NARA'S NOTEPAD

Monday, August 2, 2021

TO QUOTE

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. – Pablo Picasso

Experience is a master teacher, even when it’s not our own. – Gina Greenlee

JUST TO LAUGH

The future of "I give" is "I take."

The parts of speech are lungs and air.

The inhabitants of Moscow is called Mosquitoes.

A census taker is a man who goes from house to house increasing the population.

A virgin forest is a forest where the hand of man has never set foot.

The general direction of the Alps is straight up.

A city purifies its water supply by filtering the water then forcing it through an aviator.

Most of the houses in France is made of plaster of Paris.

The spinal column is a long bunch of bones. The head sits on the top and you sit on the bottom.

LINES I LIKED

Ø Learn the art of feeling good.
Ø Learn the rules, and then break some.
Ø Learn to accept that which you cannot change.
Ø Learn to accept the behaviour of others that doesn’t fit your opinions.
Ø Learn to avoid blaming.
Ø Learn to be a keen observer.
Ø Learn to be flexible in life.

Learn new skills that can replace bad habits.

Meet you next month –2021

Professor A. Narayanan, Ph. D., FISPP

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

NARA'S NOTEPAD

VOLUME 17

JULY 2021

NUMBER 7

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READERS LIKE YOU...

BELIEVING EVERYBODY IS DANGEROUS;

BELIEVING NOBODY IS VERY DANGEROUS

Everyone has a name and everything has a name too. These names are given by us only. Human beings give a name to their children as soon as they are born or a few days afterwards. In fact, names are given to identify the person or things. Without a name, it is impossible to find out who is who and what is what? Therefore humans while evolving learned to name people and things.

The name of the male is distinctly different from that of a female. Before a child is born the parents choose some attractive and fashionable name for their son or daughter. It has become a custom all over the world. In olden days, mostly the name of the grandparents are given to the grandchildren in order to keep the family names alive. Even now in some families, such customs prevail. In fact, my name Narayanan is that of my grandfather. Many parents prefer to give their children the name of Gods and Goddesses. In India, for example, the names of Shiva, Vishnu, Vinayaka, Rama, Sita, Lakshmi, Saraswathi are commonly given. Naming a child is a family function celebrated with family members and friends at home or in a hotel. One thing my friend told me that almost all female names in India end either in “a” or “i” or “e”. It’s a good observation. Think over…

The recent trend is choosing a short name like Nila, Kala, Maha. Even if there is a very long name like Ramachandran, it is shortened as Ram or Ramu or Chandran for easy calling. But in a record, the original long name will be there. There are first, second and third names too. It’s common in Western Countries. In India also we do find such practice in some States. The first name is generally the name of the village where he or she is born, the second name will be the name of the father and the third would be the actual new name. It’s interesting to note that the mother’s name is not added as the second name. Generally, the first two names will be abbreviated as the initials only. In many cases, the last name indicates the caste as Rao, Reddy, Iyer, Pillai, etc. However, adding a caste name is slowly, very slowly vanishing nowadays.

We know that everything in our world is named. Our ancestors fixed the name for things. The names are given in every language. One of the important things is that everyone remembers the names of millions of things around them. It’s surprising! How does our brain remember all these names? We identify things by their names. Everyone can call for a thing like a chair, table, pen, book, cup, water, etc. We learn all these names from our parents, teachers, friends, and others and use them repeatedly. I feel it is a wonderful ability that every human being possesses. Very rarely we forget the names of things, plants, animals, insects, etc. It’s an extraordinary capacity for humans to remember these names. Some of the specialized names are known to the specialists. A mechanic of an automobile knows the parts of a car or any other vehicle. Similarly, a doctor knows thousands of disease names and also the names of drugs.

Moreover, while talking to others we use many names that the other person also knows. Thus it becomes easier for communicating our thoughts. So the names are the key to knowing people or things in our world. Plants are named, places are named, streets are named, and cities are named. If you start writing the names you know in a notebook, it will run into millions of pages. I don’t think anyone has tried this exercise. If you don’t have anything to do, better start writing the names of whatever you know. It would be a wonderful exercise indeed! - NARA

OWN YOUR AMAZING SELF

1. Be original

2. Understand what motivates you.

3. Rise up to new challenges.

4. Concentrate on your strengths.

5. Don’t compare.

6. Speak up when you need to.

7. Find new ways of doing things.

8. Live with integrity.

9. Accept your self-sovereignty.

10. Do your duty.

SOMETHING YOU MAY NOT KNOW

1. All polar bears are left-handed.

2. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

3. Butterflies taste with their feet.

4. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

5. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

6. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

7. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

8. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

9. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

10. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

11. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the

body to squirt blood 30 feet.

12. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

13. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

YOU ARE AFRAID OF

You’re afraid you’re too fat. (I don’t know what this has to do with creativity, exactly, but experience has taught me that most of us are afraid we’re too fat, so let’s just put that on the anxiety list, for good measure.)

You’re afraid of being exposed as a hack, or a fool, or a dilettante, or a narcissist.

You’re afraid of upsetting your family with what you may reveal.

You’re afraid of what your peers and co-workers will say if you express your personal truth aloud.

You’re afraid of unleashing your innermost demons, and you really don’t want to encounter your innermost demons.

You’re afraid your best work is behind you.

You’re afraid you never had any best work to begin with.

You’re afraid you neglected your creativity for so long that now you can never get it back.

You’re afraid you’re too old to start.

You’re afraid you’re too young to start.

You’re afraid because something went well in your life once, so obviously nothing can ever go well again.

You’re afraid because nothing has ever gone well in your life, so why bother trying?

You’re afraid of being a one-hit wonder.

TO STIMULATE CREATIVE THINKING

1. Why must it be done this way?

2. What is the root problem?

3. What are the underlying issues?

4. What does this remind me of?

5. What is the opposite?

6. What metaphor or symbol helps to explain it?

7. Why is it important?

8. What is the hardest or most expensive way to do it?

9. Who has a different perspective on this?

10. What happens if we don’t do it at all?

TO QUOTE

If we can not love the person when we see, how can we love God, when we cannot see? – Mother Teresa

JUST TO LAUGH

A housewife, an accountant and a lawyer were asked "How much is 2+2?"

The housewife replies: "Four!"

The accountant says: "I think it's either 3 or 4. Let me run those figures through my spreadsheet one more time."

The lawyer pulls the drapes, dims the lights and asks in a hushed voice, "How much do you want it to be?"

A man went to a brain store to get some brain for dinner. He sees a sign remarking on the quality of professional brain offered at this particular brain store. So he asks the butcher:

"How much for Engineer brain?" "3 dollars an ounce."

"How much for Accountant brain?" "4 dollars an ounce."

"How much for lawyer brain?" "100 dollars an ounce." "Why is lawyer brain so much more?"

"Do you know how many lawyers you need to kill to get one ounce of brain?"

LINES I LIKED

Ø Learn a new habit to replace the old ones.
Ø Learn all there is to know about what you want.
Ø Learn all you can.
Ø Learn at least one new thing.
Ø Learn by doing.
Ø Learn first to concentrate upon the little things you do – the sharpening of a pencil, the wrapping of a package, the addressing of a letter and so forth.