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		<title>The counter intuitive theory</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intuition is probably the second highest level of knowledge humans can gain with the highest being, spiritual truth. With Intuition, we know answers, but we just cannot reason out and justify them.  So much closer is intuition to the real knowledge of life and its meaning. When i was very young, my father once told me a story. A story of a rich man who wanted to give away all the money he had. The more he gave away to the poor, the more he got. Unlike other stories, this wasn&#8217;t intuitive. Ever since i heard this story, there has been something unexceptionably attractive about counter intuitiveness. Looking at everyday life, we see whatever tastes good is most probably not healthy for our body. And without exception, we all feel fresh and active after a tiring physical exercise. There is a clear unintuitiveness about these established theories that are a part of our everyday life. It&#8217;s not trivial things like food or exercise that are a part of this undoubtedly subtle expression of nature. Human expectations reverently follow this theory with almost no exception.  The moment we decide to give up our expectation about something, we seem to be well placed to get it &#8211; and that is counter intuitive. There is no explanation as to why this theory works the way it works, but it does! So the question is, is intuition really the second best knowledge known to us? Is there more to counter-intuitiveness than intuitiveness? Can we understand more about life and its purpose by following counter-intuition than intuition? Prahlad Jani, a holy man in India claims not having eaten for the past 70 years. While science generally strives to be the first to ridicule such news, i wonder if he has gotten better in understanding the counter-intuitive theory. May be by not eating we wouldn&#8217;t die like we might intuitively believe? But then, there are literally thousands of people dying everyday because of hunger. If counter intuitive theory works, then surely they all should thrive like Mr.Prahlad Jani. I think the answer could be down to our belief system and consciousness. It might sound a bit lame, but our mental power truly outweigh our physical capabilities. There have been a few sightings of saints and sages meditating in the Himalayas without much clothing to protect them from adverse weather. Such events are down to mental power rather than just physical ability to brave the cold. Our body is filled with numerous switches &#8211; switches that our brain can use to control everything from moving arms and legs to heart rate and breathe. Some controls like moving are consciously controlled while other ones like breathing are sub-consciously controlled. The sub-concious is like a machine that is programmed and can only do tasks it knows. It requires mental ability to take control of this sub-concious part and consciously control all the switches in the body. I have even read a story of a man who by staring at a wall for a while was able to crack it &#8211;  just by focusing his mental power. Call it coincidence or magic, there is something that is not intuitive in these things. And the explanation why only a few are able to do it is because they are concious of themselves and know what their own body is capable of. Perhaps, our body is a lot more capable than what medical science currently understands. But to utilise it completely we need to believe that it is capable of things. And that belief only comes from taking over the sub-conscious and becoming conscious. Thinking on these lines, there is another thought. The world we see is extremely logical. Its just that we can&#8217;t understand what we haven&#8217;t learned yet. But more on this thought later! Related posts:How conscious are you?Weird Thought:The energy domainRevisiting &#8216;the purpose question&#8217;


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		<title>Weird Thought: Why aren&#8217;t we programmed?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its not that spiritual leaders copy what each other say, yet they all come up with the same old message. Every leader talks about inching towards eternal love, harmony, peace and the beauty that these bring. And what&#8217;s amazing is that these claims are entirely irrelevant of what philosophy they preach or which religion they follow. Jesus Christ asked his fellow followers to be loving and peaceful, so did Mohammad, Buddha and Aurobindo. From the oldest of spiritual leaders to the newest and the youngest, they all ask us for the same thing. Though what they ask us all to do, appears very easy and doable, it sometimes contradict the interpreted truth. I say contradictory because, every spiritual leader believes that god created this world, or at least, that god had a hand in creating this universe &#8211; from all the rocks and animals to plants and humans. If a powerful creature of this incomprehensible capability can create all or a part of this universe, giving us the power to think, the power to talk and walk, the power to understand and execute, then it probably would have been very easy for him to have programmed us with lot more love and strategically omitting hatred by all means. This exactly is