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Focus and Seriousness - Sashank Purighalla

Focus and Seriousness

Simply put, take your job seriously…. not yourself! Maturity is to understand ones responsibility and ones part in the whole. Seriousness then is about creating the impact that you can. What say of people that demand titles that they do not even grasp completely? Titles are for those...

It is ok to appear smart... Sashank Purighalla

It is ok to appear smart…

Being polite does not mean that you have to conceal your intelligence with appearing ignorant or naive. Just like several people suffer from over-confidence bordering on arrogance, several others suffer from low self-confidence or low self-esteem. It might result from an attempt to make the other person feel...

Societal Perversion

Societal Perversion

You can always earn lost money, you could even make up lost time as much as you cannot get it back…. The one thing that you can never regain is lost innocence! It is one thing to lose it at an individual level… Most do, to some extent...

Evidence or Evident - Sashank Purighalla

Evidence or Evident

“It does not matter what is Evident. I believe only what has Evidence”…. Drawing the line between when this statement applies and when the alternate path needs to be adopted is difficult and any unyielding stance in this regard could be detrimental to progress. Consider law: The length...

Will-power stems from Desire, Sashank Purighalla

Will-power stems from Desire

Regardless what you want to accomplish, will power is critical! Will power is a derivative of desire… Channelized desire is a great thing! Saints attain “moksha” or “nirvana” or “redemption” from desire to attain the ‘Ultimate’! And although in much smaller a measure, your good desires such as...

Dealing with a situation - Sashank Purighalla

Dealing with a situation

You often “have a situation that you have to deal with”. Do you find yourself put in the situation or is the situation put in front of you? No one that allows a situation to take the better of him has ever been able to handle it. You...

When are you happy - Sashank Purighalla

When are you happy?

Which of the following statements hold true to you? I am happy when I am busy doing the things I like. I am happy when I am doing things that add up to realizing my vision. I am happy helping someone that could do it only with my...

Temper expectation with knowledge - Sashank Purighalla

Temper expectation with knowledge

Set low expectations… and you don’t have to work very hard to deliver them! It becomes fairly easy to please people… easy to win the appreciation of those you work with! But for a conscientious person, it might get hard to live with oneself like that; not to...

Socialism nourishes mediocracy - Sashank Purighalla

Socialism nourishes mediocracy

Where brilliance and mediocracy coexist, let not a whiff of socialistic attitude prevail! Our society across all squares wreaks weakness, mediocracy and laziness. And then there are those occasional streaks of brilliance… of positivity… of abundance… of accomplishment… of intellect… that attempt to pick up the teeming rest...

Pride - Sashank Purighalla

Pride

Pride can be good! Pride can be bad! Pride can be pointless! When you are proud of your land… your religion… your caste… your parentage… a particular person of high repute that you are associated with, etc, your pride is pointless! None of these have anything to do...