Reflections, experiences, and stories from my journey through life, leadership, and learning.
Ichigyo-Zanmai
Ichigyo-Zanmai in simple terms means “single task focus”. When you eat, just EAT
When you work, just WORK
When you walk, just WALK
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2025 – The Year it was…
Early part of 2025 had a “bump” and how that helped me focus on something better.
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One Core Strength…
I have read this Story couple of times before hearing it from my Teacher on August 12th, more than 15 years ago. Story is about a boy who does not have his left arm, but wants to learn Judo. His parents take him to multiple masters, who were not ready to accept the boy as…
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A father learns
If there was a moment in my life, when I understood the meaning of the word “Responsibility”, it was on October 3rd 2010 at 8:30 AM. Adhruth was born at 7:42 AM that day and had to be admitted into the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) immediately. It was 8:30 and I was writing details…
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It’s never too cold… You are not dressed enough
The place I have spent most of life is Chennai, where cold means around 20 Centigrade (C). I have heard many people tell me that Chennai has only 3 climates – Hot, Hotter and Hottest and I totally agree with that. With that as my only experience of cold, my first trip to the USA…
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Drenched in LOVE…
As I was sitting in non-doing at the Temple, after offering my prayers, for some reason I started thinking about him. I have heard about him for over two decades and just thinking how things have changed during that time in our relationship, was an inexplicable feeling. When I have 10 years old, I have…
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Your Evil Twin
In an interview recently, I was asked to explain scenario when I got a tough feedback, at a totally unexpected time and how I took that forward. This happened 4 years ago, when I thought I did a great job and was waiting for good feedback, but a tough feedback hit me hard, completely out…
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Because I’m Happy
As a Student, I had always thought doing an activity will make me happy. Playing instead of reading, chatting instead of doing homework would always make me happy. I always thought – getting a cycle would make me happy. When I saw my friend in Scotty, I thought that would make me happy. 90% would…
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I was pushed…
Everything was going calm, easy and predictable at work. In the middle of the week, there was a luge layoff where 1600 Team Members were terminated, and the rest of the Organization went through a huge restructure. We were very used to the routine work and know the expectation from our work and everything changed…
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