what bemuses me. Why would such a super power create everything and leave us to sort ourselves out? If the intention for sustainable living is to shower each other with love and peace, then why not just give us that? Why give us a choice in the first place to either love a thing or hate a thing? I don&#8217;t think i will call all the spiritual leaders naive &#8211; I truly believe that they have a better understanding of the system that i (or most of us) haven&#8217;t got. Accepting their call for love and peace is the ultimate truth, it confuses me why the almighty lord stands with his hands tied back, not forcing what he wants, but patiently waiting for us to align with what he wants! If the final point of this extraordinary journey of life is perpetual happiness, why do we go through all the hassle? Why not just hand this happiness over to all the beings and let them exist perpetually? Some may argue that we were born with happiness and all the problems and sadness are men made. But what about premature death due to ill health and earthquakes? If the target is to make everyone happy forever, then why create sadness? Or why let us perceive something to be sad? I can&#8217;t believe that all spiritual leaders would have been wrong and so probably the ultimate intention is to attain never ending peace. Either that, or what love and peace means to us is way too shallow than what they claim it to be. May be if we spiritually grow to understand what love truly means, we probably can decipher the exact meaning behind their preaching. Or even, love and peace could be the only understandable terms for commons like us to embark on a spiritual journey. Once we start the journey striving to achieve love and peace, we probably end up finding the real truth and the ever existing question of &#8220;WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?&#8221; Either way, in my eyes, the world appears to be precisely balanced in a conflicting mix of a definite, clearly written down goals and a genuine effort to provide choice. Related posts:Weird Thought: The world and the universeWeird Thought:The energy domainWeird thought:Our Brain-Master or Slave?


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		<title>Revisiting &#8216;the purpose question&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost a year ago, i tried writing my ideas about life and its purpose. There were many comments and further discussions followed, both online and offline. A question such as this, is the pinnacle of knowledge, that once we know the answer to it, we probably lose interest in this life. Looking this life from a non-scientific way, keeps telling me that nature is restricting us not to know the reason of our own existence. Hence the dis-interest in many of us to know that answer to this question. But at the same time, diversity is embedded in every bit of nature&#8217;s creations. Hence the interest in some of us to know the answer to the same question. When I read what i wrote earlier, i see that i have had a sense of urgency in concluding this topic. Childishly, i have thought that this question can be discussed in a 1000 word article. Though i concluded the earlier article, the question never faded in my mind and none of the answers sufficed. Its always good not to have an answer to a question &#8211; the lack of knowledge helps understand the question and analyse the answer better. I felt that this question doesn&#8217;t have a logical answer, so there is really no point trying to derive one. But i thought may be there are clues in this very world, surrounding us everyday, showing what the purpose of our life is! The thought, i felt was an interesting one. So i went about observing small things that happen around us and trying to generalise what i saw into a response to the purpose of our very own existence. Though i find pleasure in building new things, by virtue of being an engineer, the pleasure i obtain by observing nature is incomparable. Nature in its very minimal of tasks makes me baffled. Every thing i have tried to observe makes me think, this must be the work of a genius. Either we are designed to perceive nature&#8217;s acts as a sign of ingeniousness or not, i don&#8217;t know. But looking at every single element in this world, i get the feeling they have a definite place and purpose. They do exactly what they are meant to do and if they didn&#8217;t, the system, it appears, would collapse! The year long observations taught me two facts of nature. We all have to learn We all have to ensure our species survives. The facts are simple and i honestly don&#8217;t know why they have to be followed. If you look at the world, you could see everyday from a tiny ant to a massive elephant, every being has to learn as it grows. It could be where to find water, or it could be how to run away from a predator. In some sense, this learning is necessary to make sure we are up to speed on the ever changing world. Without learning and adaptation, many species might not have survived at all. So we could say, learning is a requirement to ensure the existence of the species. That brings us to a more mesmerising fact &#8211; the  need to ensure we continue to exist. What could be the reason for that, I don&#8217;t know. But it seems it has to be done. We all are doing what we are doing to ensure this golden rule is unharmed. Everything else like ambition, love, emotions, target, success, failure, friendship and what not are only second nature and are tools to aid us achieve this golden rule. Apart from this, you, me or anyone, really doesn&#8217;t seem to have any other purpose to exist! &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Do i really believe in what i have written? Yes, I passionately do. Do you have any alternate thoughts that you think i should know? Then, please don&#8217;t hesitate to comment. Related posts:The purpose of Life!Weird Thought:The energy domainThe counter intuitive theory


