Showing posts with label US. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US. Show all posts

Sunday, September 08, 2013

Cut the cold conduct

It's seldom easy for the human mind to remain positive all the time. People keep changing their emotions and moods based on the environment around them. Life itself has no reason to remain the same way as everything is subjected to change and change being the law of nature. Due to these fluctuations of feelings amongst humans arises different kinds of misconducts. Until recently about couple of centuries back cold meant only the measure of thermal energy of a substance but off late it has come to measure the degree of cohesiveness amidst people.
 
The moment we are unhappy with someone it rings the bell in our heart. It warns us to remain silent and distances us far away from smiling at the person. The reasons needn't be genuine as well. They can just be mere assumptions. Ego comes as a wall between people and avoids them from sharing and clarifying the misunderstanding. No sooner the lack of communication leads to cold war between the two and eventually may lead to a break in relationship itself. Hence it's essential to cut this cold conduct. One must learn that being cold to someone is going invite a reciprocation of similar sorts and nothing different except in case of some Godly souls. The moment one is able to spot this cold conduct either in herself or himself or others, s/he must take immediate action of cutting it down. The simplest way to cut the cold conduct is by communicating with a wholehearted smile.
 
When I was listening to the audio of Anthony Robbins this evening, he shared an interesting insight into how the cold war between US and USSR ended. President Reagan had decided to put an end to the cold war and hence got up from his seat, walked 4 feet away and turned back with a fresh smile and said, "Let's start afresh". This freshness of feeling and a warm smile accompanied with a heartfelt greeting are more than sufficient to cut the cold conduct of a person. When two massive nations could cut down the cold war, we're after all simple humans, we too stand a chance to fight life's negativity.

Friday, January 18, 2013

A glimpse about ebooks

Nowadays we find lot of people reading, playing, talking, enjoying and doing hundred of other things just on their electronic gadgets. Mobile phones, tablets, phablets, PCs, laptops have changed the way of life from what it was just about 2 decades back. All the knowledge that we accumulate is either by reading or listening. Coming to reading part, books were the main source of information until the advent of internet. With internet entering our households, schools and universities from cyber centres, internet became a powerful storehouse of information in-house and books got reduced to certain extent. About just 5-6 years back, with internet entering our smartphones alongwith launch of tablets in the market, lot of people have moved away from traditional printed books to ebooks.
 
More than 60% of the population in US relies on ebooks for information. Since the preservation of old books in the form of paper is becoming difficult, they are converted into ebooks for eternal preservation of information. Moreover ebooks avoid the carrying of heavy books and save on the printing cost. They also help in reducing the cutting down of trees for paper. However few people do argue that ebooks with all the hyperlinks in them make it easy for readers to get distracted towards some other content and hence the whole purpose of reading a book is defeated. Still many favour the same as an advantage as it helps to refer a lot many sources at one single place without running around to fetch different books. ebooks are available at affordable costs on online centres such as iBookstore, Amazon's kindle, Aldiko reader and lot of other e-retailers and can be bought with just few clicks of a button and online shopping. With the ebooks era, competition to acquire the ebooks market share is also growing. Some ebooks are being sold for a mere cost of 2cents while some free of cost just to encourage more and more people to get engaged to the habit of reading books online on their smart devices.
 
India and brazil are the next big markets for ebooks industry though it is still in its nascent stage in these two countries. 17 to 24% of adults having access to internet have bought an ebook from these countries. With growing middle class economy and availability of economic smartphone-like devices, the growth of ebooks industry is forecasted to be very positive in coming years. Some even predict that in next 50 years, printed books might become extinct and be only found in museums as almost everyone would be reading ebooks. Do research more on ebooks as it is one of the modern age businesses. Do pass on your suggestions on ebooks on
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