Tillitonse - A Transformational Journey Together

Five Steps to Make this Isolation Meaningful and Beneficial To You Remember Pascal’s Law in Physics??? This morning as India is in the midst of a voluntary day curfew, my thoughts went to Pascal. For those who knew me in school, this would be a surprise. I barely managed to pass the damn subject. But I was introduced to another aspect of this wise soul a few years ago….An astute student of the human mind. This is what he wrote about 400 years ago: “When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves at court or in war, whence arise so many quarrels, passions, bold and often bad ventures, etc.,  I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.” Imagine that: Even four hundred years ago, a key challenge for humans was our addition to activity . Fast forward to the world we have created and li...

DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU THINK Maya* (name changed) is a hard working, dedicated and systematic senior director. Very early on in our coaching journey, it became evident to me that one of key challenges is her tendency to imagine the worst case scenario when she feels that she does not have all the facts. When I pointed this to her, she agreed without hesitation. Kudos to her self-awareness. We now moved to the next tricky part - for her to catch herself when she actually does this in real life. In one of our coaching sessions, this phrase, strongly resonated with her - "It's real (for me), but not true." In other words, we might sincerely believe something, but we can also be aware that this might not be true. A rainbow is a classic metaphor for this insight. Does it look real? You bet. But does it truly exist? Nope!!! So too are many of the 'facts' clouded by emotions that we hold in our heads. For Maya, it often revolves around the what...