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Why We Must Sweat Every Day
Today during my morning run, I crossed a guy walking his dog (a sweet-looking labrador). But sadly, the dog was so overweight that even at a very slow pace, it was struggling to keep up -- the owner had to keep pulling the leash to drag him along....
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Pain of Regrets
One of the small regrets I have in life is that I never did a commando training course. When I finished my IPS training I was very fit and I thought...
Don’t quit but Be flexible.
Two of my friends were doing a startup together – both exceptionally smart and good human beings. But unfortunately, their startup did not do well....
Life is not about non-stop excitement
During my MBA at Wharton, people told me that consulting is really exciting – you get to solve the hardest business problems! So I joined McKinsey...
Never blame yourself for past mistakes
When I was working as a consultant with McKinsey, one day, the client walked into our room and said, “Guys, I know you are doing cost-cutting and...
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Stop multitasking
Every time we switch between tasks, it takes an average of 25 minutes to return to the original task. On top of that, every time you switch tasks, the previous task leaves an attention residue in our brain. And if we keep switching, the attention...
Two-Tab Policy
For long, I used to have so many windows open on my Chrome browser that I was unable to shut down my laptop at night, sometimes, for months on end. But why should that matter? It matters because when there are a zillion windows open, they tempt and...
The Road to Happiness
In my last project at McKinsey, I was so exhausted with the late nights that I felt like I was dying. One weekend, over dinner, I met this brilliant entrepreneur introduced to me by a Wharton classmate. This guy had founded a company and later...
Late Night Work
During my stint with McKinsey, whenever we did late nights (more like early mornings), it was rarely because the work per se was that heavy. It was almost always because we did not create clarity sufficiently early in the day about what was to be...