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Stop Trying to Prove Yourself
If you are trying to prove yourself, there is bad news -- this game has no endpoint. There is no finish line at which you will feel, "Finally, I have proved myself -- I can now rest easy." Because no matter how much 'proof' you have accumulated,...
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Pain is Private While Success is Public
What happens when you take a risk? If you succeed, people will sing folklore about you on LinkedIn. And if you get really lucky, Harvard will write...
Not Everything Can Be Intellectualized
Today, I saw an article in 'The Print' in which the author explained why he quit the 10-day Vipassana course run by Sri SN Goenka's organization. He...
AI Will Not Kill You — But Distraction Will
A year ago, virtually every second LinkedIn profile mentioned 'Web3' as a skill. Today, nobody is doing that. Similarly, I recently saw an ad...
Focus on Your Own Journey
One funny thing I saw in B-School was how secretive some people were during their job search -- you would have thought they were recruiting with...
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The Courage to Quit
LinkedIn is ablaze with posts that tell you, “Never quit.” But the biggest mistake I have made as an entrepreneur is not quitting when I should have. Let me share this story which started in 2012 when I quit my job and launched CourseBrew, my first...
Leadership Requires Discomfort
Every leadership training I have been through, be it for the Indian Police Service or at McKinsey, was missing a critical element -- training people how to dissent. Without the ability to dissent, you only have yes-men (or yes-women), not leaders....
Your Story Need Not Go Viral to Be Real
We love rags-to-riches stories. That is why every social platform is full of them. And they make us wonder -- how come everybody gets lucky except me? The reason is that stories other than rags-to-riches are not considered stories! They don't...
Escape The Trap of Plenty
About a year ago during lunch, my colleague Ayisha said, "Whenever I want to learn something, I search online and find so many books that I get overwhelmed and never start." To escape this trap of plenty, become aware of the following fallacies:...