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Rewire Your Brain
If you want to break any addiction, here is an action roadmap. Let us first understand what addiction is. It is a compulsive habit – an action you can’t stop yourself from taking even though it harms you. But should our brains not find a harmful...
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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,...
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,...
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...
The Sleep Deprivation
I fear that lack of sleep is killing people. We lost a security guard at our apartment, who died of a heart attack. Barely 52, he was very gentle...
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Live Fully, Worry Less
If I could go back and change one thing about my professional journey, it would be this – I would worry less and live more. For most of my life, I have been too caught up in the drama of success and failure. I have worried too much about the...
Simple Yet Profound
When Sharon Salzberg, a renowned meditation teacher, came to India in 1970 looking for a solution to her life’s suffering, she was very disappointed. After weeks of grueling travel, she reached Bodh Gaya to attend a vipassana retreat run by Mr. SN...
Sustainable Success Strategies
Here is the common advice I got from my seniors on joining the Indian Police Service – “You have to extract work from the sub-inspectors.” Like you would extract oil from coconut, squeezing out every drop. In fact, one otherwise well-meaning...
Simple things that really work
Whatever little goodness I have in my life, I owe it to simple, straightforward habits. All the fancy-sounding self-help formulas, often using terms like ‘energy’, ‘vibrations’, and ‘consciousness’, are mostly nonsense. As an example, when I woke...