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SUMMARY OF 9 BLOG SERIES …PICK THE TOPIC YOU LIKE !!

For new and existing readers benefit, here I am summarizing whatever the different topics I have written so far. Below are the 9 completed series. Pick the AREA of your interest, read and share with others !! HOW TO ROMANCE WITH FEAR DECODING “THE GAME OF CAREER” HOW I SEE THE FUTURE OF LIVING BUILDING BLOCKS OF HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY  THINKING FALLACIES WHY (LOGIC) ?.. INSIDE INNOVATION ADHD (CREATIVE PERSONALITIES?) LIFE PRODUCTIVITY After the “LIFE PRODUCTIVITY” series, I had
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1st Blogging Anniversary

This is very interesting anniversary I am celebrating ;). Last year exactly same time – May 1st 2017– on a good lazy day, I casually said I will do daily blogging. I never wrote much prior to this. Thanks to Seth Godin. He says one must do daily blogging by sharing their thoughts, ideas, etc. Based on his inspiration I just started as an experiment. Fast forward one year. Here I am. This is what I had written exactly one year back .=> My 1st Blog last year- May 1st 2017 I
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Summary of 8 Blog Series for YOU

For new and existing readers benefit, here I am summarizing what are the different topics I have written so far. Including this post I have written total # 140 blogs.  More than 90% of of these blogs are written in series format and 10% are individual/specific blogs. Below are the 8 completed series. Pick the AREA of your interest, read and share with others !! HOW TO ROMANCE WITH FEAR DECODING “THE GAME OF CAREER” HOW I SEE THE FUTURE OF LIVING BUILDING BLOCKS OF HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY  THINKING
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How I see the Future of Living – Introduction

“Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion ” –  Ray Kurzweil Every day technology is changing much rapidly than you can visualize. You are probably under estimating the magnitude of the change. That’s exactly what Ray is saying in the above quote. Do you think our lives (beyond
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Thinking Fallacies – 5. Why we should talk about Failure stories?

We mostly hear all great success stories.  Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Uber, Bahubali, the guy who made millions from a start-up and a stock which returned 150% return. What about the number of failures ( in thousands or more) we don’t get to know and talk about?. Why we don’t like to talk about them? This because of  “Survivorship bias”. Survivorship bias is a logical error where you are only interested to know about success stories while ignoring all the failure
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Thinking Fallacies – 4. Are you hiding behind Authority & Age?

“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth” –  Albert Einstein We have been told that we should respect elders. Yes, I think we should respect every one and respect people who have better qualities, values, etc irrespective of whether the person is younger or older. But this is not what happens. We are forced to respect people based on biological age. I am not targeting here senior citizens. I am talking about you . Are you forcing and expecting
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Decoding “The Game of Career” : Complete Guide

Introduction What is career? I only knew about “Job”  . After spending good number of years i came to know little bit more about “Career”. Why career aspect is important? Obvious answer  – because this gives us success, money, recognition, blah blah..May be. But for me, this is  very important because this is where we end up spending (happy or/and cribbing) majority of our active life. This is why I think it is very important to understand what goes
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Decoding “The Game of Career” : Part 11- Conclusion

Time is 10 pm (IST)… I opened the editor to write my today’s blog. I am wondering what to write as a conclusion for this career series. The intent of this series was not to preach or teach (never be the case) but to share my experiences (of doing and not doing) and observations. There are hundreds of books on career and general management. People are already bored with them. So I just touched upon what I thought are important for career. Then one idea flashed to me on how to
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Decoding “The Game of Career” : Part 10- Digital Era CSQ

In the last 9 parts I wrote about different aspects of career. While the key principles remain same, “Career”  (in every field) itself will transform dramatically in the rapidly changing Digital era. I believe each career CSQ table will get redefined in the Digital era ,while scoring mechanism is still applicable. You would not be able to operate and play the way currently careers are being managed. You can’t simply play by “managing” things.  Your table will
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Decoding “The Game of Career” : Part 9- Mentors

Out of 11 players (skills) some of them are very important but often they are not taught or ignored.  We briefly discussed yesterday about Politics. Today we will touch upon Mentors. Mentors play very important role in career journey. Take any line of career –  sports, politics, entrepreneurship, etc and you will find hardly any successful person without having a good mentor(s). I am not sure of the exact reasons but when it comes to corporate environment this is not taken as very
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Decoding “The Game of Career” : Part 8- Politics

“Corporates are full of politics” – this is very very commonly heard statement. Politics are there every where. As long as there are two people involved there is a scope for politics. It can start from your home. And the politics will go up to world super power vs  rest of the world. If politics are there every where then why we crib about only corporate or any workplace politics. I guess the biggest reason for this is we idealize corporate world and hence the expectation.
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Decoding “The Game of Career” : Part 7- Choose the Right Pitch

Did you calculate your CSQ Score?  How much did you score? If you have scored good then all the best. If not then what is the way forward? I think you are matured enough to know what to do. But here are few of my observations & thoughts.  You can try to improve on your players (skills) . This is the general management or personality development pitch. But I have some reservations on this. I agree that some things can be learnt through practice. But some are difficult to learn. They are
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Decoding “The Game of Career” : Part 6- What is your CSQ?

