“Equanimity” – Why it is one of my favorite words?
(Published - LinkedIn Oct24, 2020) It’s not because I love Statistics (“Really!” – I can almost see my high-school teacher rolling his eyes) . It’s because the laws of probability are true for everything in life! Just like one has a 50% chance of getting a head or a tail on a coin toss; on any given day one has 50% chance of being sad or happy; on any given assignment (or a project) one has a 50% chance of winning or losing. As a very successful project manager in an amazing company, you might just not believe me. Just do a simple search of project success rates; and you will see how real failures are! Consultants, managers, leaders and employees - all make a life out of “beating the odds!” “Equanimity” doesn't mean we shouldn’t strive to always win and always be happy – “Equanimity” simply means that be ready for the opposite outcome to hit soon, if you are bombarded with one. More importantly perhaps, it means, learning to accept failures with an even kill as much as learn
