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The Yogi AND The Techie: (Life Skills For The Young Technocrat)
The Yogi AND The Techie: (Life Skills For The Young Technocrat)
The Yogi AND The Techie: (Life Skills For The Young Technocrat)
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THE TECHIE
(Life skills for the young technocrat)
Background:
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“Do you all know why we are sitting here, in this open
courtyard with trees around?” asked the Yogi.
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“But if you think with a calm mind, you will see that
many ideas originate from nature.”
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“We all know that the easiest ways, (and one of the
most effective!) of dealing with a non-responsive
computer is to perform a power reset. Turn the power
off and then on again.”
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“How many times, you feel like just walking away from
it all?”
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Reset
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When you wish to reach the idle state of mind, all the
tasks and applications stop and the CPU is free
running. Without load!
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The sky was filled with sparkling stars when the lights
of the ashram were dimmed.
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After the brief talk on the need for good health, the
Yogi asked if anyone’s absence from the office
yesterday or the invisible tether of the email had
stopped the world.
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Steel does not get into this form very easily – it has to
go through a long drawn tempering process which
gives it the qualities that we attribute to men of steel.
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“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for
the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present
moment wisely and earnestly”
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A. Analogue world.
There are trade offs everywhere. No ones or
zeroes, black or white.
B. Be your own controller.
Do not let the external world sway you.
C. Connect with nature.
Be outdoors with God’s creations.
D. Document well.
Consolidate your work for the future.
E. Easy does it.
Do not strive too hard. Being serious does not pay.
F. Frog in the well story.
There is more to life than just work and
technology.
G. God’s creations.
Learn from them. Children, birds and animals.
H. Have a long term goal.
Helps in getting over small obstacles.
I. Interrupts and interrupts.
Be wary of them. Do not get caught up in them.
J. Judgment matters.
Pick your opponents and issues wisely.
K. Knee jerk reactions.
Filter out your response.
L. Live the moment.
Do the best you can right now.
M. Marathon not sprint.
Do not burn out very fast. Long way to go.
N. No pain no gain.
Lenz’s law. More effort, more electricity.
O. Ooze confidence.
Possess the can do attitude.
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