Taming The Inner Critic
In the world of sports it is common to witness established athletes failing to live up to the high standards that they set themselves up for. We label them as being out of form, with a struggle to meet expectations. The athlete may still be following the same schedule, investing the same hours of practice, managing the same routine and everything else they associated with during their successful phase. What has then contributed to these string of failures?
Have You Sharpened Your Pencil Today?
Reflections and continuous learnings help to work through limitations, enables generation of new ideas that will lead to success. It is often common for us to be so engrossed in our tasks that we do not spend enough time to pause, reflect and reframe our approach. The question that arises is “has the pencil become blunt?”
Managing The Unconscious Bias
One of my colleagues was interviewing candidates for a role and I was part of the panel. While interviewing one of the candidates, it emerged that he was from the same Engineering Institute as my colleague though they were from batches about a decade apart. I found a significant change in the body language of my colleague. The questions that he was asking seemed to be directed towards what the candidate was comfortable with. I realised that this was an instance of affinity bias – one of the types of biases that we unconsciously possess.
