Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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New brag-rat on the block
Once upon a time, in mythology, there were beautiful damsels, enchantress who diverted the heroes from their chosen path. The Indian mythology called them Apsara’s they were delegated by the Lord of the immortals, to deal with spiritual quest of people or if anything threatened the throne of Indra the Lord of the immortals. Instead…
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Appraisal Forms
A friend of mine who was in the corporate HR section said, a common problem with appraisal forms was that the employees felt that doing a thing well was the criteria. But from the point of view of the structure Completing the 10 schedule tasks – would mean okay he does his job. Meets expectations.…
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song of the siren
the song of the siren Homer talks of these siren who sing such soulful songs, that enraptured the travelling sailors Maybe maybe not. Sometimes I wonder if the song of the siren was ethereal and enraptured because it would bring the song that was within, the secret visions and the unacknowledged fear. After all a…
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Luxury
Sometimes I wonder if a little luxury could help us over come our artists block. A little pampering what exactly it is would of course vary for each of us. For me it was my toastmasters. Lack of time, funds, other “more important” priorities tend to pop up. but these are never really authentic blocks.…
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God must be an accountant.
I believe in god, But I don’t think god will be involved in petty things of our life particularly not money!! Our relationship with money is so weird. We look at disdain at wealth. We normally translate moneyed to powerful, crooked, and illegal, even say that our goddess of wealth rides on an owl and…
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October 16th
16-Oct-2012 Todays meeting started of with a Bang! The theme was “Ice Breakers” and we did have all 3 speakers Tm. Swaran, Tm. Adrian and Tm. Viresh doing their icebreakers. We opened the session with a Game. The objective was to share Nicknames with the person sitting to the left. All the toastmasters participated and…
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