Read to Lead

The Messy middle Scot Belsky One of the greatest joys of life is finding the seed of an idea, and seeing it fructify. The start is full of heady excitement, anticipation and exhilaration and the end is beautiful like a podium finish, where we are showered by applause and looked up as someone who was able to follow his or her dreams to achieve success. Between these two extremes lies the middle, the grey zone where our resilience, character and fortitude is tested regularly. Here we are navigating through the unchartered seas without knowing for sure that the path we have chosen is the right one. Author Scott Belsky has given us a gem of a book that gives us insight into this very area of any project that we may carry out in our lives. With his hands-on experience in the field of entrepreneurship, this book is filled with advice for all of us as we face the various uncertainties that come our way, be it starting a new phase in life, writing a book, running a marathon etc ...

THE MARSHMALLOW TEST Walter Mischel(1930-2018) “Offer a marshmallow to a small child along with the choice of having it immediately or waiting for some time to have two of them.” 1.     I have never liked self-control in fact if I like something be it anything to eat, drink or have my favourite cigarette, I do it right away. I am sure we all have had moments when that chocolate cake or glasses of cold beer have proved irresistible. How many times in our lives we have made choices in our life on an impulse only to regret when sanity returned to our senses. These questions have plagued my mind for some time. The temptation of immediate self-gratification is something most of us have faced one time or the other. Is there something we can do about it? How important is this for our children to learn to have a system that delays this gratification. Questions like these made me dive into the book called "The Marshmallow Test" by Walter Mischel, who has over 50 years ...