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  Attention became a core factor now. It is considered as essential for both personal and professional gain. Most of the time without our knowledge our attention is drifting away from our grasp. The reason is our inability to focus, to concentrate upon the things brings outputs. We are what we focus upon. When attention flows to one thing, energy flows with it. Energy is the core where anything needs to manifests. That is all of us crave for attention and sometimes attention seeks validation (not good). We can either get improved or get impoverished by attention. All depends on where it is channeling through. Attention in control provides great benefits. Once it is in our hand, we know where to channel it through. But most instance shows that it isn’t at our grasp. We can affirm that it is the only thing that is to be fixed. The root cause of every problem. Addiction often happens when we go uncontrol in concentration. Concentrating on the things that gives instant gratification is m

Whenever the price of goods and services increases, it is normal that there must be an involvement of central banks to increase the interest rate and thereby balancing the economic growth as with inflation. It is global and most practiced. But when something other than usual happens and central authorities standing on the same decision is what induces a threat. In the surge of covid, while people tried and landed upon investing in public and private equities, it generated a great cash flow in the free float market. After a quick dip, the stock market recovered and made it to the track. That is good sign. Amid this the global governments were forced to decrease the repo rate, fearing the growth of economy. The decision that happened is yet to reveal the results. But the results might not be controlled, because once the participants tremble to stay upon momentum and get suspicious, market falls down brining download most of the goods with it. The employed people might get unemployed aga

The 10000 hours rule actually came to vent viral after Malcolm Galdwell’s book Outliers. This concept is not novel, but with Outliers it became easy to interpret and Gladwell made it really easy. And it went like viral. The marketing is not done by the author, instead people took it and spread it. It went through multiple levels of marketing. Word of mouth made it concrete and viral marketing proliferated it like a fire. People did gave the feedback and turned into feedback marketing. It travelled through almost all of it became a powerful movement. This is one such example of how markets and people accepts powerful and useful contents. I’m not talking about Outliers, but the movements happened with it.   In fact, sometimes these movements are created by the markers. They must have equipped enough to carry on. And it works too, especially well with good content and timeless lessons. Products those met with these criteria always travelled faster than any other products or services at t

Whenever a transaction to happen, it must have to go through a lot of unnecessary procedure. Those procedure making the transition difficult was a major barrier and third party intervention is unbearable. But by using crypto, it could be reduced. The amount of time and transactions. We love simple and time saving methods. With the universality of cryptos, it is even enticing to use it. Manipulation through monetary power now becoming fragile. Which is a kind of threat of the governing authority. Because the amount of wealth that these authorities are making contributes a significant growth. The growth of GDP by taxing the transaction is a very good example. Even in third world countries the main problem people face is their own currency which is weak and less in demand. Even when they earn lot of it, considerable amount of time is needed to convert the currency when doing large scale business. That is not soothing at all. With dollar dominant over the world, its demand as well as price

Technology disruption is a topic we often talked about. It is a relevant and an observable phenomenon. The reason most of the organization can’t stand in front of the wave of Disruption is due to their inability to perceive the future. Whenever a person starts a company one of the focus would be at making money. But what decides the existence after a couple of decades is the importance we give it to the monetary value. If it becomes the primary goal, then the company won’t last long. People adopt monetary based values instead of ethical ones. They keeps on expanding the scale horizontally by hiring number of employees and setting up more branches. Where they is to make the service or product better. An organization sustains its customers because of the product they launch. It is the quality that attracts more people and sometimes repellant. Innovation dies when we fail to inspire the employees. They do what the founder say. Founder must be willing to adopt new ways and to lead them ahe

To get the information we want, we get to the sources. The available sources where the information lies determines the quality and amount of information we receive. That received information now guides as forward. Now in a over informed world, it became necessary to have a good source of information. Since people are more attracted towards the negative and over hyped stimulating news, it is plenty everywhere. The task now come down to filter the news and search for the truth. That is very difficult nowadays. Because it is difficult to distinguish between the two. Even when we find the actual information, the relevance of it has considerably reduced. We cannot spot a group of people talking about what’s important without effort. Every here and there we could see mobs gossiping and having fun instead having creative talk. This is a consequence of what they are consuming and consumed before. Those garbage information induces them to eat more. They crave to get what’s the hot topic instea

