Art of Parenting is a perfect Parallel to Ceiling Fan Rotation Direction!! Learn from the Fan! Read this Interesting Perspective!! Happy New Year 2022!!

Dear Parents and Children

Wish you Happy New Year 2022!!

This was a puzzle I had for many years! Why does Fan rotate counter clockwise in India, whereas it rotates clockwise in the USA or any other cold country?

After many years, I came to know that in hot places or in summer conditions, the blades should turn counter clockwise to create a breeze effect by moving or circulating the air better during hot weather.

In the cold places or winter conditions, the blades should turn clockwise to circulate warm air. It should run at low speed so that it gently draws the room air up towards the ceiling and forces the warm air down and out towards the walls avoiding giving you the wind chill effect.

This science helps parents and children in many ways!

Thanks to globalization, the aspirations of the world are flowing flat. Children of a particular region emulating the children of another region. Every region and space has a certain set of opportunities and constraints. Food is different. Education is different. Games are different. Culture is different. Weather conditions are different. So as Aspirations. Parenting style should be different.

No two places cannot be mixed, nor opportunities.  The rhythm developed in a particular region cannot be copied to another place. We cannot develop parallels between 2 regions. No single place is great nor inferior. They have their own advantages and disadvantages. Except for cost and comfort, the rest of the life is the same between Antarctica to Australia.

When we miss this fundamental philosophy, we grossly miss the purpose. Of course, personally I need to learn a lot from this great example. No parent is perfect till they prove their kids settled and raised for 40 years!! It means the Parenting Process lasts for 40 years!! True. We raised it perfectly. What if they are misutilized after 20 years? It again bounces back to parents. Hence, No parent is successful till children teach their values to their children!!  Hence, all parents are successful upon the best raising of their grandchildren.

Similarly children should see the parents as ceiling fans. When you are in a heated condition, parents provide you the best cooling effect. When you are in cool condition, parents provide you with a warm environment in terms of inducing goals, competitiveness, act tough and purpose to their life. If children cannot understand this simple logic and misunderstand their parents, the air becomes reversed in every season!! Throughout your life, you will repent. You don’t have answers for your children. You end-up repenting in your last life!!

Wish this New Year Brings Conditioned Air for the Children and they appreciate Parents for their relentless rotations!!

Wish this New Year to teach the Parents on how to produce the best conditioned air for their children in every season possible!!

By the way, many ceiling fans have a switch that lets you change the direction of the blades so they rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise (some fan manufacturers label this “forward” and “reverse” respectively). So as Art of Parenting!! Parents are also becoming smart!!

Happy Air in 2022!!!

Your Well-wisher

Ravi Saripalle

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World’s most expensive Pair of Shoes (Rs 123 Crores) is Unveiled. Would you replace & wear a single shoe with another color and make when you misplace one of your pair of shoes? New Year 2022 Message!!

Dear Friends and Students

Couple of years back, the world's most expensive shoes were launched in the UAE. The passion diamond shoes have a price tag of USD 17 million or 123 crores Indian rupees. They invited select 50 VIPs for the launch. Fascinating right? If you are given those shoes, I am sure all of us feel excited? Don’t you?

Now let us take a hypothetical situation. You owned those shoes. One of them (right foot shoe) got misplaced just before you were supposed to attend a high profile party. Will you replace & wear your right foot with a new brand and make? Will you go to the party with a different pair of shoes?

If I conduct an opinion “POLL”, I am sure “PLL” wipes out the “POLL”! Do you agree? We all are ready to disown the most expensive pair of shoes when a single shoe is lost! However, we become hypocritical, duplicitous, and two faced when it comes to following the Heart and performing an Action.

Our Heart and Our Action are like a pair of shoes. We all fail 99.9999% times, wearing this perfect shoe? Do you agree? Nobody is an exception to this rule unless one is spiritual.

“My Friendship, My dream job, my life goals, my incredible family, destination wedding, my dream girl/boy, my soulmate, my dream place”, and uncountable mismatches! Everywhere both shoes never match! We pretend. We create an artificial cover and make both shoes look like.

