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How I Cut My Stress in Half
Five years ago, I cut down my stress by 50% in one move: I banned WhatsApp for official work. Before that, we were using WhatsApp at our startup, and over the years, I had created dozens of WhatsApp groups. Soon, I was mindlessly checking and...
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How to break the habit of stress eating
Here is how to break the habit of stress eating. Every time you unthinkingly shove some snack into your mouth, ask yourself: Am I hungry? Or just...
Habits and Consistency
Today, it is not enough to eat healthy and exercise -- you have to hack your metabolism. You have to hack your brain, hack your sleep, hack your...
Chronic worrying is a habit
Chronic worrying is a habit. And like any habit, it can be broken. But let us first understand how this habit is formed. When our brain feels some...
Luck truly matters
I have been part of two very different recruitments: Drivers in the police force and consultants at McKinsey 🙂 And yet, from both the recruitments,...
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
When I was working as a consultant with McKinsey, I wanted to become an investor. And I was convinced that investing would be a cakewalk. After all, we were trained in problem-solving and logical thinking. What else would you need? I then joined a...
Freedom from Envy
My co-founder at HabitStrong, has one Buddha-like quality I have never seen in anyone – she is absolutely not affected by envy, FOMO, or the disease of comparing ourselves with other people. She has never cared about how much money her classmates...
The Sleep Deprivation
I fear that lack of sleep is killing people. We lost a security guard at our apartment, who died of a heart attack. Barely 52, he was very gentle and friendly, and looked fairly healthy. While there could be many reasons for a heart attack, one...
Live Fully, Worry Less
If I could go back and change one thing about my professional journey, it would be this – I would worry less and live more. For most of my life, I have been too caught up in the drama of success and failure. I have worried too much about the...