🌿Howard Gardening Story #9 – Narendra, the VP with healing hands

 

Some say acupuncture is pseudoscience.
Some swear by it.

Narendra — my lifelong friend and ex-colleague — belonged firmly to the first group.
Back in the day, if you had whispered “acupressure” near him, he would’ve rolled his eyes all the way to Huangdi Neijing (an ancient Chinese medical text) and back. 😄

But life has a funny way of pressing the right points.

Cut to a few years later, and here was Narendra — a VP, no less — passionately talking about ancient Chinese treatments, meridians, and magical touch-points.
He had become a walking-talking wellness warrior. 🧘‍♂️

Of course, we were his guinea pigs. And were happy to be part of his new journey.
And you know what? It worked for many.
I remember a time when one colleague insisted on talking about Narendra and his magic touch in one of our all-staff meetings (Imagine that — acupressure in the middle of a business dashboard review)

This is one of his ways to connect with his team, other than his daily coffee meetings on the birthdays of his team members.

👥 Dear HR and CSR Leaders,
Would you dismiss such passions as pseudoscience?
Or explore how they could evolve into stress-relief practices at work?

I’m curious — what surprising employee passions have pressed the right buttons in your workplace?

To my friends, waiting for your call to tell me some exciting Howard Gardening stories.

Howard Gardner, the proposer of the Theory of multiple intelligences would probably put Narenra in two buckets viz. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence and Interpersonal Intelligence.

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