Covid-19 shattered the world. Both Rich and poor countries succumbed to this. No matter how rich you are, when you leave the body, nobody could come nearby. This reminds me of the story of a king and 4 wives.

Once upon a time, there lived a king who had four wives. The king got seriously ill and was on his deathbed. Afraid to venture into the afterlife alone, he asked his fourth wife whom he loved the most and bought her diamond, gold and elegant clothing — “Would you die with me? And go with me to the afterlife?” The fourth wife replied with a sorry saying she can’t do that and walked away.

He also loved his third wife and was very proud and would show her off to neighbouring kingdoms. He called on his third wife and asked the same question — “Would you accompany me to the afterlife”? The third wife replied that she loved her life too much and she cannot go with him and also that she would remarry on his death.

The second wife has always been there for him in the times of his need. So he asked her if she would accompany him in the afterlife. The second wife apologetically replied that she would not be able to help him this time but would arrange his funeral and would be there for his funeral.

A voice called out and said that — “I will leave with you and follow you wherever you go, even if it is to the afterlife”. The king looked and it was his first wife. And this was the wife he took care of the least. He felt embarrassed and said that I should have taken better care of you and given you more attention when I was alive. (theflyingmantis.medium.com/king-and-his-4-wives-33099c834bce)

Our fourth wife is our body, our third wife is our possessions (Car, house, gold), the second wife is our friends and family, and our first wife represents our soul.

Covid-19 is reappearing as Covid-22 (Omicorn)! Three years passed! Life has not changed so much as our perspectives and material wishes. Nobody is an exception!

Wish Year 2022 removes “0” (Sunyam in our lives) and welcomes only 222 in our lives! The number 222 is also seen as a representation of the power of love, faith, and patience. Some people believe that the number 222 is a sign from the angels. This number is usually seen as a lucky number.

Wish you Happy New Year 2022!! Let’s discard “0”!

Your Well-wisher

Ravi Saripalle

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Driving Style Talks about our Behavior, More often the Responsibility! Beyond, Life Lessons too!! Read this Interesting Perspective!!

Dear Friends and Students

On Dec 2^nd, I attended a talk on the occasion of National Pollution Control Day. The key takeaway from the session was “Driving too slow or Driving too fast does not help much to the Environment as both release different types of pollutants”. When I try to understand this concept a little deeper, I realize that driving behavior has a significant role than whether we drive too slow or too fast.

Engines are optimally efficient when driving at a constant (‘cruising’) speed, not when accelerating or decelerating. In practical terms, it might work best between 40kmph to 60kmph. When someone is driving at 20kmph but little aggressive (quick acceleration and deceleration), then also it causes damage to the environment. When someone is going at 90 kmph or above, of course it is dangerous in multiple ways- more pollution and high risk! Definitely they are not environmentally conscious nor social conscious.

A car traveling at an average speed of 55kmph but frequently accelerating and decelerating will not be optimally efficient. Hence, driving style is a critical factor when assessing the impact on pollution.

When I am trying to relate this with earning style (money or name and fame), there is a great relationship. Overnight if we become rich or get a great name and fame, and a sudden drop leads to big damage to the individual psychology. What if it comes automatically? Do we accept or reject? The true answer lies in “Externally Accept while Internally Reject”! This is not an easy task! This is not a theoretical exercise! Knowing philosophy vs. Practicing Philosophy are quite different. It is a Science in an Art form! Many fail to practice!!

Last week we heard a huge praise to Parag Agarwal, IIT Bombay (CSE, IITJEE 77 rank) and PhD from Stanford, when he was taking up the CEO position of Twitter! However, it was less discussed, do we know during the same time there was another news about Vishal Garg, The Better.com CEO who fired 900 employees over a zoom call? How much pain Vishal might have gone through while announcing this?

I do aspire to become CEO but definitely I am not the right person to deliver! I don’t have the required qualities to deliver or discharge that role. I miserably failed in my start-up. Having said that, I give my best in some types of operations.

If someone understands their strengths and weaknesses and prepares themselves for a particular role, it is going to be the best driving for our life vehicle. It is going to be pollution free in our life.