Ever since the dawn of business and markets, collecting funds as form of investment with good ROI became so enticing to both the entrepreneur and the investor. Due to the technology available at the time there witnessed a large gap in the mode of attracting money as an investment. The powerful and rigorously available back then and now is from the institutional investors or individual giants. That is traditional and sure way of money accumulation. Although this is the most widely practiced one, it wasn’t the only one. Different methods were practiced and the fastest and wealthiest mode made it to the top. But those cases were a reflection of lack of tools. But the rise of digital communication altered the usual way and made lot of other ways reachable.   Money accumulation through crowd sourcing and brand promotions are few, yet powerful examples. This is made possible with the help of technology. Anyone can have the access. Many a times, proper communication had been the problem. An

Since there is a difference in the personalities of each person, different strategies works for different people. Our personalities are molded by our experience that was perceived through the senses. This is different, hence the personality. As a consequence each of us see the same thing in a different angle and interpret our own view. We can say about the personality by the option we choose. That is how the mind operates too. With this mind, it makes a lot of sense when we look at people struggling to follow one method and be a successful at it. It cannot happen. Sure proved way success is hard work and there are lot of ways to do it. Once we try to install a habit, the foremost thing we might do is to copy from where we learnt it. That might have worked for him, it doesn’t mean that you must follow the same. You can scribe your own pattern before actually starting the installation process. Once you install the system, it is better to follow it. Because if you don’t, you are going b

How decentralization became a necessity should not be perceived as a novice movement, it is log forgotten suppressed once. When nation became a supreme power of dominance, they decided to peep everything that the citizens are doing. They may be feared of citizens turning against. But that inquisition started proliferating and now expanded to more personal level. From every Google search to monetary transactions, the record is well kept by the authority. I’m not emphasizing at the dictatorship, but even the democratic nation practice this. That say it’s a matter of security and gained the rights forcefully. With little as much power of an individual or a group it is almost impossible to not to rely upon the government and live. But the technology disrupted even the democracy. Making democracy as democracy.   Now decentralization became a necessity and could be attained by anyone with the help of technology. Transferring messages without the involvement of a third party hand and no delay

Abstaining from addiction can be considered as a period of purification. Whatever we think we are addicted will make our mind and physique derail. It can cause serious problems. Sometimes to those around us. When we are addicted to anything, it is clearly visible in our nature. Everything we did in the past is no longer the way we do new things. It is associated with the new personality. Because addiction alter the personality. There are lot of cause for being addicted. One of them is the indiscipline. Whenever something that is so momentarily stimulus, we get to go often. Our brain craves to take a taste more often and we lose control of ourselves. This might have happened to anyone who is undisciplined. Unfortunately, most of us grown up in indiscipline. Indiscipline compounds and makes it harder to get disciplined after few years. That is why old peoples are more resistance towards the change. The brain is already molded. The least they can do is to try. The possibility of getting

The point of being a curious person is it helps is to grow. A passion for learning comes from curiosity. It is like being the idiot in the room. Id we don’t know what a person is talking about, we mostly try to ignore. But this is not in the case of a curious person, he tries to learn those complex concepts. If it seems important, then he will research it thoroughly. This is actually a gift. Only curious mind invented things. The word innovation are pivoted around these people. We can affirm that they are life long learners and hence they grow . These people will not refrain from the mission until they find the answer.    They can be easily identified by the method of execution and behaviour. Some of them don’t care about the outside world. They sometimes refrain from it. And they are monomaniacal about the subject. This is a highly valued skill, especially in this world of distraction. Curiosity led people to conduct expedition comprising of very vast field. Scientific inventions an

Over diversification is often seen among many people. Those who knows well to manage can actual manage it, others just fails miserably. These peoples who diversify the things that they think they can make something out of it are most probably driven by reputation . Also sometimes by fomo. This is not only the case of a personal level, it applies to everything. But the common thing we can observe during this diversification is the lack of focus. Instead of directing their focus to make anything better, they give their fractured attention to lot of things. When they do this, they often get exhausted at the level of thinking. If someone is important enough, then it is important to make good amount of time analysing and reflecting upon specific problem instead of launching a new venture. Every time the new venture consumes significant amount of time for its growth. So the prime focus should always be on the foremost problem. Because without solving what is important and veering the att

 When there is a place to fill, those who see the opportunity and have the resources fills it as soon as possible. There are two notions behind this action. It is either to create a change or to make money. Rarely sometimes both. The primary objective would be either one of it. After filling the gap and being the first in the business they can actually disrupt the newly founded industry. They designate their name, sometimes by power creation of a brand and thereby gaining the trust. This is a traditional way of rising as an unshakable industry giant. New babies have work so hard to level this. Which is not so valuable since the time and energy can be detoured into anyways of multiple possibilities.    Sometimes the giants, known for making great leaps , makes mistakes. There is sure element of greed behind it, most of all they just forget their motto. They are not who they were. It may be due to the wrong people at the important position or ego driven right people. But the mistake mak

