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So, if you have done a blunder, be bold and face the consequences…Yes! That’s exactly what you should do, and unfortunately, that's the only thing you can do. There is no harm in making blunders, but the thing which sucks about blunders is the fact that you did all the wrong things knowingly and you realized it when it was too late. No issues, some blunders like losing money, leaving someone somewhere, forgetting someone’s birthday, screwing up the interview you had been desperately waiting for, breaking up with someone just because you had a bad day, and missing an exam because you started late ;-)...have all become really really common these days. I suggest you to do one thing before you face the shitty consequences – take a coffee break and laugh at yourself for screwing it up ;-). It feels great ;-D. Guys who screw up a lot are not at all afraid of blunders, it becomes their way of life . But, those who screw up once in a while get shit scared and fear the conseque...

You've been trying to tell someone the same thing again and again, because as a third person you get a better picture of whats wrong and how to correct it , and sometimes it's just a  been-there-done-that situation and you know exactly what to do to sail smooth in that situation. But unfortunately, your help is of no use because they still end up doing the same mistake. H ow much ever you try, you won't be able to make people realize something unless your a celebrity who people follow blindly - which is very unlikely. So, if you see your friend always making the same mistake, always doing the same things and expecting different results, always getting annoyed for the same reason , always unconsciously doing something unrealistic ...then what you need to do is just let it be , don't try to correct anything or add your expert comments/views, how much ever you try, you won't be able to help her , you know why? coz those who want to do the right thing would do it...

Why should we polish everything and try to make it look good. Everything happens for the good – yes it does, for those who make sense out of things that are absolutely nonsense. For instance, in the name of helping  people  out, some guys in the internet make you believe in things that are absolutely useless, not just that, they justify the horrifying results and make you feel good about whatever bullshit that happened to you. Say what? It’s all for the good – I don’t think so, may be good for who is saying it, but not the one who is reading or listening to it. Beware of guys in the internet who try to make you believe in random things , don’t just listen to the fancy words people put on their website to get your attention – ahem , I too liked to grab attention – but I realized that the attention I grabbed was really short-lived ( I went from 300 subscribers to 150 subscribers in 3 days – shit happens ). Pretty remarks, psyched analogies, self-analysis, and trying-to-tak...

If you think teamwork is in being low profile, in making sure nobody feels bad , or in being appreciative of all that the team does, then you are damn wrong about this teamwork thingy. Also, if you think teamwork is giving everyone equal opportunities, and making sure everybody is heard and respected...you haven't improved, you are still wrong about what teamwork ACTUALLY is. In short, teamwork does not mean harmony (I know I've said this , but it's in a different context) , if you find a team that is always smiling and happy then dont mistake that for good teamwork, it's even possible that they are not doing any teamwork. Just so that you know, some of the best and most productive teams have conflicts on a hourly/daily basis , and sometimes they never agree with each other but still work together to get things done. We dont work in teams for the sake of  teamwork , it's because we wanna get things done. We don't...

I am reading a lot about yahoo businesses and the CEO who told a famous host to F**K OFF , Carol Bartz. Nobody likes her for what she is doing, like firing people, closing down delicious and selling other yahoo businesses. I consider myself the least informed guy in front of other Internet tech bloggers, but I think what Carol Bartz is doing is out of our understanding, there is always a reason behind such decisions, I am sure the investors and board members wont allow such things to happen unless they are backed by a good reason. I just read the pink slip which yahoo employees got, almost 4 percent of the workforce is gonna get fired. I am sure Indian yahoos are safe as they always are, low pay, less risks and lesser chances of getting fired. Read the whole pink slip here , an excerpt from it as follows. It’s never easy to say goodbye to Yahoos we know and work with, especially before the holidays. Please know that we’re helping those affected with severance pay a...

or else you might not get the help you want. It is really a waste to wait for people to refer us to their friends (for help), why? because, for us to get help, all the three parties have to find time. I am the guy who waits waits and waits forever - not any more - till my so called referral a.k.a the middle man gets time to refer me . But, now I have realized that these middle men take a lot of time to get us help and it is far better to just go and approach people our-self. Someone said, god helps only those who help themselves . I was being a give-up candidate, and thinking of the correct approach all the time, time just passed by, and in the end, I had to drop the whole thing coz I couldn't get help. You need to (especially me) seek help for yourself. Apart from a few jerks in the workplace/society/community/forums, all the rest of them will always be willing to help. I just learned from one video in okdork.com which says something very similar, go talk to people, invite ...

but your defense mechanism in return to that criticism is. I am sure this has happened to you before, you tried to give someone a genuine feedback to address one of the not so cool things in their personality or work, instead of just listening to you and trying to figure out how to work towards making it better, the other guy bounces back saying something stupid which demeans your comments and makes you feel like you are preaching.  You know if the critique is genuine the minute you get a feedback. In anyways, just take the freaking feedback, remember that you were worth being noticed and criticized  (what an honor ;-P). If the critique just wants to ridicule you, people around you would surely notice that, likewise, when the critique gives a genuine feedback and you try to demean his comments, people around you notice that too. PS : But...a really big but ;-), If you get criticized for what is your way of life, you can just take the fee...

