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Everybody Needs Downtime
Back in the days when I headed a police organization, we had 1,200 armed policemen in our reserves for handling contingencies. These policemen were supposed to frequently undergo a 2-week intensive training in batches of 100. But for decades, this...
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Addiction
Addiction is the inability to control our urge for something that we know is harmful and leaves us dissatisfied. The more we use it, the more...
Life is full of beauty
The most enjoyable course I took during my MBA at Wharton was taught not by a professor, but by a librarian. In the final semester of the MBA, no...
We discover the value of anything when we lose it
The glass is not half empty. Nor is it half full. The glass is 95% full -- just that we don't look around hard enough. When we move into a new house...
Our mind is the manipulator
How would you feel sitting in a really, really hot room without even a fan? When we call it sauna, we would pay a good amount of money to experience...
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Time matters
When I see ads saying "Learn to build a website in 5 minutes" or "Learn XYZ in 10 minutes", I often wonder, what is the big rush? Do we have only that long to live? For sure, time is valuable. But so is the thing you are trying to build or the...
Build discipline, which leads to consistency
Whether or not you have that MBA from Harvard, ISB, or IIMA, you have to train yourself to think clearly. To create thought clarity, train yourself to write well. To write well, write every day. To do anything every day, train yourself to do things...
Learn to say NO also
In the 8 odd years I spent in the Indian Police Service, I hardly saw anyone saying 'No, sir.' The 'Yes, sir' behavior went all the way to the top. In fact, a junior IPS officer might still occasionally say 'no.' But often, the top brass would not...
Digital addictions and loss of focus
Digital distraction is the new diabetes. And it is no less deadly. Let me explain. Diabetes, obesity, and hypertension happen for a simple reason: A million years ago, in the forests, sugar, fat, and high-calorie food were life-savers for our...