The miracle of technology. When our Zoom meeting hangs up or even slow down, we feel irritated and exasperated. When our flight is delayed by an hour, we become angry with the staff. When our browser is not able to hold our 129th tab, we start cursing. We humans tend to make miracles mundane
Physical activity over psychological. You can either think or type. You can either analyse or do. You can either discuss or take action. The more we move from psychological activity towards physical activity, the better our life becomes. No one ever succeeded by thinking. It’s only by taking action that we succeed. — If
Ignore the negativity. Whether it is coming from within you or from your family or friends or from anywhere in general, when you engage with the negativity it sinks you in, it makes you feel miserable, it takes you away from the work. The world is full of mediocrity. Mediocrity seeks perfectionism, if
What can you do? Most of the things in the world don’t make sense. Most of them are not justified, not empathetic. It is frustrating to see the wrong in the world and it is tempting to focus on how things and people are wrong. But that does not change the world, that
Doing more thinking less. There are times when we get entangled in thinking, in planning, in trying to sort things out inside our mind. The more we do this, the deeper the mess we get into. We get stuck in the spider’s web of its own making. It is extremely tough to break
One more thing. Can you help one more person? Can you write one more word, one more sentence? Can you publish one more book? Launch one more product? Focus on the next. Forget what came before. Forget what will come after. Do one more thing. — If you liked reading this, consider subscribing. If
Boredom is the friend. Boredom leads to creativity. We get away from our boredom by creating something out of it. — If you liked reading this, consider subscribing. If you are already a subscriber, do share with your friends.
How can you serve? What is the work that matters to you? What is the work for which you can cross seas? What is the work that only you can do? That is the work that matters. It’s high time you seek that work. — If you liked reading this, consider subscribing. If you
Ready-made solutions. Throughout our lives, we have been given ready-made solutions. Pick one: science, arts, commerce? Pick one: engineering or doctor? Don’t even pick, just do an MBA. Ready-made solutions seem objective and easy to swallow. But they hide the short term pain of dealing with ambiguity and in exchange give
Sustenance and creativity. These are different things. We can’t expect our creativity to sustain us, we need to sustain ourselves for our creativity. Income generation needs to be looked at as an engineering problem needing to be solved. It is very different from the creative process. It’s important to separate the
Resistance is mediocrity. Mediocrity is all around us. In the industry, in education, in politics, in religion, in news. Mediocrity is the lowest common denominator. And mediocrity is like a black hole. Once you give into it, there’s no coming out. It sucks you in. And once you give in, then it
Life is short. Book that flight. Ask that girl out. Write that book. There is never going to be a time like now. Risk is the likelihood of the irreversible negative outcome. Tim Ferriss
From Martyr to Trickster The martyr is a sucker for rules. It uses random excuses to not do the work, to not show up. The trickster is full of tricks. Not only for the world outside but for its own brain. It lightens the mood, it reduces the stakes, it moves forward. The martyr
Mediocrity Why are we so comfortable with being mediocre? With not showing up? With our life not meaning up to anything? That we just come on this planet, survive and then die. Why be a human then? Be a cow, no? — If you liked reading this, consider subscribing. If you are
Prostitution The society does not look well on the women (and men) who sell (or rather, rent) their bodies to someone else for money. But what about the soul? What about your work? What about your life? Why is it okay to rent your soul in exchange for money? To not
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What exactly is a career? Can there be life without a career? Action is inevitable. Career is about what action we take. What is our karma? Our action? The work? Money is just one of the factors of our work. It’s what allows us to continue with the work. It’s not the purpose
Money mindset. People don’t pay us because we need money. They pay us because we are offering something they want more than the money. The key to solving your money problem is to ask ’Who it’s for?’ and ’Whats’s it for’. The more you help people get what they
Getting through the dip. The dip will inevitably hit when you start showing up. And when it hits, it seems that the entire world is stacked against you. The only alternative that makes sense while going through the dip is to give up, is to stop showing up. But if we keep showing up,
What’s the framework for Career Design? The creator is at the centre of it all. And it has to be about the individuality of the creator. The individuality includes her dreams, desires, aspirations, fears. It is about reaching the foundational dreams. What is natural to the creator? What is at the centre? Each person has a
Make things happen. When you do the work, when you initiate, when you instigate. When you serve your audience. When you create tension. You make things happen. Be the one who makes things happen. — If you liked reading this, consider subscribing. If you are already a subscriber, do share with your friends.
Miss what’s happening Twitter tagline says, ‘Don’t miss what’s happening’. Unless you miss what’s happening, you won’t be making things happen. Let the breaking news break. Let the trends vanish into thin air. What will remain is what will matter. Your work and you. The amateur tweets. The pro
Permission & marketing. Marketing with permission. Do you want to get this? Do you want to learn more? Can we ask questions instead of shouting the answers? Questions is how communication happens. Questions is how relationships are built. The thing with a question is that it creates tension. The tension of giving an
Action vs. thought. Action is light and fun. Thought is heavy and burdensome. Most of our misery in life comes from thought, from trying to resolve complexities within our mind. Our mind is not a very good tool for that. Instead, once we get out of our mind and focus on getting things
Get something 'done'. The key is not to simply do but to get it done. What does done look like? What is the final step that makes the thing done? When we are struggling with Resistance and procrastination, getting one thing done leads to getting the next thing done and so on. — If
