(Excessive use of ‘will-power’.) Lala Harcharan Das, sadhanas of hath-yoga: Body is wiser than brain Cultural values for their own gains give importance and encouragement to some professions, means of livelihood. In India performers of religious rituals and its...

(When biological energy is mistakenly used as a force of ‘will-power’) Swami Guptanand Saraswati: Old age – a social conditioning ‘When we are full of biological energy we exercise control over the requirements of the body. Once those bubbling of biological energy...

(When ‘natural calls’ are ignored as a demonstration of strong ‘will-power) Dr. D.P. Sharma, a naturopath: Demands of body must be taken care For fifteen years I continuously suffered from dysentery. Symptomatically, for the time being, most of the therapists helped...

Albert Einstein, a great man: Ability to visualize enables you to deserve support from ‘Nature’ In class XIth, there was one chapter on “Life of a Great man”. It was about Einstein. English teacher Mr. A.P. Calton was a man of elaboration. While teaching the chapter...

(Right use of ‘will-power’) Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi: who exemplified the power of desire It is unwise to expect a young generation of India to follow Gandhi. Gandhi is not for the people who lack self-motivation and a desire to transform within. His experiences...

Will I prosper in this career? There are 4000 to 66000 possibilities Vijay was studying in class XIth. He was my wife’s younger brother. Throughout he dreamt to join defense services. He passed various tests in NCC which were a demonstration of his ‘active interest’...

As a leader, you can avoid calamities which hinder the growth of your enterprise Your response to items (situations) reveals your future Col. Wahi, S.P. joined CCI as Managing Director. “Gupta I have lost your earlier report. Could you repeat the same psychological...

Personality: a predictor of your political career Success is a result of inner transformation There were state elections in UP. Congress aspirants were trying for party nomination as a candidate from Moradabad assembly. I studied the personality of all the leading...

Will I get support? You know but you don’t know Shri Naval Kishore Sharma, Ex-Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas was given patient hearing for more than an hour by Shri Rajiv Gandhi, the then Prime Minister. In the evening AP Sharma took me to him. He was...

Who will benefit from training inputs? Emotional rigidity a guarantee of ‘future’ failure There was training on “Project Management” conducted by NPC, Vadodara. Training was sponsored and organized by RTI, ONGC, Vadodara for its senior managers. I was invited as a...

I may be very competent but as a person, I am very casual. Like others, I don’t plan my moves. In fact, I don’t know what I am going to do next. Mr. S.K. Manglik took over charge of ONGC as Chairman. After two months Shri Jauhari Lal, Member (Personnel) desired that I...

Need Support? Use Your Experiences As A Source Of Power Faith in Mathematics is a backbone of interpretation skills Inner transformation is essential for getting support from ‘nature’ During 1982 to 89 I collected data on corporate executives. Amongst them some...

Anybody can collect the data but the interpretation is difficult through the Manuals or Handbooks, it requires creative intelligence. Or Personality and identification of training needs Dr. Aniruddh Pandey had been our neighbor when I was a toddler.  He was my...

Don’t make it cheap; Interpretation is a skill In 2002 I was invited by Air Force Selection Board, Dehradun for a talk on, “Psychometric Applications in Defense.” I concentrated on the development of interpretation skills. In fact, Board was facing the problems from...

For bright Career, What should be your next step after professional degree? Those days I was doing freelancing as a professional psychologist. I was introduced to Dr. S.D. Upadhyay, Reader in Medicine, Rishikul Ayurvedic College, Hardwar. Dr. Upadhyay desired to...

She secured only 41% in CBC but her father was very keen to see her as an engineer. With such a poor achievement it was not possible to opt for science. He requested Shri Pritam Sharma, a social worker from Shahdara, Delhi. Shri Sharma approached the principal and...

In the beginning of my career as a professional psychologist, Shri Jagdish Raj was my neighbor who owned a truck and was driving on a contractual basis. He was my well-wisher who wanted to help me as I was going through the crisis. I conducted the 16 PF on him. His...