  It is really possible to outperform our past amount of output having a systematic plan. By sticking to a weekly plan is way more powerful and productive than the yearly plan. In case of scribing plan during particular year, it is a common phenomenon that people make less potential ones and moreover they tend to procrastinate. Procrastination here happens due to uncertainty. It is one of the highly leverage trigger for procrastination. In between the target and the presence, we could see a large gap of non-performance review. This means we never check the results and analyze the progress. All is left to the end and mod time is mostly wasted. It is a mistake not to fix this recurring occurrence. Having just a plan for this is year is same not having a plan. Every one knows after a year things won’t be the same. But our goal is to make the situation and lifestyle better than before. For this evaluation is inevitable. Having a progressive journal is both a reflection and motivation

Optimistic peoples are driven by hope. They create the things even in the middle of chaos. Whatever the case or scenario, there is an equal possibility for both the positive and negative outcome. Because of the constant exposure to the pessimistic surrounding and culture,we are hardwired to think like a pessimist. In one sense, we could say that it is not our mistake by blaming the society thoroughly. Yet on the flip side, we can say that we could have made a change which comes under our responsibility. So it is paradoxical.    Even by this influence, for luckily, we have many visionaries. All visionary people are optimists and they could see the things that most people don’t. They see opportunity instead of chaos and acts up on it. They are confident and highly energetic. The vision they have in their mind is enough to swap the imprudent breeze of failure. Whenever they approach a failure, they take that as a learning opportunity and learning thoroughly. That is a great difference an

Leverage attracts people and vice versa. Whenever we want to trade or in any case of acquisition, what we expect is not the mere margin profit, instead we shoot for highly leveraged return. This is primitive emotion of greed. People making fortune at investments are great example. They invest after checking the fundamental and what the balance sheet has to offer and invest. This is not an easy job. They wait for couple of year to compound with a hope of no economic depression and make lot of money. That is huge. Here, like many modern day technological leverages are not available, instead they rely upon the opportunity leverage. The future is full of possibilities and by their analysis they might have found out the future of the organisation is about to explode. These rich people are very keen at predicting the outcome by the current, which now has been one of the toughest job. Because of the exponential curve of growth, predictions are less probable to tryst upon. Yet wen predict a

There is not actually a proven business strategy. Different strategies are suitable for different businesses. Some people choose wrong strategy for their business and ends up in loss or sometimes bankruptcy. This is not only the case of small scale business, even matured companies make this mistake. Sometimes the consequences are certainly high. Most probably they end up in loss. Without studying the business atmosphere and lack of proper basic knowledge, this mistake is unavailable. Founders know how to run and which proposal to take. As soon as they appoint a new person, things sometimes starts to change. The growth persists when the company is secured or transferred to the right hands. Right hands means they are actually more than a half cloned version of the founders. He thinks and acts like them. He might have started similar company if he hadn’t recruited.  We could see many examples of large corporations failing to meet the expectations and small organizations making the leap. B

Writing is a very good way of practicing articulation. Early thinkers used their writing skills to improve the thinking. They are great thinkers because they are writers. People who writes is found to be more articulate and debatable than others. These people are excellent at bringing the ideas to communicative words. When done this perfectly, it is easy to make a change.   Early sources of information were through books and other papers. They are highly trusted and only people with expertise of knowledge showed the deed to pass knowledge. Even in digital age, people with intellectual minds do value writing more than videos. Because it is powerful. People who practices writing are often considered as worthy of having a conversation with or being appointed at respectable position. We cannot write like we talk. Writing needs time to adjust and rich vocabs to express. But through practice, it is achievable. Later we could find that the writing is cloned into talking. We can definitely s

After a while of starting something new, it either goes ahead or stuck. It happens with everything that is unknown before. It is different for different things. In personal case committing a habit, for most people, is very interesting at the beginning. Here the motivation acts as an injector. After a week or so, majority of them leave it. In case of business, motivation ceases after something like six months and lot of startup stuck here. People loose enthusiasm. We can clearly observe it’s impact on the performance. That is why VCs tends to invest money after observing for a considerable amount of time. If the company is passion drive, it can easily survive whatever the resistance is. Goal makes the difference. Stimulation through money often ceases when it is fulfilled or when the hope is cherished. Neither case contributes zero passion. It is also important to grow within this couple of months. Stunted growth kills the motivation along with the far reaching hope. Beginning stages ma

