Shalu Wasu |
Shalu Wasu is a consultant, trainer and entrepreneur based in Singapore. He conducts workshops worldwide on a variety of topics and provides consulting in the area of Marketing and New Media for SME�??s. Shalu is also the co-founder of Tickled Media Pte Ltd. Tickled Media runs some of the most popular websites in Asia (The Asian Parent, Tickled by Life) and also nurtures and grows large communities of people around proprietary content.
An MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (1999), Shalu founded Life Ahoy(his training company) in 2008 after 9 years in the corporate fast lane across 6 countries, 4 industries and 2 multinational companies. shalu@pswasu.com http://www.shaluwasu.com |
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Is curiosity a cousin of creativity? by Shalu Wasu Curiosity is made up of an open mind, acute sensing abilities and an urge to seek and find. As a child, you had natural curiosity and a sense of wonder. Hungry for novelty, you were always on your toes to welcome the next moment... |
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Avoiding Death by PowerPoint! by Shalu Wasu I must say that I am equally fed up of the numerous ‘rules for making presentations’ that we stumble across every few days either in a presentation or on the net. When you google ‘rules for making presentations’, you get more than 8 million results! Most of them are standard clichés that irk me no end. So I have created my own set of presentation rules. I follow my rules to the last detail and I have rarely been disappointed. I implore you, urge you and beg you to follow my rules as well. |
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3 myths related to training and learning by Shalu Wasu Myths have a way of perpetuating themselves. There are quite a few related to training and learning too. Everyone seems to believe in them. So much so that they have become sacrosanct and no one even bothers to question them. |
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How to purposefully increase your natural creativity! by Shalu Wasu There are three different kinds of creative responses. Which is yours? |
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My Favourite Quotes on New Year Resolutions by Shalu Wasu Here are some of my favourite quotes on new year resoultions. |
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Serendipity is not an accident. by Shalu Wasu Let us first see what stops us from making happy discoveries. We have been conditioned to see what we expect. Our preconceptions creep into whatever we come across. We don’t see things as they are but as we expect them to be. Secondly, we force our preconceptions into whatever we do and want a task to go along predetermined lines. Too obsessed with how things should be, we don’t recognize lucky turns of events and new possibilities. |
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My secret new year resolutions! by Shalu Wasu Do you have secret resolutions to share? |
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Myths about creativity by Shalu Wasu Creativity has long been looked upon as an activity behind the closet. No wonder many myths have developed around the creative process. Not to be left behind, there are many myth busters out there as well! |
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Happy New Year, 2010? by Shalu Wasu I have been actively making new-year resolutions for the last 3 years with very little success. It is usually regular stuff like fitness, skills, jobs, money, etc. It usually lasts for a few weeks. The longest was last year when I started jogging regularly and kept at it for a few months. |
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15 elephant tethers that stop you from being creative! by Shalu Wasu As you grow up and gain experience, you absorb assumptions which then drive your life and limit your choices. You can break away from them with a simple tug if you want to but you don’t. As you acquire more and more experience, your repertoire of blind assumptions grows too, correspondingly limiting your choices. Your experience becomes a hindrance in your being creative. |
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Right brain? Left brain? by Shalu Wasu You've probably heard this left/right brain dichotomy before. It goes something like this: the left hemisphere of the brain is logical, deductive, mathematical, etc., while the right hemisphere is artistic, visual and imaginative. |
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Watch out for the new look TickledByLife.com! by Shalu Wasu [caption id="attachment_7948" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="That's Panna Lal working on the TickledbyLife.com revamp!"][/caption] We are working on revamping TickledbyLife.com to make it more useful for all our readers. Most of the ... |
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Guide to boosting creativity - by Panna Lal by Shalu Wasu Tickled by Life recently celebrated its first birthday. To celebrate the occasion we have created a series of marvelous ebooks for our readers. These ebooks are beautifully designed compilations of the best articles published on Tickled by Life in t... |
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Tickled by Life is one year old! by Shalu Wasu Your favourite source of fresh tickles everyday is now one year old! Happy birthday to Tickled by Life and thank you for being a part of the growth! On this occasion a certain Mr. Panna Lal is taking over the website! Who is Panna Lal, you migh... |
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Stuck for an idea? Try this. by Shalu Wasu When was the last time you were stuck for an idea? It happens with everyone, but the trick is not to remain stuck for long. What if you had a magic wand and you could come up with ideas about anything at will? How would it change your life? This arti... |
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16 habits of highly creative people by Shalu Wasu Many people believe that creativity is inborn and only a chosen few are creative. While it is true that creativity is inborn, it is not true that only a chosen few are creative. |
