Do not aim for big goals from a place of anxiety and frustration. Often, the need to escape from an undesirable situation triggers the desire to do something really big and audacious. For instance, people in a boring job think the way out is to start a business, rather than…
Style is a process of discovery, not a something that can be copied wholesale from someone else. We tend to mistake style for visible markers only but true style is an extension of yourself, your way of being in the world.
Effortless style is the only style. Everything else is…
All goals rest on a hierarchy, whether we realise it or not. While we can tell ourselves that we will approach our goals in a certain order, there is an underlying logic to how we can attain the more ambitious ones. And this logic can rarely be violated.
Challenging goals…
When you feel you have something to prove, you are more prone to making grand gestures rather than doing the little things that actually matter. Which is why this kind of action is the preserve of the insecure and the impatient. Leaders often resort to such action, especially when they…
1. Life rarely improves with a single event.
2. You will outlast most of your competition if you are patient.
3. Blame yourself only if you’ve been careless. Even then, do it quickly and move on.
4. Most experiences can be made better simply by giving them your full…
A tragedy is unexpected event or sequence of events that brings about great suffering and distress. The defining feature of a tragic event is its suddenness. A tragedy is not something that we can see building up, which is why when it occurs, it comes as a great shock.
A…
Success is easy to imagine. We can see the riches, the adulation and even the happiness we might feel, in high-definition. Since such daydreams seem so effortless, it is often a rude shock to realise how difficult it is in reality to achieve anything worthwhile.
The most unsettling realisation for…
A crisis is whenever our well-established expectations are violated. Your car breaking down, the presentation refusing to load in the meeting, . It doesn’t take much for the regular rhythm of life to be disrupted. The well-protected enclaves of order we create for ourselves work well most of the time…
‘There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important.’ — William James
The desire to be seen as unique is one of the defining features of our hyper-connected world. Whoever is clued into the game wants to be seen as the…
Bringing about any long-lasting change in your life isn’t easy. Who we are in the present is a result of all the habits and beliefs we’ve accumulated till that point. As a result, our thoughts and feelings flow in mostly predictable patterns. Years upon years of experience creates mental and…
