Do you understand it?
Just because you know it, it does not mean that you understand it…. and often times the gap between knowledge and understanding is enormous! Knowledge is merely the information that is gathered about something…....
Category: Professional Development
Do not let your experiences chain you…
You are constantly experiencing something…. You call some of them successes… You call some of them set backs… some happy… some painful… the rest probably do not even count! Setbacks are inevitable… not a...
The best form of learning…. The best part of learning!!!
When you ask yourself what has worked for you and what has not… you will see in your experience, your failure to detect the variables that influenced your failure…. You will have to reflect...
Need for constant emotional release… A sign of regression!!!
Every person has had to resort to some form of an emotional release to get back to a state of equilibrium… a state where you feel like you are again able to perform at...
Building and Sustaining
We learn in Engineering that more than 70% of the product cost goes into maintenance and support…. People that have developed and managed large scale products can easily argue that the sustenance cost could...
The Appreciation-Criticism Anomaly!
If you feel good at being appreciated for doing a good job and feel bad for being criticized for not doing a good job, you are suffering from grave self-esteem and self-evaluation issues!!! Does...
Knowledge, Understanding and Wisdom
Knowledge is not Understanding and Understanding is not Wisdom!!! And what you need to lead an effective life is at a minimum Understanding!!! Mere knowledge will not do! The funny part of life is...
Negotiation…
This is the one skill that is rarely known and sparsely understood amongst professionals… Of the hundreds of resumes that I must have seen through the years, I have not found this except in...
Do you think you can map?
When a general advise is stated, an issue mentioned in a generic manner without naming anyone or a good code prescribed, again without indicating who is to adopt it…. Everyone agrees with such a global...
Ignorance is not a very big problem
Ignorance is not a very big problem…. The bigger problem is ignorance of the fact that you are ignorant! A majority if not all of the arguments and disagreements are because one or both...
