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Category: Mistakes (Page 1 of 4)

Choices

Sometime in the middle of 2017 a company called SaReGaMa launched a music player, Carvaan, in India. When I heard about the product I was extremely sceptical about it. I mean who would want to buy a comparatively large music player, with pre-recorded songs, in an age when YouTube and other similar sites had brought the music of your choice right to the palm of your hands. Even though Carvaan came with an inbuilt radio and supported USB as well as Bluetooth, I had my doubts about the product’s success.

I was wrong.

Soon, the Carvaan began to show up in various houses I visited, and recently one was gifted to me. I checked it up on the Internet and found out that the product had not only become a success but had also helped revive SaReGaMa’s dwindling fortunes.

How did that happen?

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Why Do Mistakes Happen?

Why Do Mistakes Happen?

Yesterday, as I was watching the Oscars I was thinking to myself: “This is an amazing event indeed. Not only are they doing it live, they are doing it without a single stutter in the entire show.”

This was around the time when Emma Stone got the Oscar for the best actress. I stopped watching after that as there was something else that demanded my immediate attention. A few minutes later, I logged on to Twitter and was surprised to see my Timeline flooded with tweets about the goof up at the Oscars.

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Take Care of the Little Things

puzzle-pieces-1-1426443As I turned on the car’s ignition, nothing happened.

The car should have started, and we should have been on our way home, but nothing happened. It was a few minutes before I realised that I had left the lights of the car on and the battery had run out of juice.

Not one to be easily fazed by problems, I set out to find a battery and a couple of wires to jumpstart my car. Without boring you with details, let me tell you that I arranged both the things within a few minutes.

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Do you wish for a reset button?

Reset ButtonHave you ever wished for a reset button in your life? A button that, when pressed, would erase all your mistakes and give you a second chance at life – a life where you would make none of the mistakes you already have.

You would be a rare exception if you haven’t wished for such a button at some point of your life, or another. Most of us wish for such a button because wishing is the easy part.

The hard fact is that no such button exists for real.

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