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Anxiety: The Silent Productivity Killer

The biggest killer of productivity is not laziness -- it is anxiety. You can have the greatest productivity software, but if you are anxious, you can't get anything done. Here is why. To do any thoughtful work, our brain's pre-frontal cortex (PFC)...

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Overcoming perfectionism

Procrastination is NOT laziness. And unless we understand this, we can't fix our procrastination problem. We procrastinate when we don't know how to...

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Choose a job that aligns with your life

When I decided to leave consulting and join private equity, my biggest consideration was not money — instead, I wanted my life back. I wanted to rediscover my health and peace of mind. I wanted to see the sunset and sunrise, at least on some days....

ChatGPT/Google Can’t Eliminate Human Understanding

Why do we need to remember things when everything is just one Google search away? (Or these days, one ChatGPT query away). In fact, this was the logic once proffered for why we didn't need to learn multiplication tables -- or for that matter,...

The Importance of Non-Urgent Stuff

Stop hoarding PDFs, podcasts, videos, e-books, and online courses. We already have enough. The problem is something else. Can you guess what? Our reflex answer -- 'I don't have time.' Not true. Here is what is going on. When we have to pick a task,...

Step-by-step guide to experience flow

Flow, the 'secret to happiness,' is closer than you think 🙂 Here is a step-by-step guide for experiencing flow (almost) every day. Quick recap: What is flow? It is such a deep immersion in a task that you lose track of everything, including the...

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