Sunday, April 09, 2006

The Road Less Traveled ...

I am reading this book, actually i have been reading it for the the last month or so. Generally i finish a book in 1 or 2 days, but i liked this book so much that i wanted it to sink in slowly.

Often when i am sitting for interviews - one of the tasks i focus on is how to get past the upper mask of the person. Somebody who seems really sharp could be a total loser when it comes to work

And somebody who is so nervous that he makes you nervous, could be a tremendous talent. I've had this experience often - and luckily a couple of the best people we have here - had the worst interview, but still showed some little spark ...

In the Road less traveled, there is often a talk about how your childhood affects your adult life. So if parents listen to their child when he is young - make that child feel valuable about himself. This child will go on and say more valuable things ... On the other hand parents who ignore their children make them feel less confident about themselves. These people are the shy people who are always holding things back ... wondering is what they are saying is good enough!

There is so much talk about how much the parents affect the life of the kids - it would scare most people away from having any babies ! ;-)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey :) Zoya here. What a great post. Its so true abt ur childhood affecting ur adult life behaviour. Also what u've said abt parents beaviour affecting the child's future behaviour. Nice post. Keep it up.

Anonymous said...

would like to plunge into such a kinda book....only if i get to hv some time out of my studies :(
and regarding the post i fuullly agree with the point "Somebody who seems really sharp could be a total loser when it comes to work

And somebody who is so nervous that he makes you nervous, could be a tremendous talent."
SO TRUE!!

Anonymous said...

aye

kwaldia said...

this book "The Road less Travelled" has been in my house for like 10 years now..My mom read it, my sister read it....and then i took it in my possesion....alas..that is where I stopped....

Now reading you post, I have the sudden motivation to read the book finally... ;)

and bout the parenting thing....whether we accept it or not....parents do affect the child's future behaviour...a great deal....and again accept it or not...quite a few of the crowd are afraid of parenting these days...reasons maybe different...

i just feel glad that i was born in a different time ;)

Jivtesh Singh said...

Haha .... good one ;-)