Step Outside the Box
A few years ago, I was having a conversation with a friend who told me her daughter wanted to invent flying cars. While the idea of flying cars has been around for longer than I can remember, it was this little girl’s reasoning for it that captured my attention: she didn’t want animals to be killed […]
Great Life Lessons From a Bad Round of Golf
It was a beautiful Saturday morning, and I was looking forward to meeting a friend for a round of golf—my first of the season. While it had been nearly six months since I’d swung a club, I was looking forward to a pleasant return to the links. That’s not what I got—not exactly. Picture this: […]
Work-Life Harmony
Today we live in a connected world. On the surface, it seems like a good thing, and in many ways, it is. But the ease of connectivity has also made it harder to delineate between work and personal time. The fact is, expectations are now higher. We are expected to respond quickly to emails, text […]
The Honesty in Truth
Recently, I got an email from a friend that I hadn’t seen in a while, and this is what it said: “Dear Vijay, I would like to be able to speak freely to someone that makes me feel safe, shares some of the same values, and who won’t be afraid to provide insight and advice. […]
PULSE April 2018
Welcome to the PULSE! Over the past several months, we’ve been thinking about some of the intangibles that have contributed to our professional successes. Mindfulness, for example, is an often underused practice that we’ve adopted in both our personal and professional lives, while a continued commitment to learning, we’ve discovered, is one of the best ways […]
What is the Key to Happiness?
Robert Waldinger, a psychiatrist and clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development—a 75-year study on what makes people happy. The study tracked the lives of two groups of men for over 75 years, and it now follows their children to understand how their childhood experience […]