by Rajan Singh | Oct 3, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
In movies, you see heroes spraying light weapons in automatic mode, killing dozens of ‘bad guys.’ In real life, you never do that. Here is why. An AK-47 will finish a full magazine of 30 bullets in 3 seconds, and they will almost all miss the target. It is...
by Rajan Singh | Sep 29, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
I spent my 4 years at IIT mostly lazing around, wasting my time. But I had other classmates who slogged hard. In the final year, most hard-working guys had great career options lined up, including scholarships from some top US universities. I told myself that it...
by Rajan Singh | Sep 28, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
In my very first engagement as a McKinsey consultant, we were trying to schedule a meeting with a senior leader at a pharma client. She literally threw up her hands, saying, “I am back to back with meetings the whole day.” I was sorely tempted to ask her,...
by Rajan Singh | Sep 27, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
Here is a two-step process for hitting even the hardest possible goals: 1. Get started 2. Iterate until success Here is the two-step process for NEVER getting started: 1. Figure out everything 2. Then start Getting started seems daunting because we feel we need to...
by Rajan Singh | Sep 27, 2022 | Stress, Anxiety, Depression
How to handle stress effectively “I’m so stressed!”— How often do we say these words in our heads? But what is stress? And if stress is a harmful thing, why does the human body even have it? Stress is, in fact, essential to our survival. It is our...