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Every Chess Master Was Once A Beginner - Irving Chernev Don't compare your beginning with master's now. In fact, don't compare at all.

"A More Beautiful Question" by @GlimmerGuy is one of the books @xavierroy discussed in Gravitas WINS book club. Loved Xavier's review; so started reading. A provocative and inspiring book. It has index of questions (≅ 360). Those questions alone are worth reading & pondering.

Top 10 Reasons Why Employees Quit

Some photos from morning & evening walk. Panchkula at its best.

Why has the Indian diaspora been so successful? - Marginal REVOLUTION

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic - Steven Covey As like everything about Covey, I try my best to follow this quote

In the absence of an accompanying goal, a system is meaningless

That is what my friend @keepkwizing keep telling me.

I have been running a newsletter for 4-5 years now, before it became cool. Initially I sent a newletter whenever I published a blog post, which was whenever I wanted to write. In the last 2 years I've been regular. I send every Wednesday. I call it "Wednesday Wisdom" 😜

Truly superior pilots are those who use their superior judgment to avoid those situations where they might have to use their superior skills. - Unknown Build your skills. More importantly, build your judgment

When you want to achieve something, focus on what you have and what you target. Everything else is noise. Here is a guide and a template you can download #productivity

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. - Bob Dylan

Flywheels are difficult to pull first. Once momentum builds up, it gets you a breakthrough. In this episode, I explain Amazon's flywheel and how you can use it to build a flywheel for your personal and professional life: #podcast #flywheel

Why I always insist that one who resigned should be relieved quickly. And not dragged for 3 months as it happens in today’s Indian IT companies. They are more a liability than a positive force.

Thank you @sumitdhamija80 for reviewing this wonderful book by @JayShettyIW on today's Gravitas WINS books discussion. Benefit of the book club discussion is not in the content of the book but the discussions on what the concepts meant to the reviewer; how they implemented them;

My software friends: Anyone tried the new CudaText editor (supposedly replacement for Sublime text): ?

How to access the calm and purpose that lie within us? That is the topic of discussion on the 11th "What this book means to me" on clubhouse today at 7 pm. @sumitdhamija80 will lead the discussion on "Think like a monk" Come & join our discussion:

Surgery Is Successful 💃, Patient Is Dead 😳 I worked in a cardiac surgery unit at the beginning of my career. Everything had an elaborate process: • preparing the patient • wheeling the patient to the surgery theater, • operating the patient • moving the patient to ICU

How New CEOs Can Balance Strategy and Execution

Productivity is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude. In this weekly episode of Gravitas WINS show, I show 5 unconventional ways to think about productivity. Watch it: Reply back with your insights & questions

"Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day." - Abraham Maslow

We talk about skills needed to excel in sales (apparently they are the same to excel in life), daily habits of a sales person, and so on. If you have any questions, hit reply and ask.

College professors can shape our lives even after college. In this episode of Gravitas WINS conversations, @orangeturban, shares his journey from a chemical engineer to sales manager of a company in social sector. Enjoy the conversation:

Finished 24th session of Gravitas WINS show - a show about building thriving career and successful life. Topic: Crack your next job interview. 24 people joined for the 24th session 😀 Thank you all for your continued support. Watch the session here:

I just went through my list of "twitter shit" and damn, it is so many. Thanks for raising this awareness. Going to try the code now to switch them off.

My good god @adamstjohn . How do you manage to keep track of everything as the show is going? I can't watch two screens and not get distracted.

Can't believe this happens even now, especially in a supposedly a developed country

Thank you everyone for listening to Gravitas WINS Radio. Can't believe there are people listening from everywhere.

Most listeners of Gravitas WINS podcast listen via @Spotify. Next one (Apple) is just half. Better to focus on Spotify for podcast growth.

You can't withdraw money if you have not deposited You can't think of health on the day you fall sick You can't prepare for a job interview on the day of interview. In today's Gravitas WINS show, we'll talk abut how to prepare for an interview. Join us:

Hi @JCutrell in reframing discipline episode you mentioned a book. Can you please share the book name & the author. Just an idea: may be you can link to the resources in the notes section

I asked my friend @orangeturban: what are the skills needed to be good at sales? He said, the same skills that are needed to be good at marriage and life. Listen to the full conversation:

We had 10th session of "What this book means to me" on 17th. True to the ideas discussed in the session, I procrastinated to post about it until now ;-) Thanks @xavierroy for sharing what you've learned using the ideas in this book.

As @lijithomas2020 says, we all need to learn the art of waiting without losing our character, vision, and principles. Not easy when you see others walking by. Liji: I love the last line, “I am going home”. You can see a sense of achievement.

As a Chief Technology Officer of an IT services company, I look for trends in the IT industry. By identifying trends, I can build useful and profitable skills. Here I explain how I go about identifying trends. Tell me is it useful?

World is a better place because of definite optimists. Their vision continues to prosper the world. This is what I wrote sometime back taking what Peter Theil said in his book.

Until the last era, elders owned the wisdom. Today doers own the wisdom as they have the scars from doing things. @rishabh_grg is half my age. But he has gained more wisdom by doing things and launching products. You don’t get that kind of wisdom from schools.

I am learning this with Gravitas WINS course. The daily travails of improving the course, thinking abt the market, price, and then doing the actual work of marketing.

Output of process is not the product but human behaviour. Another awesome episode from ⁦@DeveloperTea⁩

Most learning is true within its context. When that context changes, are you prepared to unlearn?

When you start to study a field, it seems like you have to memorize a zillion things. You don’t. What you need is to identify the core principles that govern the field. The million things you thought you had to memorize are combinations of the core principles. - John Reed

Everyday we read, watch, and listen to some of the greatest ideas floating around the Internet. Only thing that matters is, what are you going to do with that idea. Listen to this episode to know how I learned & acted on the idea of "skill stacking":

Include yourself in your financial portfolio. Investment in yourself has the highest ROI. Wonderful advice from @rishabh_grg

Same in India

If you listen to every critic, you'll never get anywhere near your goals. But if you completely ignore critics, you'll end up in a pit blinded by your biases. Listen to this episode to know when to ignore critics and when to listen to them:

Do you know why you procrastinate? Come and join us in today's Gravitas WINS book club discussion. @xavierroy will share the essence of this book and how it helped him. (Hope he doesn't procrastinate to join the meeting 😱) At 7 pm today, join here:

• Definite optimist: believes in better future; has plans • Indefinite optimist: believes in better future; has no plan • Definite pessimist: believes in bleak future Definite optimists make the world better

We fail to keep-up with our annual plans. Still we continue to plan. We need to have a different view of time. Break down your aspirational goal into 12-week plan. In this video I explain 12 week goals method: Watch and let me know your questions.

Read this thread for a real masterstroke by an Indian PM. Well those were different times.

You need to get into a new field to get new viewpoints - Richard Hamming When you stack your talents in different fields you enrich your career and life. Do it.