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  • Handling Difficult Conversations

    Handling Difficult Conversations

    Masterclass in Handling difficult conversations

    Difficult conversations need to be handled with care. This blog post would help you understand the art of handling difficult conversations.

    Whenever faced with such conversations the key is to remain calm and patiently listen in.

    When someone has lost control and is venting out anger being calm and patient can be the biggest show of strength.

    This is what the best listeners do. They have the right amount of empathy and emotional intelligence to win over such situations.

    What evidence will change your mind? This is a very pertinent question to decide whether to continue or end the conversation as mentioned in the below insight inspired from the book Think Again.

    Handling difficult conversations

    For another insightful post inspired from the same book of Adam Grant, please visit this link:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/resistance-to-change-core-beliefs/

    To know more about Adam Grant and his work, please visit this link:

    https://adamgrant.net/

  • Your Anxiety Removal Mantra

    Your Anxiety Removal Mantra

    Make this your Anxiety Removal Mantra

    The one word I would like to give up is Anxiety. In the hustle and bustle of modern day lives, many of us are gripped with anxiety and stress. Let this post lead you to the path of your anxiety removal mantra.

    With too much of stress the level of cortisol rises in our blood. Research has shown that exposure to high amount of stress and anxiety can kill neuron and inhibit growth of new neurons in our hippocampus which is responsible for memories.

    Hence the need of the hour is to remain in flow by focusing on the present moment. Practicing gratitude and thanking god for gifting our present moment would help us forget about past regrets and future fears.

    Realizing the power of the now is indeed the mantra that can drive away anxiety and stress from our lives.

    This has been wonderfully explained by Eckhart Tolle in his best selling book The Power of Now.

    Your Anxiety Removal Mantra

    For another illuminating post focusing around the same topic please visit this link:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/anxiety-versus-flow/

    To know more about Eckhart Tolle and his work please visit:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle

  • Resistance to Change Core Beliefs

    Resistance to Change Core Beliefs

    What is the biggest Resistance to Change Core Beliefs?

    Whenever our core beliefs are challenged, we face a huge resistance to change these core beliefs. Have you ever wondered why? Read this blog post to know more.

    Human brain has mainly two parts: 1) The Limbic brain inherited from apes and 2) the new brain or rational brain.

    Whenever faced with a challenge to rethink our beliefs, we face a severe resistance from the limbic brain

    As a result of which we seldom rethink and change or core beliefs for the better.

    Resistance to Change Core Beliefs

    For another such insightful post inspired from the same book, please visit this link:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/characteristics-of-good-forecasters/

    To know more about Adam Grant and his work, please visit this link:

    https://adamgrant.net/

  • FAMILIES in FLOW do THIS

    FAMILIES in FLOW do THIS

    Characteristics of Families in Flow

    My definition of an ideal home is a happy family. Families in Flow do this to remain fulfilled in their lives.

    From the perspective of a family, differentiation is is with respect to the fact that each family member gets to follow his or her passion.

    Integration happens when all of the members unite for a common purpose larger than themselves.

    Flow experience is very energizing and a family is in full flow when we are able to combine differentiation with integration to unleash a flow experience, as mentioned in this wonderful insight.

    FAMILIES in FLOW do THIS

    For another such interesting insight from the book Flow, please visit this link:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/flow-experiences-enliven-us/

    To know more about the flow experience please visit this link:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

  • Why should you BLOG?

    Why should you BLOG?

    The importance of blogging regularly

    Have you ever wondered, why should you blog? In this post I will take a cue from Seth Godin’s take on the same topic and highlight why you should do it regularly.

    Seth Godin encourages readers to ship out content regularly. According to him blogging and hence shipping our content regularly helps us overcome the resistance of the limbic brain.

    This would silence self doubt and encourage us to become gritty via deliberate practice.

    Once we break the shackles and ship regularly, we would continually improve and eventually reach a state of flow.

    Our purpose of enlightening the world via the content of blogs will eventually become real.

    As mentioned by Seth Godin:

    Why should you BLOG?

    For another insightful blog on the same lines from Seth Godin’s book The Practice please visit this link:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/your-north-star-to-transition-from-an-amateur-to-a-professional/

    To know more about Seth Godin and his work please visit this link:

    https://www.sethgodin.com

  • Characteristics of Good Forecasters

    Characteristics of Good Forecasters

    What are the characteristics of good Forecasters?

