2018
30/Aug
My Blog Posts
2018
27/Jul
I found this question, “How to overcome depression?”, so relevant that I also put up this answer on my YouTube channel. Watch it here: Someone asked me this question: I am 22 and I feel stuck in life. I don’t know what I want. What should I do? My answer is as follows: There […]
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2018
9/Mar
Meditating and cleaning your mind are the same things. Cleaning your mind begins with meditation and continues till your mind is perfectly clean. A perfectly clean mind is also ‘No Mind’. In yoga, it is referred to as Samadhi. However, before even talking about Samadhi, one must start meditating. First steps in meditation are like […]
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2018
1/Feb
My personal favourite must read books that I tell youngsters to read are listed herewith. I have had the pleasure of mentoring and coaching many young people (in 20s) and their feedback on these books has further cemented my belief in their motivational power: The Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason – The reason […]
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2017
27/Dec
Someone asked me this question recently on Quora.com, how do toppers study?. Here is what I came up with. Just like one size doesn’t fit all, top students also have different styles of studying. I will share some of the styles that I have come across at IIT Delhi and XLRI Jamshedpur: Phodu. Simply cracks […]
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2017
14/Dec
Someone asked me this question – why should I develop the studying habit? The person who asked this was a student. First thing I told her was to broaden the question to cover not only studying but reading habit as well. Studying refers to what we do as students but reading is something that we […]
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2017
28/Oct
During my recent vacation to the mountains in Himachal Pradesh, India, I had the pleasure of reading about Elon Musk. I can safely claim that if there is a superman alive today, it is Elon Musk. I have always followed news about him with great interest and consider him a true visionary. This is because […]
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2017
7/Oct
First of all, let me clarify. I am not confident all the time during public speaking. Sometimes I am and sometimes I am not. So, what makes me confident at certain instances of public speaking? Preparation. Preparation. Preparation I gave a talk in front of 50 odd managers of a Multi-national company based on my […]
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2017
25/Sep
This topic is very close to my heart. I used to be a night person throughout my student life and during early professional life as well. However, being a banker, I am supposed to be alert during day time, with long working hours and uncertainty in the length of working day. So, being a night […]
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2017
14/Sep
In the previous blogpost, I shared with you some of my feelings. These feeling arose upon seeing the passing away of couple of people in my age-group and living in the same city. After I wrote that piece, I concluded that the whole purpose of being alive is self improvement. Co-incidently, some on Quora […]
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I was asked on Quora – How do I rebuild my life after getting ruined almost fully due to a bad marriage? This question rings a bell with lot of people who suffered due to a bad marriage, financial losses or another catastrophic failure. Many of us get too focussed on something that we know […]
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