Month: May 2021

I was going through some notes I had made after reading the book “The Power of Habit” by Charles Duhigg. He says, to create and redesign a habit we need understand its basic formulation. In every habit loop there are 3 elements. The cue (craving), routine, and reward. We need to have all of these…

After quite a long while, today I played badminton in our apartment’s play area. It has been locked for over a month and only recently has it been partially opened to the members. It was, of course, a new experience, playing while wearing a mask, But I felt like I was sweating it out for…

I was reading about gut bacteria (the gut microbiome) and how they are dedicated to the effective functioning of our life on this planet. It is estimated that over 100 trillion such bacteria live in our digestive systems and make our lives possible. In the gut microbiome, the “good” bacteria primarily help us break down…

Today I was part of a discussion in the evening, and a friend of mine was sharing an experience from his early days as a designer 15 years back. My friend was a startup entrepreneur then and he received an enquiry to design the business card of another entrepreneur. He was in the midst of…

Today I was delivering a session on entrepreneurship to a bunch of MBA students. In the interactive session, a student asked me whether I had a back-up plan when I kickstarted my entrepreneurial journey. That was an unexpected question and, in fact, I never had a back-up plan. We as co-founders went full throttle on…

I was in a discussion with a group of friends on the very first sale we closed in our entrepreneurial and professional journeys. What made me to bring this topic to the group was that, for every professional, the first sale closure is a milestone, because until then we don’t have the experience or track…

The other day, I was having a conversation with some fellow entrepreneurs in my state of Kerala and some startup ecosystem enablers on the Clubhouse platform. Since Clubhouse was launched on the Android platform there has been a flood of recent users on it. The conversation stretched to about two hours and there was a…

There is always a seed of the Devil and the Divine inside every person. What I feel is that a person turns into the devil or divine form based on how we nurture that seed in them. In short, we are responsible in the making of divinity or devilishness that a person shows towards us….

I was listening to an interview of an executive coach who was talking about the art of leveraging fear in one’s self. I somehow thought that being absolutely fearless is what brings us fortune but this gentleman’s talk slightly altered my perspective. He said, “One should always have a healthy respect towards fear,” and he…

I happened to read the famous quote by the American entrepreneur and author Jim Rohn that, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” I personally love this perspective. It’s a very sensible scale for our self-auditing. If we really want to change our positioning, I think we should…