Tuesday, 29 July 2025

SIEGE MENTALITY AND MENTAL HEALTH

 

              

 

 I.The initial symptoms:

1.’’Work environment is toxic.Management is toxic.’’

2.’’There is no work-life balance.’’

3.’’I am overworked and underpaid.’’

Not suggesting this is fictional.Just overhyped and stressed to a point where your professional life becomes dysfunctional.

II.Perpetrated by socio-professional media platform:

This is typified in social media impotent rage reactions where real and reel mix, and we are a perceived victim of systemic injustices and inequalities.The trouble lies with everyone else ,except me/us(the victims of the system).The mob culture reaction afforded by safety and comfort of anonymity of social media makes us spew venom on all and sundry.Contrarians are trolled and vilified.

III.What is SEIGE MENTALITY ?:

It is a real psychological phenomena requiring intervention.It is group victimstancing. It is a collective state of mind in which a group of people/even individual believe him/her/themselves constantly attacked, oppressed & exploited in the face of the negative intentions of the rest of the world.

We can together identify the why of it.And create curated solutions to discover that every crisis creates an opportunity.

Sunday, 6 July 2025

KNOCK THE DOOR

 

I run tax law classes ONLINE and I invariably run a clip of Steve Jobs video where he recounts his experince as a 12 year old picking up the phone and straightaway dialling the number of Bill Hewlett the co-founder of Hewlett-Packard,and he recalls:
''“His number was still in the phone book, and he answered the phone himself,” Jobs recalled.

[Jobs introduced himself]: “Hi, I'm Steve Jobs. I'm 12 years old. I'm a student in high school, and I want to build a frequency counter, and I was wondering if you had any spare parts I could have.”

Hewlett laughed—and then he did something extraordinary. He not only gave Jobs the spare parts but also offered him a summer job at HP, working on the assembly line.
“I was in heaven,” Jobs said.

“Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask,” Jobs said. “And that's what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them.”

Its a huge tragedy.People say they dont ask because seniors dont tell or ridicule.But that should not deter you.Keep on knocking -one day the right door will open-and life will change.
For whatever I am worth,I am also sitting behind one of those doors-three decades of learning and growth in tax law-in career and mind management -to give away-waiting for my kind of learner.Waiting to open that door.Waiting for that knock.


You have the speed.But I know the way.


So don't fear-just ask.Just knock the door.