As I saw it

Sometimes your best intentions are not received well. Or maybe they are just not understood well at that moment. How does one then navigate through those scenarios? Do we allow ourselves to get hurt or do we reframe our interpretation of the incident in a wiser and more expansive manner? I believe in heartistry. It’s about bringing all of our heart element to what we do. For some, it’s easy and natural and at other times we have to do it very consciously and with lot of intentional effort. And I also believe in encouraging such heartists by recognising and appreciating their effort. I do that by pinning a stuffed cloth heart badge on to their lapels. These stuffed heart badges are made by a special set of women from Gujarat and I get them through my friends Meghna Banker and, Rahul Hasija. I have written a post to that effect in the past. Here’s the link to that: Are You a Heartist?  https://sreekr.blogspot.com/2022/06/are-you-heartist-my-100th-blog.html And then today I came acros...

I am glad that after about half an hour of rummaging through the book shop at the Bangalore airport last Friday, I changed my mind and picked up this book which was incidentally the first book I saw that day but had moved past thinking that there might be just pathetic stories of even worse politicians. But I am glad I finally picked up this book. (After all, how can you leave a bookshop without picking up even one book?!)  😉😉 As I finished this book today I realised why I haven’t finished most of the technical books in my library long after I bought them whereas I have finished all the technical books written by Ken Blanchard and Mr. Prakash Iyer: the latter ones were written in a story format. Either Mr. Blanchard and authors like him are under-rated geniuses or other authors in the field of Human Resources and Learning & Development are yet to learn how to convey any technical topic in an engaging, story-telling format. Nevertheless, I picked up Mr. Thapar’s book a good fo...