Comments on: The Snake at House 84 and The Infinite Game

By: Deepa Premkumar

Deepa Premkumar — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 12:05:16 +0000

Thank you for getting me to go past my fear of snakes ? and read this blogpost. Found many anchors to guide me and get me off the competitive mindset. It is a journey in itself.

Your post also made me go back and look up my notes from the book mastery. Am taking the liberty to share something that resonates with me and would look forward to hearing your views sir.

Aikido instructor George Leonard on mastery:

”How long will it take me to master Aikido?” a prospective student asks.

“How long do you expect to live?” is the only respectable response.

Ultimately, practice is the path of mastery. If you stay on it long enough, you’ll find it to be a vivid place, with its ups and downs, its challenges and comforts, its surprises, disappointments, and unconditional joys. You’ll take your share of bumps and bruises while traveling – bruises of the ego as well as of the body, mind and spirit – but it might well turn out to be the most reliable thing in your life. Then, too, it might eventually make you a winner in your chosen field, if that’s what you’re looking for, and then people will refer to you as a master. But that’s not really the point.

What is mastery? At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.”

Source: Mastery

By: Ashok Ramchandran

Ashok Ramchandran — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 03:07:21 +0000

Fabulous points made,Sir … And very eloquently ! Lands home so easily and instinctively.

By: Vinita

Vinita — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 04:31:32 +0000

*master stroke ?

By: Vinita Charles

Vinita Charles — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 04:29:58 +0000

Another matter stroke from you Sir. Thank you very much for this insight.

Keep guiding us ?

By: V J Rao

V J Rao — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 03:56:24 +0000

Good one Vivek. And now everyone says ” How can I be like Vivek Patwardhan?” And the game goes on. I think that this is good because it inspires. Inspiration drives achievement. So it is good. But that does not mean that one has to imitate.But that is easier said than done!!!

By: Aravamudhan

Aravamudhan — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 14:06:16 +0000

Dear Mr. Vivek

Your Blog makes an interesting read.
It is often said , the best among us are not more gifted than the rest. ,they just take little steps each day as they March toward their biggest life and they arrive at a place called Extraordinary. In their sustained efforts they do get inspiration from the earlier achievers who excelled.
Vivek is one such Achiever to inspire the contemporary and budding HR Personnel

Aravamudhan

By: Makarand Patwardhan

Makarand Patwardhan — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 13:52:49 +0000

Thank you Vivek. Really a nice read and a reminder about house 84. I resonate the experience of interaction with Dr.Khandwala , where in we asked about the difficulty they face in dealing with the top class students they onboard at IIM, and answer was we make them realize how their knowledge in their own field is abysmally low. So start with a learning mind and you grow.

By: vijay PADATE

vijay PADATE — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 13:38:52 +0000

An individuals development is one’s own game – a fundamental and a basic – driven home in a subtle way – as only Vivek can do! It reminded me of
Prof. Jerome Joseph and Dr. Khandwala’s 90 minutes without notes and without books. Million thanks Vivek..

By: Vineet Kaul

Vineet Kaul — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:01:28 +0000

Thank you Vivek …initially when I saw the title,I linked 84 to Housie !! The snake put me on Track- perhaps due to the bite ? The Snakes and ladders game is a very good example that you have shared to drive home the message
Excellence is a journey and indeed it is very good to take inspiration from role models of Excellence .Our School motto was ” Play the Game” – I admit that at that time this was not so well understood, as now.
Always Good to learn from your blogs
Regards,
Vineet
Was fortunate to spend 2/3 hrs with Prof Narayan Sheth at Abad on an assignment in 1980.

By: Iyer SUBRAMANIAN

Iyer SUBRAMANIAN — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 07:39:14 +0000

Excellently written article. I loved the title. Choosing this title speaks volumes of the thought in giving a message or several messages wielding the pen.
It also shows the importance of how well one plays the dice that leads to one’s own development.
Playing like Shakuni could bring one to 5 from 84.

Keep writing,Sir.