Loud Thinking

Archive for November, 2013

Pakistan cricket teams main problem is batting and today again we have packed it with 3 spinners and 3 fast bowlers.

Now, one fails to understand the logic of 6 bowlers in the team.

if the captain will use all of them then two bowlers won’t even be bowling the mandatory 10 overs in the innings.

So, if the captain is not going to use the bowlers fully, why not include another batsman and play with regular 5 bowlers, particularly, when our batting is the weaker link in the chain?

Develop Your Emotional Agility

Everyone has felt critical, doubtful, or scared, even at work—and attempting to minimize or ignore such emotions can amplify them. Effective leaders neither buy into nor try to suppress their inner experiences—instead, they develop “emotional agility,” a skill which enables them to approach their inner experiences in a mindful and productive way. These practices can help you do the same:

Recognize your patterns. In what instances does your thinking become rigid and repetitive, playing like a broken record you’ve heard time and time again? That’s a telltale sign that you’ve been hooked by a thought or feeling.

Label your thoughts and emotions. This allows you to see them as they are: transient sources of data that may or may not prove helpful. Taking this “helicopter view” of your emotions simplifies them; it turns the thought “My coworker is wrong—he makes me so angry,” into “I’m having the thought that my coworker is wrong, and I’m feeling anger.”

Accept feelings with an open attitude. They may be signaling that something important is at stake, like your values. This gives you the chance to act on them.

Adapted by HBR from “Emotional Agility,” by Susan David and Christina Congleton.

“Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.”

— Barbara Marciniak

An advice to the Pakistani cricket team’s management and players

Rather than going for criticising the players, who are failing in their performances, I want to change the attitude and infuse passion and intensity in the team.

The attitude of the players must be changed, so that each player thinks he is playing for the country; and must display the maturity and responsibility, as if, he was the PM of Pakistan and captain of the team.

According to Nido R. Qubein,
Quote. “Literature and history are full of people who suffered from handicaps, had talents that were inferior to those around them, lived in the worst of circumstances, or faced many defeats. Yet, many of these people are listed among the winners in life’s Hall of Fame.

The secret is this: Whether you reach success or failure in life has little to do with your circumstances; it has much more to do with your attitude…with your faithful courage…with your choices!

You see, non-achievers blame their circumstances; winners rise above their circumstances. Some concentrate on the blank wall that boxes them in; winners always look for a way to get under it, over it, around it, or through it.

Moreover, the tour team management must emphasise to the players that “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”

Surround yourself with positive influences. When you are surrounded by negative thinkers, image, or materials, it is easy to get bogged down in hopelessness.

Read inspiring books and magazines. Listen to motivational recordings and speakers. Attend positive-thinking seminars or programs. Make it a point to read or watch or listen to something positive and inspiring at least once every day.

Associate with positive people. Look for friends who feel good about themselves, people who have the attitude of gratitude. People who need to tear down others are not happy with themselves and are not good for you or your attitude.” Unquote.

Moreover, the tour team management must emphasise to the players that “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”

Players must give their best, forget about the result and leave it to Allah.

Players should and must also support and cover up the weaknesses of each other, so that it becomes the duty of the comrades to convert the failure (s) of a colleague into the success of the team.

Overcoming is to succeed in dealing with a problem or difficulty.

“Falling down is part of life. Getting back up is living.”
Unknown –

Smart Use of LinkedIn Can Lead to Your Next Hire

Thoughtful use of LinkedIn can help you make your next brilliant hire. To find exactly what you’re looking for, clarify your thinking: Search for LinkedIn profiles that come closest to your ideal candidate, without regard to geography, availability, or other such factors. Exploring the work and experience of real people in the field will give you a better mental picture of whom you’d like to hire. Then reverse-engineer your posting to clearly specify your ideal qualifications. With a very targeted LinkedIn search for what you want (for example, M&A specialists based in Chicago), you can identify who in your LinkedIn network might know the kind of person you’re looking for. Investigate the connections you have in common with potential candidates, or if they’ve been recommended by someone you know and trust. Once you find your preferred candidate, you can use LinkedIn to get third-party verification of her talents.

Adapted by HBR from “Work Smarter with LinkedIn,” by Alexandra Samuel.

We cannot read others’ minds so that:

We could have the chance to “TRUST”,

And have the privilege to be “TRUSTED”!

What is SUCCESS?

It is when your photos are uploaded on GOOGLE,

Instead of FACEBOOK..!!

One good thing about Egoists:

They don’t talk about other people!

They only talk about themselves!