Build Resilience..
1st July 2025 Success is never linear. We all face failure at some point. Life is all about handling the peaks & trough. Resilience is one ability which helps us recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. It’s the capacity to adapt to stressful situations and bounce back from adversity. Resilience is a […]
Learn from failure
30th June 2025 While discussing inventions, Thomas Edison’s associate, Walter S. Mallory, once said to him, “Isn’t it a shame that with the tremendous amount of work you have done, you haven’t been able to get any results?” Edison replied, “Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results! I know several thousand things […]
Strategy Vs Tactic
23rd June 2025 I have no idea whether this is really part of a program at Stanford, but I liked the story. Most Stanford students failed this challenge. Here’s what we can learn from their mistakes. A class on entrepreneurship was going on, the professor walks into the room, breaks the class into different teams, […]
The Hidden Cost of Certainty
13th June 2025 We are always looking for certainity. In all decisions we make, we look at trying to reduce the odds. But certainity can only lead to a limited outcome. As they say, we need to leave the safe shores to discover new lands and ships are the safest in the harbour, but they […]
‘Change the perspective’
12th June 2025 “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” We all face tough times & the world seems unfair. During one of my low periods, I was only seeing negatively & one day I realized that there was only one thing I could change, and that was […]
Anything above zero compounds – Cont’d
15th April 2025 A couple of days back, when I was going to bed after using my bathroom, I started hearing sound of drops of water from the tap in slow successions, but since it was dropping into an empty bucket, I decided to let it be. But, When I woke up the next morning, […]
Do you have the courage to act?
11th April 2025 Buffett once said, “Be fearful when others are greedy & greedy when others are fearful.” Everyone in the investment business loves to repeat it, but it’s much easier to repeat the quote during calm seas than it is to live by the quote during storms. lets talk about Courage – the courage […]
Who Decides Where The Bullseye Is?
9th April 2025 In a peaceful little village nestled among green hills, a famous archer once came for a visit. As he walked through the village, something strange caught his eye. Walls—dozens of them—covered with painted targets. And right in the middle of every single one? An arrow, Perfectly shot, Bullseye after bullseye. The archer […]
Get out of your Comfort Zone
18th February 2025 The Comfort Zone is a psychological state in which we feel safe because it fulfills our need for Certainty, one of the most powerful ‘6 Human Needs.’ When we’re in our comfort zone, we know what to expect & we know how to react. We feel that we have some control over […]
The Biggest Enemy of Your Future Success
30th January 2025 Who do you think is the biggest enemy of your future success? A competitor? A lack of resources? The market? No. It’s your current success. Success is comforting, It feels good, It validates your hard work. But it also makes you complacent. When you’re successful, the urgency to improve fades. You start […]