Thought Leadership

Metaphors are signs ...They are saying something The Metaphors are the first signs of knowing things which are literally unconnected to each other. The Metaphors are the first flight of stairs to the realms of Metaphysics What you see plainly are the obvious & the connected dots of our existence. What we don't see easily are the higher thoughts of existence If we can tether the known with the unknown with metaphors our minds get trained to think beyond the common & the observable Thought Leadership & Metaphors  To understand the first step in "Thought Leadership" is to acknowledge the science of metaphors If we cannot talk in two different planes at the same time by metaphors it simply means we may be lacking in conditioning our mind for the "Leadership of Ideas" To read a phrase is one aspect & to understand it is altogether another matter. But to relate it to the metaphors and give it wings of metaphysics is the higher dimensions in Thought pro...

The Binary Mind  Our human mind is trained to view things mostly in the binary perspective. We generally interpret things as Black & White, Right & Wrong, True & False, Good & Bad, Yes & No etc. We do not allow the world of uncertainty to exist even in our consciousness. We want Certainty to be our guiding light always But our existence is not Binary nor is the ecosystem surrounding it. We exist in the mixture of Certainty & Unpredictability Dont Duple it  Thus the desire to see & interpret things in the simple “Duple” phenomena is a false start Our insecurity & the haste in understanding any phenomena must not dissolve the possibility of the existence of an area of darkness. Just because we do not have answers to certain things doesn't mean we do not understand it An Area of Darkness is sometimes more illuminating than the percieved halo around it Not having an answer is also an answer sometimes. To be ignorant rather than be disdainfully rigid...

The Rip Van Winkle Saga  Rip Van winkle was a farmer. One day in the forest he saw some mysterious men playing the game of nine pins The mysterious men called him & asked him to join the game. RVW joined the game & enjoyed the drink offered to him Slowly he felt drowsy and fell asleep RVW woke up and remembered those mysterious men. There was none to be found Life has changed He found his beard has grown very long. His musket has rusted. His dog was gone. His clothes has worn out. He found himself to have aged a lot He walked down to his town. He did not recognize anybody. Nobody recognized him too. The whole town has changed Luckily his daughter identified him & brought him home. RVW was missing for 20 years He came to know that all his friends have died. His wife too had died. He felt very sad RVW was at the crossroads of life. Whether to give up by cursing the past or rise up & reinvent himself again Humanity at the Crossroad  Humanity is also at the Rip Van...

Neccesity is the Mother of Inventions  The prehistoric humans had no written form of communication. Every communication was oral The earliest form of written communication was pictorial. But it could not serve the purpose The Sumerians developed the cuneiform writing. But it was no easy task to remember more than 300 different wedges & even more combinations of wedges Religion popularized the written style of communication  The Akkadians popularized  cuneiform writing  by creating religious hymns in this style The Assyrians refined  cuneiform writing  & the Babylonians shaped it to the point of Alphabets The Phoenicians created the Alphabet system of Writing. The Greeks borrowed the style & created Philosophers out of this A human Revolution in Communication has begun. Art, literature, philosophy, medicine, history, geography etc took birth from the womb of Alphabets No Ideas are Original No Ideas are Original per se. But Improvisations are most...

Obsessing over the order of the mind  Man's desire to regulate itself into order is exceptional. The sub-actions of religion, culture, traditions, rules, laws etc are ways of regulating humans into an orderly & regulated entity For humans the concept of freedom has always been the directed, ordered & monitored freedom This is the cardinal difference between the human & the animal world Even our Aesop's fable stories fantasize about the managed & controlled animal world Controlling societies & Leadership  In the earliest recorded history we find ample traces of regulations. It was more managed than what we have today. But still the theme remains the same though essence may have changed Those societies which regulated less the mind has prospered more. Those who obsessed over absolute control lost progress on the way Mind is a Nomad  Mind by its basic characteristic is a nomad. It is created to wander & lose itself in the process Those who never got l...

Greek Philosophy Summarized If we summarize the whole Greek Philosophy into simple dictum, we get the following messages 1. The unexamined life is not worth living 2. The search for wisdom leads to Truth is the key to human progress 3. Virtue is a type of a knowledge & it must be learnt & followed 4. Humanity must aspire for the “Good Life“ & not the “Mere Life” Leadership Qualities & its  Attributes  When examined closely the Greek Philosophy and its dictum reveals all the desirable qualities of leadership Every leadership must be an examiner of their own lives so that they lead a goal directed conscious life which is worthy of emulation & admiration The leadership without wisdom is like the sky which never rains & the water that never quenches the thirst. In such leadership Truth is the first casualty Leadership virtue is not genetic & theoretical but acquired through knowledge & actions. It is verifiable, measurable & transferable li...

The Kardashev Scale  The Scientist Kardashev categorized human civilization into 3 Types based on their capacity to use & harness energy According to Kardashev Scale we are in Type 0 where we have not utilized fully the energy resources of earth The Type I is when humans use star energy. Type II is when they use total galaxy energy. We are almost entering Type I The Alternative Idea  But the moot question is at what stage of civilisation are we in terms of human dignity, Rights, Privileges, wealth distribution, disease control, employability, peace & security etc etc Are we at the same stage as in   Kardashev Scale   or less than that or beyond that ? From history we know that the rate of increase in human equity & prosperity never corresponds to the rate in increase in wealth generation capacity of any civilization The  Kardashev Scale   talks about energy use which means economic activities which means wealth generation Can we say with ce...