Life Skills
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Be your own man!
“Live upto your potential instead of imitating someone else’s.” I was recently reading the book ‘Elon Musk’ by Ashlee Vance which is a sort of biography covering Elon Musk’s life in detail. It is an interesting read and provides an insight into Musk’s life and journey so far. I was highly impressed by Musk’s intelligence and knowledge, but even more so by his charisma and his almost superhuman ability to get the best out of colleagues, achieving impossible feats in the process. And for a minute I wished that I could just be like him. That I could work for 18 hours straight day in day out, running 3 companies,…
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How (and why) to get out of your comfort zone?
“Comfort Zone is a beautiful place but nothing ever grows there.” Let me try and imagine how your life is. You are well settled in life, moderately successful, have a nice job, get promoted every few years, drive a cool car, travel every few months, have a constant set of friends you regularly hang out with, talking the regular shit, and go home to a worthy partner. But whenever an opportunity comes up to apply for a new job that pays double but might require you to move to a new city, or to join a running group comprising of CXOs of different companies early in the morning, you give…