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Since ours is a team that started from scratch and is now growing, here is how we implement organisation-wide changes:

1. Start with a small group.
2. Gather feedback.
3. Experiment on bigger group

Repeat.

Small things are easy, and easily detectable. Just like the smallest of habits – which indeed drive our biggest results!

There are two ways to it:

One: Apply for job portals. Wait for openings. Wait for callbacks. Basically wait for your luck to someday open up.

Two: Create your job. Figure out what you want to work on. Start working on that, before you have a job. Then apply for internships. Write cold emails, stating how you can help them. Create your own luck!

There are always two ways to do something. The second one is always harder, but makes your life easier!

There are two ways to it:

One: Apply for job portals. Wait for openings. Wait for callbacks. Basically wait for your luck to someday open up.

Two: Create your job. Figure out what you want to work on. Start working on that, before you have a job. Then apply for internships. Write cold emails, stating how you can help them. Create your own luck!

There are always two ways to do something. The second one is always harder, but makes your life easier!

Sometimes our parents could be one, for no fault of theirs.

How to deal with them?

1. Recognise that they want the same things from life as you do.

2. Do not consider their emotional blackmail as truth. It isn’t.

3. Get financially independent. And move out.

Sometimes, the best way to deal with toxic parents is to not let that toxicity affect you.

Curiosity is good, if you ask the right questions.

If you ask the wrong questions, it is designed to trigger you.

Why are they not nice to me?
Why am I so dumb?
Why do I need to work so hard to be liked by others?

Those are the incorrect questions.

What if you ask:

How can I be nice to myself?
How can I be comfortable in my own skin?
How can I be working hard on feeling at peace?

Curiosity is cool, only when it doesn’t turn you into a self-diagnosed fool.

Curiosity is good, if you ask the right questions.

If you ask the wrong questions, it is designed to trigger you.

Why are they not nice to me?
Why am I so dumb?
Why do I need to work so hard to be liked by others?

Those are the incorrect questions.

What if you ask:

How can I be nice to myself?
How can I be comfortable in my own skin?
How can I be working hard on feeling at peace?

Curiosity is cool, only when it doesn’t turn you into a self-diagnosed fool.

I had planned my life for the last 10 years, and I was still lost at 24.

The love of my life (Astrophysics) wasn’t the happiness of my life. That was sad. And even relieving.

Today, almost two decades later, I can say with utmost certainty, that wherever you are in life, you will find out a way. If I can find one, anyone can.

There is always a way. Don’t lose hope, my friend!

When I returned from the US after dropping out of my PhD, almost everyone called it an incorrect decision.

I was supposed to solve our financial problems.

I was supposed to land on Mars because that’s what I had been dreaming of, for years.

I was supposed to be happy doing all of that.

But I wasn’t!

We all keep running after what is supposed to make us happy, but has failed to keep up to that. And when we do realise that we need to change course to be happier, it’s a bigger choice.

Either to stay where we are because it is going to be difficult, or to embrace difficulty and set on an exploration of happiness.

No one option guarantees happiness, but the second option makes sure that at least we set on an exploration. And if do that, we may even find happiness along the way!

When I returned from the US after dropping out of my PhD, almost everyone called it an incorrect decision.

I was supposed to solve our financial problems.

I was supposed to land on Mars because that’s what I had been dreaming of, for years.

I was supposed to be happy doing all of that.

But I wasn’t!

We all keep running after what is supposed to make us happy, but has failed to keep up to that. And when we do realise that we need to change course to be happier, it’s a bigger choice.

Either to stay where we are because it is going to be difficult, or to embrace difficulty and set on an exploration of happiness.

No one option guarantees happiness, but the second option makes sure that at least we set on an exploration. And if do that, we may even find happiness along the way!

Some folks on Twitter and Instagram asked me that. Here is the secret from the vault, about my less-known skin care routine:

1. Sleeping and waking up at the same time everyday. 7 hours of sleep, daily.

2. Working out for 1.5 hours every single day.

3. Dinner at 6:30 pm. Next meal is the breakfast next day, almost 14 hours later.

Sometimes, the obvious is the unexplained :)