Imagine you are the first officer in the cockpit of a flight. The ATC has been highlighting some storm clouds in the flight path your plane is taking. It seems that the pilot hasn’t paid any attention to the warning and is flying straight towards the storm. You decide to say something.

What do you choose to say:-

A. “That dark cloud at twenty-five miles looks mean.”
Or
B. “Which direction would you like to deviate?”
Or
C. “Turn thirty degrees right.”

Option C is direct and unambiguous, Option A is called “Highly mitigated speech”

What you choose to say or not say could decide between life and death. Listen on!

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Let’s imagine you are in an unfortunate situation where there is a medical emergency. Someone in the family needs help. You have never faced this situation earlier. You ask around and you are advised that the best solution lies in a land far far away. You have the resources to take the family member to that far away land. What would you do?

In a recent lecture, Anand Mahindra narrates what he did and the lessons he learnt.

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Many years ago, a tourist in London, let’s call him Peter, needed to travel from Covent Garden to Leicester Square. He opened the London Underground Map he carried in his pocket and saw that Leicester Square was one stop away.

The map he was looking at was created in the early 1930s by an electrical engineer called Harry Beck. Harry Beck had taken an extremely complicated map and made it simple. One element of simplicity was that the stations were shown equidistance on the map.

Peter went down the escalator to the Covent Garden station, rode the subway for what seemed to be a very short time and then took the lift up at Leicester Square.

In reality, these two stations are among the closest in the entire London Underground system, separated by a mere 260 meters (about 850 feet). It would have taken Peter a shorter time to walk between the two stations than to take the Tube, considering the time spent going down to the platform and waiting for a train.

This incident humorously highlights the practical limitations of schematic maps but we still use them because the pluses far outweigh these drawbacks.

Here is the story about how the new London Underground Map was born and became the template for all subway maps in the world.

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