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Do less, focus more

A McKinsey colleague, curious about my policing experience, once asked me, "What was the most difficult aspect of leading a police force?" The biggest challenge was not the riots or hooligans. It was that everyone thought that everything was urgent...

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Beyond the Business Card

If you throw away your business card, whatever you have left, is truly yours, because nobody can take it away. We all derive identity and pride from...

Rewiring Fear

If you have had a toxic boss, their mere presence will make you anxious even after you have left that job. Why is that? It turns out that this...

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Moderate Daily Effort

During one particular year in school, I became very complacent and whiled away my time. Suddenly, one day, I woke up realizing that I had only a few months left for the exams. So I calculated the hours required to finish the syllabus and came up...

Just Start the Journey

To be fit, you don’t need to be David Goggins or run 100-mile ultramarathons. To build a reading habit, you don't have to read one book per day. To start meditating, you don't need to be a Buddha-like perfect meditator. It is perfectly fine to be...

Why Mental Health Still Faces Stigma Today

Recently, Maharashtra politicians were calling each other names by saying things like, "XYZ might need to consult a psychiatrist." Another quipped, "You need to be treated in a mental hospital." Having to consult a psychiatrist has now become an...

Why Less is More

In my previous EdTech startup, ConceptOwl, I found one day that new videos were not showing up on our app even though we were recording dozens of them every week. Why? Manpower problem. We had too many people! I found that there were too many steps...

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