Do you know your Drive Style? If not, identify and best adopt!

Your Well-wisher

Ravi Saripalle

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Shear Thickening / Viscosity / Resistance to Deform of a Fluid (e.g. Cornstarch with Water)! Amazing Science Example to Teach a Great Leadership Trait!! Read this Interesting Perspective!!

 Dear Friends and Students

Couple of days back we organized a talk by Mr. Ajeeth Prabhu (linkedin.com/in/ajeeth-prabhu-577202a1) on a “Application of Shear Thickening Liquid for Social Cause ''. Mr. Ajeeth is doing a deep research on Shear Thickening Liquid properties with a noble objective to reduce the weight of a Bullet Proof Jacket of a Soldier!!

It was a 1 hour talk, but made the audience spellbound! Post session, we arranged Q&A. When we were interacting with students, we realized that this science application has great leadership meaning. First, it is solving the burden of an Indian soldier’s burden as a chest wear jacket and second, it is teaching a great management lesson! Before we dwell deep, let’s understand the science behind this.

Can you walk on a Water? Looks silly right? You look at this video, you will understand how? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-DZ0f0_NCA

If you mix corn with water and make a liquid. You apply a sudden force, it acts and becomes solid. You gently stand on it, you will sink!! What a contrast right? This is called a non-Newtonian fluid, a fluid that does not follow Newton's law of viscosity, i.e. constant viscosity independent of stress. Water is having constant viscosity whereas corn water liquid does not.

What is viscosity? It is a resistance of a fluid (liquid or gas) to a change in shape. It is the opposite of flow. Did you observe this- Our legs sink in dry sand and not in wet sand? You try this when you are walking on the beach! Same viscosity effect!

You learnt science, well! What is the leadership lesson in this?

A true leader should be like Shear Thickening Liquid or non-Newtonian fluid! When someone attacks (I mean not physical attack but if you are put in an unwanted situation or allegation or blaming for a wrong cause), you become strong, protect your skin and tit-for-tat. However, when you need to handle an issue gently, act like a constant viscous liquid like Water, where you sink fully!

Is it not a great leadership trait! Do you agree?

Become a non-Newtonian fluid! Increase your Shear Thickening Capacity!

Is Your Heart filled with Corn Starch Liquid? If not, fill it!!

Your Well-wisher

Ravi Saripalle

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Post Pandemic Readiness - Teacher-Student Engagement Matrix

Dear Teachers and Institutions

Across the world, slowly schools and colleges are opening up. Thanks to Pandemic, Online teaching aids and Online content got developed and matured. These tools and materials are universally accessible. However, new challenges are propped up to the teachers and parents! In older days, predominantly, we used to distinguish students of two types- Irregular or Disciplined. After a pandemic, we have to bucket them into three categories- irregular, regular and disciplined. Similarly, we have three teaching methods- offline, online intervention and online content.

The challenge for educators of all levels (School level to Under Graduation level) is to how do we engage students positively? How do we improve productivity? How do we inspire them to reach their goal?

In the last 18 months, I had an opportunity to interact with a large set of students, teachers, parents and institutional founders across all segments- School Teachers/Founders to University Vice Chancellors / Educational Regulatory Authorities.

The summary of all the conversation is put together in the following Teacher-Student Engagement Matrix.  Being a progressive institution or innovative teacher, you may use this as appropriate in your teaching context.

Happy Mentoring!

Your Well-wisher

Ravi Saripalle

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“Pair-of-glasses” is the Next Internet Revolution? Metaverse Combined with Design Thinking Rule the Social Experience in Next 10 Years? Are You Ready to Embrace? Read this Interesting Perspective!!

Dear Friends and Students

Last week Mark Zukerberg announced Meta as their Future Brand (Facebook, Whatsapp, Insta, and other Few Social Tools combined). Immediately, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shares Metaverse plans, talks about users' immersive experience. Few other companies like Unity Software, Nvidia Corp, Epic Games, Payments firm Visa, etc. are betting huge and investing into Metaverse technologies.

Now you might ask what this Metaverse is. Why suddenly all these companies talking about?

