Compound Thinking: How to Make Time Work For You When we plan to improve ourselves or grow a business, we pursue dramatic changes like, run 10 km everyday, or grow 10x a month. It’s not sustainable. There’s a better approach.
Demand-Side Sales: Everybody Wants to Buy, But Nobody Wants to be Sold to The art of selling has got a bad rap. For some reason, it feels icky. Like an unnatural push to get people to buy what you’re offering. Mostly because we’ve got the whole narrative of selling backwards.
The Novelty-Familiarity Gap: Be Original, Just Not Too Much. Arijit Singh is an extremely popular Bollywood singer. Have you wondered why all his hit songs sound similar? Also, why are all talkshow and sitcom formats so similar? Why are franchises more popular than standalone films?
Don’t be Number One. Be The Only One. People don’t back you because you are right. They back you because you’ve got a backbone. It doesn’t matter if you are right or wrong. What matter is that you have skin in the game. You stand up for what you believe in. You are not number one. What matters is you are a “Category of One”.
You Don’t Need More If You Have Enough We are brainwashed by society and culture to assume that more money equals more success, and hence more happiness. How true is that? Is it okay to be content with just enough? How much is just enough? Is the threshold same for everybody?
The Perks of Being A Renaissance Man People who try out different things and dabble with new domains are labelled as "jack of all trades, master of none." It cannot be further from the truth.
Kind v Wicked Domains: Why Sports Champions Aren’t Your Success Gurus Knowledge and experience cannot be generalised. Skillset in one domain isn’t always transferable to another domain, i.e., they are often domain dependent. A great chess player isn’t automatically a great strategist. A good poker player isn’t automatically a good dealmaker.
Healthy Friction: When You Want Something, All The Universe Conspires Against You As a kid, whenever I wanted something for myself, my father turned it into a challenge. This was his way of putting a “healthy friction” in my way to test my conviction—do I really want it? How much do I want it? How hard am I willing to work for it?