“The noblest pleasure is in the joy of understanding.” “Every selection of one is a rejection of many.” “Fear is a reaction, courage is a decision.” “The source of stress is lack of time.” “Hearing is listening to what is said, listening is hearing to what is unsaid.” …
Author: Shankar Jaganathan
Sporting Insights -17: Breakdance in Paris 2024 Olympics: Can An Art Become a Game? October 17, 2024
Breakdance in Paris 2024 Olympics: Can An Art Become a Game? If you are wondering how Breakdance is a part of Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, be rest assured you are not alone. This highlights the distinction between art and sports that is blurring with each passing day. Curious, I searched for a conceptual model that differentiates an art from a sport to understand how it was included in Olympics. Luckly, I found a model that separates not only art from …
Sporting Insights -16 Finding the Right Balance between Sports & Commerce What at start seems a tough art to master, but soon becomes our second nature is cycling. The art of balance is one of the key life skills that we learn at a young age. The same seems to be the case in sports too. Commercially successful sports like football, Tennis, and cricket have learnt to balance commercial interest with sporting excellence effortlessly, which for many other sports seems …
Sporting Insights -15 Tennis -Why the Second Serve? In his engaging book filled with intriguing anecdotes, Tennis: Origin and Mysteries, written by Malcolm Whitman, the US National Tennis Champion for three successive years between 1898 and 1900, the author explores the origin of all quaint practices in Tennis. After searching for evidence of the origin for second serve and not finding anything concrete, he concludes by quoting the gossip of its origin related to a King with poor serving ability, …
Book Review 2024.11: EGO is the Enemy, The Fight to Master our Greatest Opponent, 159 pages, Paperback, 2016 The title, its bright red cover and its small size, in that order attracted me to this book. Under the mistaken belief that I can read it in a couple of days I picked it up, only to take a couple of weeks to finish it. Designed as a self-help book, the author blends a strong portion of philosophy and interesting …
4. Feelings Matter For a music buff listening to music at every opportunity, especially when I walk, I did not listen to music during the four-day walkathon. Uneven pavements, frequent need to step on and off it, and haphazard traffic meant that I needed my full concentration to walk unhurt. Traffic flowing on both sides, especially the wrong side was quite troubling. Generalizing at the cost of ignoring exceptions, our experience was bigger the vehicle, less considerate were they of …
3. Lessons Learnt Two is better than one, especially in longer walks. The maximum distance of solo walks I have done is around 20 KM. For longer walks I prefer to have company, often two, but never beyond four. The initial few hours on the first day, we tend to talk, but later it is rare that we speak without a specific message. Company gives me the confidence to walk across unknow terrains, especially with stray dogs around. Having been …
2. Same People, New Learnings The urban-rural divide in men’s attire for the young is completely eroded. Denim pants, colourful printed shirts, and premium branded t-shirts like Gucci and Armani, though pirated versions, can be seen everywhere. If jeans pants democratised fashionable attire a few decades ago, the past few years have made the latest designs in shirts and t-shirts available all across locations, thanks to online shopping and the presence of small retail outlets selling surplus and export reject …
Sept24 B’lore-Mysore Walkathon These four blogs capture what I saw, whom we met, thoughts and lessons from this four-day walkathon along with my nephew Retd Lt. Col. Chandrashekar, from Bangalore to Mysore covering 151 KM. Spread over four days and three nights, halting at Bidadi, Chanapatna and Mandya, it was an insightful and enjoyable experience. Starting at 5 am on September 9th, we reached Bidadi around 2 PM, a distance of 36 KM passing through the old ring road …
A Presentation to Economic Professionals in December 2010 …
A presentation made to a private group of interested audience on this book in January 2012 …
A Presentation made in AR Insights Seminar, February 2012 …
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