I left six different professions in less
than four years before I started my own
venture I worked as an Operations
engineer a freelance social worker a
strategy professional of freelance film
critic a freelance journalist and a
management consultant every time I took
the decision to leave a job I did not
have any back-up plan whatsoever the
conventional wisdom says that don’t quit
don’t give up don’t give up don’t quit
but I had a word with Khaled Hosseini
the Kite Runner and he clearly told me
that there is a way to be good again and
I did quit quit quit until I found a way
to feel good again about my work I
launched my startup it has been close to
seven years that I’m an entrepreneur and
I recently launched my third initiative
it’s called the live designer this one
line written by Khaled Hosseini there is
a way to be good again is one of the
guiding principles of my life my work
gives me the opportunity to inspire
ordinary people like me to become good
leaders and good leaders to become
extraordinary leaders I ask them to read
read books for what I have seen is that
they do indeed read status updates on
Facebook – its what sell for words and
tempting headlines for news apps they –
occasionally read what’s written on a
billboard if they’re stuck in a traffic
they take immense amount of interest in
reading messages in other phones for
obvious reasons so what do you do about
it from The Kite Runner to the Ministry
of utmost happiness from Steve Jobs to
Elon Musk from outliers to antifragile
each of these books
is not a collection of mere words and
sentences but a collection of several
worlds each world seducing the reader to
live in the present when I was talking
about the habits of people the reading
habits of people I was talking about
their tendency to live in a hypothetical
future such words this SMS is his
facebook status updates are extremely
powerful they make us voracious
consumers of her future
they make us increasingly insecure about
everything about us our receding
hairline or skin color or toothpaste
there is that everything they made us
believe in a future that will change our
life forever in short they make us
perfect followers there are the slaves
the Ministry of utmost happiness compels
the readers to feel the life of a eunuch
on June a hit zero above only human
being to understand the life of an zum
you cannot be a readers will forgive and
forget yourself for not entering the
deepest recesses of our mind and heart
to be a good reader requires tremendous
amount of empathy and humility the good
news is that if you are not empathetic
enough reading and zooms life story with
the right intention will teach you how
to be one maybe you and I will learn
that the desire to love and have a child
is done that shouldn’t be a privilege
given to two genders male and female
empathy empathy in my opinion is the
most important quality a leader needs to
possess to bring together the heart the
mind and brain of our people empathy is
the quality that enables a leader to
build that connection with her people
and design products and services that
solve worldly problems if you look at
the leading companies in the world
Pepsi Microsoft we will see how
passionate these companies the top
leaders in these companies are about the
idea of empathy the more pertinent
question right now is how do you develop
that empathy when you talk to multiple
people with the intention to learn from
the beauty of books is that the
characters in those books are in no rush
to check in on Facebook when they travel
to a new destination you have all the
luxury in the world to spend as much
time as you want to with any of the
character in a certain situation as a
matter of fact books gave us the
convenience to pause in between an
intense situation an intense scene long
before technology a child achieve the so
called feat the more books you read the
more characters you engage in a
conversation with you learn how to
humanize even those people who strongly
dislike you hate the ladder of bias
prejudice and discrimination that we
climb every day Kumble into a dust on
which we walked life and the leader with
a powerful ability to feel our ego lead
the way empathy school isn’t it
it isn’t however as cool as I made it
sound to be roughly three years back I
realized that my habit of empathizing
with people was taking a heavy toll on
me I would get into someone’s shoes
empathize with the person and I would
get so absorbed in my student my client
that I would forget to wear my own shoes
I would lose my shoes this was taking a
heavy toll on my mental and physical
health I brainstormed body storm for
several months and I zero down on
scattered diagram a conceptual
statistics C’s which I have been using
since then to teach empathy and ideation
for the sake of simplicity a scatter
diagram is a collection of points
hanging on space I recommend an upper
limit of four to five points to achieve
the desired results so when you
associate each point in the scatter
diagram with a certain genre let’s say
the first point represents Illamasqua
biography the second point represents
Midnight’s Children a work of fiction
and the third point represents outliers
the work of nonfiction and you read them
simultaneously have been one after
another at regulatory regular intervals
you passage through divergent ideas
in most cases through paradoxes and
contradictions in some cases through
reality and imagination you feel you
feel an intense desire to resolve those
paradoxes to reconcile those
contradictions you feel intrinsically
motivated to narrow the gap between the
reality and the imagination Elon Musk
was raised on books he read practically
everything encyclopedia comic books
Benjamin Franklin the Lord of the Rings
ignition the beauty of the scattered
diagram is that it helps you generate
weird ideas and this very ideas are
extremely important in innovation I have
seen many clueless people young people
old people using the principles of
scattered diagram to make their lives
better to ideate I’ll give an explain my
point suppose you’re someone who is
reasonably well versed with sports and
cinema and here all of a sudden space
faced with an abstract topic mutti lies
in the eyes of the beholder not beholder
so what do you do
he immediately associate the topic with
the first point in the scattered diagram
which is sports and probably you’d say
that
some rich persons cricket ball is some