Few decades back, desktop was popular. Next, web ruled the world and today the mobile. Similarly, when we were working, few of our IT teams used to have a gadget named “Pager”. Now it is no more. A small text used to popup and they used to attend calls. For some time, text was the king. Later photo sharing became a popular medium. Thanks to YouTube and free video space provisioning, today video content is powerful.

Now the question is what is upgraded in this evolution? – Experience and Social Connection!

The next in the line is all about Metaverse, an evolution of social connection! People are no happier with basic static or video calls!  They want more experience. Here comes Metaverse using Augmented Reality (AR) Or Virtual Reality (VR) or Mixed Reality (MR) technologies.

A day is coming shortly, where you don’t need to build a 5 crores physical mansion to experience the house. You can develop it virtually and immerse yourself! Metaverse makes it happen.

You don’t need to attend a family function happening 100 miles away! Your avatar can participate in that function as if you are physically present! You can participate in your cousin’s Marriage Sangeet Function happening in another country, sitting in your place!

You don’t need to go 1000 miles away to participate in an important customer meeting. Your avatar participates virtually. It allows physical expressions, eye contact, debate and make your presence feel natural and vivid, but you are virtual!

How it is possible? Technology is ramping up. AR/VR/MR are going to change this metaverse experience. Companies like Meta (Facebook) are building new ecosystem and brining standards and norms in this space without compromising privacy and safety. Metaverse brings Presence, Avatars, Home Space, Teleporting (hypothetical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them), Interoperability, Virtual Goods, Natural Interfaces, etc.

Virtual Reality (VR) technology means, when you wear VR enabled pair of glasses, you will be taken to virtual environment. Games, Training, Lab demonstration, Live broadcast etc. can be a few examples. Your professor can give a demo sitting in his office and you can attend lab sitting in your home!

Augmented Reality (AR) technology means real environment in addition to digital elements. You might have heard about Pokemon Go right? It is completely AR game. IKEA (Furniture) Mobile App, Disney Coloring Book (3D renderings using a mobile phone or tablet), L’Oréal Makeup App (various types of makeup), Weather Channel Studio Effects are few other examples!

Mixed Reality (MR) technology allows you to interact with and manipulate both physical and virtual items and environments simultaneous, using next-generation sensing and imaging technologies.

All this needed a lot of data and great infrastructure. This is going to be boom for some time!

Design Thinking makes these experiences more humanly! Design Thinking plays crucial role in developing these experiences!! Design Thinking shapes the Metaverse technology and applies to the real and social context.

Are you excited? Now you might ask, what skills you need to develop to participate in this revolution.

Skillset: Design Thinking, Programming (Java, C#, Swift, JavaScript, loops, control-logic, OOP principles like inheritance, abstraction, encapsulation, etc at your fingertips), UX Design Knowledge, UI/UX Development based on a given mock, SDKs like ARCore, ARKit, ARFoundation, Machine Learning & Computer Vision, 3D Modelling & Animation, Graphics Rendering, and finally understanding of Social Media!

Few IITs and Deemed Universities started Bachelor of Design Course with few Computer Science additions. Next year IIT Delhi is going to start B.Des. course. This course gets sense of future and structured Career path!

Are you ready to make your self-prepared for Next Metaverse based Internet Revolution?

Metaverse- All happening in a Pair of Glasses! Do You want to Cook in those glasses?

Your Well-wisher

Ravi Saripalle

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Are You Working towards a “Career Path” or Building “Career Portfolio”? Time to invest in Latter! Say Bye to “Career Path”!! Read this Interesting Perspective!!

Dear Friends and Students

Few days back, I received a Harvard Business Review article from one of my WhatsApp friends written by April Rinne (a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, one of the 50 Leading Female Futurists in the world).

Initially I ignored, however, as I see deep, started contemplating and reflecting, making sense and confident that it is going to be future trend. If you are interested to stand before future rough career weather, No more focus on your “Career Path” but Build “Career Portfolio”.  

What is this new concept? Is it old squash in a new make? Yes, it is not new but it was not in focus in the past. 20 years back, someone joins an organization, he/she was focusing only on how to excel in the current job, learn skills, impress manager and management and raise in the ladder.

