Biju's Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Think Third Perspective – A map to a road less taken? This blog might unwrap you from the blanket of stereotypes leading to an alternative viewpoint which perhaps could be a third perspective. “I stand tall because I am a nobody” is the essence of my life. I have learnt not to carry the weight of being a son, a husband, a father, an employee, an entrepreneur or for that matter anything at all on my shoulders.I strongly believe in the power of effort, which reflects in my outlook and thinking and I realize that the results are not in my control. My definition of success is the realization that you are a ‘nobody’. In the bigger picture one is a mere pawn, making the moves based on the circumstances, be it success or failure.My identity doesn’t make a difference, because it’s the content that matters. I don’t accept things at its face value unless a reasonable answer for my ‘why’ is received, which perhaps is the third perspective.
Simon Sinek says we all deserve a Styrofoam cup, do we? We all decide our cup. It's what we think we deserve we attract. We have earned every bit of success we have experienced in our life. We have worked for it. If you are a student, if you spend time with your books and study hard you deserve good grades. Similarly, if you spend more time at work and put in your best, all that comes with that is what you deserve. No one is doing you a favour.
We set our own standards. Don't let anyone tell you that you deserve only a Styrofoam cup. Dream big, work hard and sky is the limit.
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Why is ambition a positive force and greed a negative force? How to judge whether you are being ambitious or being greedy? What is the difference between ambition and greed? Know the difference and lead a happy life.
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Why do we meditate? What is the purpose of meditation? Are you on the right track? Do you find meditation boring? How do you measure your progress while meditation? Measure the progress, what does it mean? Watch this video to embark on this journey.
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Do you fight the fire or light the fire? What is the difference? One leads to progress and the other leads to stagnation.
We are all good at fighting the fire. We can handle anything that is thrown at us. How often do we take an initiative and light the fire?
Watch this video to know why lighting the fire is the definitive step to success.
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Why we do what we do is a Tony Robbins TED Talk. According to Tony Robbins it's emotion and using the right emotion leads to success! In reality it's exactly the opposite. Emotion will have a detrimental effect on your growth curve. Passion is what drives growth. If you are passionate about something success will follow sooner or later. Passion comes from within. It's about you enjoying the activity you are involved in and it is constant.
Be passionate and be successful.
Link to TED Talk - https://www.ted.com/talks/tony_robbins_why_we_do_what_we_do
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Love or fear, what drives you? Know this, work on this and manage your stress. We all do things for two reasons in our life, either out of love or out of fear. Doing anything out of love brings happiness and doing anything out of fear brings stress. Are you stressing your kids out? Identify your approach and see your kids progress in life.
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There are only small things and big achievements in life. There are no big things you can do in life, only big achievements. Do the small things right and big achievements will follow.
The more we pay attention to the small things, more the chances for big achievements to follow. Even President Biden signs with a small pen. Depending on the position we hold, the impact can be small or big. Biden might sign on a billion-dollar cheque, we might sign on a hundred-dollar cheque. What both Biden and we are doing is a small thing, holding a pen and signing on a paper. So do the small things right and conquer the world.
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What is grit? Angela Lee Duckworth says it's the power of passion & perseverance. How do we cultivate grit? The easiest definition of grit is systematic effort. Both those traits are very much in one's control.
Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn't the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of "grit" as a predictor of success.
Watch the full TED Talk here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H14bB...
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Do you want your apology to be accepted? Do you want to move forward? Try this two-step method.
1. Look the person in the eye when you say sorry.
2. Always add "what can I do to make up?" when you say sorry.
We can only say "what can I do to make up" when you are genuinely sorry and you really want to make up to that person. You can know if you are genuinely sorry or not if you use this method.
Teach this to your children from a very young age and that will make them humble as well.
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Are you result-driven or effort driven? The secret to success is being result driven with a focus on effort. Focus on results might lead to failure. Effort is purely in your hands whereas result is wishful thinking.
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Can you forget something? Do you think forgetting is in your hands? Is forgetting voluntary? Is it possible to only forget the bad things? If you can feel the heat you can also feel the cold. If you forget the bad things, you will also forget the good things. If you forget the good things you will not be grateful. Being grateful is a sure step towards finding happiness.
