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On the weight that only one person in the room can never put down — and why that weight, carried rightly, is the highest privilege of leadership.

The Buck Stops Here.

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Frozen at the Edge.

✦  THE REFLECTION SERIES  ·  CAPT. SHAJI KUMAR Frozen at the Edge. Why fear — not ignorance — is the silent executioner of leadership decisions, and what happens when the ghosts of the past and the shadows of the future converge at exactly the wrong moment. By Capt. Shaji Kumar  ·  The Reflection Series There is a moment every leader knows. It does not announce itself. It arrives quietly —…

Frozen at the Edge.

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The two most powerful words in a leader's vocabulary — and the thin line between using them to grow or using them to grieve

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Here it is: the habits you most want to break are usually serving you in some way you have not fully acknowledged yet. They are efficient solutions your brain found to real problems. Fighting them without understanding them is like ripping out a load-bearing wall because you do not like where it is. The Japanese approach does not ask you to be more disciplined. It asks you to be more honest. To sit with discomfort long enough to understand it. To be, for a few minutes each day, less warrior and more witness. That shift — from combatant to curious observer — is where lasting change begins. Not with a dramatic declaration. Not with a new app. With the quiet, repeated act of watching yourself clearly, and choosing, one small moment at a time, something different.

Stop Fighting Your Habits. Start Watching Them.

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The Prophets Among Us

I WONDER | Issue No. 02 The Prophets Among Us “I Told You So.” — The Three Most Dangerous Words in Human History. Somewhere, right now, a person is achieving something. And somewhere very close by, another person is clearing their throat, straightening their collar, and preparing to deliver the four syllables that will completely steal the show. “I told You So”. There is a moment, in every…

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The Unnamed Accused

We know her name. We know her age. We know which street she lived on, which school she attended, what she was wearing. We have dissected her life, her family’s grief, her trauma — frame by frame — across every television channel and every social media feed. We do not know his face. That is where I want you to pause. Right there. In that gap — that enormous, telling, deeply shameful gap — lives…

The Unnamed Accused

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We light candles for disasters we cannot control and fall silent about the ones we can — so tell me honestly, the next time you sit at a wedding and hear someone whisper about what the bride's family did or did not bring, will you smile politely and reach for your glass, or will you finally say something?

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Every single day, time hands you the same gift — twenty-four hours. What you do with just a few quiet minutes of it will determine everything.

We talk about time as though it is slipping away from us. As though it is the thief. But here is the uncomfortable truth — time is not the problem. The real question is what we are doing with it while it stands patiently at our door. There is a practice, ancient in its wisdom yet devastatingly underused, that the most purposeful people on this earth quietly share. They think. Deliberately. Every…

Every single day, time hands you the same gift — twenty-four hours. What you do with just a few quiet minutes of it will determine everything.

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What Recruiters Silently Judge in Every Interview — And Why Smart Candidates Still Fail

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Most People fail interviews before they even answer the first question.

Over the course of 38 years spent on both sides of the interview table — as a recruiter, as a hiring decision-maker, and as the founder of Global Learning Centre for the past 28 years — I have observed one pattern so consistently that it has become an unshakeable conviction: “The interview is not lost in the room. It is lost in the days and weeks before the candidate ever walks through the…

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🔥 Before you manage stress… understand it.

🔥 Your mind is not the problem. It’s sending you a message. Listen.🔥 💡If you want to keep looking young, it is possible…just follow what is written in my two books and make them a part of your Daily Routine.💡 ST-36 – The single most studied Acupressure Point on the Planet. It is said press “ZUSANLI DAILY” and live a Hundred Years. That is exactly why I wrote my books: 📘 “Stress – The Silent…

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Belief Builds Reality.

Most people think manifestation is magic. It is not. Manifestation is a cognitive function. Your mind is constantly filtering reality through belief. What you repeatedly believe, emotionally reinforce, and focus on begins to shape your decisions, your actions, your resilience, and ultimately… your outcomes. The human brain is not designed to pursue what it doubts. It moves toward what it…

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🔥 The Oldest Financial Advice in the World — Still Smarter Than Us.

We live in an age of abundance and anxiety. Money flows faster than ever, yet peace of mind feels rarer than gold. Every generation believes it invented financial wisdom — until it meets Vidur Niti. Three thousand years ago, Vidur, the royal advisor in the Mahabharata, spoke truths that still cut through the noise of modern finance. His words weren’t about numbers or markets. They were about…

🔥 The Oldest Financial Advice in the World — Still Smarter Than Us.

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🔥 The moment you realise you cannot change your situation… is the moment your real work begins.

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” — Viktor Frankl There is something deeply uncomfortable… almost painfully ironic… about feeling powerless in life. Because in that moment—when nothing bends, nothing shifts, nothing listens—you are brought face to face with the only question that truly matters: How do I respond to what is happening to…

🔥 The moment you realise you cannot change your situation… is the moment your real work begins.

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“Broken crayons still colour.” — Toni Collier.

“Broken crayons still colour.” — Toni Collier We spend so much of our lives trying to hide the cracks. The imperfections. The moments we wish we could erase. The parts of ourselves that don’t look “complete.” But what if those are the very things that make us… human? Dare I say—it’s not despite the brokenness that we create meaningful lives, but because of it. I haven’t met a single person…

“Broken crayons still colour.” — Toni Collier.

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It’s not the devices. It’s the EXPERIENCE.

“People don’t buy Apple products. They buy the absence of friction.” We often debate specs. Camera vs camera. RAM vs RAM. Price vs value. But that’s not why people stay in the Apple Inc. ecosystem. It’s not the iPhone. Not the Mac. Not even the Watch. It’s the experience between them. You take a photo on your iPhone… It’s already on your Mac. You copy something on your laptop… It’s waiting…

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He knew the Vedas. He mastered devotion. He built a kingdom of brilliance. And yet… he fell.

He knew the Vedas.
He mastered devotion.
He built a kingdom of brilliance.
And yet… he fell. Ravana was not a villain in the simplistic sense we often reduce him to. He was a scholar of the highest order. A devotee of Lord Shiva whose hymns still echo through time. A ruler whose Lanka stood not just on power—but on knowledge, discipline, and learning. He had everything the world tells us leads…

He knew the Vedas. He mastered devotion. He built a kingdom of brilliance. And yet… he fell.