How to find your strengths?

How to find your strengths?
Posted by DC in Success on 06 28th, 2009 | 3 Comments | Email This Article

It is a very common notion that people associate strength with a skill or a talent. Strength could be anything that you are really good at doing something. A person who is very funny may not know that he brings joy and liveliness in the conversations and people often do like his presence, this is what I call true strength. He may not have acquired this through education or work experience or been trained on this, and yet he gained this strength somehow. People often fail to recognize their strengths they possess. It happened to me when my friends pointed out that I posses really good search skills, I didn’t knew that not everyone could find good information doing research using a search engine. I was able to find information from the depths of World Wide Web with less effort. I was persistent until I find it and this has become very natural to me over a period that I can scan the search results and can tell how relevant the information is. I pushed my skill to next level by validating the data I find with various resources, this helps me to confirm the quality of data I [...] Continue Reading…

Bonds of Social Confirmity

Bonds of Social Confirmity
Posted by DC in Life in general on 06 25th, 2009 | No Comments | Email This Article

I am not sure if there is a term called ‘conformity syndrome’ but I am using it anyway. Most times we believe that we know what we are doing or we make our choices and no one has control over our decisions. Well, I felt the same way about myself until I heard about the behavior psychology called social conformity. What is it? Social conformity is a phenomena in which people match the behaviors of their peers to confirm their place within the group and avoid any conflicts that may result if they had not confirmed. It is so pervasive that we never realize that we are being driven by the need to confirm with the perceived standards of our peers and the society. Photo Credit: Ella’s Dad (License) Experiments: Just hit ‘power of conformity (this should be link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1euWT3NZjY) in YouTube and you will see an experiment that takes place in an elevator (Hint: it’s an old black and white video in case the link does not work). Participants from the experiment group get into elevator turning their rear towards the elevator door. A guy unaware of this experiment gets into the elevator and [...] Continue Reading…

What if we got it all wrong ?

Posted by DC in Spiritual on 06 25th, 2009 | No Comments | Email This Article

If you are among the people on the quest of finding truth (read ‘are we seeking God’), you may have been bombarded with 1000s of different messages/interpretations/theories on what is right and what is wrong.  At least, I have been overwhelmed with the parity in messages from different teachings. I do not claim to be a conventional spiritualist whose aim is to be chastised but I definitely want to know the truth.

My friend sent me an email which I have included below, it is a joke (I do not claim the credit for it because I am not the author, if you know the author, please feel free to add it as a comment):

A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand.

He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up! In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent [...] Continue Reading…


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