Everyday, Everytime, Everywhere

“I cannot teach anyone anything, I can only make them think.”  - Socrates Motivation comes from within. Be it money or satisfaction or self- realization . There is no extrinsic motivation. Tall claims that, but I stand by it because I know not otherwise. My motivation comes from the ever present something that makes or breaks me do something, anything. Motivation is a result of need, and need is the relative difference between the desired state and the current state. Those are but just words. What do they mean? What does motivation even mean. The leaves move because there is wind, and because there is wind we can define air. Such is the case with motivation. A being exhibiting a goal oriented behaviour of often classified as someone who has motivation. There was a chuck in my life where I did not know why I did what I did neither did I know what was it that would make it know it, nor did I know what I really wanted to do. General judgement was lack of a purpose that result

PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way. GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. PIPPIN: What Gandalf? See what? GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.   PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad. GANDALF: No. No, it isn't.”   ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Its children’s day as I write. There were mockery in the group today about wishing me for this day, as a reward for being childlike. There, childlike. Judgement free, low on baggage and little insecurity. It makes me behave in the way I do, and it’s not easy to keep away judgement or baggage or insecurity. A comment like that would have riled me up a few years back, made me hate the guts of these people who could say such a thing and even severe ties with them. It’s a perc

The recent Reskill and Transcend theme of Samanvay 2017 made me a little nervous. There were these bunch of young professionals, most of whom have never set foot inside an organization yet, talking about reskilling. And here I was, almost 30, in an existential crisis of almost losing relevance. The major reason behind it is the changing perception of technology taking over every ounce of human need in accomplishing a task. The brain says its not true, the heart agrees but where then is this fear originating? I do not think technology is for all to fear. Learning technology is like learning how to use fire or the wheel. Just so fire was created did not mean who did it prior went out of style, it was the how that changed. The how is what is skill, the why, on the other hand, is much more fun to know, appreciate and enhance.  This, however, does not mean the role of skills is discounted, it only puts it in its place. A persons skills, or the lack of, account of the maximum volume of

Out Beyond the Ideas of Rightdoing and Wrongdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet You there -          -  Rumi There may be a reason why Rumi said that, there may even a context why. I know that because there is a context in life for me where this applies. Simple observations of the world tell me that the rule of the land is an antecedent to a human’s definition of right and wrong. Sometimes the rule is against what I want and desire, sometimes it is against what I want for others to have or not have. At these times I apply, ever so comfortably, Rumi. However that’s not what Rumi meant or intended. It cant be that simple now, can it! The subjective nature of ethics and morality makes it very easy to get clever with it. The evaluative scale for measuring the amount of ethical inclination for a person is within and it is always ON. In the office premises of TATA Consultancy Services Ltd., Bangalore, on a glass wall, there is a huge quote from Henry Ford that says “quality is doi