My academic scores are not good – what can I realistically do?

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This article is a long one, and has been broken into four parts. Part 1 described the formation of the expectations and the attitude with which I start my graduate and post graduate academic journey. This is important as it sets the tone of expectation management that is necessary later on. Part 2 described  my shock at the mismatch between expectation and […]

My academic scores are not good – I try to fix it and fail!!!

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This article is a long one, and has been broken into four parts. Part 1 describes the formation of the expectations and the attitude with which I start my graduate and post graduate academic journey. This is important as it sets the tone of expectation management that is necessary later on. Part 2 describes  my shock at the mismatch between expectation and […]

My academic scores are not good – The reality shock and the trauma

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This article is a long one, and has been broken into four parts. Part 1 describes the formation of the expectations and the attitude with which I start my graduate and post graduate academic journey. This is important as it sets the tone of expectation management that is necessary later on. Part 2 (this blog) describes  my shock at the mismatch between […]

My academic scores are not good – What were my expectations when I joined?

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This article is a long one, and has been broken into four parts. Part 1 describes the formation of the expectations and the attitude with which I start my graduate and post graduate academic journey. This is important as it sets the tone of expectation management that is necessary later on. Part 2 describes my […]

On the loss of a child…

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Today is a tragic day. One of my favourite students messaged me in the morning that he lost his month-old son due to internal seizures. And I have been crying since then. I feel for his wife; for his pain and helplessness watching a month-old innocent boy, who has not harmed anyone,  a baby that […]

The sins of the father

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Today, I read this article – “In the name of the father” http://feedly.com/k/17lifXC. The gist of the article is that our parents want to cast us in their mold in order to perpetute their view of the world. If they were happy with their world, they wished the same to their children. It also perpetuated […]

Macaulayism and Lessons in Marketing from the British Raj

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The virtue and risk of segmentation We have heard of the saying, “Divide and Rule.” In Marketing, we call it segmentation, wherein we break up our target market by Demographics (who we are), Attitudes (What we think and believe) and Behaviour (What we do). Segmentation is risky and expensive. We need to ensure that we […]

Even classical music can be reinvented and sold

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I has posted on monetising our passion. I gave some examples too. Here is another such example of how Western Classical music can be monetised. “How Category Creation Is Reinvigorating Classical Music” http://feeds.harvardbusiness.org/~r/harvardbusiness/~3/IpBSXHqMZ2Q/how_category_creation_is_reinvigorating_classical_music.html from chandu

Another reason for following your passion

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You ask “what career should I choose”. Any one who is an entrepreneur,  or with more than 7-10 years of experience will invariably tell you “Follow your passion and the money will follow.” The logic here is that you should enjoy what you do or do what you believe in. Both are sometimes not practical […]

Why do suicides outnumber any other form of death?

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My discussions with people of my generation indicate that they believe this to be very low or ignorable. Joiner believes (and shows by statistics) that self harm is one of the most common causes of death. I believe that in India, (as in other places), people downplay this as they do Sexual Abuse. And we […]