Category: Ideas

Ideas, Marketing

Story of the Shopping Cart and the Secret to Spreading Ideas

Have you ever thought of how and when the modern day shopping cart was created? The story of the creation of shopping carts starts with Walter Deubner. He was running an old-style  grocery store was looking for a way to increase his business and observed that his customers’ purchases were limited by what they could conveniently carry home. So he did what any creative business man do – he created a solution that consisted of a paper bag with a cord running through it for strength. He patented this in 1915.   The second step in the evolution of the shopping cart was an improvement on […]

Ideas

First Step in Solving any Problem – A lesson delivered by Mulla Nasruddin

  Let me tell you one of the many inimitable stories of Mulla Nasruddin.. A man had fallen between the rails in an underground station and people were crowding around, all trying to get him to safety before the train came and crushed him. They were shouting “Give me your hand! Give me your hand!” But the man would not reach up. It so happened that Mulla Nasruddin was around there as well, watching from among the crowd. Seeing this, he elbowed his way to through the crowd and leant over to the man. “Friend,” he said, “what is your […]

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Ideas, Leadership, Strategy

Gratitude, Celebrations and Progress

This post is the 300th post on this blog. This calls for two things actually: Gratitude: One of the most important things in life is to show gratitude for everything that is good in our life. Gratitude and thanks are due to every single reader who have supported this blog by reading, subscribing and sharing the posts on the blog. So, THANK YOU! Your constant support is what makes the time and effort that i put in to write, even more worthwhile. I can only hope and request you all to continue to support the blog by not just reading/sharing […]

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40 + 15 Alternatives to College

The value that college education brings to a student has been questioned for sometime now. I had earlier written about this challenge here, here and here. The increasing amount of student debt combined with the rising unemployment rates are a testament to the fact that the conventional education system is not currently broken. In this situation, James Altucher has listed down 40 alternate ideas to a formal college education (which comes with the debt) in a slide deck that he shared on slide share. I would like to add my own list of alternatives to college education as below: Join someone […]

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Silencing your Inner Critic & Overcoming Self-Doubt

I have been thinking about starting a podcast for the past 5 months. I have decided the name, recorded 2 episodes for the podcast, yet it is not live. The biggest reason for this is self-doubt – self doubt that will i be able to maintain the podcast on a regular basis, specially with a full time job and an active blog.  Do you face this challenge as well? How do you deal with your inner critic? What are some of the tactics that you employ to overcome this self-doubt?  Denise Jacobs shares her experience about how she deals with […]