<ul><li> wholehearted leap of faith </li><li>remains a mystery — perhaps the mystery of the human experience.</li></ul>

What is love?

— a slim, simply worded collection of Thich Nhat Han's immeasurably wise insights on the most complex and most rewarding human potentiality

How to Love?

Love is understanding the other person-Seeking to understand their sufferings and tribulations

Empathy

According to him, making other's suffering your own is painful and disturbing if you have a small heart ,but when you expand your heart and mind , then the same suffering becomes much more palpable and it becomes easy to understand and accept those who suffer

Suffering

How to grow our own hearts?By feeding and supporting our own happiness, we nourish our ability to love.To love means also to learn the art of nourishing our happiness

How to grow

﻿"The most precious inheritance that parents can give their children is their own happiness. Our parents may be able to leave us money, houses, and land, but they may not be happy people. If we have happy parents, we have received the richest inheritance of all"

We need to first love and understand ourselves, and out of this understanding we can seek to understand another's suffering. But when compassion for ourselves is lacking and we don't understand self, out of this misunderstanding arises an incomplete love for another, which serves as a distraction for our own suffering-this is the infatuation or crush we have for someone else

Infatuation

<ul><li> loving kindness</li><li>compassion</li><li>joy</li><li>equanimity — fostering which lends love “the element of holiness.” </li></ul>

Elements of love

Is about the ability to offer happiness. To offer happiness one needs to be happy with self,only then will they be able to pass on the same to others

Loving kindness

If you have enough understanding and compassion, then every moment can be a moment of joy.

Compassion and Joy

“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”

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Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing”

This will be a person who shares information forthcomingly and also connects with team regularly

Enhanced transparency and team engagement

This is a person who will be true to the organisations vision, mission and values even during the toughest times. They reinforce these ideas through action and not just in words.

Strengthened core values and cultural beliefs

During the pandemic, this is a person who has displayed vulnerability, has been authentic and emapthised with workforce and employees

Brought humanity and authenticity to the workforce

This is a person who is agile and tries to incentivise innovation and ideation and doing more with less effort

The rediscovery of doing more with less

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Leadership & Management

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It's very common that each and every one of us makes mistakes, what the author, Rolf Dobelli says, experts call as cognitive errors.Some of these errors are:<ul><li>We overestimate our knowledge more often</li><li>Fear of losing, drives us much more than gaining something of similar value</li><li>We tend to adjust our behaviour in the presence of others</li><li>Exceptional stories make us neglect the average success rate of an action</li><li>And many such more...</li></ul>

Introduction- Cognitive errors

Although this book may not hold the key to happiness, at the very least it acts as insurance against t﻿oo m﻿uch unhappiness.

This bias or error is about how one can systematically overestimate their chances of success. The probability of your start up being successful, of you becoming a royalty winning writer or becoming the next Led Zeppelin are next to zero, and yet, we ignore it. The reason we ignore it is the success stories that we hear about. Let's say , we hear of one Soldier who made it out of the war, a hero, and alive, and we assume that war is safe.

Survivorship Bias

<ul><li>Cosmetics products are sold by beautiful models and the products have no causal effect on their good looks</li><li>Good universities are good because they take good students in and not the other way around</li><li>And the main analogy from which the error gets its name , swimmers with great physique are good swimmers in most cases, and not the other way around </li></ul>In short , the intent to seek relation between every choice and corresponding results is erroneous as we maybe making wrong assumptions

Swimmer's body illusion

We tend to try to see patterns where none exist <ul><li>Patterns in clouds</li><li>Faces in food</li><li>Patterns in stokc markets</li></ul>There are lot of stuff in which we may think there is a pattern but more often than not theu are just conicidental. Humans are oversensitive to patternsWhen you think you have a pattern, consider it luck and the analyse it or have it analysed through and expert. Try to disprove it.

Clustering Illusion

Have you ever . . . Invested time in something that, in hindsight, just wasn't worth it? Paid too much in an eBay auction? Continued to do something you knew was bad for you? Sold stocks too late, or too early? Taken credit for success, but blamed failure on external circumstances? Backed the wrong horse? These are examples of what the author calls cognitive biases, simple errors all of us make in day-to-day thinking. But by knowing what they are and how to identify them, we can avoid them and make better choices: whether in dealing with personal problems or business negotiations, trying to save money or earn profits, or merely working out what we really want in life—and strategizing the best way to get it. Already an international bestseller, The Art of Thinking Clearly distills cutting-edge research from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience into a clever, practical guide for anyone who's ever wanted to be wiser and make better decisions. A novelist, thinker, and entrepreneur, Rolf Dobelli deftly shows that in order to lead happier, more prosperous lives, we don't need extra cunning, new ideas, shiny gadgets, or more frantic hyperactivity—all we need is less irrationality. Simple, clear, and always surprising, this indispensable book will change the way you think and transform your decision making—at work, at home, every day. From why you shouldn't accept a free drink to why you should walk out of a movie you don't like, from why it's so hard to predict the future to why you shouldn't watch the news, The Art of Thinking Clearly helps solve the puzzle of human reasoning.

