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  Image Source: www.amazon.com We have been hearing the following quote all the time, “nobody gives it to you you’ve got to take it”: it has been the favorite Hollywood cliché of all the time and the movies industries have been selling it as the American Dreams. World is mean, we’ve got to be strong and macho, we must avoid having empathy, we need to always act in a tit for tat manner, forgiveness is a weakness, and so on. We have been led to believe that the achievers in every domain of the world are the takers, and or matchers. We must destroy the competition in order to be successful, we must use force to wipe out the competition, and there is no such thing as ‘Win – Win’ negotiation strategy; I strongly believe that these are the vital lies that are prevailing in our world. These are the exact things that might hinder our full fledged success as well. Dr. Adam Grant wrote this book in such a meticulous way that I was actually stunned by the researches he had done in order to ...

  Image Source: www.amazon.com “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle “Conquer your bad habits, or they will conquer you.” Lord Buddha We are constantly thinking why we did not succeed or why we are not getting what we ought to or what is it that is stopping us to become the best version of ourselves and et cetera. Isn’t it the quest of human beings to become the ultimate best version of ourselves rather than following the trends in the market? The answer is obvious YES. We find few pointers here and there, we find few ways to better do our jobs, we find few lines to soothe ourselves, and if we try harder we can find few of the means that we’ve been thinking as ends all our lives. Then, what are those ends that we must begin to unearth and take up in our lives: habits – they are what we are trying to comprehend here and try to implement in our lives. Habits are simple, and yet complex enough to boggle our brain. Most of the times, w...