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Keeping Sane in a Noisy World 3 – Blog Post #493 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #493. 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. Continued from Previous…… In this last part, we look at the suggestions about our topic, ‘Keeping Sane in a Noisy World’. It is imperative that we keep sane, it is clear that the world is becoming noisier by the day, and it is understood that the solutions are neither simple nor straightforward. We also know that we can control our own behaviors but cannot control others. Our focus, therefore, will be on our own actions. Reduce Screen Time New phones have the provision to calculate and inform about the time spent on watching phone screen. Please go to settings and set up this feature. It wil...

Keeping Sane in a Noisy World – Blog Post #491 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #491. 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. The world could never have been noisier than what it is now. Take any subject, topic, event, idea, or thought, and you will find so many voices, it is well nigh impossible to discern who is saying what or who is right and who is not. Politics is the name of polarization, which has grown like a monster. This is just a case in point, otherwise this space is politics-free. I mentioned it because more and more people are now aware and therefore polarized. Social media fuels the frenzy. WhatsApp messages come in non-stop. If you happen to be in several groups, same messages are posted in all groups. E...

Digital Communication Challenges III – Blog Post #457 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #457. 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. Continued from Previous…… Before the emails and WhatsApp messages rob us of our sanity, we urgently need to consider the following steps. WhatsApp Forwards Should be Stopped Please do not forward any message even if it says you will burn in hell if you do not send it to ten people. Hold your ground. Do not let WhatsApp take control of your life. Only messages with a public safety alert may be shared; all others should preferably be discarded and deleted right after seeing. WhatsApp messages are an invasion of privacy. No one has the right to keep sending unwanted bulk of messages, no matte...

Digital Communication Challenges I – Blog Post #455 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #455. 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. It is not just about Work from Home, or working across continents, or working from one city to another, or even working from one location to another within the same city; the text communication has become the most frequent mode of communication. The inboxes of everyone who is anyone is flooded with emails, most of which are copies and are of no consequence. The other common mode is text messages through WhatsApp. Both emails and WhatsApp messages cost nothing apparently and are therefore used to the hilt. Short text messages are less popular individually, but more popular commercially. The d...