Enlightenment

I was trying to comprehend the meaning of Enlightenment, understood that this cannot be described in words to a person who has never gone through the process of Enlightenment.

Enlightenment is not taught today, it's what we learn from the process of self realisation and this is superior to all other forms of learnings.

The talent that one gets is phenomenal, have you seen Sadguru's speech on "consciousness" in Harvard Medical school, where did he learn all this. If this form of talent is superior, shouldn't it be taught, learned by everyone for the well being of this society. Should one go to Harvard business school to do a PhD or go to Himalayas to get enlightenment, wouldn't the later be able to give better business solutions. Why should it be learned only from monks/Guru's and why only in Himalayas, shouldn't it be part of the formal education.. Till then let's go to Himalayas, at least once in a life time, as early as you can..

Google Guide

It's not just a map and a guide, it's changing the way we buy products, the way it is delivered and most importantly the product itself. Everything that exists in the world are rated by everyone across this world and this is not just a guide for the buyer, but it's improving the whole standard of the product & services itself.

The biggest curse for improvement is the monopoly of existing players and the customer tendency for risk aversion by choosing the known, existing products.. Google guide breaks this open and gives customers the confidence to take risk on new products & services which in turn forces the existing players to constantly improve themselves.

And this is across every single player who exists in the world and this is making the world for better in a big way, very quickly than ever before..

Worst of the times are the best of the times

Really, remember the worst things that happened in your life, it was the period just before the best of the times.. we get struck in status quo and make big attempts to come out of the shell only when we go through the worst of the times.. And those are the times that brings us down to the ground, teaches the reality, value of relationship and the value of money, it also builds our stamina & perseverance..

Those are times that we have nothing to lose, time to take the next big risk. Feel it, go through the pain, get disappointed, frustrated and that should make you run far away from where you are, to a new place on Earth, where you live your dream, live your life. Remember the worst of the times are the moments of big opportunities!

Panicking

Panicking complicates the issue further and leads to serious problems. This organisation was losing market share and it was sharp in some months, so they brought in a new head, market share dropped further, and in turn he changed the team, process etc, still market share was dropping, he put enormous pressure in the system, given lot of credit, still market share dropped, worse it lead to huge bad debts. And now guess, they ll look for a new head,  sure the market share will drop further. All this happened within a year time in an automobile industry where the lead time to make visible impact is minimum two years..

Looks stupid, that's what panicking does. The organization was cashing in on the strong brand loyalty for a very long time and there was no major drop in it's market share for years inspite of bureaucracy, gaps in products & processes. It took long time to bring in the right products and come out of the bureaucracy and by that time, its too late and there was a free fall.

When there is a free fall, first understand that its not a result of what you did today but yesteryears. Accept that the damage will be far worse than what it is today and provision for the same. Have a long term plan for making visible impact and in short term, measure the lead indicators and not the results. And for godsake don't panic and try short term results, that puts the entire organisation into jeopardy..

Memory of the cell

Brain memory is a minuscle part of our memory. The biggest memory is the cell memory, which stores all the learnings of our forefathers. Have you ever consciously digested your food, pumped your heart blood, performed the kidney or lungs function. No, it just happens on it's own, not only on humans but on animals, plants, even on new born species. So what drives the functioning of the body parts if the brain doesn't order the functioning of the body consciously.

I had the aha moment one day when I was driving down to my office . I took a right turn instead of going straight to my office because I was taking right for the last three days on my way to badminton court. When you are preoccupied and in the absence of intervention, the body performs what is stored. But then the body was intervened continuously to do certain things and was conditioned. In other words, in the evolution of species somewhere in the past, the blood was pumped, oxygen was inhaled, food was digested more consciously and over a period of time, that process is  ingrained in all our cells and has become automatic.

And this is true for all the heroics that we try to do, to come out of the orbit of what our forefathers did, needs lot of energy. A son of a farmer becoming a scientist or a son of a teacher becoming an entrepreneur, need to overcome the cell memory and need to do action beyond his comfort zone.

So let's be aware of the fact that we are limited by the memory of the cell and push ourselves to break free into the limitless possibilities..

Effectiveness

In India, Private organisation employees work for more than 60 hours a week contrary to Western counterparts who work for around 40 hours a week. But still, there is no significant improvement in the organization performance vis a vis the western world.

The additional 20 hours a week of about 50 crores Indians is not yielding desired results and worse the 60 hours of work is not as good as 40 hrs of work of Western counterparts. There could be only two issues, either they are not effectively working during those 60 hrs or not working on the effective things.. I strongly feel that the later is the issue, we are not working on things that is required and very often do the wrong things.

But then why are we doing all wrong things, is that part the problem of our thinking, is that the problem of our education, is that the problem of society and the way we are brought up.. It's a combination of all this, we need the education system to move from rote learning to creative learning, that changes the way we think and the way we behave in the society and it will reflect on the way we work and deliver. it's time that we change the way we learn & think, else we are doomed..

Messi - The perfectionist

You get mesmerized, dumbfounded, awed, stunned, humbled by the act of his perfection, that's Messi.

How do one get to this level of perfection, I don't know, that's something we need to understand and need to be taught. It's not just about football but about limitless possibilities of human capabilities and need to be emulated in every field..