Towards Resurgent & Responsible India

Napoleon Hill is one of most read writer of self-help books, whose words have positively influenced millions of people worldwide. His books, lectures, magazine articles, and audio and video programs have shown them the way to personal and professional achievement.   Has identified six dreaded enemies who always come in the way of us and our success. Most of us have one or more than one of these six dreaded enemies standing in front of us with their guns aimed at as and shoots us dead at the slightest opportunity. These enemies reside inside our minds, they play games with our insecurities, prejudices and biases; connive with them to stop us from achieving whatever we aspire to achieve in our lives.  They are like that imaginary man and the little girl who were living with John Nash, who thought they were real people and was dictated by them, only much later in his life he realizes that they were only present in his imagination, they don’t have any existence outside hi...

It’s a story about Elon Reeve Musk most of you   might not have heard about him.   Just to give you some idea about who he was and what he has done, let me share what maverick businessman entrepreneur adventurer Richard Branson has to say about him – “Whatever skeptics have said can’t be done, Elon has gone out and made real. Remember in the 1990s when we’d call strangers, and give them our credit card numbers? Elon dreamed of little things like PayPal. His Tesla motors and SolarCity companies are making a clean renewable energy future a reality… His SpaceX (is) reopening space for exploration… it’s a paradox that Elon is working to improve our planet at the same time he is building a spacecraft to help us leave it.” Elon is one of the most imaginative entrepreneurs of the 21 st Century – as living legend Richard Branson has mentioned his virtues, he has been compared to visionary American industrialists like Henry Ford and John. D. Rockefeller.   He is consi...

Inquisitiveness is an evolutionary instinct. Inquisitiveness and asking question is responsible for all the inventions surrounding us. Questions are the reason for knowledge. The fundamental of ancient Indian books of knowledge Upnishads is learning through asking question. The questions are very important, the questions which we ask to people we interact with and the questions that we ask in our minds. These questions form our attitude our behavior. They contribute significantly in charting the course of our career and life. Questions have more power than answers, both the explicit ones while communicating and the implicit ones in thinking. But before talking about right and wrong questions, lets is evaluate ourselves, do we ask questions? As child we are very inquisitive, asking questions constantly, but as we grow this question asking trait is systematically killed through the process of western education system, which is funnel shaped education, where the teacher pours ...

Great achievers are not born, they are developed. If you want to make more money, have better relationships, and have a greater impact on the world, it starts with you becoming more. Success is not a process that occurs overnight. It is an edifice which is built brick by brick. Success is the outcome of consistent, persistent, focused working towards the objective. Success is the outcome of the right combination of personal and professional excellence. A child doesn’t just start running after its birth; it crawls before it learns to walk and learns to walk before it can run. Success takes time, Sachin Tendulkar, Lata Mangeshkar, Amitabh Bachchan or Narendra Modi are not created overnight, these phenomenal individuals worked hard, bit by bit to reach at this level where they have a distinguished place in history in their respective fields.   Success doesn’t happen all at once. You should get better every year. Knowledge, skills, and prosperity are to be obtained by consis...

Few years ago, I interviewed famous filmmaker, director, writer Shri Mahesh Bhatt during International Spirituality Conference at School of Management Sciences. I asked him what is his definition of spirituality, how would one identify a spiritual person, Mr. Bhatt looked at me and said – “A spiritual person would never make you feel small” A very simple explanation, simple definition, but quite convincing. If you think about the people in your life, who have not ridiculed you, always encouraged you, uplifted your soul when you were down and out, you will also relate to this definition of a spiritual person. Is it not a good idea to be like those people and influence the life of others the way they have influenced yours? There are few simple principles that you need to incorporate in your attitude and behavior, and you will see magic happening around you. 1.       Give Sincere Compliments: People need and want to be complimented. Compliments brin...

Rescuing someone else’s soul salvages yours. Best way to feel good is to make others feel good. You can’t prevent yourself getting overwhelmed by joy if you bring smile to someone else’s face. Encouragement is infectious, you can’t encourage someone without feeling the same for yourself, and the amazing feeling of “feeling good” after “doing good” can only be experienced and felt. It not only helps the person in distress but also heals you. It’s no sermon its simple chemistry. Dr. Eva Ritvo, M.D, an internationally-known speaker, best-selling author, vitality expert, and psychiatrist with a practice in Miami Beach, explains in her article published in Psychology Today – “The altruism center of the brain is considered a "deep brain structure," part of the primitive brain. We know when we see a child in trouble, our instincts kick in and we spring into action before we can even think. Humans are social animals, so it is no surprise that we are wired to help on...