Deep Mody

Stress- A necessary evil? Khush hai vahi jo thoda betaab hai…. Lyrics by Javed Akhtar often seem to answer my dilemma or maybe I am interpretating it wrong? Here’s some food for thought… When I think of the word ‘stress’, it being overly used lately, the first thoughts are of several quotes I would’ve read or heard aiming at philosophically explaining this state of mind. The strongest one comes to my mind is a quote I read at a Monastery in Nepal, ‘Reality is the leading cause of stress’ . This really struck a chord. Our desire to reject the reality as it is and to constantly aspire at changing it to what we believe should be ideal does cause immense friction. In my article, UNACCEPTABLE Theory of Motivation, I attempted to catch up on the idea- ‘When everything around a person is acceptable, that person is not motivated to do ANYTHING… When there is no desire to Change anything around, there is no desire to do anything, there is NO DESIRE TO REJECT ANYTHING, nothing around is UNACCEP

Cultural alignment- An ever-evolving pursuit Culture is a very important aspect of our being and yet is a very loosely thrown around word. May it be our personal lives, family, organization, community, country, anywhere and everywhere. We tend to be extremely mindful of what culture we belong to, and how we live up to it. But is culture a never-changing and ever-binding way of being? Or is it an acceptable way of behaving as time changes? Or maybe even deeper-rooted subconscious that drives our entire lives? I do not have an answer that can be written on a stone forever, but that is how human knowledge is. We learn and we unlearn. We explore and we settle. We are sure and then we aren’t. It is a journey, and ever-evolving pursuit. All I have to offer in these lines, is just another glimpse out of the window while we are on our journey to attain and sustain cultural alignment in our lives. In their book “Culture Change on the Fast Track to Business Success” the authors define culture as