Episodes
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I want to talk about ending relationships. A large part of life is ending relationships, whether we like it or not. I'm often surprised by how hard it is to end them, that we have a hard time accepting that they might not be good for us and letting go.
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If there is one episode I think it's important that people listen to in this series, it would be this one. We constantly ask ourselves what we should do in our lives. We've been raised to believe that there's a map to our lives and we should follow it to our goals. However, those who don't have to get to a destination are never lost.
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This is going to be a free flowing take on the notion of time. More specifically, deadlines. Whenever we set goals, we always have a consideration of time. What happens when we remove time as an element of our targets?
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I'd like to tell you about a wonderful thread my friend Shreyas Doshi had written. Very often we find ourselves in situations where find ourselves doing a lot of work, but this hard work may not be in the right direction.
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Unfortunately most of us are raised in a biased system. When a problem is posed, we take fast problem solving as a measure of intelligence. Brilliant people don't solve problems, they ask questions. Here are 7 you should be asking.
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I want to take you back top when I was 24. I was a PhD student in the US. Everything was going according to my plan, but I still did not find myself happy. Why is it that we sometimes don't feel happiness and exuberance inspite of doing exactly what we're good at.
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One of my closest friends who lives in the US and I performed an interesting experiment. We decided to stay in touch through images. One picture per person everyday. Here is what we discovered.
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Last week, my team and I met for our quarterly offsite. At one of our lunches, one of my team members asked me if I experience imposter syndrome. I answered yes. That's what I would like to talk to you about today.
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At my first ever job, I was struggling, but I needed to look for another job because I really needed the money. When a dear friend referred me to a new job, I had an experience that taught me some important life lessons that I'd like to share with you in this episode.
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In this episode I wanted to share 25 life hacks that I personally use. People I've told to use these so far have told me that they really work.
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I wanted to try to answer a question I get asked pretty often and that is: when do I give up? How do we know when it's time to let go and try something new. How do you know if what you're doing is fake persistence or irrational optimism and you should give up and do something else.
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I wanted to talk about something we are told we should all have our lives: ambition. While there's a lot of talk about it, but we don't truly understand it or how it works through the ages. It's often pegged to something false or not very foundational.
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A few weeks ago, on my newsletter, I asked people when was the last time they cried, with the option of giving the reason. Looking at the responses gives us a lot of perspective. We think we are the only ones crying when everyone else is sorted, we are not.
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There's something fascinating about childhood. Almost everyone remembers their childhood with a certain sense of nostalgia, euphoria, and even regret. What about childhood is so captivating?
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No matter how good we are at something, we will bump into somebody who does not agree with us. Maybe they won't agree with our choice, suggestions, ways of working or something else and unfortunately we are not trained well on how to handle disagreements. So if someone disagrees with us, our brain tries to tell us that we are in danger and hence we become defensive.
But, we must reflect why and where these disagreements are coming from. Their negative and positive forms. How are they affecting us and thus react in a more informative way or so, not react at all.
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Quite often we find ourselves in difficult circumstances, variety of difficult circumstances. Not feeling worthy of love by your loved ones, self esteem going down the hill every time we look at a social media post or being torn in what subjects to choose. We do everything in our power to succeed at our jobs, but still we feel the sense of lacking. Or maybe not able to crack any interview.
Instead of getting disheartened looking at the ones ahead of the curve, you should ask yourself that what is it telling me? What could I change in order to change the cycle? And that is where all the answers lie. Listening to what is the pattern telling you and changing it productively.
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Whenever you are faced with tough decisions to make in life, you should always remind yourself of what is going to be worst case scenario. It sounds like a defeatist approach but, on the contrary, it really works. Why? Because once you know what's the worst could happen to you, any scenario you deal with, is going to be better than what you had imagined.
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We all at one point struggle finding our purpose, goal or passion in life. But you don't find your Passion, you grow your passion. So, your passion is liking something you do, doing it constantly over the period of time and enjoying it while doing. You don't find passion hidden in the corners but the things you have stayed and nurtured over the time.
Quitting your job or studies to find your passion is not an answer. In fact you are building pressure of earning from your passion from the day one. In order to fulfill your passion, you should first look for stability. Instead of giving up on your job, find time in in your current situation and devote it towards your passion.
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That one failed exam or missed promotion or not being able to buy the latest car right now isn’t the end of the world. It is natural to feel a sense of disappointment when you’ve let those around you and yourself down… but remember, your life is not over. That path which you couldn’t walk wasn’t the only way to get to your destination.
The material possessions you covet are means and not the destination. They don't define you.
My wish for the first episode of the year... I hope this turns out to be the best year for you... by falling in love with yourself. -
Everything we do in our lives, is going to have consequences, whether with a big or small impact. That means for our every action, there are going to be consequences and we need to be prepared. Most of us our guilty of focusing on firstly order consequence and not thinking ahead. To take the wisest decisions in our lives, the surest way is to go down to at least 5 orders of consequence for the decision we are making.
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