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		<title>Weird Thought:The energy domain</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to be a person who survived on meat for a long time. In the course of time, i have met many people, including some very good friends, who were vegetarians. Many have tried their shot at convincing me to give up non-vegetarian food. I always asked them for a good reason and promised to give up if the reason was good enough. And they gave. The main reason was to avoid causing suffering to a life form. But then my counter question was &#8220;How sure are you that vegetables don&#8217;t suffer?&#8221; Just because the vegetables don&#8217;t shout and cry doesn&#8217;t mean they don&#8217;t suffer! It is very typical of humans to look at the world only from their perspective. Though i never gave up eating meat, i have thought about giving up very seriously. The reason i never gave up is that because I had always believed in the theory that the whole world is made up of energy. So i see everything in the world (including the earth) in terms of energy &#8211; energy that can be transformed. So we could say a part of the energy of the universe represents itself in a physical form as the sun and the earth and as humans and other beings. All things (be it living or non-living) that exist in the world is nothing but a part of the energy that constitutes the whole universe. As i said before, some energy represents itself as a stone and some others are represented as humans, etc. The entities with a higher level consciousness have more energy associated than an entity with lesser consciousness. So, as humans we potentially are made up of more energy than a piece of stone which is less complicated. This is very clear from the number of things that happen in our body and the number of things we are capable of doing. Like a more complicated machinery that takes more power, we humans are made up of more energy. So since we are all a part of the massive energy that exists, by eating meat, we are actually performing an act similar to chopping off our own arm and eating it &#8211; which sounds rather bizarre. But does it mean we should not eat meat at all? Also many other animals eat meat. How is that justified? Well, the term to look for is consciousness. If i know i am eating meat and only doing so to make myself satisfied and the same time not forcing an imbalance to the system, then i don&#8217;t think there is any problem. Animals, apart from humans, instinctively follow this rule. They don&#8217;t eat more than what they actually can, while humans went on to invent the refrigerator. So the world doesn&#8217;t really need vegetarians. Rather it requires conscious non-vegetarians. That way we would maintain the balance that nature likes to preserve. For some reason, nature likes to maintain diversity and it is our duty to appreciate it. Mother nature is extremely intelligent that it reacts very quickly to a crisis. We don&#8217;t want to create a crisis and risk being eradicated like our fellow dinosaurs. And on top of all these, we are a different species. A species that is spiritually knowledgeable. We have the right set of tools. All we need to do is to use them correctly and progress in the spiritual ladder. I don&#8217;t know what awaits us on the other side of the ladder. But i strongly believe there is a reason for our existence and there is a well defined purpose. Let us use this opportunity to learn why we do what we do! Related posts:Weird Thought: The world and the universeWeird Thought: Why aren&#8217;t we programmed?Weird thought:Our Brain-Master or Slave?


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		<title>How conscious are you?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humans are blessed with something that other life forms don&#8217;t enjoy &#8211; to consciously make decisions. While other beings can also make decisions, we can think, analyse and then decide. Most decisions that other beings have to make are driven by their instinct without much choice, while we have the ability to choose. The important point to note is it&#8217;s not just decision making that makes us unique, but making them consciously does. So what do i exactly mean by making conscious decisions? Defining Consciousness: Let us say, I decided to have some tasty fish for dinner. I can actually understand the life cycle of the fish and how much pain I would have caused by hooking it and killing it. I also know how tasty it would be when i cook it with the right ingredients. In this case, i can say i am conscious of both the pain i am causing and the happiness i bring to myself. Mind you, this has nothing to do with