Meditation is being fully present

While you ruminate about your past mistakes and worry about the troubles likely to befall you, the tea in front of you is getting cold. Drink that tea. And when you drink it, just drink tea — don’t do anything else. Savor it fully. Ultimately, that is what...

Happiness fuels productivity

Once when I was returning home after a long trip, to surprise my daughter, I bought her a Nintendo game console (it used to be quite popular then). Also, I bought a bunch of other stuff. So when I reached home and showed her the Nintendo game, she was ecstatic. But as...

The only real failure is arrogance

In my last startup, after a marketing campaign, we were speculating about how many users we would acquire. Our guess waned between 2,000 and 4,000 users. Do you know how many we actually got? One. Yes — one, not 1,000. And this was not a random marketing...

Never jump the gun

When Byju’s acquired White Hat Jr for $300 million, folks on LinkedIn went crazy. “Good Lord — how could someone create so much value in just 18 months?” Today, the company is losing more than Rs 1,000 crores a year. And I won’t even get...

Break free from superstitions

Do you know that even the world’s top footballers have their superstitions? Superstitions are psychological defense mechanisms that give a sense of safety (albeit a misplaced one). Let us say a footballer plays a wonderful match, where he scores goal after goal....