#cafenervosashots | Self-Limiting Beliefs

Have you ever listened to something and found yourself nodding fervently because it beautifully weaves together many strands of thought you can identify with? A stimulating conversation on Overcoming Self-limiting Beliefs with Dr Ramya Ranganathan at the My Aviation: My Career Week at #GEAviation India did just that for me and inspired this entry. My personal takeaway was that

#ChooseToChallenge: Our Love of Labels

Women Are Rated Better Than Men on Key Leadership Capabilities (HBR) Data Shows Women Make Better Leaders. Who cares? (Forbes magazine) “Female-led countries handled coronavirus better, study suggests” (The Guardian) A number of articles with titles like these made their way to my feed through March. Let’s indulge ourselves in a thought experiment and in each of these sentences, try

Blorft: On Dreams and Reality

Following your dream sounds like your ‘dream’ is a thing independent of you that you need to chase or pursue. A dream is, by definition, distinct from reality. How about, instead of following a dream, we craft our reality?

Through The Looking Glass: A Take On Transparency

I’ve been spending some time thinking about transparency and speaking up at work these past few months. This post doesn’t offer recommendations, but raises some possibly provocative questions that I hope to get perspectives on. How many times do we exhort each other to speak up? And how much of it do we really, truly, actually do ourselves?

Work-Life What?

When we have to ‘work at’ something, instead of simply living in the experience of it, when it’s something that reigns in our spontaneity, confines us in a framework – we call it work. And when something sweeps us in its ‘flow’ and provides the space for self-expression and self-expansion, we call it life. So: how can we make ‘work’ more like whatever we call ‘life?’

The Pandemic of Webinars: A Modern Dystopia

I don’t remember the last time I looked at my LinkedIn feed and did NOT see a poster with the photos of 3 experts and 1 moderator, who were honored and humbled by the opportunity to discuss the future of something. The pandemic of webinars is upon us and how!

Reality is but a Rorschach Inkblot: Inclusion and Our Biases About It

This post is our way of making sense of the inkblot, articulating our own biases to ourselves and taking steps towards uncovering our blind spots through our own brand of meandering conversation.

Suckers for Meaning: Crisis and Our Need to Intellectualize

Seeking meaning is an act of empowering ourselves…it reinforces our control over our reality. But could there be such a thing as over-seeking of meaning?

The Unholy 8-Letter Word: Feedback

What if we are all living in this Black Mirror-like environment mentally assigning favourability ratings to each other based on each of our direct interactions and the social information (read: gossip) that we accumulate through the whirr of conversations during a typical workday?

No Exit: On Me and You and Us and Them

In No Exit, the central characters have died and are in hell. They keep waiting for the fire-and-brimstone-like torture that they believe lies in store for them in hell. Until they realize that this – being confined to a room with each other – is their hell.