Shiv Khera, founder of the Qualified Learning System, USA, and author of the international bestseller ‘You Can Win’, has just launched his second book, ‘Living With Honour’. Here he gives us the A to Z of winning and living with dignity.

Attitude: It is not position but disposition that determines success.

Business Schools : We don’t have business problems, we have people problems. When we address that, we’ll automatically solve everything.

Country: Country comes first. Every Indian has the right to live his life with dignity.
Criticism: As long as it’s not fun for the giver to criticise, he has the right to give constructive criticism. But the moment he feels pleasure in bringing someone down, he has no right to do so, because then, it becomes sadistic.

Corruption: Corrupt people are like parasites who would sell their mothers for two bucks.Whenever India has been betrayed, it has not been by outsiders, but by Indians. I’m not talking of the corruption that Mahatma Gandhi talked about — no principles on empty stomachs — but the corruption of those on full stomachs.

Doing Things Differently: Winners form the habit of doing things that losers don’t like. It’s not like winners enjoy doing those things, but they do them anyway. Losers don’t like to get up early, work hard; winners don’t either, but they do it anyway. It is not about doing what you like, but liking what you do.

Education: There are two kinds of education. One that helps you make a living and the other that helps make you.

Ego: There are two kinds — the I-know-it-all and the fragile ego. The first talk down to people, and put them down. For the second, everything becomes a prestige issue. Like politicians, when they win, they take revenge, when they lose, they sling mud. Feeling good is to accept yourself as God made you and keep improving constantly.

Global Village: The speeding up of communication and accessibility to information all over has brought people closer. But it can never unite humanity. The global village has nothing to do with humanity. What good is the global village when people abuse their neighbours? It is not proximity that brings humans together, it is humaneness that does so.