Useful Ideas

Is initiation by Life superior to parental guidance?

Insightful story of a painter who refused to ordain his own son in his ways.

Was the experiment successful?

“It’s like wanting to go to the toilet while somebody else is already in it."

"You are jumping outside the door yelling, “Hurry up, I need to go – urgently!”

The doctor came out of her bedroom moments after he'd gone in and asked Mr. Trimble, "Got a hammer?"

Puzzled, Mr. Trimble went into his workshop and returned with a hammer.

Is Cancer Not A Disease?

Abnormal cell growth is an issue as it steals glucose from normal cells & grows at their expense.

Hosh examines suggested natural cures

If you overvalue your work, the world will likely step in to knock down your price.

But if you undercharge yourself, it's unlikely that the world will step in to compensate you appropriately.

You can’t rely on others to value you correctly. It is not in their best interests to do so.

In life and in business, logic only helps reduce risk.

Risk can never be eliminated.

Birbal shows how better decision-making comes from keeping perspective.

Marketing made easy. Marketing concepts defined with funny illustrations like:

You see a gorgeous girl at a party.

You go up to her and say, "I am very rich. Marry me!”

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared who announced to the villagers that he wanted to buy monkeys.

He offered to pay a silver coin for each monkey.

‘Vasudhaev kutumbkam,’ he understood it now, though he had heard it a thousand times before. ‘Mundo Uno - One World’.

अयं बन्धुरयं नेति, गणना लघुचेतसाम् | उदार चरितानां तु वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम् ||

'Discrimination, saying ‘this one is a relative; that other is a stranger’, is for the small-minded. For the magnanimous, the entire world is one family.'

Inspiring Story: Murugan - The Padman

Arunachalam Muruganantham revolutionized menstrual health for poor Indian rural women with his low-cost sanitary pad maker

Insightful Story: My Vivid God

With translation and meanings of Punjabi Song ‘Sahib De Rang Neyare’

A grateful heart is happy, as it overflows with wonderment.

Insightful Parenting Story: Nails In The Tree

Anger hurts, but you can choose to not get angry.

An angry boy learns anger management by driving nails in a tree

Insightful Story: Outlook 2017

Rosh reflects on technological progress in varied sectors from transportation to health to decide future family investment

"Other deductions can still be made, even if the employee will receive less than 60% of their net pay. So, the net pay could be zero, and it could still be legal."

"Maybe", she pondered, "but would it be ethical?"

"Ethics is a matter of opinion", he responded, "Commerce or Countries don't run on opinion".

Funny Story: Permission To Drive Car

How to say No to your kids?

Retold Bible joke about a minister’s son who was told to get a haircut to drive his father’s car.

The formula for raising the dead, Mrit Sanjivni Mantra, was known to Shukracharya, guru of the Asuras.

Hindu mythology story of Kach’s resurrections for Devyani

Revenge isn't best served cold.

It is best not served at all, Hosh realizes. A lot could have gone wrong...

An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind!

Kids Story: Revenge Best Served Cold

Hosh meticulously plans his revenge, his tiny brain scheming even as he sleeps.

Once he decides what to do, it was easy...

"Be careful", said Rosh, "Online advertisements can be scams."

"Not for rentals," Hosh was skeptical, "Not on reputable websites. I am only looking at adverts from reputable real estate agencies, and that too for accommodation within my own country."

“If 10,000 pesos is about 20 NZD”, Josh calculated, “he’s just paid a scam artist $160 for a fare that should have been $0.16.”

“That’s not like taking a 100 pesos for an 80 pesos fare”, Isha was gob smacked by the magnitude of the scam, “that’s taking over a 1,000 times more than was due!”