The Curious Corner / Issue #6
Sukhada Chaudhary
Vice President, Community & Content at Rang De | Linkedin trainer + consultant | MICA
There are these weeks in the year when you crave for sunshine. You welcome every stray ray that makes it through the overcast sky. And you try to soak it in the best way you can. And you hope its warmth will stay with you.
I try to do that by throwing myself into reading. But now you know what cloudy skies can do - they can threaten to turn my newsletter into freestyle poetry (I know it's nowhere close!). But worry not - here are the reads that piqued my interest in the last week -
"Narratives around saris embedded in religion, marital status, colour and body shape exist till this day, and this is what we are trying to combat" – Aiza Hussain?
At some point during our conversation, Upton says something that has resonances far beyond the cricket field: "Anxiety and depression start breeding in the gap between who you really are and who you pretend to be."
"But the modern world has hyper-charged these forces beyond the tipping point of usefulness. Stress has become distress, negative moods have become chronic melancholy, and threats are overrepresented. There are many reasons for this hyper-charging, but a prominent one is the attention economy."
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“Romance is not necessarily passé,” Ms. Herz said. It’s the representations of romance that are more abstract, she explained, because “things are less defined heterosexually” than they were a decade ago.?
By the end of 2020, the labour force across India had shrunk by 2% for men; 13% for women, according to an analysis of CMIE data by Nikore. But among recently unemployed men, 67% were actively looking for paid work and among women, only 37%. “There simply weren’t enough jobs that paid decent wages. Women just gave up the fight to look for decent work,” said Nikore.
Over the last week, I was glad to read a really fun, warm book by Zoe Chance about how to think about personal influence. Turns out, so many things we know about influence are just not true. it is so much more intuitive than you think. And more influence helps you push for great things and outcome where everybody wins. We can all use some tips and tricks from this book and leap higher, dream bigger. Recommended read!
As always, some quotes to end this issue -
“Courage is only the accumulation of small steps.” - Gy?rgy Konrád?
“To listen is to lean in softly with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.” - Mark Nepo
“A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.”? —Sonia Sotomayor
Until next week. Stay curious!
Change Management Consultant @ Deloitte | Capability Building, Organizational Learning, Talent Development
2 年Great curation, as always. :)
General Manager Tooling | Operations Excellence | Strategic Business Growth | Greenfield Project Leadership | Precision Manufacturing
2 年The flow of subjects is so good it just seems like a good conversation between friends ! Thanks Sukhada Ji the attention economy we have is fed with just the right size of bytes. ??