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Going to the gym is painful. Preparing for an exam is painful. Doing the hard thing is painful. But here is the problem – the choice is not between pain and joy, but between 'pain now' vs. 'pain later.' Instead of preparing for an upcoming exam, we can surely slack...

When I first thought of quitting my job, what troubled me the most was not the loss of salary but the loss of ‘business card.’ Till then, had someone asked me what I did for a living, I always had a good answer – “I work with a private equity fund.” Even prior to...

During our induction training at McKinsey, a senior director once walked into our training room. To emphasize the importance of brevity in writing, he said, “When God gave his commandments to Moses, he needed only ten bullet points. And you are not even God! Why do...