In the year 1995, I was to identify ‘high flyers’. The graduate trainees who joined ONGC during 1983 to 85 were the target group. Besides official assignment, I observed that the executives who were attached to MSGs (Management Services Groups) of Regional Directors,...

Being in service I couldn’t do side business as I was posted in HRG. There my job was to evaluate the contracts operating in Central Region of ONGC and to control manpower in those contracts, which was not my cup of tea. But, I wanted to continue with my project....

Do you want to come out from the vicious circle of sickness, loneliness or failures? ‘Personality’ helps in recognizing ‘Uniqueness’ “Had I not failed in interpreting the results of Mitraji, Senior Vice President, Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd. I would not have shared my...

“I understand you have a very good insight into human psychology. Your assessment, we found correct. Even the diseases you diagnosed were matching with the diseases with which people are suffering,” Mr. V.P. Suri, Manager (Personnel) told. “I want to know can we...

I was introduced to Shri Ravi Verma, Chief Interpreter in British High Commission. “Dr. Gupta, it’s a news to me that psychological tests can predict the performance. I am to select ‘secretary-cum-stenographer’ for a local firm in Chawri Bazar. Why don’t you come and...

During those days telephone was the luxury. I was to go to Mr. Goyal’s residence for making a phone call. He enquired about the job I was doing. After listening to me he expressed his desire to experience the utility of psychometric instrument in person. I have a good...

I was an examiner for BA (Final). A girl was assigned The 16 PF as a part of her examination. She administered the 16 PF on her ‘own’ self. She scored the answers and converted ‘Raw Scores’ into ‘Sten Scores’. She was also carrying her ‘Practical’ file in which the...

For the induction of graduate trainees, psychological tests were carried out in the old building of IDT, ONGC, Dehradun. I was acting as psychologist – cum – invigilator in the hall. One job aspirant, while I was moving in his direction, he was filling the...

I was sitting in teacher’s room. All of a sudden one girl entered the room. She was a student of BA (Final), psychology. She was perspiring and her breath was disturbed as if she had undergone some trauma. “Sir is there any relation between ‘neuroticism’ and...

In 1987 one person jumped from ‘Sagar Vijay’, a deep-sea drilling-rig, into the sea and committed suicide.  I was assigned to study such probable cases who might commit suicide. I knew that successful suicides were beyond identification. I also knew the limit of The...

Shri M.K. Mathur, Retd. Joint Secretary, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs was a consultant with ONGC in 1988. His wife was admitted to Pant Hospital, New Delhi for the operation of malignant tumor in the abdomen.  Before the operation, she was advised for CAT scan...

“Dr. Gupta, your assessment about Sirohi was correct but we cleared his report,” Shri Jauhari Lal gave his feedback. Management of ONGC decided that the behavior of those graduate trainees would be closely observed who had been rejected by the psychologist. Their...

Getting support from Nature When I was associated with the corporate promotions, I was not having much insight into the managerial requirements of ONGC. Still, I wished to make felt my presence as a psychologist. By now I could develop skills for identifying managers...

Extracting the best I was transferred from training to operational area in Nhava. Before my joining I got feedback about my staff. Regarding Bangera I was told, ‘He was lazy and suffering from diabetes. He was a person who talks more work less.’ Later on, I found that...

Supremacy of Body Stop to think for a moment what you would be capable of doing with the same brain you now possess if it was housed in the body of a snake. With no means of communication and no muscle powered, brain directed hands and feet. You would be as helpless...

*If you wish to jump from reptile (self-centered and security oriented) mentality to skilled society if you wish corruption-free society if you wish minimum road accidents then certainly you will need to consider HRD (Human Resource Development) superior to HRM (Human...

REPTILE MENTALITY, ELECTIONEERING & PSYCHOLOGY OF COMMON MAN *Reptile mentality refers to the underdeveloped limbic system. Snake is very sensitive to cold and hot temperatures. During extremities, it is only concerned with its safety ignoring all other needs of the...