 “Career Path” is a singular pursuit (study hard, get a job, work hard, work for the next promotion, wait and work for the future promotions and get retired). Employers were looking for such workers. Aspirants used to respond to the Employer’s ask at a cost of their divergent thinking and skills.

“Career Portfolio” is relatively new word (language necessary to design a future career), a new philosophy and thinking. It is a response to the diverse professional journey, various twists and turns, whether made by choice or by circumstance. It is combination of skills, experience and talents, with best blend.

Though “Career Portfolio” coined in 1990s by Charles Handy, it did not became a choice for organizations and people. It is a process of Broadening your career focus and professional identity. The future of the work demands independent and adaptable thinkers. It looks for people with “Career Portfolio” than people with impeccable career path.

HBR article Author’s (Ms. April Rinne) “Career Portfolio” include- Author, Speaker, Futurist, Advisor, Lawyer, Hiking Guide, Global Development Executive, Investor, and Yoga Practitioner.

Career Portfolio is developed over a period of time! It cannot be done during a 4 year Degree!! Career Portfolio includes any help rendered to orphans, you are taking care of your old parents, community service, passion projects, hobbies, parenting, etc.

Why New age Employers are closely looking for people with great “Career Portfolio”? - Unique professional identity, lifelong learning, your ability to cross-pollinate, tackle challenges, ability to face a world of uncertainty in a business.

What you need to do after your develop good “Career Portfolio”? – Do Portfolio Narrative!! You need to narrate your story, else the entire effort becomes useless!!

What is the role of Futuristic Institutions? New age Institutions including existing IITs, NITs, Deemed to be Universities and Regular UG Institutions need to upgrade their CDCs (“Career Path” Development Centers) to CPDPs (“Career Portfolio” Development Centers). CPDCs need to narrate their story well so that Employers pick up their Future Real Talent there!!

My Story! After Reading this article, I started contemplating, whether I do have any “Career Portfolio” or not! Me being in my 40’s, If I look back, be it plan or accident, I attempted to develop “Career Portfolio” to some extent. My Portfolio Narrative-

• When I was studying my Bachelors, I attempted to “teach” +2 Students (Chemistry) in a Junior College.
• During my masters, I attempted to do “Home Tuition” for similar age groups.
• During my Wipro Stint (14 years- Coder, Business Analyst, Pre-Sales, IT Outsourcing/Offshoring Consultant, Project/Program Management, Quality Specialist)
•  Post Wipro, Started a Consulting Startup (Srujana and Dukeship Consulting) but Miserably Failed
• Started “Inspire to Innovate Storytelling Movement” for last 10 years, still counting
• Joined Educational Institution as Director, Center for Innovation and Incubation, still counting
• Started offering Career advice to set of students, still counting
• Attempting to take care of my family including old parents, of course, family should tell & feel whether I am of any help to them or not !! J
• Mentoring and helping a few startups and still counting
• Attempting to be a YouTuber, Blogger, and handling Social Media with a purpose

Dear Students,

What is your “Career Portfolio Narrative”? Can you write? Helpful for your employers!

Build “Career Portfolio”!

Your Well-wisher

Ravi Saripalle

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Source:https://hbr-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/hbr.org/amp/2021/10/why-you-should-build-a-career-portfolio-not-a-career-path

2021 Campus Hires! (2018-22 Batch) The Great Resignation! What should be your Response?

Dear Accomplished and Aspirants

A race run, a dream job landed, a little victory…It’s one of life’s great joys to you and to us to see you accomplish what you have been hoping for and working toward.

You started this run 5 to 7 years ago (Foundation+Intermediate), dreaming for IIT-JEE/Engineering in Reputed Institutions! The single point agenda was to crack the rank! Many of you could accomplish that objective and reset your goal to get a Placement or GATE or CAT or Starting on Your Own.

First in the line comes, Placement! This gives morale boast and kick start to aim better and bigger!

Thanks to the Institution’s Placement Department Coherent efforts, your sincere sweat & god gifted intelligence and upbeat favourable market conditions, today your way looks bright and blossoming.

