Month: <span>October 2020</span>

Let’s say you were assigned 10 tasks. You did 7 of them well, while the other 3 did not go so well. Is that a failure? If your answer is yes, then you’re someone who holds high standards for themselves. While that can be helpful, it can also sometimes be…

What you pay attention to grows. Think of a garden with beautiful flowers and unwanted weeds. What will you give water to? Our minds are like a garden. Our strengths are beautiful flowers while our weaknesses are unwanted weeds. Often, we only pay attention to removing the weeds and forget…

An eye for an eye… makes my eyes hurt. Did you feel weird when that sentence did not end the way you expected it to? You’re not alone. Our brains have a tendency to prepare us for what’s about to come. In prehistoric times, this was useful. For example, someone…

Let’s say you’re driving at night on a highway at 70 km/ h an hour. Suddenly it starts raining heavily. What do you do now? Do you continue at the same speed or slow down? In this scenario, slowing down seems to be the better option. This is not because…

Key Psychological Concepts: Mindfulness, Acceptance, Cognitive Defusion. It’s a common story. We sit in front of a screen and go through emails, meetings, excel sheets, more emails and then our day ends. While our eyes might be on the screen for the entire day, our minds may move away several…

Psychological Concepts: Narrative Therapy, Self-Esteem Half an hour ago, Avni and Shifa had a meeting with their Reporting Manager, Dilip. Now, Avni looks dejected as she sits at her desk and stares blankly at her screen. She questions her competence and even wonders if she deserves her job. In contrast,…

Workplace Sexual Harassment is an event that can occur slowly over time or quickly in an instant. It includes not only physical sexual assault but also verbal and non-verbal behaviours such as demeaning comments, requests for sexual favours, unwanted sexual advances and inappropriate gestures and text messages. Workplace Sexual Harassment…

Have you ever felt that your hard work is not being recognised? Do you feel neglected or sidelined by your boss? Does a certain employee always get the limelight? Favoritism at the workplace refers to someone being favored over other team members. Sometimes favoritism occurs when a manager and an…

As the philosopher, Aristotle said: “Man is a social being.” With companies across the world opting for work from home, remote working hasn’t been exactly what employees thought it would be. Even in “normal” times, research has shown that loneliness and isolation can be “twice as harmful to physical and…

Ravi’s idea got rejected. When he met the finance manager, Ravi realized that there were some obvious flaws in the idea. He wondered, how come no one in his design team picked them up? What might have happened? Let’s backtrack to the design team meeting a few hours ago. Ravi…