We put labels of good or bad on everyone around us. In reality, we are all different, and due to constraints and limitations while growing up we behave in a certain manner. I give you three examples below:
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hunger
Building a startup with limited resources requires hunger in you and your team. That is one key tool to take on your established competitors. Many founders relate hunger to money, and they end up chasing investors. In reality, hunger boils down to having a singular focus for the entire organization. It’s about operating under constraint …
willingness
What will intelligence do if you have no willingness to work? There are millions of such people letting their knowledge rust. The reasons for their non-willingness can be many, from their laziness to aspiration mismatch. Success came to those who made efforts to cease it. Success comes in small bursts after putting in all your …
aspire
We Indians are simple people. We are poor. We have aspirations to see offspring living a better life than ours. Our single goal becomes seeing our offspring succeed after their inception. My parents are no different. From early on, my sister was sent to boarding school because my mother was unsure of a better education …
Pattern
Once you have lived enough or your job involves meeting humans, you subconsciously develop a pattern about people. In short, you start realizing what you don’t need in people. It can backfire at times but mostly keeps you sane. You will not waste your time in negotiation or making others happy. Our lives are lived …
Noise
AI and social media have taken noise to the next level. We are more focused on showing the world than on self-satisfaction. We want to become celebrities and have fans on all the mediums. In a recent report, YouTube discusses the money it distributed to content creators. It means a new generation instead of building, …
things
It was fun growing up, like waiting for the monsoon to go fishing and swimming and watching stars with naked eyes, asking for details about various constellations. These little things had their meaning and joy. During the summer holidays, wandering for hours at mango orchids and lychee bagaans. We had competitions on eating mangoes or …
outrage
We are living in an outrage era. The advancement of social media as a loudspeaker or moral check machine has resulted in redefining freedom of speech. I wonder if our progress and advancement have made us dumber. We are more mechanical and connected via apps than with heart.
time
We live in a time when all the media shows us about the pain the world is in. There is war, poverty, and diseases all around. We humans have no life left to live. It feels scary watching the news. The doomsday is near every minute. A good amount of the population afterward wastes time …
death
Last week, a friend got offended when I told him am preparing for my death. In short, are we all not heading towards it one or the other day? What is to be scared of? The ultimate truth of life is death. We are dying every single second, and as we age our body gets …