Random Thoughts…

1) Nowadays, I am frequented by ‘Why take risk?’  by people(or more exactly, risk kyun lene ka?). People seem to advise that things need to settle down before you make any move (career/stock buying etc. etc.). What I do not understand is if everything becomes clear (and hence almost-risk-free), wouldn’t competition in huge numbers jump in? Ergo, losing the opportunity. Personally, I am firm believer in markets. Markets reward risk assumption. A prime example would be the stock price of Infosys during the 2008-09 crisis. People who assumed the risk (and knew Infy was a fantastic company) bought the stock and right now are sitting at 100%profits. If we had waited for everything to be clear (say, now for example), the stock has already factored that in. So, markets say thanks, but no thanks. You can extend the same analogy to career or pretty much any decision you take.

2) Coming back to India after quite some time, I have seen that Organized labor is the best business opportunity that India would have for quite some time. Especially, cooks and drivers. If someone (I have come to realise that I don’t have the DNA to start a company (not yet, anyway), but I do have a DNA to be a partner) can set up shop to organize this disorganized labor (much akin to the IT companies in the ’90s), there are huge profits to be reaped.

3) We tend to overestimate short term risk and underestimate long term consequences. An extension of ‘We want everything now. At the latest, tomorrow’. I can’t even begin to explain how many times the dilemma of short term vs long term has troubled me. And it still troubles me. But the overestimation vs underestimation analysis has been a terrific savior – every single time.

4)  You realize every proverb you ever came across is loaded with meaning only when you experience that proverb. No explanation required. Even the simplest of proverbs has a lot of loaded meaning and extremely difficult to practice.

5)  What should people do when they have no goal in life? Or are not clear in their goals? Meditate? Get married? Have kids? At this moment of my life, I don’t even know what my goal is (another car, another bungalow – are they even goals?) or what my goal should be? I have pretty much done what I thought I could by this age (fulfilled life you might want to call – but a strange sense of emptiness prevails) (alternatively, you can say that very achievable goals were set and my potential is far higher – well, maybe. Thanks. But emptiness still prevails ). I don’t know what lies beyond this? Any pointers?

P.S – Thanks to a friend who reminded me in a unique style that the blog was being followed and something  needs to be done about it.

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