You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.―Marcus Aurelius

Cheers to finding our strength.

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"The mind is everything. What you think you become."- Buddha

What's your focus on last year ? if you  know the answer it's great. Share it with me! If not pretty and handsome please start contemplating what can be your intentional living look like in the coming year ?

As promised during podcast sharing the Nature article Nature.com ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-58686-0 ) "Every action comes at a cost and we constantly evaluate whether an effortful behaviour was “worth it”.Estimating invested effort is a core dimension for evaluating own and others’ actions, and views on the relationship between effort and rewards are deeply ingrained in various societal attitudes."

Journal review is a new habit I am trying to incorporate so that I retail my learnings.

Sharing few in this podcast . 

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” Albert Einstein

Creativity and innovation is an ongoing process and need cultivating daily.

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On the Occassion of boxing day this year a little about the origin story and the traditions.

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Boxing Day 2020 Quotes:

"I pray that this boxing day comes with a promise of lifelong happiness for you and leaves an everlasting smile on your face. Happy boxing day!"

In today's episode I am hosting Dr. Kiran Pedada.ISB Faculty | Marketing Strategy Researcher | Emerging Markets Strategist

You can find him at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiran-pedada-181299a/

Kiran Pedada is an Assistant Professor of Marketing and a BAT Research Fellow at the Indian School of Business (ISB). Kiran focuses on two streams of research. His first stream explores inter-firms relationships and growth pertaining to firms in emerging markets. His second stream focuses on marketing transformation for digital environments. He teaches B2B Marketing and Business Analytics at the ISB.

He Visiting Scholar in Marketing : UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, California

He had earned his Degree NameDoctor of Philosophy - PhD from Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business- Field Of StudyBusiness Administration (Marketing)

Activities and Societies: Winner of the 2019 AMS Mary Kay Inc. Best Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up, Society of Marketing Advances Best Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Award Helen-Devitt Joines Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award Outstanding Contributions to Research as a Doctoral Student Award Outstanding Contributions to Teaching as a Doctoral Student Award

As discussed during show linking the work of the books Dr. Pedada mentioned during the show:

Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business - Sunil Gupta  . Amazon link https://amzn.to/3pspiad

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress -Steven Pinker . Amazon link  https://amzn.to/37WTTqF

Kant: Critique of Practical Reason . Amazon Link https://amzn.to/3hmB6rx

Youtube video on Immanuel Kant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsgAsw4XGvU

Merry Christmas digital dreamers .

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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I love talking about marketing and challenging the status quo.

As promised in the podcast sharing kickstarted website https://bit.ly/3hhc7pI. link for The Icarus Deception project.

Whenever I go to listen to Seth Godin's work over web/book/podcast always get value and he makes our life richer by sharing his wealth of wisdom. Like I mentioned in my reviewing Anne Lamott's Ted Talk podcast he is also a proponent of a mindset to do the work daily as a writer or artist and eventually good work will come to us.This is a common theme I am noticing among all successful people. They do the ground work daily with grit and discipline.

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It's all about family , friends and love this holiday season.

Holiday season is here and my go to comfort movies are Hallmark movies, especially during Christmas. It's like the comfortable mittens or PJs wants like to wear to feel home and cosy. Hallmark cards had been big part of my holiday traditions even growing up back at India.My parents buy me Hallmark cards for every birthday growing up as I always liked their design and their sentimentality in what the cards communicate in their message had been great.Let's take Hallmark movies. yes they are often cheesy and predictable with happy endings.But we still like them and many times it is a part of out holiday traditions

There is also science behind the popularity , to know a bit more listen this episode Digital Dreamers.

Link of the article mentioned during the show:https://www.marthastewart.com/2223600/hallmark-christmas-movies-emotional-psychological-benefits

TED Talk bio for Anne Lamott states "A few days before she turned 61, writer Anne Lamott decided to write down everything she knew for sure. She dives into the nuances of being a human who lives in a confusing, beautiful, emotional world, offering her characteristic life-affirming wisdom and humour on family, writing, the "meaning of God, death and more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X41iulkRqZU. I went to this TED talk as I have heard Tim Ferris mentioning Bird by Bird book in Paulo Cohello's episode.

Also watch her super soul Sunday episode with Oprah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jcARCRSb7c

Link to Anne Lamott book Bird by Bird: https://amzn.to/2WBjlv1

Food for thought from this episode Digital dreamers  “Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?” from Bird by Bird.

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