Photo Courtesy: psyberartist on Flickr Marketplace is right most of the time. It will set the price for what you bring to the table – based on the supply and demand equations that exist (all the time) Smart people sometimes hit a roadblock when they don’t get what they truly deserve. What they don’t realize… Continue reading
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Ways to Distinguish Yourself #204 – Add Wings to Your Ideas
Everyone has ideas and a small percentage of them will execute on their ideas too. However, not all ideas fly. No, I am not talking about world-changing or radical ideas. I am thinking about everyday ideas that get stifled and buried. You want them to fly but they don’t take off. What could be the… Continue reading
Ways to Distinguish Yourself #203 – Focus on the edges
A knife is sharp only at its ends. Your house key or car key is simply a piece of metal if the ends are flattened out. Your pen will fail to work if the tip is broken. You will probably your next email with your “fingertips” In most cases, edges are what matters. When it… Continue reading
Ways to distinguish yourself #202 – Avoid common mis-attributions
It is a problem if you are “smart” and “lazy” as you can explain away several things to your convenience. One way for coming with “explanations of convenience” is to mis-attribute things. If you want to distinguish yourself, you can avoid common mis-attributions AND stop playing mind games. I have chosen a few mis-attributions to… Continue reading
Ways to distinguish yourself #201 – Tell the right story to the right people.
Only few people will have story that is so grand as the story of Taj Mahal. Or the beauty of the Niagara. Or the size of the Grand Canyon. That won’t prevent us from telling stories everyday. We are telling stories to others and we are telling stories to ourselves. We are even telling stories to ourselves about stories we are telling stories to others. We live in our stories.
Continue readingWays to distinguish yourself #200 – Understand the story behind the story
Stories make it easy to communicate something but if the stories are flawed they can just communicate the wrong thing – and, in a compelling way. In other words, stories can help and if you are not careful, they can hurt. Think about what happened last week. You heard stories from political leaders, you heard… Continue reading
Ways to distinguish yourself #199 – Exit gracefully
I have always believed that there are only two kinds of relationships – those that are “long term” and those that are “very long term”. Yes, I am exaggerating a bit but when you approach your relationships and put them into one of those two boxes, your perspective on relationships shift. In reality though, some… Continue reading
Ways to distinguish yourself #198 – Don't focus on the "derivative" at the expense of the "core"
First everyone is working on one or more big projects – actually at least two of them – one in professional life and one in personal life. Every big project is typically made up of several sub-projects or we can call them derivatives of the core project. Depending on the nature and scope of the… Continue reading
Ways to distinguish yourself #197 – Be comfortable with "Nothing"
Take a dot. Put some “nothing” in it and.. You get a doughnut! Take a doughnut. Put some “nothing” in it and… You get a zero. Take a zero. Put some more “nothing” in it and… You get a bowl. Take a bowl. Put some more “nothing” in it and… You get an arc. Take… Continue reading
Ways to distinguish yourself #196 – Be aware of your circle of awareness
It requires a lot of maturity to be aware of your circle of awareness. This is one of the areas where “ignorance is definitely NOT bliss”. What you want is typically within your circle of awareness. If “what you need” to reach your goals is outside of this circle of awareness, you may not make… Continue reading