Please read the previous blog –  Know Your Players to understand the context better. What is CSQ?  I just coined this word to make you understand your score in your current career. CSQ (Career Success Quotient) is simply the score expected to win vs your score. This is very simple. And let me explain. Let’s say you are in the first 5 years of your career. In those early years, what is mostly required and expected is technical competency (any field) and ability to work hard to
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Decoding “The Game of Career” : Part 5 – Know Your Players

We spoke to about “Accidental Career” & “Addictive Career” and strengths in the previous blogs.  Selecting right career and knowing strengths is just the beginning of the “Game”. Right career path, passion & strengths are just not sufficient to win the game. We need to know what it takes to win the game. I believe most people did not knew what it takes to win the game when they have started their careers. When I entered into corporate sector I had
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Decoding “The Game of Career” : Part 4 – Know Your Core Talents/Strengths

I was working as an Account Manager for some time in US. My client asked for a DBA resource. I didn’t had one. I had some Java profile. I was trying to tell my client manager how good this Java person is and I told him he can do DBA work also, blah, blah. I was just trying to sell this profile to DBA position.  Then that manager jokingly said ” Kishore, don’t try to fit Circles into Squares and Squares into Circles“. Since then I remember this phrase very well. This
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Decoding “The Game of Career” : Part 3- How Accidental Careers Drag down economy and development of a country

In the yesterday blog (below), we talked about “Accidental Career” vs “Addictive Career”. http://kishoreyasarapu.com/2017/06/03/decoding-the-game-of-career-accidental-vs-addictive-career/  What is the real big deal if you live with “Accidental Career” not pursue “Addictive Career”. Life will continue right? Yes, you can continue. But it will significantly impact the quality of the fulfillment, accomplishment and impact you can make. Apart from
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Decoding “The Game of Career” : Part 2 – Accidental vs Addictive Career

Accidental Career vs Addictive Career How would any one choose his/her career? You might choose your career based on market demand, pay prospects, your interest in a specific field, parents & others influence, family culture (business families, doctor families), etc. Unless you have a very good understanding of what career you really want to pursue, it is very much of gambling and adjustment/compromise.  This is what I call as “Accidental Career”.  The closest analogy I can give is
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Decoding “The Game of Career” : Part 1 -Introduction

What is career? I only knew about “Job”  . After spending good number of years i came to know little bit more about “Career”. Why career aspect is important? Obvious answer  – because this gives us success, money, recognition, blah blah..May be. But for me, this is  very important because this is where we end up spending (happy or/and cribbing) majority of our active life. This is why I think it is very important to understand what goes “behind” and
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Are you in CUSP Generation? I think you should celebrate more…

My simple definition of “Cusp Generation” is the generation between our parents generation and next generation. Assuming if you around my age group then you are in “Cusp Generation”. Cusp Generation people had the advantage of starting the life in some what normal pace and had the opportunity in living with reasonable size of families. May be you also had the privilege of  growing in some sort of village atmosphere and in nature. And, you would have seen parents
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Here is the reason why “Pursuing Passion” is the latest buzz…

“Pursuing Passion” is a very hot topic now a days starting from students to people struggling with mid life crisis. I never heard about this during my college days or even during career decision. There was no career decision really and it was simply go with the flow or take which is in more “demand”. But now things are changing. Even parents are (to some extent) are encouraging kids to pursue their passion now a days which is not a common thing in India earlier for a
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Blogging EVERY DAY will change life for betterment

  One of my role model is Seth Godin. Seth is world’s top author, marketer, entrepreneur and daily blogger.  He is a big advocate of daily blogging. I have taken inspiration from Seth and decided to blog every day. This is going to be a real experiment for me. Here are the key reasons why I think blogging every day will change life for betterment. Play with Fears:  Like any new venture in life, blogging/writing also creates fear in your brain and builds huge resistance initially.
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How to choose careers in the Digital era?

Just a quick reflection on how we used to choose our careers – At least I can talk about how it used to happen (still happening in the same way for most parts) in India. In one line – 80% of the determining factor was money. We used to select the careers where there is more money irrespective of whether you have natural talent for the chosen career or not. And almost all the time parents used to decide kids careers .Of course, relatives, parents, friends and even some times
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Future of Indian IT Career

If you are reading this blog, you are probably an IT professional working in India or some where else thinking about your IT career !!. Just a quick background about my self in this context… My name Kishore Yasarapu (YK), having 18 years of experience in IT services sector. I have started my career in 1998 out of a dream campus placement in those days. If you are in IT industry you kind of understand what is happen to the careers of the people at all levels – entry level, mid level and

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