Work which generates more output is more valuable. That is what leaves legacy behind. We measure our worth of time in these kind of works. They are meaningful work and it is certainly different for different people. For a person interested in sports, it may be to practice the game for hours and for a writer it is the literary work that reaches the hands of mass. Those are purpose driven. These works, although in reality requires more effort, it doesn’t feel like we are putting. Because it is interesting and a passion. People who finds their passion and follows them are found to be more productive.   It is not a secret that people who loves what they do creates more output than who works for money. A sense of giving it to the world really is the key. While a group of people believe that they are changing the world, others focus on bundling the money. The former individuals are creative and the latter are the cogs.   Differentiating these two sects could be done by a mere factor of insp

While doing a job, whether we love it or not, what is more important or what is more it makes meaningful is the result. How much results or output stands afterward is always the measuring tool. We do lots of hacks such as productivity booster to increase result rate. Out of all, most of the time, assigning time is quite powerful. Time creates a sense of urgency. We all know that we have only limited amount of time, yet we waste it. But when we assign time to a task, we most likely to finish the work than thrash it. The reason is simple : our brain function more vigorously when time is included.   We never estimate the time spent in entertainment or on drugs. Although it cost a lot of time when we wander in unwanted things, we tend to avoid time management here. But feel drastic feeling when we finds a few minute increase in productive work. Here the problem lies with the brain itself. It tricks us to believe that a minute spent productively can be equated with an hour in entertainment.

Small things has big impacts in our life. Everything starts with small and based on the interest, it keeps the growth. When we try new things such as a habit or a business, the common fallacy would be to make the progress as much as possible. We accelerate the process with the motivation behind. But this hardly works. Wise people don’t do that. What gives the results is slow and consistent progress. Because of our complex brain structure, it isn’t fertile to sudden changes. That’s the primitive brain. This part is afraid of change. It offers resistance every time we try to change. The more we push the novelty, the more it repel it. It is important to take care of such mess part of the brain before bringing a change. Slow introduction is not terrifying, it is learning. Without learning the basics we cannot make the change. Actually this basic learning process is the toughest one. Brain needs a lot of time to extract its attachment from the previous thinking. Installing the new method

In order to get something at our grasp we must do the work. In any case giving enough time and energy is necessary to make it possible. And sometimes not. Those are not rare case scenarios. It is well observed around. We must have experienced this. The evident factor is that, due to the most valuable time, we often switch things around, like hedging. Unlike hedging you cannot do both simultaneously. So the thing is we have to make blocks of time. These blocks will save lot of energy and of course brings the time for our deed.   During this process, it is necessary that we must allocate the time to those defined blocks. By allocating, we are actually veering the time from anything that we usually do to something purposeful . Because doing something that creates meaning requires effort and consistency. Motivation is not enough, it dies soon.   Here some people often confuses this with their moral things. Such as relationship and routine. Instead of keeping it well nourished, they tend t

Almost everything that added value to growth is provided by few things. About 80% of the growth is happened because of the 20% of the well contributed things. This is a very famous principle. This is one of the reason for advices such as focus on few things stands relevant. Giving time and energy to few things makes it easy to get more output. And the results are truly visible. By constantly trying to expand the focus to many things results in shallow results. It is no good for none.   To make that 80% improvement in our personal or professional matter, we need to spend the time wisely. By selecting the things to focus upon has this direct correlation with output. At times, we do feel that everything is necessary and it cannot be completed without it. But those are meant to finish as secondary. Primary works have primary importance and yields more results. For every energy we puts in, we expect results. The more we 80/20 principle, the more things get done.  We can easily sort out th

 Once we confirm the disruption of an industry, we either leave them or join them. But to join we need to level up our skills. Skills are now very overrated and are a key factor that decides the career further. It requires the mentality of shit from the reminiscent pattern to new. We need to learn and unlearn the skills. Because the now relevant skill will not be relevant tomorrow and tomorrow is way advanced than we used today. It is making the process of unemployment so fast today. Not intentionally, but to pace up with the technology. Clearly, companies that existed for centuries are now digitally backed up. Or the competition made them do so. Here game requires new equipment. We could say that digitalization played this heavy part. It wasn’t until from last decade that it began inducing fear among laggards. Because from there it is evident that everything regardless of their field is going to be digitalized.   Digitalization is really disrupting the world. It is reinventing the i