poor person’s football and then you
switch to the next point in the scatter
diagram which is cinema and maybe you’d
say that movies are reflection of the
society as much as the society is the
reflection of movies I have been using
scatter diagram since the time I
conceptualized it in my personal life
and my professional life and trust me
when I say this a significant
contribution to my happiness comes from
that scatter diagram at five feet four
inches I never thought that I would be
able to leave my childhood dream of
producing and acting in a movie but I
did three movies the fourth one is under
production even though not too many
people have watched my movies but I’m
glad that I could make those movies in
2011 when I was about to start
my venture every well-intentioned person
I met advised me not to go ahead with
the idea they told me that no one in
this world will pay a huge premium to
learn how to communicate to learn how to
become a better leader and the idea was
so damn cliche it was during this time
that I had a conversation with William
Shakespeare after a long time I was
reading Julius Caesar for the second
time and remember this words words
roughly cowards die many times before
their deaths
the valiant never taste of death but
once I was engaged in intimate
conversation with Malcolm Gladwell while
reading outliers and I learned that
successful people are not really
successful for any special reason there
is always something running on the
background that contributes to their
success they are not really worthy of
the appreciation we shower on them I got
the courage the confidence to not follow
anyone I got the courage to empower the
misfits the outcasts the ordinary I got
the courage to daydream of the
impossible the unrealistic and the
unimaginable so far I have done
reasonably well in helping people
improve their communication skills
refining the leadership skills I have a
long way to go and I’m trying every
single day I’m trying books reading
reading it’s entertainment for many
people
good reading is experiencing you get to
interact interact with extremely
well-crafted characters when you are
enjoying the Bliss of your solitude you
learn to empathize with them and when
you read multiple genres at the same
time you empathize objectively and id8
quickly and when you set that empathy in
motion you give birth to compassion
something that the world needs a lot
more of but has very little of if not a
reason to inspire you find an excuse to
inspire your people
you embrace with no arms you open to
closed minds you express when you can
impress
and amid all the emotions and
idiosyncrasies in many characters in
many books you find that character that
you always wanted to be that character
that character is what separates a good
leader from an average leader that
character is the most precious asset of
a leader trust me when I say this if you
do not find enough time to read books
you will have to work for someone who
reads books regularly so I’ll advise you
to read regularly talk to the characters
in the book talk to the author of the
book and you will discover wonderful
ways which will not find and Google to
emerge into a better leader thank you
for your time [Applause]
than four years before I started my own
venture I worked as an Operations
engineer a freelance social worker a
strategy professional of freelance film
critic a freelance journalist and a
management consultant every time I took
the decision to leave a job I did not
have any back-up plan whatsoever the
conventional wisdom says that don’t quit
don’t give up don’t give up don’t quit
but I had a word with Khaled Hosseini
the Kite Runner and he clearly told me
that there is a way to be good again and
I did quit quit quit until I found a way
to feel good again about my work I
launched my startup it has been close to
seven years that I’m an entrepreneur and
I recently launched my third initiative
it’s called the live designer this one
line written by Khaled Hosseini there is
a way to be good again is one of the
guiding principles of my life my work
gives me the opportunity to inspire
ordinary people like me to become good
leaders and good leaders to become
extraordinary leaders I ask them to read
read books for what I have seen is that
they do indeed read status updates on
Facebook – its what sell for words and
tempting headlines for news apps they –
occasionally read what’s written on a
billboard if they’re stuck in a traffic
they take immense amount of interest in
reading messages in other phones for
obvious reasons so what do you do about
it from The Kite Runner to the Ministry
of utmost happiness from Steve Jobs to
Elon Musk from outliers to antifragile
each of these books
is not a collection of mere words and
sentences but a collection of several
worlds each world seducing the reader to
live in the present when I was talking
about the habits of people the reading
habits of people I was talking about
their tendency to live in a hypothetical
future such words this SMS is his
facebook status updates are extremely
powerful they make us voracious
consumers of her future
they make us increasingly insecure about
everything about us our receding
hairline or skin color or toothpaste
there is that everything they made us
believe in a future that will change our
life forever in short they make us
perfect followers there are the slaves
the Ministry of utmost happiness compels
the readers to feel the life of a eunuch
on June a hit zero above only human
being to understand the life of an zum
you cannot be a readers will forgive and
forget yourself for not entering the
deepest recesses of our mind and heart
to be a good reader requires tremendous
amount of empathy and humility the good
news is that if you are not empathetic
enough reading and zooms life story with
the right intention will teach you how
to be one maybe you and I will learn
that the desire to love and have a child
is done that shouldn’t be a privilege
given to two genders male and female
empathy empathy in my opinion is the
most important quality a leader needs to
possess to bring together the heart the
mind and brain of our people empathy is
the quality that enables a leader to
build that connection with her people
and design products and services that
solve worldly problems if you look at
the leading companies in the world
Pepsi Microsoft we will see how
passionate these companies the top
leaders in these companies are about the
