LIFE 2.0: Your Best Chance to Script your Legacy

Category Health & Fitness
Format Paperback
Imprint Rupa
Price 295

ISBN: 978-93-5520-405-9
Pages: 224 pages
Date: 5th June 2022

ABOUT THIS BOOK

How would you want to design and script your life from now? And indeed, your legacy?
Life is the result of all the choices we make or are made for us. Our lives are running—they may be running on auto-mode or running away or even running out. What is our life report card? More importantly, what is the legacy we will potentially leave behind? If we ask these questions early enough, we can play our responsible role in shaping or reshaping our lives. Life 2.0 is, thus, the symbolic reference to the actively curated second phase of our lives—made even longer by modern healthcare. In Life 2.0, we steer our lives towards the finish and the legacy we seek. We take charge of the scriptwriting. Read the book to appreciate this idea further and to discover how to script your life, following simple mandates. The many anecdotes and life lessons are sure to spur you to a great, but perhaps a different life in version 2.0.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

Bala Shankar is an entrepreneur and writer based in Singapore. Bala has an MBA degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and had extended careers in corporate, consulting and university teaching in India, Singapore and the US. Bala worked in various sales, account management and leadership capacities for national and multinational companies. As an adjunct faculty, he was associated with teaching and executive education programmes at leading universities in Singapore. He is a contributor to The Business Times, Singapore, on various business and general topics. Bala published a B2B sales book, Nuanced Account Management: Driving Excellence in B2B Sales, in 2018 and a book on habits for skill-building, The Twelve Habits of Smart Skill-Building: A Code for the Reskilling of You, in 2021. He co-manages a K-12 institution that he co-founded in Singapore. Bala is a lover, writer and critic of Indian classical music. Writing is more than a hobby for Bala now, with a few works in the pipeline.