Vamsy's Blog

 My son is 8 months old now. During his first 2 months I used to think, it would be better once he reaches around 6 months. I had my reasons then,  He is too brittle to lift, carry, bath and so on. Need to spend time to burp him after every feeding. Won't understand why he is crying. Now, while the above problems got reduced. There are 'n' number of new problems. The biggest problem is, "he moves now". While he moving(crawling) is nice to see, he does lot more then that. He tries to stand and falls down, then he CRIES. He moves near by objects and push it, when the object falls he CRIES. He moves close to the door and waits there, when we open unknowingly(even slowly), he CRIES. He now puts everything in his mouth, if we take them away, he CRIES. If he gets hungry, he CRIES. If he didn't get our attention immediately, he CRIES. If he gets sleepy and we delayed in putting him to bed, he CRIES. Oh My God, previous state is so much better.  Sometimes, I will thin...

This book dealing with multiple examples on people with fixed mindset and people with growth mindset. How this mindset is not a binary but every person is a combination of Fixed and Growth mindsets. Some excellent points I like in this book are- If you appreciate a person's success for being smart, they will turn towards fixed mindset. But, if you appreciate a person's success for their hard work, they will turn towards growth mindset. This is very true when handling kids. Failure is not a sign of stupidity but lack of experience and skill. Both positive and negative labels can mess with our mind. With positive label, we are afraid of losing it and with negative label, we are afraid of deserving it. Common mistake done by parents One of the most interesting points I found is the mistake most of the parents do. We label our boy/girl child as smart when they do their homework well or get high grade in a test. Similarly, after a few failures we start saying that they don't do ...

This is such an interesting aspect that we need to understand. Not just by companies making products but even for individuals who wants to put their perspective to their actions. I started following Simon Sinek after watching this Ted talk.

When I am a teenager, I used to love the concept of communism. It looked perfect- Everything is owned by government and therefore public property. Everyone has equal access to everything. Everyone gets equally irrespective of what they does. No question of religion and caste. What else is required for a teenager with limited knowledge to think it is the perfect recipe for all world problems. My thesis is confirmed in many movies which shows all factory owners are evil and all labor unions are led by pious people, who is either lead or lead's father. Used to feel very happy when this pious labor leader defeats or kills the evil owner. But, one question that used to linger in my head is. If communism is perfect, why everyone wants to immigrate to places like USA and Europe. Which are supposed to be capitalist sin states. But, no one wants to visit North Korea. Which is the country following communist ideology. Ofcourse, I didn't have answer for this then. But, once I started work...