We humans become better with pain. The reality of life is that it is full of pain and misery. Most of us surrender to it, become slaves and sick, and continue to accept it as a part of life and die. While pain adds patience and willingness to go against all odds for survival, it …
Author Archives: Atul
bored
I keep hearing from friends about being bored now and then. Most of them are earning well and have a lifestyle that less than 1% of the rich in India can afford. How come someone gets bored with all these luxuries in life? Is it because most humans are animals with monkey minds taking over …
Inability
Is it our flaw that we let others take us on a ride? Do we continue being in painful conversation for past sake? We can’t be rude. We cannot say no because something within us is scared or longing for a connection. We are killing ourselves and letting others dictate to us.Our inability to say …
Insane
I am reading The Founders, its story about building PayPal. One thing that stays all across the chapters is insanity. All these founders, be it Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Max Levchin, Luke Nosek, or early members, were insane. They had a determination and vision of building big. The current x.com domain of Elon Musk has …
trash
Is social media a trash machine? Or a place where we try to showcase how good-looking we are, how amazing our life is to thought leadership? The left and right-centered world will have different ways of seeing the same. I have been observing myself. I realize that most of the time, I get on social …
Choice
We are living in a world full of choices. It confuses us, be it work, relationships, or shopping. We are lost. We are unsure and constantly seeking validation from others. Our life has become a showcase where we are out to delight the spectators. What we want, we have no clue about. We call ourselves …
Emperor Meiji
I was in Tokyo for a week. The country surprised me on many fronts in a good way. The person who gets credit for its modernization is Emperor Meiji The progress of the country in becoming a superpower goes to him. I visited the Meiji Shrine on the last day of my stay. It was in the middle of a city …
blindspot
As a founder, are we living in our bubble?Are we too obsessed with our product?As a result, we forget or ignore the changing market dynamics.We have seen this with Kodak & Blackberry.These companies and founders were too complacent and took changing market conditions lightly.As a result, they are in ashes. A founder’s life is about …
different
I am currently in Tokyo for a few more days. I have met over a dozen founders in the past weeks. I wanted to know how things work in Japan and the overall ecosystem. A pillar that binds entrepreneurs across the globe is that they are all different. The mindset is about going against the …
fate
Some people leave things to their fate and live. If it makes them happy, who are we to judge? Some take life in their control and work nonstop. They own their actions and fate. It is easy to complain and cry. It is easy to blame others or complain about bad fate. Most part of …