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A world-class thinker counts the 100 ways in which humans behave irrationally, showing us what we can do to recognize and minimize these “thinking errors” to make better decisions and have a better life Despite the best of intentions, humans are notoriously bad—that is, irrational—when it comes to making decisions and assessing risks and tradeoffs. Psychologists and neuroscientists refer to these distinctly human foibles, biases, and thinking traps as “cognitive errors.” Cognitive errors are systematic deviances from rationality, from optimized, logical, rational thinking and behavior. We make these errors all the time, in all sorts of situations, for problems big and small: whether to choose the apple or the cupcake; whether to keep retirement funds in the stock market when the Dow tanks, or whether to take the advice of a friend over a stranger. The “behavioral turn” in neuroscience and economics in the past twenty years has increased our understanding of how we think and how we make decisions. It shows how systematic errors mar our thinking and under which conditions our thought processes work best and worst. Evolutionary psychology delivers convincing theories about why our thinking is, in fact, marred. The neurosciences can pinpoint with increasing precision what exactly happens when we think clearly and when we don’t.Drawing on this wide body of research, The Art of Thinking Clearly is an entertaining presentation of these known systematic thinking errors--offering guidance and insight into everything why you shouldn’t accept a free drink to why you SHOULD walk out of a movie you don’t like it to why it’s so hard to predict the future to why shouldn’t watch the news. The book is organized into 100 short chapters, each covering a single cognitive error, bias, or heuristic. Examples of these concepts include: Reciprocity, Confirmation Bias, The It-Gets-Better-Before-It-Gets-Worse Trap, and the Man-With-A-Hammer Tendency. In engaging prose and with real-world examples and anecdotes, The Art of Thinking Clearly helps solve the puzzle of human reasoning.

Rolf Dobelli is a Swiss author and businessman. He began his writing career as a novelist in 2002, but he is best known internationally for his bestselling non-fiction The Art of Thinking Clearly (2011, English 2013), for which The Times has called him "the self-help guru the Germans love".

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”Investing should be a permanent thing. Save, invest. Save, invest. Guessing at market tops, market bottoms – that is a complete loser’s game. I’ve never seen anyone win at it. The smartest investor in the world, Warren Buffett, would say that is not the way to invest.”

Becoming wealthy is not about earning more , though earning more might definitely help. Even if you don't earn a lot you could be on rhe path to wealth by having good financial habits

Think Rich

Though earning more is obviously about making money, it's not a quick process or straightforward process. Most of the time a person who is on a long journey for wealth will need to spend time for knowledge. Learn more to earn more - Darius Foroux Also earning money is not a 100m dash but a marathon. It does not have to be about making fast money but about making steady progress.

Earning more

One mistake that most people do when they start earning more is allowing lifestyle creep. The ideal way to wealth is to let your expenses stay the same while your earnings increase, which in corollary would mean you create more savings, year on year. This should not also mean that you be thrifty to the extent of denying yourself necessities. Strike a balance.

The habit of saving more

Last but not the least , invest what you save.Get the basics for investing right<ul><li>Have a emergency corpus</li><li>Invest in real estate</li><li>Max out your retirement accounts </li><li>Invest in Gold </li><li>Invest in Equity everything else remaining</li></ul>It's important to note that trading is kot a fool proof way to make money . People who actually make good money from it might be far and less. Follow the invest and forget policy if you can . Investments in equity will pay off in the long run, and as with anything else compounding will do its job.

The habit of investing more

Earn, Save, Invest: If you want to get rich, those three things always need to be on your mind. These are rich habits that change your life.

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After watching a movie or reading a book spend sometime to think about what messages and ideas were conveyed and what are the key takeaways.

1. Activate your inner movie (or book) critic

Involve your kids in this brain exercise and ask them to hash tag their day , maybe rewards for the best hashtags but try avoid regular generic labels and ask them to use very unique words which would better explain their day

2. Have kids? Get them involved with exercises for the brain

We are in an age where everything we consume is condensed. So think about how you can package your whole day into 60 words or less in the surtest way possible. Thnk of it as a healdine for news arcile or ticker text for breaking news on a tv channel

3. Think like a reporter

One of my personal favourites. Try to have arguments with people especially with people with differen opinions than yours. The idea is to understand where they are coming from and therby, understand the other vantage point. It's all about perpsective and soemtimes a different perspective is healthy for the brain.

