I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
My ‘kid-in-a- candy-store-moment’ Last weekend, I managed to check off one of my bucket list items of getting a professional photoshoot done. Thanks to being invited to TANISHQ JEWLLERYS launch of their new festive collection – like how cool is it to get to try out any of their gorgeous pieces! Being the nerd that …
💁♀️💁♀️ 7 harsh truths as a working women and a parent. Vignesh Kumar and I mentor this young girl. Two years into her first job, she was contemplating her next career move – should she look at doing a MS in US or move into data sciences? As Vignesh prodded her more about her why, …
This story reflects so much that is true. Taking a bet on yourself is hard. Maybe for all. But definitely so for a woman Especially if you are raised in a culture that values topping the classes and fearing failure. I see this in how I function too – it is extremely hard for me …
There are 70 days left to end the year. Are there goals you are yet to achieve? Boxing is something I hugely enjoyed as part of my fitness goals. Especially when it was against the spouse 🙂 Thanks to the excessive lifting though, I had an abdominal hernia and then COVID happened, throwing a spanner …
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I am writing a book. There, I said it. The first book agent I met called out that I wasn’t a celebrity ‘Why will people want to buy what you write?”, he asked. That is fair. I don’t know. But more than any external factor, the one thing that holds folks back is themselves. We …
What I learned from 4 months of maintaining a Decision Log? I maintained a log of all decisions I have taken, the reasons why and how they turned out. And this is one thing I have learnt That the decisions that tend to not do exceptionally well are the ones that start with requiring massive …
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I was recently re-watching the series, House. There is this episode featuring a doctor who gave up on her cancer research when she was quite close to figuring a cure. She decides to drop it all one fine day – to become a sous chef and attend book clubs. There is a lot of discussion …
Are you Above Average? How Do We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it. The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like GPAs, personality test results, and performance …
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What you’ll wish you’d known as a high school student. Do you have people you have never met who teach you a lot? For me, Paul Graham is one of them. Highly unlikely I would ever meet him. Of all the exceptional things he blogs about, one thing I highly recommend is his ‘almost given …
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Did you catch the ‘Daring Greatly’ LinkedIn Live session Prashant Desai and I did on Financial Literacy for Women last Sat? If there is one thing to take-away, it is his R2T2 framework #1 R2T2 stands for Risk – Returns; Time- Trade-off. The concept is simple but fundamental to how we view wealth #2 Align …
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