Second-order thinking

A simple example of what’s called second-order thinking. As humans, we are all hard-wired to respond to the immediate result of our actions. The first-order consequences. Eating chocolate will make us feel good – Immediate result. Watching Netflix will make us...

Is personalization a boon?

There was a time when content was not democratic. The TV shows were decided by someone else. Their timings were decided by someone else. Their content was decided by someone else. Noone could choose what to consume. Either you consume all of it or don’t. Then came the...

What we are not taught…

We are taught to admire the extraordinary. To be inspired by them. To want to become them. But… We are raised to become ordinary. To follow a template. To take the path already taken. To admire is easy. To get inspired is easy. To become extraordinary is not...

You aren’t the only one!

Today’s generation is under immense pressure. It’s the pressure of self-doubt more than anything else. This self-doubt is led by the view that everyone else, except them, has it figured out. People seem to be eating the nicest looking food. Wearing the nicest looking...

This is how you go debt-free!

There is a kind of debt that is rarely talked about. That’s emotional debt. I cannot leave this job, because I had promised my boss I will stay. I cannot leave this job, because I have dreams to fulfill for my family. I cannot go back to work, because I had promised...

I was jobless!

At 29, I was jobless, with no money, recently married, confused, clueless. Had no idea where I will be in life. To all those who think they haven’t done anything in life, and have wasted so much time. It is not about the years gone by.  It is about the years...