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We all focus on taking quick decisions. However, we must keep two values in mind while taking decisions. Once we check these values, we are sure to reach our decision not just quickly but in the right manner too.
The two values being honesty and humility. Once we are sure that we are being honest & humble then we are sure of reaching our decisions in the right manner.
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Is sacrifice a negative word? Can you ever say that you sacrificed something for someone? The word sacrifice can never be used in the first party, it is only in hindsight that we say that our investment did not yield results. Even for our children, sharing a pizza or an Ice cream is not a sacrifice as it is an investment we make. When our investment does not yield results then we say that we sacrificed.
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This talk is about a deeper perspective by Sadhguru & Ramana Maharshi on 'Who am I'. Being a nobody is a true explanation to the question 'who am I'. A Nobody is someone who does not take the burden of people's expectations on his shoulders.
Reference video - https://youtu.be/szUA9nMaRRM
Is it important where we come from? Or is it important to know where we are headed? We must unshackle ourselves from the past.
There are a lot of times when we get carried away with our past. The speaker cites examples from his past about how he broke free.
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This talk is about how failure is an option in our lives. It's not always necessary to win. We could be one amongst the crowd who lose that would not make us feel like we are the only ones who lost.
Once we get this feeling it takes the burden off our shoulders and makes us realize that one can't win always and that failure is an option too.
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This video talks about the incident when Hanumanji went to Lanka to meet Sitaji. He burnt the Lanka down. Ravana ordered for his son Meghanath to tie him with a rope as he had the Bramhastra. Ravana got to see this and ordered for a bigger rope to tie him. This ensured that Hanumanji did not have to respect Bramhaji & get tied with the rope.
Find out how faith can change your destiny. If you don't have faith even the Gods can't help you.
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This talk is about a story of a few monkeys who are in a room with a bunch of bananas. Whenever any monkey tries to get the banana, that monkey is drenched with cold water. Slowly every monkey stops trying. Without knowing the reason, they would stop trying & would never ask why. This story conveys the message that we should always ask why.
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Your to-do list contains many items. The most difficult & time taking ones are the monkeys in your list. Then there are easy tasks as well which will consume very little time. If you get done with these difficult tasks, we can get rid of the monkey on our shoulder.
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This podcast is about a TED Talk on 8 steps to success. This talk mentions 8 different pointers required for any person to succeed in life. However, the speaker explains how few of the pointers are redundant and proposes 6 secrets to success.
A few of the pointers discarded are Push, Serve, etc. However, DISCIPLINE which was not part of the original video has been added to the 6 secrets and is a very crucial aspect of the same.
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Life of Pi teaches you to live in the moment. One must not focus on the results but just on the efforts. It is the efforts that are important and not the results neither are they in your control.
Had Pi only focused on reaching the shore, he would have never made it alive out of the ocean. It was the tiger who kept him alive as he was focusing only on saving his life from him.
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We all set goals. But till we frame our goals correctly we cannot achieve them. If someone gives you a car to drive & you drive it for a specific period of time, without knowing the direction then you would never reach your destination.
One must be specific about the destination you want to move towards & the distance that you would drive to reach there.
You would reach Delhi only if you move towards it. You should know if you have to drive 300 or 500 kms to reach there. Only if you know what is your Delhi & what is your 300 kms can you achieve your goal.
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What is Karma? Can we really offset bad karma with good karma? According to Swami Nityananda, Karma is your current state of mind. Sadhguru says, if you live in a sanctified place you can come out with well-being and new possibilities in life.
Karma is about how you feel. Positive thoughts generate good karma & negative thoughts generate bad karma.
A soldier might feel proud and get praised for killing terrorists whereas, one might feel bad about even killing an animal. It's all about how you perceive your action.
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Anger, depression, and sadness are the most common moods that we all try and overcome. But what can be the ideal way to overcome it? Having an ice cream makes us all feel better or a massage or talking to someone.
It is all dependent on our five senses which if worked on can calm us down anytime. Thus, we must try the remedies mentioned in the talk to overcome feelings like anger, sadness, depression, etc.
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Is it possible to change our destiny? Does life give us choices? Can we shape our future? How can one be successful in life? Watch a story from Hindu mythology and an analogy from the current scenario to know how to shape your destiny to be successful.
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