Narayana Murthy recently sparked a heated debate by stating that Indian youth need to work 70 hours a week to boost productivity. Given his 50+ years of leadership at Infosys, his remarks understandably carry weight. He compared India to Germany and Japan after WW2, who worked for a long time to rebuild their economies. It […]
Author: Prashanth Godrehal
I am Prashanth Godrehal and I am passionate about studying and writing on personal productivity, developing work habits. I publish contents based on my own personal experience, referring to yogic sciences as well as latest brain research and psychology.
In the grand theater of history, there’s a recurring act that never fails to astonish — the rise and fall of civilizations, cities, companies, and individuals who believed they were exempt from the laws of nature, economics, and human behavior. It’s a spectacle of hubris that’s as predictable as it is tragic, and yet, each […]
Imagine a game where winning is not about being better than your opponent, but rather, about avoiding mistakes and letting your opponents defeat themselves. Sounds counterintuitive, right?
Well, according to Dr. Simon Ramo’s book “Extraordinary Tennis for the Ordinary Tennis Player,” this concept applies not only to sports like tennis but also to various domains in life.
Human mind is shaped by narratives and for ages people across feilds have used this tool to influence thier thinking. All narratives follow common story theme and this is what makes it more powerful to use for good or bad
A few years back I read one of the famous talks by Charlie Munger, Business Partner of Warren Buffet who discussed the remarkable success of Coca-Cola in his essay “How to Turn $2 Million Into $2 Trillion”. In this talk, he leaned into a ‘latticework of mental models’ ie, by viewing the businesses through the […]