Tag: Personal Development
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The Unexpected Upside of Being Wrong
One of the universal struggles of life is our resistance to being wrong. Whether we are pitching an idea or defending an opinion, we feel a strong need to be right and the tendency is reinforced by our cultural conditioning which tells us that the person who is wrong is weak and foolish while the…
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How to Not Let Arguments Escalate
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Old proverb We’ve heard this proverb countless times. Well what it means in this context is that when others hurt us, we should not do something hurtful in return. When an argument starts heating up, both parties want to prove that they are right; going on top of their…
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Snacks and Magazines; The importance of carrying a light attitude in life
On the journey to enlightenment, it is easy to narrow our attention on an end result with a very specific idea of where we want to end up and who we want to become. And when we don’t realise these end results quickly, we become frustrated. In this journey called life however, our attitude is…
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Do good even if it doesn’t seem to matter
You may think to yourself, what does it matter if I do good to a stanger, I may never see him again; or what does it matter if I do a random job well, I may never see this client again or worse this client might not even notice. There are a lot of seemingly…