Our willingness to fail gives us the ability and opportunity to succeed where others may fear to tread."
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
—Michael Jordan
Most of the time you spend is wasted time on things that just don’t matter. If you can cut out the work and thinking that just doesn’t matter you’ll achieve productivity you’ve never imagined. It’s there if you just don’t pay attention to the things that don’t matter. --json fried http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/it_just_doesnt_matter.php
Influence in Real world: Assume you and your friend have gone shopping to purchase a pair of shoe.Your brought a pair of shoe and your friend got likes it and in turn he may buy the same pair of shoe.In really word there is considerable amount of influence on your friends and neighbours when you buy something. Lonely shopping on an ecommerce site Now consider your ecommerce site where there are hundreds of users/buyers who are daily buying.They are buying many things but still none of their friends who are there on the same site know about it , this we can call as lonely shopping.This is happening as a user and his friends are not connected on ecommerce site. Illustration: Alex and Jason are friends on your ecommerce site but they are not connected to each other. Connecting a user and his friends brings virality to an ecommerce site Assume if we connect a user and his friends and show a user what his friends are doing on your site (please see the below image) like what they are buying and allowing him to “like” any activity such a thing will make your e-commerce platform viral. Illustration: A sample picture which showing what his friends have brought.Notice the likes and comments. How it brings Virality?  In the above diagram assume Jason,Alex,Sumit,Amit are on your ecommerce site.Jason and Alex are friends,Alex and Sumit are friends.Jason brought an item, which is published to his friends and alex recieves this udpate which he likes,this is published to his friend sumit who decides to buy.When we establish connections between an user and his friends any buying activity can influence his friends, his friends-friends and so on.Notice how sumit has ended up buying the same item which orginally jason has brought. With this essentially your ecommerce site has formed a small social graph (friends connected to each other) which can give you many benefits. Benefits Viral effects on Merchandise: When a user A buys an item it has an influence on his friends, when user A friend likes or buys the same item it has influence on this friends and so on..............this has viral effects on merchandise and the ecommerce site can sell more items which was not possible before. Engagement: In addition to buying, users keep comming to your site to see the what his friends are buying. Sellers can become instantly popular (Marketplaces): This phenomenon is also useful to marketplaces (like eBay) where in addition to above benefits the sellers can become instantly popular due to viral effects which sellers like to have and it can attract more sellers towards such platform. Please let me know your feedback in comments
- The boss drives group members; the leader coaches them. The Builder learns from them.
- The boss depends upon authority; the leader on good will. The Builder depends on good.
- The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The Builder is inspired — by changing the world.
- The boss says "I"; the leader says "we". The Builder says "all" — people, communities, and society.
- The boss assigns the task, the leader sets the pace. The Builder sees the outcome.
- The boss says, "Get there on time;" the leader gets there ahead of time. The Builder makes sure "getting there" matters.
- The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The Builder prevents the breakdown.
- The boss knows how; the leader shows how. The Builder shows why.
- The boss makes work a drudgery; the leader makes work a game. The Builder organizes love, not work.
- The boss says, "Go;" the leader says, "Let's go." The Builder says: "come."
Last year on November 19th 2010 i got married to Archana Nangari
Last week i was reading the book The Fred Factor.This book is about a Post man who delivers extraordinary service and make a difference in their customer lives. He knows that the way to move through life joyfully and successfully is by focusing on what you give rather than on what you get.He knows that you don't do the right thing just because you have to do it.You do it because it is the right thing to do.Nick knows that being of service isn't an obligation ,but an opportunity.He knows that being helpful is every more fun than being helped. Here's a mystery: If you expect praise and recognition, it will seldom come.I really don't know why , but life has demonstrated repeatedly that if your motive for doing something is to receive thanks or praise,you'll often be disappointed.If, however,you go about doing the right thing,knowing that the doing is its own reward , you'll be fulfilled whether or not you get recognition from others.When reward or recognition comes, it will be icing on the cake. What makes any act extraordinary is doing it with heart.What makes any life extraordinary is living it with love.That's the secret of the Fred Factor.
We Are What We Choose
Tomorrow, in a very real sense, your life -- the life you author from scratch on your own -- begins.
How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make?
Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions?
Will you follow dogma, or will you be original?
Will you choose a life of ease, or a life of service and adventure?
Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions?
Will you bluff it out when you're wrong, or will you apologize?
Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love?
Will you play it safe, or will you be a little bit swashbuckling?
When it's tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless?
Will you be a cynic, or will you be a builder?
Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind? --Jeff
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/we-are-what-we-choose-2010-6#ixzz0rppauNsU
The Grace of God cannot be won, through the gymnastics of reason, the contortions of yoga or the denials of asceticism. Love alone can win it. Love that needs no requital, love that knows no bargaining, love that is paid gladly, as tribute to the All-loving, love that is unwavering, love alone can overcome obstacles, however many and mighty. There is no strength more effective than purity, no bliss more satisfying than love, no joy more restoring than Bhakthi (devotion to God), and no triumph more praiseworthy than surrender.-- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Iam a big big big big fan of swami.
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works. The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don't take the time to do that.
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