Congratulations to all who landed into job! We are equally confident for the rest as they could land easily as the Land looks highly fertile for next 3 quarters across the globe.

No doubt, you need to enjoy this moment and celebrate the time!

Having said that I would like to give piece of advice. Please heed this if it makes sense else ignore this intelligence!

2021 Job Market is witnessing different situation. The Great Resignation, also known as the Big Quit, is the ongoing trend of employees voluntarily leaving their jobs, from spring 2021 to the present, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Top IT companies witness an “all-time” high and record attrition rate. Analysts predict that The ‘Great Resignation’ is likely to continue, as 55% of Americans anticipate looking for a new job!

Reasons are many but predominantly The COVID-19 pandemic has allowed workers to rethink their careers, work conditions, and long-term goals.

High attrition in the industry is opening the door for the fresher! From Amazon to TCS to Infosys to Wipro, India’s IT sector is in hiring spree! This is good news for you and for us.

Having said that down the line after 1 year or 1.5 years, it might lead to correction. You might ask what happens during the correction process!

Have you heard about, Winnowing?  It is the process used to separate the rice from hulls. It is to put the whole rice into a pan and throw it into the air while the wind blows. The light hulls are blown away while the heavy rice fall back into the pan!!

Winnowing in IT hiring means, people with decent coding skills, good communication skills, and team building culture remain back in the pan, rest becomes hulls! You cannot ignore it.

On top it, IT industry is going through transformative process. As of today, we have following roles:

-       Visionary IT Architects,

-       coders who help in the achieving this vision,

-       repetitive coders who use these products and build pipeline,

-       People Managers who manage emotions

-       Sales

However, Industry is slowing moving towards Low Code and No Code Platforms. The job of repetitive coders is diminishing. Given an opportunity, they are the first to get eliminated. Now you have a choice to make what type of programmer you want to be!

Next 2 year is highly critical for your batch as Winnowing might take place right after Great Resignation process! Don’t overprice yourself, it is the end of your career. I am not saying join low paying job. If you get a job now, try to stick to the same organization for some time, as companies are waiting for an opportunity for the correction. Great Resignation is causing a lot of stress to companies and they are serious about it. Don’t get trapped into the package mania.

It will not help us to learn. Let’s take an example. You joined a company X in Jan 2022 as Intern and later as converted to FTE in June. Here is the process

-       You need to understand company culture,

-       You need to go through training process,

-       You need to adjust with your manager & team,

-       You need to be comfortable with your customer team

-       You need to be familiar to master with the technology

-       You need to adhere to the quality process adopted

-       At the same time, you need to start making your family happy and make a new life!

If you join Company Y in a Year or 2, you need to repeat all above steps at a cost of Package. How hard it is for you and for your family. Think about it and make a wise step if it is absolutely necessary. For e.g. there is a famous Harvard University Quote –"People don't quit a job, the saying goes — they quit a boss"(https://hbr.org/2018/01/why-people-really-quit-their-jobs)

The immediate 3 tasks for all you for the next 2 months (Nov-2021 and Dec 2021)

-     Develop 1 end to end application using Full Stack skills- HTML/Java Script, Python or Java using some framework (Django or Flask / Ionic/ Flutter if it is mobile), MySql or NoSql or any DB of your choice (You never know where do you fall in your internship)

-    Start talking to your friends in English (I paid a huge price as I did not do this during my college days. Please don’t repeat this mistake)

-    Start using Word, Excel and Ppt heavily. Best thing is develop a Business Pitch Presentation using ppt and start writing in Word (esp. mail communication is critical) and grammarly check

People who are aiming for GATE/CAT/GRE/UPSC/IES, continue to keep your efforts without any deviation, using these spirits!

Best wishes to all of you. Keep in touch using any of the following handles

Am Happy to help/mentor during your internship/job process for a healthier career planning. Reach me over LinkedIn. Happy Learning.

Your Well-wisher

Ravi Saripalle

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What is Your Score? Intriguing Assessment Tool on Real Holistic Education? Try this if it helps you!

