Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes.

The internet is flooded with quotations on mistakes and its aftermath.

However my favorite is “It’s not how you make mistakes, but how we correct them that defines us”

Not that we don’t know that we all make mistakes, it just takes enough mettle to admit doing it, and especially when it could cause a trade-off!

With over 10 years of corporate experience I admit making several mistakes, most of which were totally avoidable, some which could cost me the project and at times trust was at stake.

The best way to navigate from the slug is Prompt Resolution and Effective Communication.

Though it is as simple as it sounds, its execution is the key. No leadership lessons or text book solutions can bail you out if you get stuck.

Chin up, Own Up and do what IS to be done. The only approach to avoid is denial!

The waves are therapeutic

The sea as I see is in a hurry to be,

just like me thinking, brooding, drooling,

the never ending expanse of  thoughts crashing at the shores....

Leaving behind an echo of broken waves, broken dreams, 

and broken me!

Albert Einstein's Quotes - Part II

His quotations have a sure way of teaching us the basics (and not physics for a change!) :)

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. 

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? (Ahem! Ahem!)

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton) 

 

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. Imagination is more important than knowledge. 

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. 

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits (Oh this is my all-time fav!) 

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. 

If you can speak of technical things only in technical terms, you do not understand them. 

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. 

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. 

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

                                                                                                                              Albert Einstein

Thought...

I found myself standing alone in a dark room.
Where no light could touch me, no one to hear me...
Felt the chilly breeze run through my hair...
I knew he was there, everywhere...

The love I felt made me numb,
To his wishes so I succumb,
He tore me to pieces...
Now I am busy gathering my shreds.
Still in the room, alone but warm!

Charu Agarwal

Mood swings in Females, Alcoholism in males!

Men muse on it and girls remain confused.

At times even they don’t know why they reacted in a particular fashion, may be it’s the mood swings.

But science has an explanation to certain behavioral patterns commonly seen (and mostly abhorred by men). Men and women respond differently to reductions in serotonin, the neurotransmitter that regulates mood and impulsivity. Using a technique called acute tryptophan depletion, which decreases serotonin levels in the brain, it’s found that men become more impulsive, but are less susceptible to mood swings.

Women, on the other hand, experience worsening of their mood and became more cautious -- a response associated with depression (and anxiety sometimes). Soon after the serotonin levels normal up (no relation to watching TV or their men wooing them) they bounce back to their most charming disposition.

The findings might help men understand "why women show a higher prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders compared to men, (even when they are not on their periods) while they show a higher prevalence of alcoholism and impulse control disorders"

Wait a min guys, it never means its girly to be moody-though we do have the hear warming share of it..:-)

Charu Agarwal