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When you’re alone, it is super important to pay attention to your thoughts.

“What am I thinking about? Why am I thinking only what could get worse? What if I expect good things as much as I anticipate bad ones? What else could this mean?”

What we end up doing in the world is largely a product of what we end up thinking in solitude.

In solitude, our attitude builds up.
In lack of it, we’re just a product of succumbing to someone else’s product of solitude.
The last thing we’d signed up for.

Compounding is less about mathematics.
It’s more about our temperament.

Do we get anxious when things don’t work out immediately?
Are we patient with life?
Do we believe in small things working out big miracles because of consistency?

The kind of person we are would end up deciding the kind of investor we become.
Money doesn’t change us. It just magnifies who we are.

“I am doing this job only for financial stability. It does not make me happy”.
Our heart lies somewhere else.
Yet, we continue to put a lot of pressure on our job. 

We expect it to not only provide us with financial stability but also with work satisfaction.

Ultimately, we would like to achieve that balance. 

But while we are on that journey, why not find that satisfaction by working on our passion?

It can be an internship, a part-time job, a side business – anything at all that gives us a sense of fulfilment and makes us happy.

If financial stability is the only reason why we are doing our job, it’s our responsibility to find that happiness by making time for things we truly enjoy.

There are 3 things that can help us gain confidence:

1. Seeking feedback from people who genuinely want us to progress.
   
2. Measuring progress because that helps us see ourselves moving forward.
   
3. Knowing ourselves.
   
   Knowing if we are the best.
   And knowing that if we are not, we will do everything in our capacity to become the best.

To get confident, we need something to be confident about.
It doesn’t need to be our strengths only. It can very well be our progress.

Often we are told that the most powerful people are the ones who never make mistakes.

We’re also told that making mistakes is a sign of weakness. That, if we make mistakes, we are not powerful. So what do we do?
We hide them.

But when we look at the most powerful people in the world, their strength isn’t in not making mistakes. Their strength lies in admitting that they made one. 

It lies in making sure it never gets repeated.
And when another mistake comes their way, their strength lies in admitting it again!

We can’t escape making mistakes.
It’s the courage to own up to these mistakes that makes us powerful.

If you often find people around you saying, “You’ve changed!”
“You were not like this.”
“You are not the same anymore!”

And if you are confused – Should you change? Should you not?
You think people will dislike you.
People will leave if you aren’t who they want you to be anymore!

Here is the truth:

We all change. We just don’t realize it.
But it’s the realisation of the conscious change that sets us apart.

When people say you’ve changed, they never think about how you’ve changed.
It’s about how they couldn’t.

You are a CA today.
You do not have to be a CA forever!

You are an engineer today.
You do not have to be an engineer forever!

You are a journalist today.
You do not have to be a journalist forever!

Do not define your future by who you are presently.

90% of what happened to me in my 20s was because of luck.

I am that guy who was at the right place at the right time and lucked out.

And as much as I am grateful for that, I wish I knew better.

Today I know, 20s should be used to discover yourself, as against stabilizing yourself.

Meet as many people as you can.
Do as many jobs as you can.
Explore as many streams as you can.

Find out what you are good at and what makes you happy.

And then spend your 30s doing that.

People who:

1. Are independent learners.

2. Work well together, without prejudice.

3. Give each other feedback to grow.

1. No notifications except calls.
   You can set a work mode, so only the notifications you have permitted will come through. 
   
2. No unread banners on any app.
   They can be a lot more distracting than we care to admit.
   
3. Time limits for all social media apps with passwords.
   This should be set by a family member and not you.
   In case you REALLY need to check something out, they can open it for you and that won’t turn into you scrolling through the app for hours.