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Why We Must Sweat Every Day
Today during my morning run, I crossed a guy walking his dog (a sweet-looking labrador). But sadly, the dog was so overweight that even at a very slow pace, it was struggling to keep up -- the owner had to keep pulling the leash to drag him along....
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Don’t Quit While on the Uphill
For the last 15 odd years, every day I go to the gym, I see the exact same cast of people working out -- feels like seeing the same play in the same...
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...
One Small Action at a Time
Nobody gets up one day and says, "Let me become a drug addict." Nobody decides one day, "Let me start eating junk food, and become obese and...
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...
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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 our jobs, and it is perfectly logical. But it is worth remembering that our worth as a professional...
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...