From IIM Ahmedabad To Happiness

Author(s): Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp Printers

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FROM IIM-AHMEDABAD TO HAPPINESS
over the years. Consumed with worry and anxiety, we become unsafe and uncertain and negative thoughts start empowering us. We start calculating the 'loss' and 'gain' in each relationship. We start getting more concerned about the opinions of others rather than our own. We become dependent.
We have forgotten that the true principle is to do whatever work is natural or congenial to one's way of life, and to do it unconcernedly, always remembering that wealth is not the be-all and end-all of existence.
For the first time in his life, the successful corporate executive - as the world would know him – had a deep inquisitiveness to know the meaning of life, to understand the meaning of real happiness.
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