 The amount of exposure one is getting from the world he is must have a great influence in his future. Otherwise, you don’t need to copy the things they did, if those are successful. We can also scribe personalities from this. How we spend our day has direct correlation with how we spend our future. And the days we used to live are often controlled by the experience gained from the previous we had. We can sometimes accuse fate for letting us live in a negative atmosphere, but mostly not. There is a choice to choose from and you chose the easiest one. Where you got lot of pleasure. It kept us hooked and you thought you never meant to live. That foolishness might take couple of years or days to relieve.  But the good thing is, if we know the theory we can actually make it our benefits. Lot of people do this and it is simple and powerful. We can change the exposure voluntarily and can change the way we think and act. By finding the right sources to rely upon which leading an expedition i

When we see the things that never seen before, especially if it’s an invention makes leaves is amazed. It in case of natures contribution is an absolute beauty. It drives many people to lead an expedition to explore the nature. Science is undoubtedly one of these expedition, or at least I suppose. Sometimes that wonderful creativity can be observed in humans. Especially with chefs. After the creation, people do go after them and try to reason the possibility that led to it. It is not uncommon that a chefs life most of the time are scrutinized and deeply studied. This is available to public to refer. Technology made most of it out of cost. These artists are not so rare. But their journey to become a chef need courage and encouragement.   Those who make it the invention will be remembered for ever. They are indispensable and led a challenging life. They readily accepts the challenge and create those amazing products. Products that make people to think different, challenging the status

 When we see people taking about the things that is not yet discovered or existing, we often refer them as nuts. Some of the things they were referring makes least sense. And the probability of making it to the real world is almost null. These crazy ideas never made the mediocre to astonish. Instead it induced them to criticize and drag it to the ground over time. Yet some ideas turned real and surpassed the resistance . This is not uncommon.   Most of the ideas still gets reverted by mediocre pull. This world would have been a different one if there is no pull. But these pulls are, like some other barriers, meant to cross. Almost everything new has to surpass this resistance. Of it is strong enough, it will break the barrier. The strength of idea is a by product of the source where it born. A rigid determined source can often disrupt the pessimistic ambient field. Many ideas backed by less driven person dies with fear. And couple of years later, someone with powerful mindset make it

Growth is completely relative. It is what happened new than what happened a bit before. This time frame is rationally different for different things. And the rate of growth is certainly the product of information collected and consistent action taken. For a personal growth we do have to start from the beginning and ends with the death. No more time for prolonged improvement. But in the case of technology, this is completely different.   Technological growth is exponential since it is immortal. The difference of its growth from a moral being is that it is a coalition of multiple individuals contributed information and actions. It is immortal and the dead peoples contribution never fades away with their demise, instead it multiplies with the next generation. Assigning time frames for the two consecutive period can exactly show this phenomenon. What makes the technologies go exponential is its massive growth of collective information. It is not a person or a nation oriented (although na

  Perfection can be said as an illusion. It is never fully achievable. People strive to become perfect at things that they love. They try so hard and the process continues. It is like infinity, there is no identified boundary. We tend to go forward hoping to achieve perfection. But the journey pays some meaningful dividends. The reason we build teams is to execute our plans perfectly. It is to an extent, could be done by defining a boundary or target. But without the boundary, it may sometimes turn into frustration.   Frustration comes in the way of rescheduling . Often people without a clearly defined goal stumble to arrive at a destination. Even at the time of shipping, they try to make the product perfect. They thrash multiple times and let every time the schedule go away. This is an ultimate sign of poor leadership. By doing this, there are no actual benefits. It often results in dry motivation. Employees loose enthusiasm and the momentum reverse. Sometimes products or services g

  Several million years ago asteroid in a size larger than the moon hit the earth and wiped most of the species leaving the dust particles to afloat. Since then, asteroid is identified as mostly a negative thing. In fact, many historians believe that that was the turning point to the second life of the planet. Generally, we could see people referring asteroid as capable of destroying anything. This true, but it is not complete. The sentence only fulfills the moral meaning when we add “and bringing the new world of new opportunities”. We would be survived if it hadn’t happened amid the dinosaurs. We must have gone extinct long before. It is common to assign asteroid anything that is about to wipe out the old and bring the new.    The term Business asteroid got popular in the last two decades. Reason: we barely saw anything before. Like an actual asteroid it is perceived as wrong at its entry. Many people said it would not be a problem for them. Some sided with ´this is shit and child pl