non-vegetarian food &#8211; the same applies to potatoes and aubergines. So, when i take a &#8220;decision&#8221; to eat fish, it is no more because of some unknown and uncontrollable internal push to eat fish &#8211; the so called &#8220;instinct&#8221;. The issue with Instinct But this is not the case with most of us. Not many take conscious decisions. We tend to give our lives in the hand of the instinct. So, the next obvious question is why should i not go with my instinct? Well, as Osho puts it in one of his books, there are three levels where a mind can be in &#8211; instinct, intellect and intuition. Instinct is what is passed over by our genes and comprises of all mundane stuff like beating of the heart and blinking of our eyes. It is carried over from one generation to another. Intellect on the other hand is learnt by experience and by the application of the brain. Intellect can be passed on to the next generation and the genetic makeup gets better from one generation to another because of the addition of this intellect. Intuition is a separate case all together. It has to be learnt but cannot be taught. It descends on to a person as a knowledge that does not reason. Hence there is no need for the brain to parse intuition or understand it. Intuition is what explains the purpose of this very existence. It is the one that provides us with answers to all questions. Unfortunately, it cannot be passed on or shared. So, by just going with instinct, we are no different from the cows that gaze grass everyday monotonously without second thoughts. They take no effort to understand why they have to gaze. They don&#8217;t care if their milk is adulterated or not when sold. They are driven by instinct. They just do what they are programmed to do. Being Conscious: We humans are definitely better than cows in many respect. Then why should we stay where we don&#8217;t belong? Now that the question on why we shouldn&#8217;t be in the hands of our instinct is answered, it is time to understand how this links to taking conscious decisions. Forget intuition, even intellect is a gift that not many other beings enjoy. A tiger cannot turn herbivorous, even if it wanted to, because of its very own instinct. With intellect, fortunately we are not forced into this trap of following the orders of our ancestors. On the other hand, we have the ability to change and rewrite the way we and our future generations can lead their lives. The only way to make such a change is by understanding the world better and taking conscious decisions that have an impact on every being in this world. Decisions like climatic change, competition and wealth. These decisions not only define today but they define tomorrow as well. So ask yourself! How conscious am I? Am i just driven by peer pressure to &#8220;succeed&#8221;? Am I driven by hastiness to earn more than everyone else? Am I ready to do something I wouldn&#8217;t do to my own family, just for business? Am I the person who i want to be? It&#8217;s time to get these answered!!! Rise up, you are human. Related posts:The counter intuitive theoryWeird thought:Our Brain-Master or Slave?Weird Thought: Why aren&#8217;t we programmed?


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		<description><![CDATA[When I first wrote an article on the topic Weird Thought i didn&#8217;t foresee i will have too many to make it a series. But after i wrote it, many new thoughts that this world wouldn&#8217;t accept have been creeping in my mind everyday (yeah, really &#8211; everyday!). So here is another weird thought about our brain &#8211; is it really a master or a slave? The human society takes pride in being intellectual and not so much in intelligence. The difference between intellect and intelligence is that intellect is what we acquire after we come into this world, by going to school and learning theories while intelligence is an inborn quality that doesn&#8217;t require any formal education. It shows up in many places where intellect fails to impress. Though by definition intelligence is superior, intellect is what the world likes. Dr. Richard Newman is more respected than Mr. Richard Newman though Mr. Richard Newman could be a lot more intelligent. It is down to the number of years of education that puts people up the &#8220;Most Respected&#8221; list. I have seen it many times in my own life. People with a masters degree are generally assumed to possess more knowledge than a person with no or an inferior degree qualification. Of course, that is true, but what is the proof that they know how to use that knowledge. The whole world is simply hell bent on education and its by product &#8211; intellect. We over emphasise on training our brain and making it superior. And, I ask why? As we all can understand, our brain is the central processing unit of our body. It calculates everything from behaviours to socialising and from abstract theories to art. It is a wonderful organ that has some amazing capabilities. But, what good is this brain, when all our senses are cut? If we ask a deaf person what a symphony means or a blind person to define the color of red, their brain wouldn&#8217;t be able to even remotely guess what that would be. I once tried untying a knot in very dim light and i wasn&#8217;t able to do it, even though my brain has already seen knots and has