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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 and self-belief of making big.
As a leader, it becomes more important to be radically open, optimistic, and true to the cause of the organization.
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 efforts, not as the media portrays rags to rich stories overnight.
If you end up working for such intelligent folks, you are doomed because you will end up becoming their crutch.
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 in my hometown. I was out in the hostel in later years. I stayed longer home because I was homesick.
I visit my hometown, and I see the same cycle, my friends who are doing business out there have the same aspiration of sending kids out of town for higher education and having them build their lives.
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 from moment to moment. The sooner we realize that the people around us play a major role in our lives, the wiser we will become with our interactions.
Our pattern detection is like a bullshit meter.
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, working on groundwork, research, and technology wastes time making reels.
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 entering sugarcane fields, picking and chewing them for hours.
Our life is a collection of these little moments and small things.
I spent last night stargazing for a few hours from the roof. It was a clear sky.
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.
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 in discussion, putting their opinion.
There are a small bunch of others who, despite all the negativity, work day in and out providing the population with services and jobs. They have a singular focus which is the betterment of the people around them and making the world a better place. They don’t complain or give expert opinions.
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 more toward the corpse.
We have to live life now, make the best of each moment, and accept death. All the wealth and bondage are temporary. The pharaohs thought otherwise and here we are pyramid thieves all around.
With age, another realization has hit me: people around you play a bigger role in your well-being. Imagine working with a hyper-political or toxic team. Your most time will get into saving your butt. The peace of mind will not have a place. You will be under constant anxiety, worry, and stress. It will affect you all the way. You will bring the same home and your family will join the suffering.
We are living under the influence of consumer and social media. We start splurging beyond our meets and suffer daily drudgery for salary.