S Venkatesh

The perils of ‘perfectionism’

A ploy overused by interviewees, over countless job interviews and employee appraisals, has been to disguise a strength as a…

3 years ago

WHAT IS HOLDING YOU BACK?

In 2008, a young Google employee named Kevin Systrom was overcome by the feeling that he needed a larger canvas…

3 years ago

The inner critic and the freedom to fail

A piece of advice that I often give aspiring writers is to put pen to paper and make a beginning,…

3 years ago

The Lost Art of Persistence

The story goes that in the 1870s, the legendary inventor Thomas Alva Edison had, after several thousand trials, failed to…

3 years ago

TAP-DANCING TO WORK

We live in an era where “finding your passion” has almost become a religion. According to a popular adage, “Do…

3 years ago

‘OVERNIGHT SUCCESSES’ CANNOT BE ATTRIBUTED TO PROVIDENCE

Everybody wants to hop onto a bandwagon that is taking off, yet few of us are prepared for the toil…

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LET A LITTLE MAGIC INTO YOUR LIFE

We all start with ‘magic’. Almost all of humankind’s achievements have been the result of this ‘magic’, the sense of…

3 years ago

THE POWER OF SAYING ‘I DON’T KNOW’

Acceptance enables us to work on what we don’t know. It enables us to recognize complexities, and be nimble and…

3 years ago

LOGIC OR INSTINCT, WHICH DO WE FOLLOW?

During the last days of 2004, as a giant tsunami-ravaged a dozen countries, killing almost two hundred thousand people, researchers…

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Why you should get rich slowly

The biggest reward of playing the long game is that your focus is on the journey rather than the destination.…

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GETTING INTO THE ‘ZONE’

Achieving a state of zero interruption might seem like an unattainable luxury, until one realizes that a lot of the…

3 years ago

THE FORGIVING MINUTE

The concept of the ‘forgiving’ minute, the minute, which is free of the burden of goals and preconceived notions. When…

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