untied them. The issue was my eyes weren&#8217;t giving any proper input. When i moved to bright light, it took only a few seconds to untie it. So from this point of view, the brain is &#8220;just&#8221; a central processing unit, that takes in all the signals and computes all possible results for that input. So, data in, data out or garbage in, garbage out. Many of us do not believe in god or any other super power. They ridicule the idea of creation and believe in evolution. Many believe humans dictate the world and other beings are inferior. Some even believe that the other animals are just here for our pleasure. I look at them and think &#8211; how naive? All these theories are formed by our brain, with no relevant inputs. It is no different from asking a blind person about colour red. There is no point in using our brain to compute new theories or formulate new concepts because it is not capable of such a task. It is wonderful and the same time, it is limited. Instead, we need to feed it with the right input. It is not going to be difficult for whoever is reading this to define red, would it? People who consider the brain to be a slave go beyond its reasoning and look for inputs from the world around them. Most of us just use the available 5 senses to feed our brain and worry (or not worry) about the existence of life. I get frustrated with science mainly for this reason. It looks so feeble in my eyes. If we go further and use the extra sense that is often left untapped, we discover some very new computing capabilities. There is no point in arguing if the creationists are right or the scientists are right. Both of them are incorrect to me. Because both use their brain as the master to formulate these theories. While, it is just a loyal servant who would tirelessly work to find solutions to any problem thrown at it. Another Weird thought! Related posts:Weird Thought: The world and the universeWeird Thought: Why aren&#8217;t we programmed?Weird Thought:The energy domain


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		<title>Weird Thought: The world and the universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was having a chat with a physicist a while ago about celestial objects and the universe. He mentioned that there are an &#8220;estimated&#8221; 70 thousand billion billion stars ( yes, it is billion billion and not a typo) in the universe and our sun is just one of them. We have many more billions of planets, meteorites, asteroids and what not. And he also said that more stars are constantly being created from hydrogen getting closer to each other and collapsing on its own gravity. It sounded very interesting and certainly convincing given the fact that we actually can picture them using telescopes on earth and with telescopes that go farther into the solar system. I came back home thinking about this, and thought for a very long time. My human mind found it very difficult to comprehend the idea of an infinite universe with no ending. Somehow, i wasn&#8217;t able to convince myself with the fact that the whole universe evolved from a &#8220;big bang&#8221; magically without no reason or significance and then because a few chemicals coincidentally came together when a lightning struck, life came into picture, which evolved to be today&#8217;s humans!! I would be forced to think it is far from just an accident. Same way, i wasn&#8217;t convinced that this universe consists of billions and billions of objects just scattered around with virtually no end. while thinking on this topic at work, a weird theory came into my mind. Consider a sinusoidal signal (Click here if you don&#8217;t know what a sinusoidal signal is). To explain my point, I would define a sinusoidal signal or a sine wave to be something that would repeat itself with literally no end. If i had to plot a pure sinusoidal signal in a graph sheet with respect to time, i would end up plotting it for ages, drawing the same thing over and over again. So, when engineers deal with sinusoidal signals, they transform it on to a different domain called frequency domain and the same sinusoidal signal which was endless in the time domain represents itself as a simple single line in the frequency domain. So, the question that came to my mind was what if we are looking at the universe from the wrong domain. Probably as humans, we are limited or trained to think and understand only in this wrong domain.We probably view everything in time and wonder why things are vast and never ending. So if we grow and transform ourselves to look at the universe from a different domain, would it appear as a simple box with every thing neatly arranged and very clearly labelled? Science wouldn&#8217;t encourage this thought but would spirituality give a hand here? And, assuming that is the case, could it be spirituality that might elevate us and provide us the ability to understand the other domain? Wouldn&#8217;t it be just amazing if the whole concept of life and the universe looks fathomable from that domain? Could that be the reason that spiritual leaders just give up all the worldly stuff, because they don&#8217;t mean anything from that different domain? A weird thought. That&#8217;s all! Related posts:Weird Thought:The energy domainWeird Thought: Why aren&#8217;t we programmed?Weird thought:Our Brain-Master or Slave?


