“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.” — Arnold H. Glasow A few years back, I distinctly remember a particular business meeting where my business counterparts were very keen on compressing the schedule for developing certain features in one…

“The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.” — Kalpana Chawla In all likelihood, you are playing someone’s game. You are most likely trying to live up to someone…

“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.” — N. R. Narayana Murthy I know a disproportionately large number of people who feel trapped in their careers (or jobs) which they seem to hate (I was about to say…

“Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.” — Terry Tempest Williams I came across the stoic-ish phrase — “what are you willing to suffer for?” — from a podcast interview of Vitaliy Katsenelson…

Have you recently been asked by your employer to start coming to office for work? Were you excited by the prospect of going back to office or depressed? With many organizations trying to woo employees back to working from office, for many employees “Will I be forced back to working…

“No matter how calm you are, no matter how long term an investor you are, no matter what your horizons, when the market is jumping around, you feel uncertainty in your gut and it’s hard to resist that.” — Peter Bernstein If you are an equity investor or someone who…

“The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.”- Benjamin Graham If you can currently afford a materially comfortable life, would you be willing to play Russian roulette if winning gets you One Billion Dollars? Think about this for a moment. We will get…

“Churn leads to butter but also froth” — by yours truly Last week, I had a meeting with a friend regarding a career predicament of his. Leaving aside specific details, the predicament boiled down to — should I quit my current job or not? This is a tough question to…

“The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.” — Captain Jack Sparrow Tuesday this week, I completed first run as a back-again resident of Hyderabad. It was hot and humid compared with Pune and hence the run felt harder than usual. This run also…