Trial and error

To try a new sport.To build your favourite product.To write a cold email for your dream job. You may hit the trial. Or you may not. This is life. The more you try, the more errors you make. Or you inch closer to your success. However, the odds of your success are...

The right reasons to startup

I hate my boss. I will now go and start up. Except, it perhaps might not help you 3 wrong reasons to startup 1. I want to get rich2. I hate my current life3. Everyone else is doing it 3 right reasons why your job might be the best for you: 1. You are obsessed with...

Would you have still dropped out?

I dropped out of my PhD in the US.100% scholarship.Handsome stipend. Yet, because I was not happy, I decided to quit. Someone asked me the other day (almost 18 years after that happened), “Would you still drop out if you had sponsored your education, instead of...

The thing about awards

We all love awards.  Even I did. I won Fortune 40U40 for 2 years of the 4 years I was CEO of Groupon India. It was a lovely role.Great money,Global role,High visibility – but not that required a lot of effort.  And then I started nearbuy. The BEST years of...

Give up on my dreams?

What to do if I have to give up on my dreams?It is heartbreaking to give up on your dreams.I understand.However whenever someone asks me this question, here is what I tell them: Realise that the thing you gave up in lieu of that dream is also your dream. It may be a...

Forgiveness

You will free yourself the day you stop blaming your parents for what they did to you. Maybe they did a lot of wrong.However, if you give it back to them, aren’t you behaving exactly the manner you didn’t want to be treated? Forgiveness does not mean...