Siddharth Shah

Next Wave Women & mindfulness are two silent revolutions going on in the world. At Next Wave Women, we are dedicated to empowering and nurturing mindful women leaders. Our belief is that the world needs not just more women in leadership positions, but also happier women leaders.

“The very highest states - of awe and joy, wonder and love, meaning and creativity - emerge from this bittersweet nature of reality. We experience them not because life is perfect, but because it is not” Susan Cain, BitterSweet

How do dictators operate - very well explained by my favourite intellectual @harari_yuval

Hi all, “How much hate is too much?,” my column in TOI today. Do read and share!

The more you bullshit, the more likely you are to fall for other people's bullshit. Data: those who exaggerate their expertise to impress others are more vulnerable to misinformation. When people speak without concern for the truth, they can't be trusted to recognize the truth.

@JohanSalomon RG2!!....Could do this in around 5 min!

Big M couldn’t solve this 😢 White to mate in 2! 🤔

@JohanSalomon kxg5 and then only one possible move each time. Black moves to whatever space created by knight. Was quite easy once we calm down from the visual overwhelm!

White to mate in 3! 🤔

The Internet makes the smartest people smarter and the average ones stupider. Either you fall down the rabbit hole of self-directed learning or get sucked into the hellscape of TikTok and the 24/7 news cycle.

For every dollar and minute we invest in building A.I., we should put an equal amount into developing ourselves. From a live episode of "It's not that simple", recorded in Lisbon, Portugal. Full video: Full video: bit.ly/ynhpinto

You can love someone dearly but if you don’t know how to take care of your own emotions, you won’t be able to take care of their emotions either

Harsha Bhogle said "I remain the teller of the story. Not the story itself". Harsha with gift of the verse made cricket more romantic and interesting. While cricket was played on the field, he served it in his own flavour into our drawing rooms. 1. When Geoffrey Boycott once said Sachin may be a great batsman but he never got his name at the Lord's honours boards, Harsha said - "So whose loss it it? Sachin's or the Honours Boards'?" 2. Explaining how Cheteshwar Pujara is a fine Test player but the T20 format doesn't suit him - "Pujara is a classical musician in the era of Yo Yo Honey Singh." 3. After Dhoni sent a Mitchell Starc delivery to the boundary - "He had all the time in the world. He could have read a newspaper." 4. On a Tendulkar straight drive against Ishant Sharma in the IPL - "open the text book. Turn to page 32". 5. About Rahul Dravid's devastating form - Ask him to walk on water and he would say, 'how many kilometres?' 6. About Glenn Maxwell’s batting - "He just loves to storm through. I guess if he had a car, he would probably start it in 4th gear." 7. After Sehwag was dropped yet again during a tour of New Zealand - "Its that kind of a day, Sehwag can walk blindfolded across a busy highway today and not get run over." 8. When Michael Clarke got caught at slip but was still waiting for the umpire’s decision - :I think he is waiting for tomorrow's newspaper to declare him out." 9. During Sachin’s last Test match against the West Indies - "Sachin playing well and looking positive. I think that couple of fours he hit settled the nerves. Dont know about his nerves, I am talking about the nerves of each and every person in the crowd." 10. Looking at the pitch in a recent England tour : "Looks like Suarez was here". 11. India's last man Narendra Hirwani was coming into bat when Bhogle was asked by his co-commentator Ian Chappell whether Hirwani could bat - "If you make a team with all the No.11s of all the teams, Hirwani would still come at No.11 in the line-up." 12. What a way to welcome Sachin when he was coming in to bat in a Test match! "Eruption of joy in the fall of an Indian wicket would only mean one thing". 13. When India's 11th man, Varun Aaron, was coming into bat - "Cricket is the only sport in the world where you are absolutely horrible at something and you still need to go out and do it." 14. Dhoni was whacking one shot after another until Sachin got on strike and caressed a delivery towards covers - "We have a surgeon at one end and a butcher at the other." 15. After Dhoni lost the toss yet again - "MS Dhoni has yet again called for heads to the coin which has two tails." 16. While co-commentating with Rahul Dravid in a Test match that India was losing to England - "The only man who can save the match is the man sitting next to me." 17. After a diving Kieron Pollard could not take a catch - "If Pollard can't reach it then it's not a catch." 18. When Sachin got out off Michael Vaughan's offspin in 2002 - "Oh what a shame! It's like a soldier who survived the war when all the bullets were flying by his nose and then got run over by a bicycle in his native town." 19. When the batsmen are scrambling for singles and twos at the end of an innings - "It's like the end of a scrabble game at this stage, India will take whatever they can get." 20. What a way to sum up why we call Dravid The Wall! - "Is there a more calming sight in the world than Rahul Dravid taking guard." 21. And this is what he said during a lecture at IIM-A and someone asked him what his CGPA was as a student - "I learnt this very early in my childhood. Remember the good, forget the bad."

The more I have become grounded in myself, and comfortable with myself, the more I can be in silence and listen to others.

A desire to come across as 'smart' Give that new insight or fact Make that 'amazing' argument Thus most of the time people 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝘆 and not 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱.

𝗦𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗧 and 𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗡 are made of the same letters! 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘆 = Listening from 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧 (Four letters of Hear and One letter of T. 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴)

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Next Wave Women & mindfulness are two silent revolutions going on in the world. At Next Wave Women, we are dedicated to empowering and nurturing mindful women leaders. Our belief is that the world needs not just more women in leadership positions, but also happier women leaders.