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The Hidden Power of Inexperience
When you are young and inexperienced, you don't know what is possible or what your limits are. You don't understand how the world works. So you try crazy things. Often, it is a disaster. But once in a while, you succeed. And when you do succeed,...
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Escape The Trap of Plenty
About a year ago during lunch, my colleague Ayisha said, "Whenever I want to learn something, I search online and find so many books that I get...
Get Control Over Your Digital Habits
Overcoming digital addictions is NOT about giving up your phone. If it were, the solution would be straightforward -- throw away your smartphone and...
Substance Over Optics
During my consulting days, while working for a healthcare client, we made a beautiful PowerPoint deck -- what else would a consultant do? 😊 But the...
Real Life Is Right Now
Your life = Your time. We know it, but we still don't "get it." Wasting our time somehow seems ok. But wasting our life feels criminal. And yet,...
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Allocate Time Wisely
If every Sunday evening fills you with dread, you probably need to rethink your job. If you somehow survive the weekdays only to live on the weekend, you can calculate what % of your life you are living (the math is pretty easy). Is that a good...
Seize Your Mornings
We love to start new things every New Year because, in our mind, it gives us a fresh start. Yet, isn't every morning an equally good fresh start opportunity? I find that no matter how good or disappointing the previous day was, when I wake up every...
There Are No Shortcuts to Real Change
From 1998 - 2000, the internet promised to change the world. Then in Mar 2000, it all crashed -- we thought, the internet was all hype. Turns out, both points of view were wrong. The Internet did change the world, but not the way we had imagined....
Simple Steps to Shift Your State of Mind
Do psychiatrists also get depressed or anxious? The answer, unsurprisingly, is yes. Just because you know how your brain works doesn't change its working one bit. So when a psychiatrist hears some bad news, his body activates the fight or flight...