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Why We Need Clear Priorities
Your mind CANNOT focus on a task if it subliminally fears that you are missing out on something more pressing. When you have that fear or anxiety, it does the following: You multitask or leave a task incomplete (e.g., a half-written email) and jump...
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The Courage to Admit Mistakes
I hate cowardice. Yet, on a few occasions, I was a coward. When I launched my first startup, I built a product that found zero customers -- zero...
Small Steps, Big Results
To be fit, you don't need to run 100-mile ultramarathons or climb Mt. Everest. To build physical strength, you don't need to be a powerlifter. To...
Living Beyond Fear
Yesterday, during my evening walk with a retired IAS officer, he said that many officers in his service are unhappy with their professional life....
Earn the Right to Advise
In 1994, when India's ex-PM Narasimha Rao addressed the US Congress, he told this story about Mahatma Gandhi: Once a lady came to Gandhiji and asked...
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Mastering Skills: Focus and Deliberate Practice
There is nothing you can't get better at. But conditions apply. For any kind of learning, be it a physical or a mental skill, our neurons have to rewire -- it is called neuroplasticity. Our neuroplasticity is extremely high in pre-teens and remains...
Accept your life ‘as is’
The hardest thing in life is not clearing tough exams, getting big-brand jobs, making money, or earning fame. All these are hard but they aren't the hardest. The hardest is accepting your life 'as is' -- no preconditions, no changes -- just 'as...
Master Skills, Embrace Advancement
This post is written by ChatGPT. Just kidding. But how did you react to that first sentence? With horror? Nobody wants to read a post written by ChatGPT. When I read your post, I want to hear your story. I want to feel your struggles. I want to...
Question Everything
During my police training, our lathi charge training routine was absurd. On the instructor's count, like dance choreography, we would all swing the baton with the right hand while covering the belt buckle with the left hand. One day, somebody asked...