Learnings From Being Unemployed For 9 Months :

1. Never Leave A Job Without A Job In Your Hand. 2. No amount of dedication and passion will work until you have a great reference to back you up. 3. Changing industry is not easy as companies are not willing to take risks. 4. You end up being stressed and feeling worthless as no one is interested in picking you up. 5. You can not afford to have a break from your career, no matter how much you want it,as it is negative for your resume. I have been through this and know many others who are going through the same just because WE thought of taking out sometime for ourselves or WE stood for something we felt so strong about and now end up being - PROFESSIONALS WITH A GAP - who are judged to be misfits because they left the train! Thanks!!

Source: Linkedin.

It was at Patel Nagar that a 65-70 year old typical Delhite uncle.. Slightly bald, pot bellied, and an expensive looking shirt with weird polka dots, with a strong strange smelling perfume, sat besides me.

I was engrossed into the thrilling Lee Child novel, and then suddenly, I started hearing terms from him while talking on his big golden iPhone, which forced me to take attention: Equity, debentures, term sheets, share market, BSE, NRI investors, Hotel Taj Palace, follow up, intimation, 4.5 crore via Cyprus bank account, dinner at Hard Rock Cafe and more.

Via his talks, I had come to know that he is getting down at Mandi House, has an Audi and a BMW, few flats at Lutyen's and few at GK 2, M block market.

And then, I realized that the goggles he is wearing is of Tom Ford, and that sleek black carry bag he has is of Gucci.. And the soft leather shoes he is wearing sounded like a complex Italian brand I couldn't even recognize.

The train had arrived at Mandi House, and he started to get up.
I poked him..

"So sir, are you into investment banking or something? Moving money, eh?"

Slightly surprised, but not shocked, he looked at me, gave a slight smile, and said, "More of a felicitator, you see. Connecting people, finalizing business exchanges."

"Interesting, any tips for the poor?"

The train had stopped, and he was about to dash out.
"Ha ha. Rule #1, don't be poor. Rule #2, Don't lose money. And last rule.. Show them dreams. Sell those dreams..and fulfill those dreams. "

He just managed to get out in the nick of time, and the train has started.

Source: Facebook.com

DESIGN YOUR DESTINY

You have a choice. Man has a choice. At Every given instant, life offers you choices. The
Choice is between the lower and the higher in every aspect of life. Use your intelligence to
discriminate the lower from the higher and then whole heartedly desire the higher. Like
the child who automatically outgrows his attachment for the existing toy to a more exciting
new toy, your inner being will evolve to renounce the lower and embrace the higher. Then,
life will never be a “Give Up” for you, but a never –ending sequence of “Go Up” for you.
You don’t have to suffer the failure. Instead, you can learn lessons from it and move on with
a higher maturity to author your next success. You don’t have to mourn the health issue.
Instead, you can start working on your health from today and get your fitness right in due
course. You don’t have to cry over the lost opportunities. Instead, draw a line to your past,
treat today as the beginning of a new future, and go ahead and grab the newer
opportunities. You don’t have to crib “nobody loves me’. Instead, you can go out and love
enough people. You don’t have to be jealous of what other have. Instead, get inspired by
them and work towards having whatever you wish to have.
How you think and what you choose should serve your progress. Else, it isn’t intelligent
living. You have a choice, and that’s the greatest power bestowed upon you. Simply put, “If
you want something, don’t cry for it. Instead, sweat for it” Choose “Go Up” over Give Up.

Invention

Unnale mei maranthu

Look around yourself, and you will find two types of people:

- Know it all, or rather, people with ‘fixed mindset’
- Learn it all, or rather, people with ‘growth mindset’

The problem with know-it-all type of people is that, they ‘assume’ the outcome, and then fail to take action. If such a person has some raw talent, then they will be scared to do something new, exciting, because internally, they assume that taking risks is for the lesser mortals, without any talent.

And they will believe that doing something out of their comfort zone might destroy their ‘identity’ of being special, for ever. In short, they will try to maintain the status-quo, always.

If God forbid, if a person will lesser talent is a know-it-all person, then they will think, why bother with doing anything risky? They will ‘assume’ that they are not capable enough. Efforts and risk can ‘reduce’ them, hence they waste the opportunity.
The best thing about learn-it-all people is that, it doesn’t matter they have any raw talent or not.

They will always start with scratch, with a blank slate, and try to learn everything they encounter. They don’t assume the outcome, and before doing some new, scary, exciting, they will say, ‘What the hell. Nobody knows the outcome.. why not try it once?’
Their growth mindset kills any fear of failure which arises, because they are like that blind and deaf monkey, who conquers the mountain, not knowing the outcome.

In a way, both of these aspects lies within every person. All we need to do is, switch to growth mindset when encountering that fear of failure.. Before taking that leap of faith.

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3 pointers for that guy, who is looking for a job to survive in this brutal world..

A) Give the interview as if you don't need that job. Answer the questions as if someone has attacked your personally. Keep it damn personal.

B) Treat salary like that bribe which they give you to kill your dream..

C) Never quit if you feel uncomfortable working. Quit if you are too comfortable with the job..

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Saarattu Vandiyila Lyrics - Kaatru Veliyidai

 Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjW7UuyMfZU

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

எல்லோரும் என்னைக் கேலி செய்கிறார்கள்...

எல்லோரும் என்னைக் கேலி செய்கிறார்கள் என்று வருத்தப்பட்டு எழுதிய இளைஞர் ஒருவருக்கு, பாலகுமாரன் அவர்கள் வழங்கிய அறிவுரை அற்புதமானது.

• புத்தகங்களை துணை கொள்.
• உடலுழைப்பை அதிகரி.
• சமூகம் புறக்கணித்தவற்றை கைவிடு.
• குளிர் நீரில் குளி.
• கொஞ்சமாய் சாப்பிடு.
• தியானம் கைகொள்.
• இறவு உறங்கும் முன் நெடுந்தொலைவு நட.
• உடுப்பில் வெள்ளை நிறத்தைப் பழக்கமாக்கு.
• உணவில் கீரை சேர்த்துக் கொள்.
• எத்தனை வலித்தாலும் அழாதே. சிரி.
• ஆத்திரம் அகற்று.
• கேலிக்கு புன்னகை தா.
• கோபத்திற்கு மௌனத்தைக் கொடு.
• நட்புக்கு நட்பு செய்.
• வேலை சொல்லித் தருபவரிடம் மிகப் பணிவாக இரு.
• அலட்சியப் படுத்தினால் விலகி நில்.
• அன்பு செய்தால் நன்றி சொல்.
• இதமாகப் பேசு.
  
  நீ ஜெயிப்பாய். இது நிச்சயம். வாழ்க்கையில் உன்னத நிலைக்கு வருவாய். இது சத்தியம்.

பிறர் எதிர்பார்க்கும் போது
நீ வென்றால் அது வெற்றி ஆகாது.
பிறர் ஏதிர்பார்க்காத போது
எதையும் எதிர்கொண்டு வென்றால்
அதுவே உன் திறமைக்கான வெற்றி.

எடுத்தவுடன் வெற்றி இங்கு யாருக்கும் கிடைத்தது இல்லை எடுப்பதெல்லாம்
தோல்வி என்று இங்கு யாருக்கும் அமைந்தது இல்லை
ஒரு செயலை எடுக்கப்படும் விதத்தில் இல்லை பிழை..
நீங்கள் முடிக்கப்படும் விதத்தில் மட்டுமே உள்ளது பிழை.