Life in Bangalore

Most of us think we are stressed out by doing stuff all day…Is it? If you introspect well enough, you would realize that stress arises really from repeated thinking about the same “stuff” throughout the day. David Allen (GTD fame), the world renowned productivity guru calls this as “Open loop”…non-negotiated commitments on a task or project. When you have more than a couple of such open loops there is loss of concentration as well. Overall, this manifests as a stress (the distress, that we can live without). The reason for this is because, Human beings are really driven by a single processor with acute inability to undertake more than one complex activity at a time. This may sound surprising or even irritating to you especially given that  Multi-tasking as a competency takes the pride of its place in the Corporate Resumes. If you are one such soul who would want to engage in a debate with me , I would like you to collect the number of instance where High level executives who had dr

As I have time and again informed in this blog, I tend to classify generations  based on the media one grew up with. My mother grew up in the age of Radio. I also remember the Radio faintly. It was the only source of entertainment at home until I was 8 years old.  I still remember the baritone of the news reader Saroj Narayanaswamy  in the All India Radio with distinct punctuations.  Those days the radio jockeys of the day were the superstars. My hook to the radio was the sports section of the news bulletin. Especially when India was on at Cricket tour in countries like England and West Indies, the matches would mostly end-up in night . The newspaper next day would obviously not carry the latest update. So  I used to rely on the radio with bated breathe to know the result. On my summer trips to my Grandfather’s village , the radio box (one with the vaccum tubes) held a center stage in the hall. On Sundays, the All India Radio used to relay the voicecast of the Tamil films. My aunts

I am in competition with no one...I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone. I am simply trying to be better than the person I was yesterday" ... Anonymous I was reasonably good in academics in my early school days. I would consistently be in the top 3. I had quick grasping skills in Maths ,Science and Social sciences. This would fetch me good grades …I was elated…My teachers were happy…My parents were fine However, a problem was building up underneath…I had become lazy due to the complacency and overconfidence. I stopped doing the Hard work …like following up on the daily lessons ; I would always tell myself that I can play “Catch-up”.  So, as the exams start nearing, I would put in the required work that would get me through. While I got through comfortably, with every higher class, my grades were dropping slowly, but surely. And then  the common exams arrived in my 10 th Standard. My 10 th standard marks  never justified the promise that I had in