The question isn't why an early retirement , it is what after an early retirement . When I worked in a Sales company, the chief said, I wanna retire by 35 and go home. A lot of people say this - I don't wanna work after 35 !, is it because they have something else in their mind, NOT AT ALL, it's only because they don't like what they are doing and they can only take all that crap till they turn 35. What would happen if everyone wanted to retire by 35. This freaking world will have people dying by 40. No kidding, the early you retire the early you die . Why the hell do you wanna retire by 35, what makes you say such a thing, I think, It's your job. You are working only to get the monthly pay checks, please make way for the others who would work till 60 coz we the industry people don't like dropouts .

Restriction is the keyword here. A lot of places (online/offline) have restrictions and it's all for a cause. There was a long 1hr halt at a traffic junction because our Chief Minister dint want anybody in his way, I realize that they block/break all kinds of signals - cellphones won't work, FM wont work - for security reasons. This is a classic example of enforced restriction (Can't use). But, In theaters, people are asked not to use their cellphone, you see, people are instructed not restricted (Don't use), most of us don't follow instructions and still take calls during the movie ( It is so damn annoying and ya, it spoils the experience ). I think they should enforce restrictions by not providing any cellphone connectivity in the theaters. Everyone is happy and nobody is complaining.

It's not just hard, but sometimes impossible to try to get what you want , coz you know there is no chance that's gonna happen. Personally, you go on and on and on ...and you know, this is something which wont work. But, you still keep trying till your physically and mentally exhausted. That's very human, we have this thing called hope ;-) which can misguide us . In business, a call center guy makes a lot of sales calls and makes no sale, they say " those guys are just trying to sell the product without having any belief that the product is worth it and can make a difference to their customers ". I remember, I gave a presentation (basically, a sales pitch) to an audience where my boss was sitting like a decoy, after the presentation got over, he said " You were all pumped up when you were explaining about the product, but in the last slide where you announced the price of the product, your enthusiasm drained and it felt like you were not convinced with...

Difference of opinion expressed in a nonsensical way is really stressful, and without a doubt, your mind gets bogged by negative thoughts all day, sometimes all week or even months. Guys who come to the office with all kinds of fights or uneasiness at home, carry some of that in their briefcase and pass it on to their colleagues. All is well as long as people around you can help, but the problem is that people don't seek help, instead they pass on the negativity through all kinds of channel. Rest in peace everyone ;-), keep the stress baggage aside or else seek help and try to find a solution. FYI, you can make the other person dull by just talking to him on the phone or with your dull stare. Mind it! harmony at home and office makes everything easy. Get it! Harmony is teamwork ;-) . If you still cant be happy, at least fake being happy (Ref: image); for once, it's good to fool the other person and save him from ruining his day/week/month.

NOTE: It's about stealing ideas by trying to add more value to it...Nope, I am not discussing the movie INCEPTION . Teachers prefer students who ask too many silly questions  over know-it-alls who question the correctness of their teacher's knowledge. A so called know-it-all needs home schooling coz teachers get fed up with guys who just wouldn't let go of the fact that they know everything (really! everything!). I still remember, when I was getting trained at Wipro , my tutor did a survey to find out who all were familiar with the subject/course, after the survey she said " All those who don't know C/C++ have an advantage over those who know, coz it's easy to teach guys who are new to the subject than those who come with a so called computer science background ". Disadvantage of being a know-it-all, everything seems like revision and there is nothing new to learn (FYI that's a myth). When people ...

 A positive women and a negative guy (I dont see a point) Success and failure have a strong ability to change our perceptions for the good or for the bad...Not necessarily, success leads to good perception and failure to bad perception...the change can be the other way around too. Andrea Kalli says perception is the key , no one's denying, she said it, I heard it. I have a strong feeling that whatever it may be, perception is pretty much detached from the scores/results. So, a perceiver's intention  is the key to how a situation/scenario is assessed (of course, perception is the difference). We perceive in accordance with our mood. At times, all the greatness in us seems like a wasted effort. This happens with those who jump to conclusions. For civilized junta, perception is always constant , no matter how bad/good you perform, some of us see a lot of shortcomings in our work, and the others (me) are pretty much content with their performance and ...

If it's so simple, why haven't you done it already...The obvious is really not the obvious. If you are a business, you either build products to simplify the complex tasks, or you do the complex stuff and get paid for doing it. Just like I feel  SMART Living  is essential, I know for sure that smartness is just another word for simplicity, and we gotta work towards making things as simple/smart as possible. When I think of simplicity, the things which come to my mind: Google.com  - u bet...this site gets some 400 million hits per day and it doesn't have anything else on its page except the search box. I just love it when google comes up with a new product, because all the products have one thing in common "They are simple and free", be it google.com, gmail.com, checkout.com, analytics.com, adsense.com, and google.com/reader etc. APJ Abdul Kalam, Warren Buffet and Narayan Murthy - Spectacular track recor...

