Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation). Last week, I shared an excerpt titled – ‘Creatures of Habit Resistant to Change’ from the book titled ‘Think Again – The Power of Knowing What you don’t know’ by Adam Grant. In this episode we drew the attention to the fact that we are afflicted with cognitive   →

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation). Last week, I shared an excerpt titled – ‘Focus on the useful, the true and Connections’ from the book titled ‘Fluke’ – Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas. In this episode we drew the attention to the fact that as modern humans though   →

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation). Last week, I shared an excerpt titled – ‘Intertwined World’ from a book titled ‘Fluke’ – Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas. In this episode we highlighted that reality, for better and for worse, isn’t terrifying, but wondrous, giving every moment of life   →

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation). A month ago, I shared an excerpt titled – ‘Why Everything We Do Matters’ from a book titled ‘Fluke’ – Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas. In this episode we shared a real tale that was reported in news in Greece in the   →

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation). Last week I shared an excerpt titled – ‘Reciprocation’ from a book titled ‘Influence – The Psychology of Persuasion’ by Robert Cialdini, Ph.D. This excerpt pointed to “Web of Indebtedness” – a unique adaptive mechanism of human beings and its role in our evolutionary history as a society.   →

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation). Last week I shared an excerpt titled – ‘Shortcuts and Decision Making’ from a book titled ‘Influence – The Psychology of Persuasion’ by Robert Cialdini, Ph.D. The excerpt pointed to the need and pitfalls of shortcut methods that we use in our decision-making process. Now, SAM-VAD (Together In   →

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation). Last week I shared an excerpt titled – ‘Understanding Ourselves and Solving today’s Problem’ from an article titled ‘An Ancient Brain in a Modern World’ contributing writers are Robert Ornstein, PhD; David Sobel, MD, MPH; and Sally Mallam. Through this and many interconnected articles the authors are trying to   →

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation). A few weeks back I shared an excerpt titled – ‘Polarized Behaviour’ from an article titled ‘The Conditioning Machines in Our Back Pockets’ by John Zada. This article highlights amongst many other things that we are all at risk of becoming more biased and blinkered than we think   →

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation) to the ones paying heed, this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to   →

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation) to the ones paying heed, this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to   →