Resolve

Today, after days of rain-enforced break, my hour-long run felt like meditation. And those 60 mins flipped a switch — I felt calm, focused, and in control. We can start our day in two ways: Either start by checking WhatsApp, Instagram, and the like, unleashing...

Beyond speed

“At 60 miles an hour, the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock” In 1958, David Ogilvy wrote the above ad headline. To date, nobody has written a better automobile ad. How much time did it take to write these 17 words? Three...

Peace of mind

Last week, I jokingly asked my colleague, Nisha, “Does it bother you that we are not chasing the unicorn tag at HabitStrong?” She said, “Even if my neighbor built a unicorn, I couldn’t care less. What matters to me is that I look forward to our work — it should...

Iterate

When I was writing my MBA application essays for US B-Schools, I found myself in a fix. Throughout school and college, I hadn’t written even one page of half-decent prose. How would I write these highly demanding essays? Fortunately, Vinod Thomas, my friend and IPS...

Surviving information overload and FOMO

When you consume information, the information consumes your attention. And between information and attention, the scarcer resource, unquestionably, is your attention. So optimize how you allocate your attention. For better or worse, we have an endless supply of blogs,...