I just find it difficult to think about taking care of myself. A lot of things like responsibilities, honor, respect, a need to impress, a need to pretend , a need to play safe and a lot of such stupid things in other people's way of life make my day really stressful, and I find no time to take care of myself. I just don't mind losing the most precious thing (though it will hurt like hell), I am not scared if you felt bad or if you think that I was being selfish or self-obsessed (: (), but, no matter what, I will not trade anything in this world for happiness, convenience and my way of life . Its all for a reason and I don't see anything wrong as long as I quietly do what I wanna do without hurting/bothering anyone else. I feel terrible coz today I found myself being defensive for no reason and still, I was really not able to do anything more to prove my point , and finally, I said to myself forget it and lets just be hurt for a while instead of...

Defining the kind of work you should be doing . Good work is something you enjoy doing and is no where near being pointLESS, worthLESS and joyLESS . Good work/Bad work is nothing to do with the quality of work , its everything to do with the meaning you attach to it. For instance, pilot's job is just a driver's job, chef is just a guy who cooks in the kitchen, barber is doing a freaking hair cutting job, software developers are mere copy paste engineers (you can call them, sophisticated admin people)...I don't mean to vomit on these professions coz I know that every profession looks good to some and bad to many. You gotta do what looks good to you and makes you feel like you are a part of a revolution ( over reacting ). DO MORE GREAT WORK (flipkart link - I am not getting any affiliate money, so, if you wanna buy, go ahead) If I told a pilot that he is just a driver and a software developer that he is just an...

The act of covering up - If you have screwed up at work and you know there is no time to correct your mistakes , all you need to do is act confident and pray that your boss/customer does not spot the mistake. This is the easy way out and there is a chance, no one ever knows that you screwed up. But, what if you covered it up and they uncovered it and found that you screwed up . The shit is about to get heavy ...You no more a guy who made a mistake; you are the guy who made  a mistake , covered it up, and then  got caught . Management would be pissed to the core and you are done for the day (In my office, these things are called as INTEGRITY issues ). Its an HR issue...oh k! you need to start uploading your CV to monster, naukri and other job portals ;-D. PS : Its just a job , you lost one, you get another one ( Pay/growth/reputation goes for a toss ;-D).

Had a bad car accident, it scared the shit out of me. It could have been fatal and the accident was really unexpected (I know! that's why its called an accident) and I realized: Seat belt is a life saver - it reduces fatality by at least 80-90 percent (that's coz I had my seat belt on; I dint move a bit ,and I was steady and ready for a tumble)- But, I had 3 other people along with me...So, who would answer for them, should something tragic happen. The few seconds, around 2-3 seconds of turbulence is something the driver can never forget coz he is helpless and cant curse himself anymore for not avoiding such accidents. Whatever you say - The road was bad, the people don't know how to cross the roads, people don't know how to drive etc. The fact is you were careless and you gotta be more careful the next time. Be a Man, face it, you did screw up and thank god your lucky, accept it and don't play the blame game...

To err is human, but to forgive ain't company policy. Mistakes have serious repercussions and Once you commit a mistake , you are tagged as the careless guy. There is always this MURPHY'S LAW : The mistake you commit comes to your company's notice only a few minutes before the deadlines and you just cannot rollback to make corrections. Bottom line : Mistake made...cannot be corrected...Don't be a jack ass and say 'I take responsibility' ;-)...just pray that the customer doesn't spot it. S crew-ups have been the real reason for inventions and our scientists don't wanna call what they do as screw-ups, instead, they prefer calling it as experiments/hypothesis. If you are doing your job with no screw-ups then you are following whats right, but lets say, if you screw-up at times , it doesn't mean your are doing something wrong, it simply means, you are trying ways which are still not looked upon. When trying out new things,...

Blank statements, Provoking comments and argument inviting gestures are a part of your job (I am sorry, it wasn't in your offer letter ), if you cant handle it then you gotta move on . No one needs to change, nor should anyone change for someone else, unless everyone wants you to get a personality makeover. Thou Shalt not Crib, Courtesy: whoever owns this image Just because someone is bullshitting about me, doesn't have to affect my day (unarguably, its does affect me, that's why I say WORK IS PERSONAL ). But, Ignorance is bliss and we need to learn to ignore things and if required, we can go a mile further and completely forget the bull shitty stuff ( we can do this, we have practiced being forgetful from our school days and I think, we become experts by the time we graduate ). If something annoyed you at work, get it out of your system then and there, talk it out, cry about it, give the 4 lettered word to whoever deserves it.......