The Maverick#59: Defying the Usual to Inspire & Connect

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes or their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear." -Oscar Wilde,  You could be a good looking person with a fair iota of intellect yet you secretly marvel at the ease with which your BFF earns attention than chasing it. Or you could be in the midst of your admirers and still reel in awe over his or her ability to get the heads turning. But when have you ever been yourself …just what you loved in the first place? There is nothing more unappetizing than that desperate urge that comes with needing the approval of others. We all have felt it at one time or the other. If you constantly try to assure yourself and barge into other’s lives for the sake of being noticed then you are not the standout choice to be reckoned seriously. Attention earned without begging for it is what I call admiration and the one that you get by throwing yourself at others face is no better than a sign of pity. Is it difficult to...

Why shy away from retiring early when you needn't? An early retirement is more possible than you think. For me an early retirement simply means that I no longer have to work for money and I have created enough of it to work itself for me. I am 46 and hung my boots last week. Since then I wait in bated breath, for all I know I may have stirred a storm in my cup of tea. Nothing has happened so far and if I am any good in reading patterns, nothing ever will. Here’s why, At 26 I was a lead manager in an IT major. The desk that I graced smelled of bad upholstery. It at times also reeked of an incapacitated future, especially when I had snappy conversations with a miffed senior or peeved track lead. Mulling in quieter moments I used to wonder.. what will happen 15/20 years hence when the cloud become so dense that no more data would stick to it, when the environments like Reddit   run out of inspiring ideas… when skills  will feel betrayed  and a dismayed outlook  le...