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Applying for jobs just out of college or grad school, comfort may have seemed like the ultimate goal: to find the perfect job that was a natural fit and have a long, fulfilling career there. Forget all of that: comfort is the enemy. If things are easy, it's time to shake up your career. Remember when you were young, and you first attempted to write a bicycle? Were you scared at first? Absolutely. Was the end result worth it? I'm betting it was.  Hopping into a new job or career path is indeed a lot like that first ride on a bike: a heart-pumping, adrenaline-inducing risk-- and the payoffs can be as meaningful as the life-changing freedom of mastering two wheels.  Getting out of your comfort zone is a must if you want to achieve extraordinary success. I like to think of it as a shift into your "strength zone": identify, highlight and hone in on what makes you unique and lean into it so you stand out. The hardest part of shaking things up is taking

CELEBRATING ANDHRAPRENEURSHIP ™ The most happening startup fest of Andhra Pradesh is back in Vijayawada. The fest is run by an awesome team of entrepreneurs, freelancers, and volunteers and is the largest conference of, by, and for Andhrapreneurs. StartAP™ is a story of passion, vision & entrepreneurship and how an ecosystem for young entrepreneurs can revitalise the economy in India. StartAP is one of the largest platforms in India of, by, and for entrepreneurs, where thousands meet, share, learn, and collaborate. This is the third edition of StartAP Fest and second one in the Amaravati region.   Register here StartAP Amaravati

Once upon a time (in an era that appears to have expired in the 1980s), the concept of entrepreneurship evoked the slick and polished high society types. MBAs with impressive connections, country club status and high-end wardrobes were the order of the day for prospective founders of a successful business. It may have been a gradual transition over the past 15-20 years, but  in business, we’re increasingly living the Revenge of the Nerds. Here are just a few of the reasons the more introverted, scholarly and, yes, even “geeky” members of society are some of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs. Geeks are willing to seek adventure.  Think about  Star Trek episodes. Or  The Big Bang Theory . As good luck would have it, geeks bring this same imagination and energy to work. It’s never been done before? No problem. Geeks relish the process of coming up with a new idea, or at least formulating known ideas and elements into a winnable plan. Geeks can be captivating storytellers.  They m

You are the sum of your habits. When you allow bad habits to take over, they dramatically impede your path to success. The challenge is bad habits are insidious, creeping up on you slowly until you don’t even notice the damage they’re causing. “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”   –Warren Buffett Breaking bad habits requires self-control—and lots of it. Research indicates that it’s worth the effort, as  self-control  has huge implications for success. University of Pennsylvania psychologists Angela Duckworth and Martin Seligman conducted a study where they measured college students’ IQ scores and levels of self-control upon entering university. Four years later, they looked at the students’ grade point averages (GPA) and found that self-control was twice as important as IQ in earning a high GPA. The self-control required to develop good habits (and stop bad ones) also serves as the foundation for a strong work ethic and high pro

Shipment of smartphones priced above Rs 30,000 fell 59 per cent year-on-year, data from Counterpoint Research show India has come to be known as the fastest growing market for smartphones, with premium  smartphones  usually doing better than other categories, but September quarter was different. Shipment of   smartphones  priced above Rs 30,000 fell 59 per cent year-on-year, data from Counterpoint Research show. Two of the global leaders in  smartphones  -  Samsung  and  Apple  - which command the lion's share in premium handsets sales in India, shipped lower volumes during the July-September quarter. According to analysts, absence of Note 7 in Samsung's portfolio hurt its shipments during the period. Apple, on the other hand, shipped only 1,500 iPhone 7 devices, Faisal Kawoosa, lead, telecom & semitronics, Cyber Media Research (CMR) said. "Last year, while  Samsung  had S6 Edge and Note 5 in its kitty and was heavily shipping in the devices to

LG’s V20 is an Android phone I’d recommend to people who insist on having one of the device’s four cornerstone features: a replaceable battery, elaborate manual video camera controls, excellent audio recording capabilities, or a hi-fi headphone listening experience. If you don’t need anything from that list in your next smartphone — and a lot of people don't — you’re better off buying a Google Pixel XL or iPhone 7 Plus. For upwards of $800 depending on where you buy it, the V20 is priced to compete with the very best phones on the market right now. But it just doesn’t. To be clear, it’s fairly good at what LG designed it to excel at. It’s a gadget for Android nerds and checks all the boxes on high-end specs, build quality, display (yes, there’s still a tiny second screen on the front), and performance. It ditches the modularity gimmick that quickly fizzled out with the G5, and the design is a little classier and safer than the rubber-clad V10 from last year. But it’s also a

G oogle on Monday posted to the Internet a previously unpublicized flaw that could pose a security threat to users of the Microsoft Windows operating system. Google notified both Microsoft and Adobe of zero day vulnerabilities in their software on Oct. 21, wrote Neel Mehta and Billy Leonard, members of Google's Threat Analysis Group, in an online post. Google has a policy of making critical vulnerabilities public seven days after it informs a software maker about them. Adobe was able to fix its vulnerability within seven days; Microsoft was not. "This [Windows] vulnerability is particularly serious because we know it is being actively exploited," wrote Mehta and Leonard. However, Google's Chrome browser prevents exploitation of the vulnerability when running in Windows 10, they added. Flaw Not Critical Microsoft challenged Google's analysis of the Windows flaw in a statement provided to TechNewsWorld by spokesperson Charlotte Heesacker. &quo

Apple has released iOS 10.1.1 to the general public today. The iOS 10.1.1 update comes  one week after iOS 10.1 was released .  The reason why Apple quickly issued this software update is because it fixes a bug that Forbes contributor  Gordon Kelly reported exclusively last week . Apple declined to reply to requests to acknowledge the bug until now.  You can install iOS 10.1.1 by connecting your device to iTunes or downloading it by going to  Settings > General > Software Update . The iOS 10.1.1 update is available for the following devices: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later and iPod touch 6th generation and later. What Is Included In The Update? The software update is relatively small at under 70MB, which indicates that it is a minor update with a few bug fixes.  There weren’t any betas of iOS 10.1.1 either.  And  the changelog of the iOS 10.1.1 software update says:  “This update fixes bugs including an issue where Health data could not be viewed for som