Speaking Tree Blog | March 3, 2019 Swami Vivekanand (1863-1902) had undertaken long journeys in search of truth before he reached the shores of Ras Kumari. Spotting a small island one furlong off…

Speaking Tree Weekly Blog | July 20, 2020 The American writer, Charles Garfield, who has made a thorough study of the psychology of peak achievement, says that, "in a study of 90 leaders in business…

A young man who was employed as an ordinary worker in a Bidi factory soon learnt the entire art of the business and set up his own factory. He initially invested only Rs. 5000 in his business, but…

Pubilius Syrus, a Roman writer of the first century B.C. who wrote in Latin is recorded as having said: “A good opportunity is seldom presented and is easily lost.”—An observation which may well be…

It has been very aptly observed that success lies in perseverance. The entire gamut of human history testifies to the truth of this saying. Life's journey, frequently directed along uneven paths, is…

The Times of India | April 07, 2024 A book published in America in 1986, entitled Peak Performers, makes a study of the lives of a number of individuals in modern America who have played a heroic…

The Times of India | May 12, 2024 The following story, written by Mao Tse Tung, former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party is one which should set us all thinking. In olden times, there was…

The Times of India | June 03, 2024 As the legend goes, the wind and the sun once challenged one another as to which one was more powerful than the other. The argument went on and on indefinitely.…

The Sunday Guardian | July 09, 2023 By August 1945, Japan had been totally ruined having lost its political freedom as well as its economic stability. What Japan did subsequently was to refrain from…