by Rajan Singh | Jun 28, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
Two decades ago, I was sitting with a good friend and college senior who had recently relocated to Trivandrum after a PhD in the US. He was talking about how much he missed running and how moving back to India had disrupted that habit. I asked him, “Why not restart?...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 27, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
I don’t need the motivation to run 10km — I need just enough to put on my running shoes. 90% of the battle is getting started. Yet, sometimes, even putting on the shoes feels hard. Here is my favorite hack, but before that, we need to know some neuroscience. Think of...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 26, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
Growing up, when I was facing my life’s first major exam (IITJEE), I was virtually biting my nails. I would often ponder, “What if I don’t make it? Would I have any future?” We were not an affluent family. Nobody in our family had been to college — my sister and...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 23, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
My de-facto co-founder at HabitStrong, Nisha Salim, is brilliant but often runs into a problem — she does not have a degree from any tier-1 college. She has been way better than any pedigreed folks we have hired from IIT/IIM etc., but investors have often been...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 22, 2023 | Stress, Anxiety, Depression
Just the other day, I had to send an important email at work which contained some critical sales numbers and analysis. Before sending it out, I got into a mild state of anxiety, wondering if I had gotten everything just right. Had I made an error in the numbers? Had I...
