The absence of success

Success is absent unless failure is present. That doesn’t mean you are going to succeed each time you fail. Between failure and success, there is one important step that most people miss, because of which they do not reach the step of success: Reflection....

The biggest gift of the pandemic

The pandemic took a lot away from us – mentally, emotionally, health, relationships, even money. That’s unfortunate. However, I believe it also gave us a huge gift: of our own company. Which we needed the most. For everything that comes to break you, comes...

The root cause of our suffering

No, you wouldn’t get the Buddha answer (though it is true :D). The root cause of our suffering is that we want all our desires, wants and goals to be fulfilled yesterday. We want timelines to be ticked because we want our wants to be met. When they don’t,...

Make a wish!

I recently ran a fun game with my team, asking them to submit a google form to make a wish or two. Not that all wishes were fulfilled (immediately), but that shows a lot about us as humans, and our beliefs about what could make us happy. The range was awesome, from...

Leave? Or stay?

The question you ask yourself daily before going for a job you hate. If you are asking the question daily, you already know the answer!

Not at all, in a hurry!

I was recently talking to an 18 year old kid, who is going to pursue a combined graduate and masters of 5 years in IIM. However, he was not sure if he wanted to take it, or go specific where his interest lied. When you are very young, you do not know yourself very...