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		<title>What employers look for in a candidate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Timo: Ever heard about Intelligence Quotient? Jarmo: Of course, yes. Timo: Yeah i thought so. I think most of us would have!! Timo: OK then, how about emotional quotient? Jarmo: Sounds vaguely familiar. Though don&#8217;t know what that means. Timo: Alright. How about this &#8211; Spiritual Quotient? Jarmo: Spiritual&#8230;what? This dialogue between two colleagues isn&#8217;t that uncommon. Our society has placed an extraordinary importance, in the past, on Intelligence Quotient, that we all think, the one with he highest IQ is the best. Actually, as you might have guessed already, it isn&#8217;t the case and certainly it isn&#8217;t something that employers look for while they choose a new candidate. Most employers look at a potential candidates personality  by looking at 4 important attributes &#8211; Intelligence Quotient, Emotional Quotient, Spiritual Quotient and Ego. Intelligence Quotient: A straight forward number that explains how intelligent our brain is. It assess how good one&#8217;s critical thinking is and how quickly one can think of technical solutions to unknown problems as and when they arise. I take that most of us are aware of this term and there isn&#8217;t much i need to explain about it. Emotional Quotient: It is defined as a Quotient, though it isn&#8217;t a number. Most of the times, Emotional quotient is judged by psychometric analysis, by providing the candidate with a list of questions, some of which could be repetitive, and assessing the responses to those questions.  The responses can be grouped into 3 or 4 groups, that provides, for example, a high, medium or low EQ rating. What actually is measured correlates to the ability to be responsive to others and to work as a team. It shows if a person would lose for a bigger cause and be assertive when needed. The interest here is understand if the personality would suit the job and how the person would possibly respond and react during a crisis. Some people with very high IQ sometimes showcase very less EQ and this is perfectly normal. Spiritual Quotient: Spiritual Quotient on the other hand is an instrument to showcase deeper understanding about the self and the environment. A person with questions such as &#8220;what am i doing here&#8221; and &#8220;who am i&#8221; is expected to have a higher spiritual quotient than a person who answers them saying, &#8220;I, know what i am doing here &#8211; i cut trees&#8221; and &#8220;i know who i am &#8211; i am James Carringer&#8221;. James Carringer, the tree-feller might have high IQ and possibly a good EQ, but his SQ is close to zero. A person with a high spiritual quotient is always more mature than what his peers of the same age would be. The SQ does not originate from the brain, but rather from the mind, the consciousness. In a job, a person with no or very less experience but a high SQ can easily scale the challenges and would definitely deliver as they tend to understand the bigger picture quite easily. Ego: The fourth attribute of a personality that employers may be interested in is ego. Ego has various definitions, but in modern terms, it is used to express arrogance and selfishness of a person. Ego, as it sounds, doesn&#8217;t help the organisation in most scenarios. It destroys team bonding and surely an egoistic person cannot posses very high EQ or SQ. That said, a person with very low ego will not be able to survive the rigorous business environment while dealing with clients or suppliers. A certain level of ego is required, but it is very subjective and expressed only at necessary situations. How they all link up? An interesting article from live positive compares IQ, EQ and SQ as &#8220;IQ primarily solves logical problems. EQ allows us to judge the situation we are in and behave appropriately. SQ allows us to ask if we want to be in that situation in the first place.&#8221; Many successful CEOs have commented about the use of EQ and SQ in recruitment of their candidates. Ricardo Semler, of Semco Industries, comments that when he recruits a candidate he would always look for all four of these attributes and try and evaluate them by adding up all the three quotients and then subtracting the person&#8217;s ego. It has always worked well for him and his success shows how good his ideas are. Many MBA programs from leading universities have now declared that they will have a course on EQs as a part of their curriculum. It wouldn&#8217;t be too long before they start teaching SQ as well. After all, business is not only about profit margins instead it is how we can make everyone live happily for a long time. Related posts:Emotional Intelligence &#8211; the real edgeWhy many leaders dont succeed10 tips to impress an interviewer


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		<title>Defining GOD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are thousands of faiths in this world that believe in a super power which most term as God. If we consider all different faiths, we would probably cover all types of beliefs that can be perceived by the human mind. One of the faiths believes in reincarnation, while the other doesn&#8217;t believe in deities. There are faiths that say nature is god, while there are faiths that believe god lives in this world. Overall, if one takes an &#8216;everyone is correct&#8217; approach, we might end up with all possible beliefs that a human mind can imagine. So if GOD exists in all possible forms and beliefs, how will he look? What kind of a composition can define god? Can there be a common factor for all the different religions that is the sole definition of god? Could it be just that all religions knowingly or unknowingly is based on that sole definition and have added other addendum to make people follow them? To arrive at a decisive answer based on limited reasoning available to humans, i tried looking at life from an atheists point of view. A