When I stand on the balcony of my flat on the 17th floor, with just a metal grill between me and about 150 feet of empty space below, I still feel safe. I wonder, if there were no grill, would I be comfortable standing there? Probably not. The grill [...]
It’s perfectly understandable, it’s hard to complete REx course with the ongoing juggle in our lives. We don’t have luxury of time. In fact, we don’t even remember when we had it last! But learning cannot be stopped. It’s the 7th habit of Steven Covey’s The Seven Habits of [...]
“I will remember that.” Those four words have probably created more unnecessary mental load than we realize. We say them when we put something somewhere “for now,” when someone gives us a piece of information, when we notice that something needs to be done later, or when we tell [...]
I am a dreamer. Well, not in the traditional sense. What I mean is that I spend much of my sleep dreaming. I don't say that with any sense of pride—it's simply a fact. My nights are often filled with long, vivid dreams. So when this topic came up last [...]
One of the biggest mistakes we make is assuming our ability to think remains constant throughout the day. It doesn't. Our mental energy rises and falls. Yet we often choose tasks as though every hour is equally suitable for every kind of work. It isn't. Some tasks demand far more mental energy [...]
You know exactly what you should do. You even want to do it. Yet somehow you don't. Instead, you check your phone, rearrange your desk, make another cup of tea, or convince yourself you'll start tomorrow. Why? That is procrastination. But why does it happen? I have had my own struggles [...]
Imagine waking up on a rainy Sunday and wondering, "What exactly did I do with the last six months of my life?" Most of us can answer only in broad strokes: worked a lot, attended meetings, read a few books, spent time with family. The details have already evaporated. [...]
Weekend productivity has very little to do with hustle. In fact, the biggest challenge of weekends is often the opposite: too much unstructured freedom. An entire day with no meetings, no deadlines, and no fixed schedule can quietly drift into endless scrolling, random YouTube videos, “just one more episode” [...]
I once came across a humorous parody of the classic advice columns you often see in magazines. (I’m paraphrasing here, but the spirit is intact.) Reader 1: “I never feel hungry. What should I do?” Expert: “Read Sahastra Pakakriya (सहस्त्र पाकक्रिया).” (A grand old-style title — roughly, a compendium [...]
I remember my mother constantly reminding everyone around her about one thing: budget your money. Don’t overspend. Save for the future. Stay disciplined. At the time, it sounded like good advice. But its real weight became clear only when I saw people around us struggle because they ignored it. As my [...]