idea of empathy the more pertinent
question right now is how do you develop
that empathy when you talk to multiple
people with the intention to learn from
the beauty of books is that the
characters in those books are in no rush
to check in on Facebook when they travel
to a new destination you have all the
luxury in the world to spend as much
time as you want to with any of the
character in a certain situation as a
matter of fact books gave us the
convenience to pause in between an
intense situation an intense scene long
before technology a child achieve the so
called feat the more books you read the
more characters you engage in a
conversation with you learn how to
humanize even those people who strongly
dislike you hate the ladder of bias
prejudice and discrimination that we
climb every day Kumble into a dust on
which we walked life and the leader with
a powerful ability to feel our ego lead
the way empathy school isn’t it
it isn’t however as cool as I made it
sound to be roughly three years back I
realized that my habit of empathizing
with people was taking a heavy toll on
me I would get into someone’s shoes
empathize with the person and I would
get so absorbed in my student my client
that I would forget to wear my own shoes
I would lose my shoes this was taking a
heavy toll on my mental and physical
health I brainstormed body storm for
several months and I zero down on
scattered diagram a conceptual
statistics C’s which I have been using
since then to teach empathy and ideation
for the sake of simplicity a scatter
diagram is a collection of points
hanging on space I recommend an upper
limit of four to five points to achieve
the desired results so when you
associate each point in the scatter
diagram with a certain genre let’s say
the first point represents Illamasqua
biography the second point represents
Midnight’s Children a work of fiction
and the third point represents outliers
the work of nonfiction and you read them
simultaneously have been one after
another at regulatory regular intervals
you passage through divergent ideas
in most cases through paradoxes and
contradictions in some cases through
reality and imagination you feel you
feel an intense desire to resolve those
paradoxes to reconcile those
contradictions you feel intrinsically
motivated to narrow the gap between the
reality and the imagination Elon Musk
was raised on books he read practically
everything encyclopedia comic books
Benjamin Franklin the Lord of the Rings
ignition the beauty of the scattered
diagram is that it helps you generate
weird ideas and this very ideas are
extremely important in innovation I have
seen many clueless people young people
old people using the principles of
scattered diagram to make their lives
better to ideate I’ll give an explain my
point suppose you’re someone who is
reasonably well versed with sports and
cinema and here all of a sudden space
faced with an abstract topic mutti lies
in the eyes of the beholder not beholder
so what do you do
he immediately associate the topic with
the first point in the scattered diagram
which is sports and probably you’d say
that
some rich persons cricket ball is some
poor person’s football and then you
switch to the next point in the scatter
diagram which is cinema and maybe you’d
say that movies are reflection of the
society as much as the society is the
reflection of movies I have been using
scatter diagram since the time I
conceptualized it in my personal life
and my professional life and trust me
when I say this a significant
contribution to my happiness comes from
that scatter diagram at five feet four
inches I never thought that I would be
able to leave my childhood dream of
producing and acting in a movie but I
did three movies the fourth one is under
production even though not too many
people have watched my movies but I’m
glad that I could make those movies in
2011 when I was about to start
my venture every well-intentioned person
I met advised me not to go ahead with
the idea they told me that no one in
this world will pay a huge premium to
learn how to communicate to learn how to
become a better leader and the idea was
so damn cliche it was during this time
that I had a conversation with William
Shakespeare after a long time I was
reading Julius Caesar for the second
time and remember this words words
roughly cowards die many times before
their deaths
the valiant never taste of death but
once I was engaged in intimate
conversation with Malcolm Gladwell while
reading outliers and I learned that
successful people are not really
successful for any special reason there
is always something running on the
background that contributes to their
success they are not really worthy of
the appreciation we shower on them I got
the courage the confidence to not follow
anyone I got the courage to empower the
misfits the outcasts the ordinary I got
the courage to daydream of the
impossible the unrealistic and the
unimaginable so far I have done
reasonably well in helping people
improve their communication skills
refining the leadership skills I have a
long way to go and I’m trying every
single day I’m trying books reading
reading it’s entertainment for many
people
good reading is experiencing you get to
interact interact with extremely
well-crafted characters when you are
enjoying the Bliss of your solitude you
learn to empathize with them and when
you read multiple genres at the same
time you empathize objectively and id8
quickly and when you set that empathy in
motion you give birth to compassion
something that the world needs a lot
more of but has very little of if not a
reason to inspire you find an excuse to
inspire your people
you embrace with no arms you open to
closed minds you express when you can
impress
and amid all the emotions and
idiosyncrasies in many characters in
many books you find that character that
you always wanted to be that character
that character is what separates a good
leader from an average leader that
character is the most precious asset of
a leader trust me when I say this if you
do not find enough time to read books
you will have to work for someone who
reads books regularly so I’ll advise you
to read regularly talk to the characters
in the book talk to the author of the
book and you will discover wonderful
ways which will not find and Google to
emerge into a better leader thank you
for your time [Applause]
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