Luck truly matters

I have been part of two very different recruitments: Drivers in the police force and consultants at McKinsey 🙂 And yet, from both the recruitments, I learned the same lesson – we totally underestimate the role of luck in our life. During my stint with McKinsey, the HR...

4-Hr work week — is not real

4-Hr work week — is not real. It is a fantasy that sells. Please don’t blame yourself for working 8 or more hrs every day. That is what real life is. You are doing nothing wrong. You are not a ‘corporate slave.’ You are not missing out on a fabulous life,...

Judging people has consequences

In my first job with the police, one of my bosses would constantly find fault with me and haul me over coals for some mistake or the other. Almost every letter from him would warn me of disciplinary action. And very sadly, this fault-finding boss was a very upright...

Dunning-Kruger Effect

When I was working as a consultant with McKinsey, I wanted to become an investor. And I was convinced that investing would be a cakewalk. After all, we were trained in problem-solving and logical thinking. What else would you need? I then joined a private equity...

Freedom from Envy

My co-founder at HabitStrong, has one Buddha-like quality I have never seen in anyone – she is absolutely not affected by envy, FOMO, or the disease of comparing ourselves with other people. She has never cared about how much money her classmates are making. Whenever...