According to the dictionary, a ‘Mind Game’ refers to ‘any game designed to exercise the intellect ‘.

We have heard people referring to someone saying that he/she is playing mind games. While there are lot of negative intonations to the word ‘Mind Game’, I am more intrigued by the abstract variants of situations where mind games manifest into being.

I was seeing ‘Coffee with Anu’ today in Vijay TV where singer Karthik was saying that a lot of process that goes into being a singer or  that being a music director is more of a mind game. While there is a creator side, there is also a side where the music director or singer has to satisfy the director. Here the director is the highest creator there and looks at a much more bigger perspective.

I felt it was very profound(at least my interpretation of the aspect of mind games). We all think we are correct because our mind tells and sometimes our intellect establishes that we are correct in our school of thought irrespective of our experience and exposure. But many times we are proved wrong or our interpretations gather no steam towards the finish line. We are either frustrated or elated depending on the outcome.

Beyond that, it is a mind game that teaches you the best lesson and is the best exercise. It trains you FROM WITHIN. Take a moment to let that sink into you, it trains you from within….

This article is not an attempt to provide you with ways to make your decision on whether to join a startup or join a MNC. This is my radical outlook into the world of startup and what it gives you back.

Sense of pride - In being a part of a new beginning hopefully revolutionizing the world that you feel needs a change in one way or the other.

Contentment - satisfaction of having fired enough neurons and feel it was worth burning the mid-night oil

Realization - sometimes having been arrogant and stupid in arguments only to find that you were wrong yet have the best colleagues to understand and say yes…you tried… provoked their thoughts and evoked good decisions.

Mind on Steroids - firing those neurons and compelled to think out-of-the-box, on-your-feet, at-the-eleventh-hour and producing a true beauty of a solution

Gives you wings - nope, its not about redbull, but truly a liberating feeling of being one among the stars(irrespective of success or failure) and having had the space to fly(both horizontally and vertically)

Think about it, its about money, glory, fame, success, exposure etc but the units of measurement and currency of wealth is different.

1. Need an analogy
2. Need a target customer
3. Benefits in deed?
4. Implicit change or explicit makeover?
5. Too early or too late? Either you are too early or you are too late - this thought depends on the projection focus.

Another interesting article I found on why your ideas never get its due credit or audience or approval. Check this out! It will give you a good insight of what not to do.

http://thepeoplebrand.com/blog/2008/01/04/7-reasons-no-one-likes-your-ideas/

You generally come across kids in every phase of your life …you play with them, you fight with them and then days pass by and you loose touch.

But when one of those kids is from your own blood, the experience is totally different. This post is dedicated to my nephew Aditya. The guy has a smile that can sink a thousand ships. Well, atleast for me, his smile does WONDERS. The kid is very smart(ok, for me he is smarter than an average kid of his age and anyone in this world). He doesn’t like to be told this ‘Good Boy, Bad Boy’ thing. I sometimes fight with him and he goes all out to bring me down(thanks to Pogo TV channel and all the other cartoon channels). But towards the end of a fight, I start smiling(as if to say the fight was a joke) and he bursts into laughter and the whole thing turns upside down for the better.

If you want his help, just tell “Aditya, please help me” and he takes a ’superhero avatar’ and comes to your rescue. Very well mannered kid and certain acts of his amaze me.

He is currently in Australia and having the time of his life.

Adi Boy, when you do understand this, I want you to know that your Chittapa(Uncle) loves you a lot and will always love you. You are a very nice kid and just be the way you are.

With Lots of Love,

Shiva

I am finally going to say this and I want people out there to know…especially my friends at Arizona(or wherever they are now)…I miss you people….

Karthik, Sriram, Sid, Prithi(Gabs), Veena, Rekha(P.K.), Adithya, Radhika, Sai Krishna, Rajendra(who is in Bangalore now), Alex, Vish, Chandru Uncle, Vidya Aunty, Karthik and Rohit, Bala, Swami, Mala(who let the dog’s out), Venki, Sumathi, Sai Priya, Nosh, Naz, Tenaaz, Mani(my x-roomie), Partheesh(x-roomie), Neel(x-roomie), Mahesh and Mahesh Indran(x-roomies) Srihari, Darshan(baba), Sriram Ramdass(Kidd), Lakshman, Panch, Soumya, Roshan and Amritha…Doc Bala, Annapurna Aunty, Jaya Aunty, AK Uncle, Sathya Uncle, Indira Aunty and family, The senior vish and family, Shan uncle and family, Aro and Subbu, Neeru, Akila, The Shah’s, Usha & Rajan, Sudharshan, Kavitha, Natasha, Poonam, The Bhuyan’s, The Basu’s, The archarya’s, The Bolar’s(they are back in Bangalore), Srinath, Mini, Mayu, Mini’s Folks, Chellam Aunty and Late Jeeva Uncle, Prithi’s Parents, The Gupta’s(enjoying Michigan again), the Gholkar’s, the folks from Tucson(Grrr….Wildcats), Vivek Iyer, Arvind Sudarsanam, John, Osama, Anu, Balaji, Sai(he is coming to chennai soon), Sumi and Rithika are already back, Kajak is back here…

….and all those LOVELY families whose houses we barged in on the pretext of bhajans or just like that…

….and all those whom I might have forgotten to mention…

Thank you….

Update 1:

I missed out a lot of names and I will try this update to cover more….KK(Pandi), Partha, Shiju, Srinivas Krishnan(Perusu), Srini(Flutist and Dr. Chatha’s pet :-)), Vijayraghavan Ananthan, Sudharshan, KD, Prassi(and the entire A Block gang at ‘Terrace Road Apartments’, Vinod(now a kabeer), POP, Murali, Venki(president), Venkatesh Selvaraj(x-roomie), KP(Kannapiran - senior who helped in early days at ASU) and the list goes on…Thank you guys…probably there will be more updates…

Ini Noorandugal Poye….

Bhoomi Azhinthaalum….

Naan Indhiyan…

Enn Mozhi Thamizh…

Ooops, I am seeing ‘Thamizh Engal Pechu’ in Vijay TV. I don’t know much tamil but here is my lame attempt at it.

Vada Keele vizhundhaalum, Kaaka kothikkinu poi marathil urkaanthu thaan saapidum…

But hearts of hearts, I wish I could have learnt more…I love the language but unfortunately my vocabulary is more colloquial than traditional.

Sunil’s suggestion summarizes it….there are certain areas of life in which I wish there was this option…

CTRL + ALT followed by Shift+DEL

On this ‘Independence Day’ which we got more than six decades ago:

• Let us let go of decade old problems, concerns, superstitions, backlog and anything else that seems to be holding us back.
• Let us not fight for what is right for us, but for what is right for our friends and family.
• Let us work towards creating more technologies and innovations to cater to the global community, right here in India.
• Let us give back to India with all our brains, intellect and wisdom as a mark of what it has thought us.
• Let us promise on these Degrees of Freedom for fellow human beings in general
• Sensitivity to others problems
• Sincerity to work
• Simplicity in lifestyle expenditure
• Safeguard oneself by showcasing street smartness

Check it out….http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/14/hitmelater-sorta-fixes-my-email-problem-sorta-makes-it-worse/