    This blog post will enlighten you on the characteristics of good forecasters.

    These are people who are constantly rethinking and calibrating their existing learnings and knowledge.

    As mentioned by Adam Grant in his book Think Again, they constantly update their existing beliefs by triggering rethinking cycles.

    They constantly question their own ideas and see their opinions more as hunches rather than as truths.

    Characteristics of Good Forecasters

    For another insightful post inspired from the same book Think Again, please visit this link:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/high-performing-teams-embrace-conflict/

    To know more about the author Adam Grant and his work, please visit this link:

    https://adamgrant.net/

  • Benefits of Mindfulness

    Benefits of Mindfulness

    What are the major benefits of Mindfulness?

    The benefits of mindfulness and hence its need in our everyday lives has been highlighted in this post. Needless to say this is the habit I recommend you to practice on a daily basis.

    Being mindful does not come naturally to our brain and due to the numerous distractions around us, being mindful turns out to be a huge challenge.

    Research has proven that mindfulness is the director of our brain and focusing on the present moment can increase immunity as well.

    Being mindful is related to unleashing our creative powers and alleviation of stress and anxiety.

    David Book in his book Your Brain at Work has illuminated us on the numerous benefits of the same.

    To gauge how mindful you are, you can check out the Mindful Awareness Attention Scale.

    Benefits of Mindfulness

    For another engaging post from Your Brain at Work, please visit this link:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/how-is-mindfulness-the-director-of-brain/

    If you have not already read this book, what are you waiting for? Grab a copy today..

    https://www.amazon.in/Your-Brain-Work-Strategies-Distraction/dp/0061771295

  • Confident Humility Meaning

    Confident Humility Meaning

    What is the meaning of Confident Humility?

    Confident humility meaning and its understanding stems from finding the right balance between competence and confidence.

    One one end of the spectrum is Armchair Quarter Back syndrome wherein confidence exceeds competence. This is when we show off more than our credentials.

    On the other side of the spectrum though is Impostor Syndrome wherein competence exceeds confidence and we feel diffident to show off our justly earned skills.

    The ideal zone is to strike a balance between the two as shown in this insight, inspired from Adam Grant’s book Think Again.

    Thus mixing the right amount of humility with confidence leads to most optimal results.

    Confident humility meaning

    For another insight inspired from the same book, please visit the below link:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/rethinking-is-key-to-confident-humility/

    To know more about the author Adam Grant and his work, please visit the link:

    https://adamgrant.net/

  • Build your Daily Mood Tracker

    Build your Daily Mood Tracker

    Do you know your daily mood pattern?

    To know how simple it is to build your own daily mood tracker read this insight. This insight has been inspired from Daniel Pink’s book When.

    After knowing about this you would be able to related to and understand the best time of the day that works for you.

    If you are an early riser or a late riser, chances are that you will have the following mood patterns.

    The crests and troughs will vary by your sleep patterns. The crests being the points which are the best times of the day.

    Thus depending on your sleep patterns i.e. early riser or late riser you can build your own mood tracker.

    Build your daily mood tracker

    For a similar insight again inspired from the same book of Daniel Pink, please visit:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/does-your-performance-dip-in-the-afternoon/

    If you have not already read this wonderful book, grab a copy of this today.

    https://www.amazon.in/When-Scientific-Secrets-Perfect-Timing/dp/0735210624

  • SMAC recipe for success

    SMAC recipe for success

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    Adopt SMAC recipe for success

    There have been different gurus and books who have advised on various methods to attain success. There is none better than Jim Collins’s SMAC recipe for success which is not only practical but finds relevance in the modern era as well.

    A SMaC (Specific, Methodical and Consistent) recipe is a set of “durable operating practices that create a replicable and consistent success formula”. It is clear and concrete without fluff, precise in guiding an enterprise on what to do (and what not to do) while reflecting the outcomes of empirical validation and insight.

    SMAC recipe for success

    In his book Great by Choice the author Jim Collins shows how iconic companies like South West Airlines have applied these principles for long lasting success.

    Listed below are some of Howard Putnam’s points followed at Southwest Airlines adhering to SMaC principle for lasting success:

    – Remain a short-haul carrier, under two-hour segments;
    – Utilize the 737 as our primary aircraft for ten to twelve years;
    – Stay out of food services

    Thus adopting this recipe in our lives can guarantee long term success.