Of Snowballs, or 5 Lessons from Warren Buffett

Buffett is someone I’ve always been curious to learn more about. A self-made billionaire (and yet, a publicly admired/popular person), a man of simple tastes who’s communications are filled with homespun (and sometimes, self-deprecating) humor, Buffet can be an inspiration and a fascination at the same time. As a student in graduate school in 2006, [...]

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adhoorepan mein hi poora sa lagta hai

teri yaadon ke samandar dil mein rehte hain, wo mrigjal hai jo aankhon se tapakta hai. muskuraahatein hain dil mein kahin ojhal, yeh dhokha hai jo chehre pe jhalakta hai. mat poochho yeh baarishein kab thamengi, ye sadiyaan hai jo ik mausam sa lagta hai. kisi ehsaas ki kami ko dost kum na samajhna, is [...]

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Life

I tried standing tall and firm, like Everest. I tried letting go just flow, like Ganges. ~ I tried being a dreamer- inspired, like a poet. Then embraced acceptance and peace, like a monk. ~ Yet life never came to me, as whole. It came in bits and pieces of shattered glass, no longer transparent. [...]

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Delivering Happiness… — Tony Hsieh

It is always nice to meet with people who brim with energy and passion. It is in this cocktail of effort and meaning that life can become a lot of fun. Tony Hsieh recently visited Google to talk about his new book: Delivering Happiness. Hsieh is an entrepreneur, a venture-capitalist and salesman, now trying his [...]

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Rainbow

some of us might like to click and some of us to write. some of us might like to pick while some of us don’t fight. some of us are men of thought, some like the feel of tools. some of us just love to boast, some love pretending as fools. crafts galore, known and [...]

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Authenticity

I was recently interviewing with a prestigious company. During the conversation, my interviewer and I started speaking about leadership. It was a spontaneous flow of exchanges on a topic we both felt passionately about. “Now this is going to take longer than the recruiter said, so do not feel negatively if I ignore her warnings [...]

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The Place of Randomness in Life

There is a lot of randomness in life. A lot of things are circumstantial. For instance, a farmer can plant the seeds, yet not control the weather. A student can study hard, yet not help if they get sick during the morning of their exam. Over the past one year, life seems to have taken [...]

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Penniless Woman Gives Away Bounties

You are far away from family, in a town where you hardly know anyone. You’ve come here for the sake of your job, which you lose. And then you lose your car. Savings dwindle. In such a situation, what do you do? “I went off into the woods and I started yelling at God,” she [...]

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We’re All A Part

An overcast sky, Grey nimbus of doubt, I question my questions. Some monsoon drops, A pond with ripples, Rainbows, reflected. The world is awash Naked, in puzzles Of origins and ends… Clouds float low Lifting a mist, Cosmic Wonder. We’re all a part. We’re not apart.

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Flow

Two things. First, the word from the initial pioneer, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Second, a nice write-up from Leo Babauta. Let us begin with the video: Next, the nice post summarizing the idea at Zen Habits. Hope you find it useful!

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