INTROSPECTION: DON’T LET SOMEONE ELSE’S MISTAKE DEFINE YOU

Every time you see someone with a coffee stain on their shirt, remember: it may not be their fault. Perhaps the coffee was spilt not by them, but by someone else. It could have been an accident or mere carelessness — caused by a friend, a colleague, or even a complete stranger. Yet, when it happens, the person with the stain is the one who looks bad. They are the one who suffers embarrassment, perhaps even forced to leave the party.

If time didn’t matter, what would you pursue?

Time is the most powerful boundary in our lives. Every goal, personal or professional, comes with a timeline. We may wish to give our best, but the ticking clock often forces us to deliver within a frame that may not allow our true potential to come out.

You may meet some new people at an event, exchange cards, promise to get in touch soon, and then forget. Or at least they forget you by the time you engage with them again. This is very common for those who are in public life and happen to attend...

Appropriateness of your demand matters in most social and professional settings. What you demand and in which situation - is an important aspect of your personality. It shows how capable you are to handle a situation, especially awkward ones....

Have you come across a situation where the prices are higher, but services are below average? A costly vacation booked for a week, turns out to be a substandard arrangement; or a romantic dinner booked with your husband on his promotion, gives...

It is actually very common to have something unique in every individual. Many of those characteristics might be acceptable, but a few might be specific to the person, and a bit weird. And that weird one is what makes us different, sometimes...

Sometimes we wonder how someone gets an innovative idea that revolutionises the world? Take an example of the discovery of a printing press or sewing machine. Or in the modern time, the invention of the computer or the World Wide Web. People...

Intelligent people are not averse to receiving criticism. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." But some people do, and they take contradiction negatively.



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