4. Gain a different perspective

Sick of puzzles? These expert-backed exercises for the brain will help you stay curious—and keep your brain in tip-top shape as you age.

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By not delegating, you could be trying to do a lot of things by yourself, which indirectly could be having an impact on your health and efficiency.

CONSIDER THE COST

While not delegating is a pain, so is delegating everything all at once. The goal is to focus on upskilling and transitioning tasks in parts.

START SMALL

Be clear about what needs to be accomplished the leave the actual how ﻿of the process to the person to figure out. Invite them early in into the process so that they have a say and feel involved in whatever decisions they need to take to complete the "what" required

SHARE RESPONSIBILITY

People with perfectionist tendencies may be so exacting, they overlook chances to outsource responsibility.


How to delegate when you’re a die-hard perfectionist

Know what's causing your happiness and what's draining it. Not theoretically but practically. Right now, on a day to day basis. Keep track of these.

Analyse the events 

Most often happiness that you feel when you achieve something is not about the act itself but about the emotions associated with the journey. Make a list of emotions that you identify with and use that to navigate your happiness

Create a “Words to Live By” list

Instead of rushing into work, each morning, try to spend time on yourself. Exercise, Meditate, dance or do anything that would put you in the Me Zone

Start your morning on your own terms

Sometimes impulses can be good. Test them, see where they take you. Does not matter if they are unconventional and people advise against it. If you feel it fits in with your other lists, then pursue it. There maybe happiness or there maybe something better, a lesson.

Follow the sparks

The 4 habits of the happiest people

<ul><li>Write letters</li><li>Give someone a hug</li><li>Listen actively</li><li>Tip someone gratefully for their service</li><li>Be patient with others</li><li>Help someone with an errand when they have their plates full</li><li>Appreciate a colleague for their help by crediting them in a public forum, meeting or team call</li><li>Compliment someone</li><li>Send someone a book or article which reminded you of them</li></ul>

Ways to show gratitude 

Writing letters which convey genuine positive emotions can be rewarding in terms of health for both the sender and receiver. The fact that it makes the recieved feel good is a bonus.

Write letters.

Practice the act made famous by one of the most influential movies of the last decade-Jadoo ki jhappi (Magical hug in Hindi). When you hug someone you are relieving stress for both people.

Give someone a hug

Show people you care for them by listening to what they have to say. Active listening is about making space for only that without trying to respond to whatever they are saying.

Listen actively 

Make someone's day at the restaurant or grocery shop or super market, by rewarding them for a spectacular service, by tipping more than you normally would.

Tip someone

A genuine smile can convey many positive emotions

Smile at someone

Gift someone a book or send an article which reminded you of them

Gift a book

While self-expressions of gratitude are essential, extending that gratitude to others can also go a long way; here are 15 ways to show your appreciation.

15 Tangible Ways To Show Gratitude To Others (Beyond Saying Thank You)

<ul><li>The best version of your life will be one with both ups and downs</li><li>There are more people who want you to succeed than you think</li><li>The best advice is not an answer but a question which would help them figure out the answer</li><li>Politics is not something to be proud of</li><li>Small ideas are underrated</li><li>Owning things don't makes us happy</li><li>We chose the people around us</li><li>Don't chose experiences for your resumé</li><li>No alternative to effort</li><li>The path to success is always a black box-try and fail</li><li>To become rich you need to be a entrepreneur</li><li>Success mandates a sacrifice</li><li>What success means to each person is different</li><li>Invest in yourself</li></ul>

Things we should know about life 

Especially if you want to live a happier, more fulfilling life.

14 Things About Life Everyone Should Know Before Turning 40

<ol><li>Ensure quality data and attach the source data</li><li>Learn to tell the difference between facts and inference</li><li>Be clear about the basic principles</li><li>Rely on simulations and models</li><li>Keep validating your assumptions</li></ol>

Things to do to improve your leadership through critical thinking

Both quantity and quality of data is important. Look further than summarized information and analyse the underlying data

More data and better data

Analyse the data and understand the difference between facts and assumptions made from Data. Assumptions should never be treated as facts.

Learn to separate fact from inference

First principles are the fundamental building blocks in thinking and decision-making. These are core elements that are true regardless of situation and context.Once you have a good set of first principles, you then have the elements that you need to start creating new options and new solutions that you can be confident in

Break down to first principles

Thinking in terms of models or analogies, can be useful for simplifying a situation and quickly finding alternatives and strategies.Models can help you quickly generate insights and strategies

Develop efficient simulations

Testing and validating assumptions is crucial as an unchecked wrong assumption can lead to poor thinking and bad decision-making.

Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing”

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