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Introduction
Dale Breckenridge Carnegie (November 24, 1888 – November 1, 1955) was an American writer and lecturer, and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills.
His book, “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living,” Dale speaks about making realistic changes that can help one to stop worrying. He mentions in the preface of this wonderful book as to how he decided to write this book to help himself. He was a self-proclaimed unhappy lad in the happy city of New York. He also mentions that later in life, while he prepared himself to teach adults, he realized that one of the biggest problems faced by the everyone is that they do not know how to handle their worries, and this eats up the joy of living. He mentions that there is no textbook that teaches one to deal with their worries, and therefore he decided to write one himself.
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Thinking is the ultimate human resource. And, yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better. The biggest enemy of thinking is complexity, as for that leads to confusion. When thinking is clear and simple, it becomes more enjoyable and more effective. The six thinking hats concept, described in this book is not only very simple to understand, it is also very simple to use.
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I am someone who sleeps like a baby, but last night was different. I kept tossing and turning and after barely managing to sleep for a couple of hours, I woke up with a headache. Reason for this being, I had a bad day yesterday. I failed. I failed to deliver a session as well as I had planned it. The incident yesterday got me to thinking
Out-Of-The-Blue!
It all started when the Travel Plan showed “Green” against my name, which essentially meant I had a program coming up on the said date. I started preparing for the program accordingly when out of the blue, Arnold, the lead facilitator of the program called to inform me that the organizer from the client’s end wanted us to have a meeting with someone from the client’s organization two days before the event date. He then informed me that he was not going to be available in Bangalore for the said date and wanted me to arrange for someone else to take up the meeting. The client was looking for a brief on the activities, learning(s), and the timing of the entire workshop in the said meeting. I immediately checked the “Travel Plan” document only to find that no facilitator was available on that day, which meant I would have to step up and attend the meeting myself!
