Ship captain here.
First, most people are poor judges of distance and speed on the water.
Second, it's just a surreal moment.
But cruise ship captains are also required to take a Crowd Management course, which teaches you how humans behave in a crisis.
During an emergency at sea, the majority of people freeze, deer-in-the-headlights style.
A small fraction panic.
And another small fraction become laser focused and act.
(Official the groups are called “Freeze, panic, act”)
That last group are the heroes of any incident.
The panic group are the people who make a dangerous situation MUCH worse.
We learn how to manage all three, but the deer-in-the-headlights majority is why we give clear, authoritative commands in our "captain voice."
When you hear "This is the Captain speaking. This is NOT a drill," it does nothing for the panic group.
The hero group just wants us to cut to the chase and give them the relevant information.
We don't speed up. We take our time saying, "This is the Captain speaking. This is NOT a drill."
Why?
1The deer-in-the-headlights group needs to hear authority.
2They can't process information right away.
Saying it slowly prepares them to follow orders.
So it seems ridiculous that these people are just standing there watching the ship crash into them but it’s most likely what you would do too… and it’s 10x better than panic.
Two helicopters have collided while preparing to land in Nepal’s Mount Everest region. An Indian tourist was killed, while a New Zealander was rescued. The accident comes amid peak trekking season in Nepal’s Solukhumbu district.
The Diwali gift that stays on the wall year-round. 🪔
Hand-carved & hand-painted wooden elephant - folk art finish, mirror inlay, made in India. For a home that already has enough diyas.
@rushlane Thanks for keeping us updated on Auto Data with perfection. Query: Are these wholesale factory dispatch figures to dealer's or VAHAN Registration figures?
Imagine traveling all the way to Europe just to brag that your citizens have zero work-life balance and a severe lack of boundaries. What a massive flex.
Huge thanks to @PiyushGoyal for pitching 1.4 billion people to European CEOs as unpaid, self-rebooting AI bots that don't need food, sleep, or weekends!
"Indians are willing to work hard. Nobody in India will tell you it’s 5 o’clock. And certainly no Indian will ever remind you it’s the weekend", said with a smile, by India's commerce minister, to business leaders in Netherlands (India-Netherlands Business Forum)!
Does the minister really think this is a flex? Does India's commerce minister not find anything even remotely wrong while communicating this in another country, as if this is something to be proud of? That too, in Europe, where strict working-hour regulations and work-life balance are legally protected?
Remember - Netherlands consistently ranks among the highest globally for work-life balance and official working-hour limits and this quip can come across as tone-deaf to local labor norms!
Doesn't a minister know that a nation's workforce pitch should emphasize skill, innovation, and high value-add rather than an expectation of endless availability? His own quip starts with 'Indians... looking for a better quality of life' and then immediately forgets that 'quality of life' includes not working like slaves.
ये कहना कि भारतीय ऑफ़िस का वक़्त ख़त्म होने के बाद भी काम करते रहते है . वीकेंड का उनके लिए कोई मतलब नहीं होता….क्या ये तारीफ़ की बात है?
वो भी तब जब work-life balance की अहमियत अब सबको पता है?!
Excellent tips by M S Dhoni regarding how to maintain a healthy lifestyle
MS Dhoni’s message goes beyond cricket!
In an era of fast food, screens and sedentary lifestyles:
✅ Make physical activity a daily habit.
✅ Encourage children to play sports.
✅ Build healthy habits early.
✅ Teach children to accept failure and bounce back.
✅ Treat fitness as an investment in lifelong health.
Sports build not just stronger bodies, but resilience, discipline and character.
Let children play, not just study!
(Video: Amit Gargasya)
A 19 year old from Bihar is running nearly 50 km every day to visit all 12 Jyotirlingas after his mother recovered from illness .🙏❤️
Har Har Mahadev 🙏 ✨