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You don’t have to always be happy

Good news: You don't have to ALWAYS be happy. We live in this 'Happiness as a compulsion' age where it seems that if you are not perpetually happy, something is wrong with you. In fact, when we feel unhappy about not being perfectly happy, we just...

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Find a Singular Goal

The best periods of my life were the ones in which I had one overriding life goal -- be it cracking a big exam or building a new product for...

The Myth of Perfection

In my last startup, ConceptOwl, a friend once told me about another learning startup that was growing like crazy by selling through schools. He...

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...

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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 anxiety is triggered by an unconscious process, which you can't control intellectually. When you go...

There Are No Shortcuts in Life

Almost every startup (including unicorns) staring at 'death-by-cash-burn' did not start off this way. Most startups were based on solid ideas and were addressing real need gaps. Even the startups that went down in flames (e.g., GoMechanic) were...

Do One Thing, Do It Fully

Multitasking doesn't work. But if you are hell-bent on it, there is ONLY one scenario in which it (sort of) works. You can multitask two actions simultaneously if one of them has become an ingrained habit. E.g., if you are a good driver, you can...

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...

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