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The Power of Likeability: Why People Remember How You Make Them Feel

Introduction Have you ever noticed how some people walk into a room and instantly become likeable? They don’t need to prove anything. They don’t try too hard. Yet, people naturally feel comfortable around them.   It’s not because of their title, achievements, or status. It’s because of how they make others feel.   Likeability is often misunderstood as charisma or natural charm. In reality, it is not something you are born with. It is a set of behaviors, habits, and small actions that create a strong emotional impact on others.   In both personal and professional life, this is one of the most underrated success skills. People may forget what you said or what you did, but they rarely forget how you made them feel. And that feeling often determines whether they trust you, respect you, or want to work with you.   The Power of Remembering Names One of the simplest yet most powerful habits of likeable people is remembering and using names. A person’s na...

Impact of Games on Willpower

According to a study conducted at Stanford Unversity by Dr. Veronica Jobs, just as we fill fuel in the car to run it. The willpower works in the same way, it keeps us motivated all day. As we cannot fill fuel in a car beyond a certain limit, we have willpower in a limited amount. Whenever we wake up in the morning we used to have 100% will power but we use that will power while doing unnecessary things and feel demotivated when tough situations come. There are many students and professionals who feel very less will power even before ending their day. On the other side, we have people who used to stay motivated throughout the day. Let's understand how those people maintain their higher motivation and there are no magic secrets. Researchers explain how playing video games in excessive amounts drain our willpower. To prove this point Stanford University conducted a study where few students were divided into two groups and one group was provided with exciting video games. On the ...

Failures of ISRO and Chandrayaan-2 mission

ISRO's plan to soft-land Chandrayaan's Vikram lander on the south pole of the moon failed at the terminal stage of the project. This is not the first failure of the organization and definitely not the last one also. There are several learnings from the failure of ISRO. We also used to face failure when success seems very near. We used to get disappointed due to those failures and just stop working towards success. There's also a great story " Three feet from Gold" and you can read it here . It very neatly explains how we stop trying after temporary failures and miss our goal just by three feet. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam explained how he faced failure in 1979 and how he learned to fight failures by that particular incident. He was a mission director of the Satellite Launch Vehicle project at ISRO. His mission was to put the vehicle into the orbit. Thousands of scientists worked for the project for more than 10 years. At the launch site in Sriharikota, the time was ...

Why failures are important and inevitable ?

All of us face failures at some moment in our lives. Most of us feel that those moments are the most painful moments but Chanakya had a totally different view. Let us first know something about Chanakya. He was a Professor at Ancient Nalanda University and also a chancellor of Taxila University. Chandragupta Maurya, a very poor person, was able to become king of a Great Mauryan Empire just because of the wisdom and guidance of Chanakya. Chanakya also failed several times and when he got defeated by the mighty army of the Nanda Dynasty then he told below words to his army: He told his army that decision is with them if they want they can live their whole life with this defeat or they can bounce back and prepare better to defeat enemy next time. He always believed that failure is temporary and we can win anytime in our life. A defeated person can anytime prepare for the victory. A person is not defeated when he lost the competition but he loses when he in his mind accept his failu...

IPL: The Treasure trove of Life learning (Part 1)

Indian Premier League (IPL) has provided so many spectacular moments to the cricket fans. IPL has established itself as the biggest cricket extravaganza on earth. It's no surprise that IPL has a birthplace which is the capital of modern-day cricket i.e., India where cricket is just like a heartbeat. Indian Pre mier League (IPL) has always been in news since its inception (both good and bad) whether its match-fixing scandal or Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) deciding to donate opening ceremony money to Indian Armed Forces. In our mind, IPL is all about cheerleaders, after-match parties, sixes, etc but we can learn various life-changing things from the Indian Premier League (IPL). Let us try to explore key learnings from IPL:   1. In this world, nothing is permanent: They said that he is the brain behind IPL. In one of the interviews, he said: " I think this is the biggest thing that I have ever achieved and I have tempted about it, lived it and it becomes a rea...

The Power of Positive Thinking (Part 1)

Positive thinking is not just a matter of thinking but its a matter of perceiving and its a matter of responding to external stimuli. Two people looking out from the same window and one sees the star and others see the mud. When two people look like this then it shows the focus of their vision, energy level, and motivation. One who looks at the sky may dream, aspire and utilize his creative energy to achieve his goals but on the other hand, a person that looks at the mud might be thinking why bad things happened with me and this world is worthless. Our vision and disposition are symbiotic. What we see that shapes how we think and how we think shapes what we see. Let us understand the importance of positive thinking with the help of a short story: A very famous shoe company sent two salesmen to Africa to determine the market potential for their products. One of the salesmen was sent to the North of Africa, while the other salesman was sent to the south of Africa. Both of the s...