Life's Strange Ways...!!!

Continuing my earlier blog on Over analysis, a recent article on same topic is here for you to read : I Stopped Overthinking for Three Weeks and This Is What Happened [source : https://www.headhonchos.com/blog/career-tips/stop-overthinking.html?siteid=8aprilnl&utm_source=newsletter%20april%208&utm_medium=email] April 5, 2017 Gauri Bhatia    Situations are very often quite harmless, but our innate habit of over-analysing things make them look big, and induce a lot of unnecessary emotions as well. Thinking, analyzing, perceiving and forming opinions in depth become a way of life. Things start to seem so complex that we spend days thinking about a problem that may be trivial, but a background check, all references and branching topics are necessary to solve the problem. Anyway, let’s just say that I was told of an incident, and I couldn’t correctly comprehend the tone of the person who told me the same. I thought of the ‘apparent’ negativity in her voice, and got off...

Not Leadership Material? Good. The World Needs Followers. The glorification of leadership skills, especially in college admissions, has emptied leadership of its meaning. Susan Cain   { source : https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/opinion/sunday/not-leadership-material-good-the-world-needs-followers.html?action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&module=Trending&version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article ) In 1934, a young woman named Sara Pollard applied to Vassar College. In those days, parents were asked to fill out a questionnaire, and Sara’s father described her, truthfully, as “more a follower type than a leader.” The school accepted Sara, explaining that it had enough leaders. It’s hard to imagine this happening today. No father in his right mind (if the admissions office happened to ask him!) would admit that his child was a natural follower; few colleges would welcome one with open arms. Today we prize leadership skills above all, and nowhere more tha...