Author: Jag

What’s your Mantra?

All of us battle with our unconscious mind almost every day. Then and there negative thoughts crops up, that slows us down or paralyze us. We pick up these negative thoughts from our experience, surroundings , people around us. How quickly we proceed from it will be determined by how often we say our mantra and how often we neutralize the negative thoughts as they come up.

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man·tra/ˈmantrə/
1. Hinduism. a word or formula, as from the Veda, chanted or sung as an incantation or prayer. 2. an often repeated word, formula, or phrase, often a truism: If I hear the “less is more” mantra one more time, I’ll scream.

Every single time a negative thought crops up in your mind, its time to state your positive alternative. Let that alternative line becomes your mantra. Say it to yourself with special dedication hundreds of times in a day if necessary. Why do this? You’re replacing a negative doom-loop thought process with a virtuous, positive one. You become what you tell yourself are.

It’s not difficult, it just takes persistence.

Game Theory

The pandemic, despite all the horrors it has brought, has provided some people with more time for self-reflection, majorly people in Business.

Game theory is a mathematical context but very relevant to change the game of business. Von Neumann and Morgenstern published Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, and provided a systematic way of understanding the behavior of players in the game. Business is always a high-stakes game. In Business, you have to look forward far into the game and then reason backward to figure out which of today’s actions will lead you to where you want to end up. The primary insight of game theory is to focus on others i.e., Allocentrism.

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So what are the elements of the game? In game theory, there are two kinds of solutions – Pure Strategy Solution and Mixed Strategy Solution and five elements shortly called as PARTS: players, added values, rules, tactics, and scope. These five elements describe all available solutions. To change the game in your favor, you have to change one or more of these elements. Sometimes the best way to succeed is to let others, including your competitors, do well. The most valuable service you can offer is creating competition, so don’t ever give away anything for free. You can profit by using insights from game theory.

Why Read?

“The ultimate answer to the question “Why read?” is that only deep, constant reading fully establishes and augments an autonomous self. Until you become yourself, what benefit can you be to others?” – Harold Bloom

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Reading helps us to become our full Autonomous-Self. How else do we know people at the intimate level, then Reading. Books help to create a greater self-knowledge and teaches about our values and capabilities. They also challenge us to help us grow. Once you finish reading, it gives us an immense confidence and satisfaction, that cannot be comprehended by any other human emotions.

Just go read, anything and everything that you can get hold off.