Resolving conflicts, internally

There is only one type of conflict in this world: All conflict is interpersonal (please read ‘The Courage To Be Disliked’ to understand this more). Imagine a world where you don’t interact with anyone else. Say you live alone on an island. Would there be any conflict? All conflicts at work, or home, or anywhere, […]

Power = Speed of thought to Action

Procrastination is the unhappy place where brilliance goes to die. The world is full of great ideas that never saw the light of day. So how can we stop this self-sabotage and make things happen? It is a long process but I want to give you a new way of looking at ‘just doing it’ […]

From Worrier to Warrior

Go from being a worrier to being a Warrior. A worrier is paralysed by fear of the unknown. A Warrior knows that the unknown is exciting, and proactively seeks it. A worrier thinks too much about the future, and is paralysed by inaction and indecision. A Warrior in the battlefield thinks only about the here […]

This too shall pass

The ‘pursuit’ of happiness is thus named because you keep pursuing it, never attaining it. Happiness (or unhappiness) is transient, it is an emotion caused by an external stimulus. Something makes you happy means some other thing makes you unhappy. Seek stillness of mind, not happiness. Seek calmness as your default state. Seek to be […]

Don’t watch the news

Ours is an era of information overload. A time when there is such a glut of information from all the infinity pools of our news feeds, that will we always run out of time before we run out of ‘new’. We have gone from a time when information was scarce and knowledge was power, to […]

Normalise Kindness

👉 Normalise kindness to others. You don’t need to go to war each time you go to work. You don’t need to crush competition, beat your peers, exterminate everyone around you to achieve success. The world has enough Alexanders and Genghis Khans. It needs more Nelson Mandelas. Warlords were winners in a world of scarcity. […]

The Epiphany toilet. Let your mind wander.

Any idea why most of your original ideas come when you are showering, or on the pot, or going on a long walk alone or going on a long drive? When your body is doing some task on autopilot, it is the perfect time for the brain to drift into its imaginative state. To make […]

Conscious creation and conscious consumption

At this very moment, you are consuming instead of creating. You are scrolling through a feed. Is it a (well earned) break for entertainment / information, or are you procrastinating, running away from something that is tough / uncertain / unclear? Procrastination is a sign of pain avoidance. Pain that arises from the resistance to […]

Regret and anxiety

Regret is worrying about the past and anxiety is worrying about the future. Both are equally useless. “We suffer more in our imagination than in reality.” – Seneca. Try to minimise both of these emotions and focus on the present.

Be bored. Everyday.

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” – Blaise Pascal. Have you had a situation where you worked on a problem for a long time to no avail, and then took a walk or slept on it and the solution magically emerged? That’s the power of your […]

Some days you are the pigeon

And some days you are the statue. It’s ok. Don’t let either disturb your inherent peace / stillness of mind. Just observe which one you are today, think about the immediate next step and keep moving forward.

Multi-tasking = Multi failing

There’s a quote in Tamil, that loosely translates to “If it is worth doing, it is worth doing well”. The corollary to that is “Do only what is worth doing, and do that very well”. No point doing many things at once under the guise of ‘productivity’. You are only fooling yourself, because the mind […]