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..

Formats

Bloody just because there are so many columns in Excel sheet, formats are prepared in so many columns. There are so many fools in the corporate world who make simple things complex.. we need people who at least make simple things simple..

Stress

Stress in work is not a factor of work, it's a factor of what you dislike. The more you do things that you dislike, the more you are stressed.

Break the task into things that you find easy and that you dislike. Understand your limitations,  delegate or take the help of others for things that you dislike and do more of things that you like. Take things that you dislike in small doses and learn from that. Take a break and do things that you love the most and bring a balance.

Misfits

The world is full of misfits, we don't do what we love, what we are good at, we do what we get, we don't take decisions, we maintain status quo, we don't create choices rather we Crib that we don't have choices..

And we become absolute misfits in what we do. More than 80% in this world are misfits, they don't love what they do, they don't create what they love and they can't create things that the world loves. The damage is not just internal but to the entire world.

Lack of resources, opportunities, will power and intense competition ll increase the misfits in the coming years but find time to do what you love, take a break to create what you love, As Susan Cain puts it, "the world needs you and the things that you create"

Walkers

Have you noticed the walkers, 50% of them are over weight. If walking need to make them fit, who are they. And you see the persons who play any kind of sports they are all fit. Check and do what you love, it helps you to have a regular schedule..

Discovery or Invention

We invented the wheel or discovered that a circular object helps to rotate and move things. Edison invented bulb or discovered that when we pass electricity through tungsten in the presence of an inert gas emits light. Laws of physics is same wherever we are, across the entire cosmos, and our discovery is very much limited to our needs.

Invention is finding something which doesn't conform to the Laws of physics and there are so many. Language is an invention, it has rules but quite different in different places and languages. Religion is an invention, all fictional stories are inventions, but electricity or nuclear energy, engines, rockets are all Discoveries. The entire number system is an invention, if we had 13 fingers, we would have a completely different number system, on base of 13 rather than 10.

As Penn Jillette said about religion,  you wipe out and restart this entire world, all the discovery will remain the same. All the inventions ll be completely different.