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Over-indexing on intelligence is one of the biggest mistakes I made while hiring as a founder.

Smart people are so used to being smart that they keep solving problems. Moving from one to another.

Start-ups equally require people who persist.

Who’d love to do just one thing

Listening to someone without judgement is the most precious gift you can give to that person.

No one else could walk your path.
When you accept this, you turn off your blinders.
And listen to the person talking to you, instead of figuring out how to give them solutions.

Everyone knows their solutions.
What people are looking for is validation.

Validation comes from not judging what they say.
Which is the last thing we do. And the first thing we must do.

Risk and failure are a state of mind.
There are no measurement scales for them.
We create them.
So, we can destroy them too.
We are not naturally trained to love ourselves.
Learning how to do so is this journey called life.

Is reaching a certain goal the only measure of success?
What about the life lessons learnt?
How about the struggles endured?
What about the person you become in this journey of ‘risks and failures’?

Learning to love yourself, irrespective of the result, is true success.
That’s true risk.

Giving up on yourself is the ultimate failure.

Everything else, including the numbers, is secondary.
Training yourself to love yourself is the powerful primary process.

No one owes you their time and money. And you don’t owe anyone either.

It’s the mark of a cool human to understand people’s respect for their time and money.
It’s the mark of a wise human to respect their own.

This makes us not feel guilty for saying no.
This also makes us understand when someone says no to us.

It’s the mark of a wisely easy human to know that it’s okay to not owe your time and money to anyone and be absolutely (untouched) okay with it.

Losing your temper is a sign that you have a long way to go.

Losing your temper is a sign that your remote control is not with you.
Losing your temper is a sign that others get to decide what you will feel.
Losing your temper is a sign that you don’t trust yourself with your peace.

The moment you don’t lose your temper when you ‘should have’ is when you have truly arrived. The rest is just wandering.

It’s hard to do so in a world of instant reactions. Or perhaps it is the easiest thing because no one else does it.

You are not responsible for anyone else’s happiness.
Being responsible for yours is anyway tough.

To stay happy is the most meaningful task. A task that requires effort.

To keep others happy is the most overrated task. Because happiness is a choice you make, not a pill you can pop on anyone giving it to you.

The world will question you despite you trying to keep it happy.
Why not stay happy yourself, and let the world choose – either to continue questioning you or to partake in your happiness?

Whenever I want to do something in the future but it pops to me in the present and takes less than two minutes, I do it right away.

It helps with three things:

• Takes minimal time
• I don’t procrastinate it to the future
• My mind has dopamine kick for the task done

It turns out, it takes simple and small two minute hacks to hack procrastination out of system, if we flex our decision making muscles.

Not 41. Rather 28. Because I genuinely enjoy everything that I do. And am totally committed to the inputs, not the outcome.

When I was 30, I felt my life was over. At the age of 24, I was totally lost. We all feel that way.

However, over time, as you stay committed to the process, anti-aging happens naturally!

Rework. And that is why, my most gifted one as well.

Small chapters. For entrepreneurs. One of the books that I will never trade for another book.

Not all gems get to greater heights, but they do make the ones reading them greater.

Spend time with people who are not like you. You don’t want your world to create a bigger version of you. You want it to create a better version of you.

That happens when beliefs are challenged and debated.

It never helps to stay with your existing beliefs.
What helps is to create new ones.

The bubble you live in will only burst your ego if you keep inflating it.
However, if you explore new bubbles, you will discover you have so much to learn, other than keeping up with your ego.

The key is not to disregard what you see as right.
The key is to pay regard to what others see as right as well.

Destiny is what happens to you. Life is how you choose to react to it.

You failed an exam. Or suffered a job loss. Had a heartbreak.

That’s destiny. You couldn’t control the outcome.

However, you can control what you do from now on.

Do you blame someone else? Wish they could have done something?

Or do you decide to control your actions from now on?

The inputs (i.e., the responses) you put in today will create the outcome from now on. And create your life.

Destiny happened. But what after that? Did you happen to destiny in return, or did you let destiny happen over and over again?