Sakthitharan Subramanian
You don’t have to consider and weigh multiple reasons. One good reason is enough to make a decision. The SDR decision-making framework ( Single Decisive Reason: A Simple and Fast Decision-making Method ) says that. Single Reason, that’s all you want to make a decision. The question is...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
The good and bad stress Pressure creates stress. Expectations, deadlines, or anything the task demands is the pressure. The pressure makes you work faster, better and pushes you to cross your own limits. Until a particular point. Beyond that point, it starts to become bad....
Sakthitharan Subramanian
Scrolling on your phone while you on bed, searching and browsing the internet for a better way to accomplish what you want, looking for better motivations at night, and also wandering the net aimlessly, all these are attributed to your guilt that you didn’t accomplish your goal of the day....
Sakthitharan Subramanian
When I say ‘note-taking’, it is in connection with Knowledge management. While taking notes, you write for the future (stupid) self (and for others). You read, you understand and then you write (or draw) it for better understanding (and teaching yourself and others). You preserve your...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
You don’t have to be productive all the time. Aware of your productivity cycle of Ups and Downs. Keeping your productivity metrics always up is also another form of being monotonous in disguise. It is an easy way to get stressed. Eventually, you’re going to wear fully out of your willpower....
Sakthitharan Subramanian
Pareto principle named after renowned economist Vilfredo Pareto, specifies that that roughly 80% of effects (output) come from 20% of the causes (input), asserting an unequal relationship between inputs and outputs. In other words, almost 80% of the outcome can be achieved with 20% of your...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
First, let me clarify the right meaning of the topic. It is not about knowledge management. It is personal knowledge ‘flow‘. How your mind converts the information to knowledge and the process of using the knowledge. Look the chart below, most of the concept is self explanatory. Personal...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
It’s good first to ask the right question to find the right answer. Consider life is a journey. Once you find the destination you can commence the life journey. (just breaking down the problem for better understanding). What is the highest, best, noblest destination in life? I doubt even any...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
The product of thinking is decisions. The purpose of thinking is to solve the problem. Taking decisions to solve the problem. Everyone is so obsessed with solving problems. Have we ever thought about why we need to solve any problem? A day comprises full of taking decisions. When the alarm goes...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
Minimalism is fundamentally a materialistic concept. A “less is more” type of philosophy focusing on minimizing your needs and requirement to lead the highly functional life. But it isn’t all about materialistic reduction or optimizing resources and saving a lot of money through it. The...