Entries by V Ranganathan

NLP through stories – story 16

A young couple won a prize in a weekly magazine and were interviewed by a correspondent. “How long have you been married?” reporter asked. “Two & half years now” replied the husband. ”no no three years it is fast approaching” quickly corrected his wife. “It doesn’t matter much” said the correspondent  “How can you say? […]

NLP through stories -story 15

Sage Narad came to meet Lord Shiva with a mango fruit.Handing over the fruit he said,” This a Wisdom fruit” Shiva handed down the fruit to Parvathi Devi.Being a mother she called her two sons Ganapathy & Muruga and instructed them to share it equally. Lord Shiva objected to this & said,”One should take the fruit fully;no […]

NLP through stories -story 14

A overzealous man went to a master and asked,” How long will it take for me to gain wisdom?”Master replied,” ten years” Shocked by the answer the man impulsively asked,”ten years? so long?” Master said,” sorry I was wrong; it’s not 10 years; you will take 20 years” Man asked,” why have you doubled it […]

NLP through stories -story 13

A man took his brother to a doctor. “Doctor ! My brother complaints of feeling sleepy when he gets into the bus. Can you do something?” Doctor with a sarcasm, ” Dont say all these are a complaint; If he feels sleepy, let him happily sleep during the bus journey.” The man shockingly replied,” Doctor, […]

NLP through stories – story 12

A man becomes very weak sick & serious. His wife rushes him to a hospital. Put in ICU the team of doctors examine the sick man. Seeing him motionless the chief doctor calls his wife & says,“sorry madam; your husband is dead.” At that time the wife feels a pull from behind; her husband in […]

NLP through stories -Story 11

American President Eisenhower was making preparations to visit India, when Nehru was the Prime Minister. A few days prior to the departure he was seriously reading till late night. His wife becoming curios asked Eisenhower what he was seriously reading. He showed her the book The Discovery Of India” by Jawaharlal Nehru. He said since […]

NLP through stories – story 10

Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar was a great Bengali scholar. Once he went to see a drama. In the play the hero unbearably tortures the heroine. Vidayasagar witnessing this could not tolerate and jumped on the stage and started beating the hero with his chappal. The whole audience was shocked and paralysed by the behavior of this […]

NLP through stories – story 9

A cobra went to the saint and complained to him that as soon as people saw him they immediately try to kill him.  It requested the saint to show him a way to escape from the threat. The saint said,”you are a poisonous snake; so to protect them they try to threaten you;  if they […]

NLP through stories – Story 8

The barber in a shop had the habit of demonstrating an event to his customers. From the house opposite to his shop the barber would call a school going boy and ask him, “my boy see on my left palm I have two coins (1 rupee coin) & on the right palm one coin (5 […]

NLP through stories – story 7

George Bernard Shaw was pondering how to begin a novel.  That time two servants engaged in a dialogue. One asked,” Is our master busy?” The other said,” No not at all; he is simply sitting and writing something” The story very clearly indicate the level of understanding of the servant; he evaluates the importance based […]