October 29, 2009 in Links
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half of our population is experiencing decreasing net happiness and satisfaction with life. When we look at what makes people engaged and fulfilled with their lives, everyone…seems to agree that the feeling of self-efficacy, feeling valued and effective and in your "strength zone" is critical–that the happiest, most successful people are those who have figured out ways to play to the best of themselves in each part of their lives…
There are two causes (…of dissatisfaction and unhappiness in life). One is an excess of choice…The second is that the advice given is misleading..If your goal in life is balance, you will be forever disappointing yourself.
Women are told to be good jugglers…supposed to be able to keep everything up in the air at once…challenge becomes, "How do I not drop anything?" The solutions offered are ideas like "better time management," or "learn to put up boundaries" or "learn to say no."…all of that advice is bad. The core skill of juggling is throwing
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Questions about my future do remain unanswered, though that seems to bother other people more than me. It's funny how much some folks focus on numeric milestones: 90 days, 6 months, 1 year. Markers like those certainly have descriptive value when you look, after the fact, across a large number of people; interesting patterns emerge. But using those found patterns to dictate how I shape my own future is an inorganic endeavor in which I choose not to engage.
At the one-year mark, I still believe in the process of self-discovery, one that I hope never ceases. A process that, despite its open-endedness, doesn't preclude practical decision making when the moment is right, even if the call I make is thoroughly out of sync with the numeric milestones. A process that does not belong exclusively to people who have quit (or want to quit) their jobs.
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when sensational things like Arundhati Roy justifying the reign of terror unleashed by the Naxals…happen then I am forced to break the silence…
The argument as to who is a "terrorist" and who is "misguided youth" is a never-ending one…that has been fought over so many times that it is not worth going into again. However what requires comment is that Naxals are anything but the "little guys fighting for justice pushed into a corner" that their PR people like Ms. Roy would have us believe. They are an organized army-like entity with a leadership structure whose principal goal is the destruction of the Indian state and the rule of law. They terrorize the populations they claim to protect, extort and appropriate resources from the dispossessed and engage in violence against people who do not represent the state. Their arms are sophisticated, they are financed by India's enemies and they are allied with SIMI tapping into their organization and their funding channels.
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