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Don’t feel compelled to emulate your more loquacious peers Just like the spectrum of colours, human personality includes people with umpteen shades and dimensions of varying intensities. But if we have to categorise personalities in black and white terms, extraversion…
While it helps to have a healthy dose of optimism, temper it with concrete plans of action You have failed in three papers in your B.Com. final-year exam. Your parents are livid and tell you that they are ashamed of…
Do you rush headlong, checking off items in your to-do list? Well, pre-crastination has its costs When you are given an assignment or a task, are you one of those rare souls who has to start on the job right…
Focus on the process instead of the results, give room for failure and you will find it easier to keep your New Year resolutions. As the year end approaches, we can’t help ourselves making well-intentioned promises — from next year,…
Just because something has a number tagged to it, does not make it automatically valid. A few weeks ago, I was approached by two young, dynamic entrepreneurs who were keen on setting up a startup in the area of children’s…
Postponed decisions result in clutter. Make space for yourself. Tidy up your life. For many of us, tidying up is a chore that we often put off. So, books, files and papers pile up on our desks, while stationery, packets…
If you tend to downplay your achievements or are plagued by irrational self-doubts, read on to dispel your fears. Do you feel like a fake? Do you feel that you don’t quite belong? Despite winning accolades and laurels, do you…
While it is perfectly healthy to set high standards for oneself, perfectionism has its dark sides too. Vani is never satisfied with her performance. Even though her marks are in the top one per cent of her class and she…
Research suggests people have an innate tendency to be overoptimistic about their capacity to meet deadlines. How can we guard ourselves against it? Almost everyone who has constructed a house or an apartment has underestimated the time it would take…
Aruna Sankaranarayanan is the author of Zero Limits: Things Every 20 Something Should Know. She was the Founder & Director of PRAYATNA, a centre for children with learning difficulties in Bengaluru & Chennai for 22 years.