person who believes in god lives in the same world with the same fear of death and pain like an atheist who lives here. Most faiths believe in God as the creator of this world. If God is extremely powerful enough to create such diverse and capable beings, why would he bother providing an option to people called atheism, unless he wants that to happen? If he wants that to happen, one tends to wonder why religious groups and non-atheists bother too much about converting them back to believers of god. I am a believer in god and many years back followed the rituals of praying without even questioning. As my understanding of life and god grew, i started &#8216;feeling&#8217; God as an energy that definitely excites me. I felt the energy change whenever my thoughts change. I know, this sounds absurd but i am not trying to cover up anything. With 100% success rate all the time for years, i have now started believing that i feel something that i cannot see or hear. Whenever i tried to push myself out of many religious beliefs, I never felt anything negative from the energy i kept sensing. So i discovered (or so i thought) that many rituals don&#8217;t mean anything. Don&#8217;t get me wrong here &#8211; i still believe in god! When i kept going on these lines, i realised a truth. Over time, as i kept changing myself trying to get out of defined but not understood rituals, one thing didn&#8217;t change &#8211; My blind belief and faith towards god. It only got better over time. Going by which i think, God is nothing but faith. One can believe a piece of stone to be his / her god and that faith, if honest and true is what God &#8216;looks like&#8217;. All other theories, i believe, are just theories to organise humans as a group to enable survival and to accelerate growth. Related posts:Weird Thought:The energy domainHow conscious are you?The purpose of Life!


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		<title>How science defines fate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had a number of conversations with friends about the concept of evolution. I never believed in evolution myself. Many of my friends, most of them being engineers and scientists, never accepted whenever i said &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in evolution&#8221;. It seems that every scientific mind is trained to believe that evolution is the most logical way to where we are today. Right from school, we are taught how nature transformed a single celled organism into this massively intelligent humans. But given the complexity of the whole world around us (just the world, not even the universe) it feels very silly to say that we simply evolved from one being to another due to climatic changes and due to other natural causes. On the other hand, I don&#8217;t think i can call myself a creationist either, the ones who believe that god created the whole world! But i think the world is littered with clues to understand who is right. There are a few in this world that point to natural evolution while there are a few that suggest it was sat down and designed by a genius. But, could both be true? Sometimes the whole world feels as if a bag of creatures were invented at first and then programmed by the maker to evolve in a controlled manner. What science says! Interestingly, the other day, there was a programme on television that focused on identical twins. It was a research carried out by the worlds&#8217; top universities to understand genetics. Nature has mastered the science of cloning long back and the result can be seen in identical siblings. So, by considering the behaviour of identical twins, the scientists were trying to understand the importance of genes and how these tiny DNA have an amazing capability to decide our future. One particular story was that of identical twins living in two different places in the world. One of the twin, who lived in the U.K, has an unorganised lifestyle and enjoys drinking and smoking while his brother, who lives in New Zealand is a fitness buff. He jogs every morning and take his 5-a-day portions without fail. On one unfortunate occasion, the brother in the U.K had a heart attack and was hospitalised. Once the hospital learnt that he had a twin brother living in new Zealand, they called him up and advised him a heart check. The brother thought that he should be fine because he keeps his body fit, but then decided to walk in for a quick health check. Contrary to what he thought, the doctors found he had to be operated in a few hours to avoid any risks of heart attack!! So the research concluded saying, no matter what you do, it is probably the genes that dictate what your future is going to be. This wasn&#8217;t the only example. There were loads of other scenarios that pointed in the same direction. Rendezvous! Some religions believe in a concept called &#8216;fate&#8217;. It is the concept that takes all responsibility and liability out of a living being and says everything is controlled by the gods in heaven. The concept is weird to a scientific mind as it takes away the most loved flavour of life &#8211; choice! What is even more weird is that the scientific conclusion of the research points in the same direction as what spirituality has been claiming for years. I see and believe that there is a very strange and discreet link between spirituality and science here. Is it so that we are all guided by fate &#8211; only that no one looks at us and controls us every day but has programmed us in a way using techniques that science calls DNA? Is there nothing called free will? It took science few hundred years to reach this point and sort of align itself with spirituality. So, is it just a matter of time, when science proves spirituality experimentally? And if that happens, it would be very interesting to see scientists transforming themselves into spiritual leaders&#8230; Related posts:The purpose of Life!Weird Thought: The world and the universeThe counter intuitive theory


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