gutfeel.com

Some of my friends have been eager to see latest pics of Beetle, my pet dog. These are the latest that i could manage to get from my phone. He looks cute na…:))

Came across the blog of Malcolm Gladwell whose books ‘Tipping Point’ and ‘Blink’ are a huge success. Still not finished with ‘Blink’, but I find it pretty intriguing, more so because Gutfeel is the core concept, which has influenced the author to come up with a book on the same. Of whatever, I have read of Blink it talks about the snap decisions we take in our personal and professional lives. Interestingly, if we sit back and analyze (to bring in some logic here) most of these decisions are correct, which means that we don’t repent later.

This is a true story which of course i didn’t make up myself…picked it up coz more than the moral i liked the way it has been presented…

A man found himself floating down the rapids in a river at the bottom of a canyon, miles from anywhere, in the middle of a wilderness area with his ankle broken in half.

Having been trained on how to get out of the rapids, he determined that he would get to the shore, and he did.

Not having been trained in what to do with a broken ankle in the bottom of a canyon…he determined that he would walk out of the canyon and up the steep, rocky path just as he had come down.

He did not.

You see, his ankle had the deciding vote, and it had decided that walking up a rocky slope was not in its best interest.

A sad day for all who somewhere praised Mahajan for his leadership qualities and the fact that he was a good manager and was politically savvy. Mahajan was seen as a “technocrat” leader, sans a firm grassroots political base.

It was really appalling how his younger brother killed him right in his own house. That this kind of hatred that can come forth from ones kith and kin is something to ponder. Was this person named Pravin Mahajan out of his mind when he shot his own brother and lead him to his fateful death…how much hatred and disgust led him to commit such a heinous crime…the intensity of which is even more magnified by the fact that the victim was his own brother. And the irony is that the pistol which was used by Pravin Mahajan was provided to him only after Promod’s request to the concerned authorities. Little did he knew that his brother would use the same weapon to eventually murder him.