by Rajan Singh | Feb 17, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
Before joining the Indian Police Service, the most physically intense thing I had done in a few years was climbing the stairs of PK Kelkar Library at IIT Kanpur. Naturally, the upcoming 10-month training at the National Police Academy was making me sweat bullets. And...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 16, 2023 | Productivity, High-Performance, Flow
Imagine you have a looming deadline for an important project at work. As you sit down to work, your phone starts buzzing. The boss drops by to discuss something urgent, but not relevant to your task. A colleague wants your quick inputs on a proposal. As the day...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 16, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
The first time I did pistol shooting, in Mussoorie’s IAS training academy, our pistols all malfunctioned – or so it seemed. Five of us, barely 15 m from the targets, fired a volley of shots, and yet, the targets were practically untouched. Scratching my head, I...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 15, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
At a typical IITJEE coaching center in Andhra, a student wakes up at 6 am and studies till 10 pm. For 16 hours, 6 days a week, they slog, with a few short breaks to freshen up, eat, etc. And they do this for years. Time for sports = 0 Time for extracurriculars and...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 14, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
Once I was talking to a friend whose extended family had built a pharma business from scratch to worth tens of thousands of crores. Now, here is the most interesting thing — In 40 years, they become multi-billionaires. But in the first 30 years, by comparison,...
