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The Costly Startup Lesson That No MBA Teaches
When I launched my first startup, we urgently needed some cash to keep the company alive. So I roped in a world-renowned expert to conduct a pretty expensive workshop. We just needed 100 signups and for the next 12 months, we would not have to...
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When Constraints Fuel Strength
During my consulting days in New York, three of us were walking to our client's office for a meeting. One of my colleagues was an Indian-American...
Real Secret to Success: Keep Restarting
One year back, I received an email from a young lady who was torturing herself for not qualifying the NEET exam. And I receive loads of emails like...
Mindset: The Ultimate Edge in Life
If every investor (including an amateur) has access to the same information, tools, and technology, why isn't everybody an equally good investor? To...
Start moving and stop intellectualizing
One great way to not take any action is to debate everything and make it an intellectual exercise. Here are a few common tactics I have seen: Tactic...
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When is it too late to do something?
Once I got an email from a doctor who started his post-graduate degree in anaesthesiology a bit late (in his 30s). Feeling that he is behind his peers, he lacks confidence, fumbles while speaking, and procrastinates. And it is not just him -- one...
Living Long vs. Living Well
Bryan Johnson, a millionaire entrepreneur obsessed with staying young, pops in 100 pills a day -- it is more than the amount of rice I eat for lunch. All things being equal, it is a wonderful thing to live longer and healthier. But when I hear that...
You Can’t Do It All—and That’s Okay
I have 30-odd books on my table, some of which I won't read for months, years, or maybe, even ever. And I am cool with it. Because we don't have time for everything -- including positive, life-enhancing activities we would love to do. We spend a...
You don’t have to always be happy
Good news: You don't have to ALWAYS be happy. We live in this 'Happiness as a compulsion' age where it seems that if you are not perpetually happy, something is wrong with you. In fact, when we feel unhappy about not being perfectly happy, we just...