Food for thoughts

One of the great Greek Philosophers: Heraclitus said, "Change is the only constant in life" . Unknowingly we are experiencing many psychophysical changes in our lives. Everybody wants to lead a happy life but very few are ready to come out of their comfort zone and opt for change.  Imagine a situation that you have newly joined a famous multinational company and you came across a more than a decade old established process in your department, which you feel can be improved. You approach your boss with an improvisation. What do you think, what will be his reaction? In more than 90 percent cases he will defend the existing process and rule out the change. Many a time it is difficult for a person to bring a small change in his personal life then what to speak of a change in a multinational company with decades of established processes. Why is human mind so reluctant to change ?  Everybody knows change is an inevitable part of our life. It is quite rewarding as well. Although we u

While pursuing my Masters in Microsystems Engineering, I was living in furtwangen, Germany. Furtwangen is a small city in Baden-Württemberg. It is situated in the heart of the black forest and known for its Cuckoo musical clocks and the source of Danube river. The second largest river in Europe flowing through 10 countries.   Every time I visited the Danube source, that small stream taught me many life lessons. One of the things I learnt is the power of optimism. When I first visited  the source, I was bewildered by thinking how such a small stream which is just a 50 cm by 50 cm small water outlet at the top of a mountain becomes such a huge river of 2850 km.  During my stay in Furtwangen, I have spent many hours sitting there alone, watching the water coming out of the head of the mountain. The water coming out is absolutely tiny. But without focusing on the hurdles (in this case stony pathway) and without focusing its volume, it just starts following. Many times the stones in the pat