As a founder, you are aiming for perfection.It does not mean hand-holding and owning every responsibility.You have to hire owners within your organization.Otherwise, you will end up being the bottleneck, and it will slow down everything. A founder’s job is to find able executioners, not become a control freak and put a nose into every …
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The curiosity of a toddler guarantees they are breakfree. You tell them not to touch the lamp, and they will burn their fingers touching it. They are like water and wind. Flowing in their own rhythm, not used to any boundary. Some parents kill that curious bit from their inception. They try to educate and …
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I keep hearing about the challenges our country is facing. We have become the most populous. There is a sharp price rise. From healthcare to education, everything has gotten costlier. The concept of the middle class is fading. We can think nothing is going our way. We blame the government for all the failures. It …
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We have a few things in our control: consciousness, virtue, and how we react in a particular situation. Our life is a mixed bag with happiness and pain combined. In our personal and professional life, we meet people. Some stay for life, and some leave. We don’t have control over it. But what we have …
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Are you in your control: your thoughts and actions? Are you aware of your shortcomings? What builds you in this life journey is: how much of life you own. It is easy to get distracted, flow in emotions, and get tormented. There could be many externalities contributing to it. The world and society we are …
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How much of our life, everyday decision is in our control? Be it watching a movie on Netflix, ordering via Amazon. Our day-to-day actions like getting outraged on social media or unlimited scrolling after posting pictures of ourselves on Instagram. Or be it Tinder swipes. When we were kids, we were incentivized, shown goals: score …
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Leadership is not about control or being right. It is about having beliefs and allowing peers to work independently. It will energize a team to go at any length and succeed. I am seeing a trend where leadership has ended up in micro-managing peers. Being always right has taken over working together. It also means …
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How many of us have got control over our life? How many of us are aware of our actions? Are we in control of ourselves, our actions? We multi-task, run errands, listen to a self-help book or practice keto or mindfulness. Why are we doing this? Is it because we want to do it or …
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Epictetus wrote enchoridian centuries ago. The paragraph where he mentions what things we have in our control and we don’t have has been a principle for me. I consider lucky getting to know about it, soaking it up. Many things we do in our lives with our best efforts. But if we decide the result …