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A Great Person is a Sentence – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1117 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1117 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Clare Booth Luce Clare Boothe Luce Clare Boothe Luce Preamble The phrase "A Great Person is a Sentence" originates from the book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink. In the book, Pink references a story about Clare Boothe Luce, who once told President John F. Kennedy that “a great man is a sentence.” Her point was that truly accomplished individuals can often be summed up by a single, clear sentence that captures the essence of their impact. She also wanted to tell him that he was unfocused and therefore was not achieving much. For example: Quaid e Azam: “He led the Muslims in United India and gained a separate homelan...

F.I.R.E. Movement in Our Context – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #856 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #856 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Helena  Credit: Amine M'siouri Credit: Jason Toevs Credit: Tran Nhu Tuan FIRE stands for Financial Independence, Early Retirement. The movement, if it can be called a movement, started in 1992. It was never a tour de force, but several individuals opted to attain financial security early and then retire from active jobs. What they did later, is the subject of an INSEAD article published recently. The article is titled ‘Fulfilment and the FIRE Movement: The Realities of Life After Early Retirement’ and has been put together by Winnie Jiang, Claire Harbour, and ...

Four Tips from Great People – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #694 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #694 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Bruce Feiler Steve Jobs This article is inspired by a June 2022 article by Bruce Feiler. The link to the article appears at the end. BRUCE FEILER is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers; the presenter of two prime-time series on PBS; and the inspiration for the drama series COUNCIL OF DADS on NBC. Bruce’s three TED Talks have been viewed more than four million times. His new book, LIFE IS IN THE TRANSITIONS: Mastering Change At Any Age, describes his journey across America, collecting hundreds of life stories, exploring how we can navigate life's growing number of ...

Fulfilled Life – What and How? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #685 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #685 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Fulfilled life may have as many interpretations as the humans on earth. Philosophers, spiritual leaders, scholars, academics, artists, literati, scientists, and everyone else thought about this subject and have given insights which help to understand this complex subject. The major complexity arises out of the fact that we include our desires, ambitions, likes, and needs to determine what a fulfilled life means for us. The second issue is that the definition changes with changes in the circumstances. For example, a poor person would say that his/her fulfilled life would s...

Travel in Africa – Part 3 – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #568 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #568. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. The second day of exhibition was almost as busy as the first day, though the number of serious inquirers was less. This is not unusual. The pattern is universal. If the exhibition is for three days, the most relevant people will come on the second day. If it is for two days, they will come mostly on the first day. Normally, they would take the first round and then decide who to pursue further, and they would return to specific stalls only. The exhibition closed at the end of the second day. Few comments on three topics are in order. Exhibitors – belong to two main categories: busine...

  Learning from Life – Blog Post #371 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #371. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   Life is a school and Time is the Teacher, goes the old adage. We may, for the sake of correctness, add several humans among teachers, but the fact remains that Time is the real teacher. We are born with a clean mind and learning starts from the moment we arrive. Science says that children also carry memories from pre-birth time, but the nature of memories is not clear. Learning continues throughout our lives; initial years are more formal learning while later years are more practical, informal, hands-on learning. If learning is so integral to our lives, why is such huge ...

Emotional Intelligence Primer – Blog Post #359 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #358. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   Emotional Intelligence is about emotions. Though it is mostly studied in the context of work, but it is actually about feelings, personal and work. One major part is to be able to understand own self and its emotions because controlling these will bring control over others. Medical explanation besides, Emotions are talked about with reference to heart. The following poem and pictorials come from the fav Brain Pickings. The poem is apparently written and drawn for children, but it is equally, if not more, applicable to adults as well. [quote] “How is your heart?” I re...

Larger than Life – Blog Post #358 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #358. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   On 17 July 2020, John Lewis passed away in the USA. John Robert Lewis  ( born February 21, 1940) was an American politician and civil rights leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for  Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. Lewis served as the Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966. Lewis was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington. He fulfilled many key roles in the civil rights move...

The RECOVERY Trial – Blog Post #346 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #346 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) is the current hot topic under discussion. In this blog, we look at the basic facts of the trial, its outcomes and the news surrounding it. There is no doubt that RECOVERY Trial has produced exciting and encouraging results. However, the results and context must be understood more clearly. Any rush to take Dexamethasone on your own must be avoided. Even physician-advised improper use should be questioned and discouraged. 1.      I have given below the summary for those who are not familiar with clinical t...