Dear Friends and Students

Today I received a Thought Provoking Message from a scholar on the occasion of Vijaya Dasimi!

What is Real Holistic Education? Please fill the following assessment questions.

• -          If your score is >=8/10, you are receiving right education and are on precise track
• -          If your score is >=5/10,  you are managing well but needs an improvement
• -          If your score is >=3/10,  you need to recover a lot
• -          If your score is <3/10,  there is something wrong and needs a big correction

Assessment Questions

1. Are you responsible in your studies? (having motivation to study and understand without any external push from parents and teachers)
2. Is your book time more than screen time (virtual entertainment)? (online classes or virtual classes should not be counted)
3. Are you having 30 minutes of dedicated physical activity per day?
4. Are you eating healthy food for 5 or more days in a week?
5. Did you stay with and help grandparents for more than 15 years in your first 20 years of life?
6. Are you keeping 1 hour per day towards your career goal or skill?
7. Are you keeping 4 hours per week to fulfill your passion?
8. Are you spending 3 hours per week for any creative or art work?
9. Are you spending 2 hours per week to develop leadership skills?
10. Are you spending 2 hours per week for any service activity or spending with Nature?

Check Your Score and implement- Wish this Dussehra 2021 give you all intelligence and confidence to fulfill your wishes.

Your Well-wisher

Ravi Saripalle

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Nation Salutes Ashish Takhur! Cremating the Abandoned dead with Dignity!

 Dear Friends and Students

As part of Inspire to Innovate Storytelling Movement, Last 2 days I was contemplating what could be the best topic to write or speak for this Dussehra. I have chosen the Story of Ashish Thakur, a banker from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, who is doing an amazing service. I have chosen to speak about him. Please watch this video. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP6a6hAZi18

Your Well-wisher

Ravi Saripalle

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Learning or Earning? What is more important in your Job? Diff is just 1 Letter but ...Read this Perspective!

Dear Friends and Students

Before reading the story, Let me take you through a simple python program! Don’t worry if you are not conversant with any prior programming knowledge! Learning Python is not complex. Just read it as storyline! Today everyone is computer literate! If you are reading this story, you are already!!

#Declare Your 2 words – Learn and Earn

MyWord1 = "Learn"

MyWord2 = "earn"

#Convert MyWord1 and MyWord2 as Sets using following command. You might have learnt set theory in your 7^th class mathematics right?

#Essentially the following 2 python instructions converts "Learn" to {"L","E","A","R","N"} and Earn to {"E","A","R","N"}

first_set = set(MyWord1)

second_set = set(MyWord2)

# Find the difference between these 2 sets using python symmetric difference method

difference = first_set.symmetric_difference(second_set)

# print the difference using print command! You wrote a medium level python program! Yes true!

print(difference)

# Output comes as follows

{'L'}

 

The letter “L” makes all the difference. If the primary goal is to “Earn”, world need not become this complex. World wouldn’t have reached this level of sophistication. Many inventions and products are offshoots of people with learning attitude but not of people with earning attitude!

People with earning attitude can never make innovations or creative outputs. They take the existing creative work, simulate and monetize with their talent. However, it cannot be sustainable for a long. It lasts for some period and they get frustrated quickly.

Having said, learning alone cannot happen without earning! Both learning and earning are equally important, but without balance, the value of each diminishes.

One philosopher says, “The more you learn the more you earn”. Career development happens only with learning but by earning.

There was a famous question asked by someone, “Should we work to learn or work to earn?”! The popular answer was as follows

·     First, for a decade or two, learn, and do not worry about earning.

·     Then, for a decade or less, earn, using the previous learning.

·    Then, for the remaining decades, leave it to God, let God decide what is it for you? Don’t worry about both!!

I love this response!!

Students who are planning their career, Choose your option wisely! You can learn and earn at any time but you cannot earn time!!

Happy Learning, Enjoy Your Earnings. Earning need not be always your salary, assets and travel! Earning can come in the form of good sleep, hygiene food, healthy life, great association, live in nature and finally leave with nature!

Your Well-wisher

Ravi Saripalle

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