Tag: awareness
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Moonwalking Gorilla: The Things We Never Notice
The other day I came across a brilliant video. The viewers were asked to count the number of passes made by a team dressed in white. There was another team in black moving around in the frame, but they seemed irrelevant to the task. The instruction was clear. Focus on the white team. Count carefully.…
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The Screen We Carry
A simple story on the hidden lens that guides our thoughts, reactions and choices. Ram and Shyam were sitting on the steps near their old school, watching people move along the street. A young man rushed ahead with irritation on his face. A little later, a woman paused near a stray dog, placed a biscuit…
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The Map We Mistake for the World
How Perspective Shapes What We See and What We Miss Most disagreements in life are not what they seem. They are about the maps we all use to navigate our reality. Two people can look at the same situation and walk away with completely different conclusions. Each is convinced they are right, each carries evidence…
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Argue for Your Limitations and They Become Yours
How the stories we defend quietly shape the edges of our life A friend once told me she wanted to start her own venture. She spoke with energy at first, describing her ideas and the kind of work she’d love to do. Then, almost in the same breath, she said, “But I’m not the entrepreneurial…
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From Illusion to Intention: Seeing beyond the Mirage of Busyness
I used to love the Justice League cartoon series as a child. Loved the way all the superheroes would team up to fight the super villains, spoiling the villains plan to take over the world. In one particular episode, the heroes are accidentally transported into a parallel universe, a world that looks just like Earth,…