy myself in mid nineties through business mishappenings, I can understand the emotions and feelings facing failure, and the huge consequences that come with it. It took six years for me and my life partner to come out of the financial mess. But the insights and learnings that we got out of the failure is immeasurable. In fact more valuable than the program that I did from IIM Ahmedabad in the late nineties that was central to our recovery. While you may not be prepared to fail you should be ready to learn from the failure(s) and mistakes.
As parents, it’s very important to let your kids, fall and/or fail. Small or big. You don’t have to motivate them to fail but you can always support and help them. My parents never scolded or offended us post our business disaster but supported us right through the recovery phase in innumerable ways. Their tolerance for our failures was a huge contributing factor in our growth.
Here is an interesting article on the subject of patents letting their kids fail.
For the past 15 days, we have been experimenting with hiring a cook who can double up as a full time support at home. The first person we hired turned out to be an awesome cook and we were thrilled. Short lived celebration though because 48 hours later we realized that our stock of raisins, … Read more
Ever since Amma and I have started to criss-cross the inside roads of Kamakoti Nagar, I have found myself a new friend. The first time I noticed him was when he called out as we went past his house. At first I thought it was a one off greeting. Then it started to happen regularly … Read more
Yesterday, we took a Jet Airways flight to return to Chennai from Indore. It happened to be a hopping flight, so we were on the plane for nearly four hours. One of the crew members (probably the team leader) was the same person who was on the flight when we went to Indore. Things started … Read more
