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Life is an experience
If you ever feel guilty about not figuring out your career path quickly, please take heart – I graduated more than two decades ago, and I still feel like I am just exploring life. Maybe some of us take more time than others. Or maybe we are all...
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Nobody is Born Wise
During my days as a consultant, I often found the first few days of a client engagement mortifying. In the initial meetings, the clients would...
Take charge of your life
A video game maker would love it if you spend 12 hrs a day playing their game. A social media company would love it if you check their app every...
Professional success
During our college placement season, many of us were fixated on the salaries. If a company offered even Rs 2,000 more, it felt infinitely more...
The secret to building a good life
When I was working with a private equity firm, in the middle of our office was a gigantic TV screen that could raise your anxiety within a minute....
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Fix your future
The past is a prison, but its door is unlocked. Then why don't we just walk out? Because our mind wants to renegotiate the past and make it better. We know it is pointless but our mind still can't resist it. So is there an escape from this prison?...
Small start
In late 2020, when I launched HabitStrong, we had little money, no tech team, and zero marketing people. There were just four of us. Since we could not afford a tech team, for the first few months we did not even have a website. Heck, we did not...
Challenging Realities
During my training with the Indian Police Service, we were attached to an elite army unit in Nagaland for exposure. So a few days after we landed, we went for a patrol in full combat gear – we had to wear a metallic flak jacket and a bulletproof...
Is promptness such a great virtue?
A friend of mine doing investment banking with a Wall Street bank once told me about his managing director, who would frantically reply to every email within 2-3 minutes, no matter what time of the day or night you emailed her. Clearly, she was...