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Interview with a friend who finishes seven years in an organization

For those of who you have known my posts, you would have noticed that I keep posting interviews with some people on and off. It just happens in my mind and the next thing I type off questions or if they are reachable, I walk over to talk to them. Today, when a friend of mine in office finished seven years, I asked if he can give me some answers to some really easy questions which can help the juniors get to where he is : Seven successful years of exemplary service with an organization. Here are my questions and his answers: Recall something from your first working day in this company other than the regular new induction formalities: From my 1st day here, as I got a tour of the building, I was excited to see how there was no hierarchy and even the founders had the same cubicle as mine. Say one of two traits of yourself that you think brought you where you are: From my initial work days, I remember how I was awed by people around me. It looked like I need to chall

In your circular world...

News, Inventions, Discoveries, Art, History, Findings, Economics are all the results of  thoughts, ideas, creativity, beauty, actions, dreams, hopes, responses, reactions and much more  that originate in the minds of people.  The world is full of these!   Where do these come from?? We all have a little of all these gifts within ourselves. A part of these we radiate out to the little community/neighbourhood we are in at any point in time - Road, Office, School, Shop and wherever else we go to each day, that goes back to the World, making it as wonderful as it is.  It is like an energy ecosystem that completes in a cycle, a basketball that bounces up on every treble, or an echo atop a mountain that reverberates back to us what we send out. What goes around, comes around to complete the circle.  If we were to imagine ourselves at the centre point of a circle, with our dreams, hopes, aspirations, reactions, responses, purpose, emotions (and many more psycho-social-emotion

Sadness x Happiness

Antonym of the word happy is sad. Goes to say that the word sad is just a word. No more, no less. We often complicate life with these oldest language construct Antonym. Graphs taught us positive and negative as much as Chemistry that taught us cations and anions. Astronomy has Night and Day as opposites while Science brought in Full x Empty, Fast x Slow.  Kinder garden text book has these: Tall x Short Good x Bad Big x Small Heavy x Light Beautiful x Ugly Black x White While we fully well and clearly see that these are just words, we often give a heavy weight to one side of the cross mark. The cross mark x in writing an antonym is in itself a mere indicator that we are seeing polar ends of any given idea. Park the thought right there. Now lets ask ourselves: Who said that only the left hand side is ‘good’ and the right is ‘bad’?? Is your left eye precious to you than the right eye?? Same with all the parts of your body. We want left and right to be