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Today we had a campus talk by Mr. Hari Kumar, a partner from Deloitte. He talked about various things but a few that left some food for thought were is arrogance good, goal in life and being yourself. I would like to think aloud over the arrogance part over here. We in India have been always taught how not to be boastful, how your work should speak for itself, how it is bad manners if not anything else to be self praising. The western culture ( inferred from the few people I have met, from many series that I have watched and the direction in which India is going in terms of human behaviour when they say westernization) on the other hand prescribes individuality, freedom and presentation. Sell yourself and be self reliant. Where does self reliance come in? I think the arrogance and self reliance are related. I think by nature we humans are animals and hence all wish to be alpha males. Survival and other secondary factors have led us to become civilized and share costs and bene

I am reading Steve Jobs biography and just yesterday night the last thought that came to my mind before I fell asleep while reading the book was " How would I like my biography to be written? What will be the significant chapters?" Today, I looked watched this inspiring video  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2QZM7azGoA&feature=share  and Amy starts by saying " If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?"

There must be at least a moment in life of each and every human being who has taken birth on this planet, when he feels the awe of coincidences. Generally the more intuitive a person is rather than rational the more he is fascinated by these strange phenomenon. Having said that even the most rational person must have experienced a tinge of "wow!" from coincidences after which his/ her left brain took over and justified everything to him and killed the goosebumps. I also feel that coincidences are the most personal of experiences. Sometimes you do tell whoever you find nearby about how you experienced a coincidence but then as soon as you tell it you understand that you were unable to effect a similar wow in that person as you yourself did. I feel that our languages have not yet evolved to handle this transfer of wow yet. and so I feel that coincidences are also somethings which forms a part of those things in life which are lying inside the imaginary boundary that we dr

Finding passion is over talked and over glamorized. On hearing this larger than life success stories of finding your fate and passion makes this process look like that it requires an extra effort or going out of your way to achieve alignment. i think finding passion is a very natural thing to do unless you put an effort in not letting yourself drift towards your alignment. The final state is a stable equilibrium and not an unstable one. Its not like shaving, laundry or cleaning your room . Its like a clown Bop Bag.

Everyone has a different opinion on does God exists, but everyone seems to agree on one thing. If he does, God has to be Omnipresent. He has to be present everywhere. He has to be omniscient. He has to be all knowing and he has to be omnipotent. He has to be all powerful. Good afternoon toastmasters, today I will tell you what else God needs to have. In 1998, two computer science students, told the world that they have made a search engine in which if you enter anything, it will answer in less than a second. No one believed them. Today we know they were not lying. Today there is no doubt that Google is God. In 2000, on 1st April, they came up with another such product, which they called MindPlex. On that day, whoever opened google.com saw a blue spiral rotating on the home page, the one like those in psychic's office. It claimed that all you needed to do was look at that spiral and just think about what you want to search and you will not need to type. Of course they were jok