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Forcing yourself to get up early in the morning is pointless! by Shalu Wasu So here are 10 points about why you should stay up late and still not feel bad when you come across another article by the self-help gurus who preach getting up early in the morning! |
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Smoking a cigarette is like talking to your mother-in-law because... by Shalu Wasu Once upon a time, many years ago, in prehistoric times, at a time when there were no cities, no buildings and perhaps even no villages, there was a hunter. He had had a successful day and was walking through a forest back to his tribe. He had slung ... |
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PowerPoint is my slave! by Shalu Wasu My earlier article ‘Avoiding Death by PowerPoint’ was about the art of making interesting presentations. This one is about using easy but powerful tricks that can dramatically improve the quality of your presentations and also bring that extra oo... |
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Ambiguity is good...er...no, ambiguity is bad. by Shalu Wasu Ambiguity is not a desirable state in most situations. It typically causes communication problems and has no place in certain circumstances. For instance, an infantry commander would not want to say, “Make sure you cross one of the bridges soon or ... |
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49 weeks to Nirvana! by Shalu Wasu I have decided to incorporate a new habit/attitude every week for the next 49 weeks. Every week, I will try to add on/inculcate a new habit or attitude. All these 49 may not be for you. Do pick up the ones that resonate with you and add some of your ... |
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Slow down to go faster! by Shalu Wasu Sometimes, it is not the circumstances, but our own mind which pushes us to come up with a solution quickly. Our mind is rushed perhaps because it is lazy (or efficient!). It wants to stop working as quickly as possible or maybe because it wants ... |
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My favourite quotes on creativity by Shalu Wasu Creativity means different things to different people. Here are a few popular definitions of creativity. Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties: Gail Sheehy Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaki... |
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I love to fail! by Shalu Wasu Our attitude towards failure gets formed very early in life. Usually in school…and it never just goes away. All through school, we perhaps take hundreds of tests, exams, assignments etc. And we are in BIG trouble if we fail even ONCE. So we are sca... |
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Say NO and feel great! by Shalu Wasu Saying no is perhaps the most important productivity tool that exists. Saying no is an art. It is also perhaps the most difficult thing to do for most people. I used to dread the occasions where I knew I will have to say no and I used to prepare for ... |
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I save 1 hour every day by using simple email tricks! by Shalu Wasu I sometimes get hundreds of emails a day. I used to get sucked in and spend hours sorting them out. I invariably ended up having a day when nothing seemed to be getting done. Over time, I discovered and started using these tricks and now I feel compl... |
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Why the worst may be over in the worldwide Financial Crisis!?! by Shalu Wasu Yesterday I was in the middle of conducting a training programme on creativity for a group of Singaporeans when I got a call from my mom who lives in Gurgaon near Delhi. Of course, my mobile was in the silent mode during the session and I got to know... |
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Top 10 ideas for how NOT to make a million dollars! by Shalu Wasu 1. Start a cool looking website. Flick some good content from various sites, put it all together and make it look coherent. Optimize your website for google. Add on some google ads on your site and voila! you are ready to make your first million on t... |
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Is imagination another cousin of creativity? by Shalu Wasu Imagination is visualizing something that is not there. It is seeing something with your mind’s eye. Now I want you to actually absorb what imagination is. First read the whole article, then try out what it suggests and then read it once more! J... |
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Banking for the moving Citi! by Shalu Wasu Citibank has recently opened up branches/sales outlets inside a number of MRT stations. This is a superb example of creativity and innovation. I am sure it is paying off handsome dividends to some smart marketing manager at Citibank! These n... |
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Top 10 ideas for increasing medal tally of Singapore at the next Olympics! by Shalu Wasu Offer Singaporean citizenship to all finalists of all events, just five minutes before the final event. If they decline, threaten to sue for defamation for 100 million dollars. Singapore should host the Olympics and include new medal ... |
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Top 10 ideas for increasing medal tally of India at the next Olympics! by Shalu Wasu HRD minister Arjun Singh should fight for reservations of medals for all countries on the basis of population. Use the country’s expertise in bribing to make sure that kabaddi, chess and coding (notice, no cricket) are included and everything ... |
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Why be creative? by Shalu Wasu Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. – George Lois The popular perception is that creativity is just for writers, artists, scientists and advertising people. Not... |
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- Becky: Good God woman! No evolutionist anywhere ever has claimed that BEARS evolved into WHALES! Thank about it. Your...
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