This self-help book uses slice-of-life examples and bite-sized essays for lessons in personal wisdom
Wabi Sabi: celebration of imperfection
During my visit to Japan, I saw the imprints of Japanese aesthetics and the quest for beauty everywhere I went. The lowly toilet seat, a wash basin, even a mundane manhole looked like a work of art.
The Japanese mindset is not fuelled by the urge to be the best or the fastest or the most perfect. Their mindset assumes imperfection in the nature of reality. This does not take away from the responsibility to be better every day, to strive for excellence without feeling incompetent or useless. I saw the same Wabi-Sabi spirit expressed in the Kosai plant of Suzuki Motor Company. A Japanese car, therefore, becomes more than a flawless transportation device.
A Japanese car becomes an unfinished work of art!
Mending our fences
It was a pleasure meeting two of our bright Executive MBA students, Megha Padha and her husband, who have begun their stint at IIM Kozhikode with dreams in their eyes.
Megha is a technology lead in a company, and her husband is in between jobs, in high-end consulting. Megha comes from Jammu, and her husband hails from Bihar.
I told them that the mind is like a fence on the field of life. It is but natural when...
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