Ambition is nothing but an addiction to challenges
Challenges bring anticipation that kicks in dopamine, which acts precisely like cocaine, to the reward centers of your brain.
The secret is to learn to use dopamine rather than be used by dopamine.
And the way to do that is to balance it with the here and now, gratitude chemical - Serotonin
Ambition is nothing but an addiction to challenges When your ambitions are self-serving and because you want to feel special and significant – it leads to your happiness but misery to people around you. If your ambition relies on what… Continue Reading →
This blog is a result of my first collaboration with a dear friend. I discussed with my friend where we compared notes about our inner journeys and discoveries, which ended up in stitching together what I call “mind stack”. Meditation… Continue Reading →
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Let’s find a few entrepreneurs who have a dream but not the means to do an MVP and coach them to build their product and scale their business. This was my idea. I did run this idea and ran it… Continue Reading →
Here is a sentence that the pharmaceutical industry will hate to hear. Never treat the symptom; find the root cause! I waited for over a month to ensure, my findings are working before writing this blog: I have been suffering… Continue Reading →
I have read a few thousand books so far, and I have this curated list of books, which provided me the lessons, and frameworks I have tried to implement in building UPilot. This list used to be an internal list… Continue Reading →
One of the critical things I had been teaching the kids is to say “everything is my fault” when something goes wrong, but I also told them to feel the “pain” of a mistake or something that goes wrong without… Continue Reading →
Recently I was invited to give a session on blockchain by the Rotary club, and it was a great experience. I was pretty impressed by the number of people who turned up and stayed until the end and asked many… Continue Reading →
I was asked to give my opinion on the Consultation Paper on proposed amendments to the ICT Act for regulating the use of social media introduced by the Mauritius government. The problem with advise is that it is like handing… Continue Reading →
You can either play with bits or atoms, or you can play with both. The winners will be those who combine the bits and atoms, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, etc. Those who play only with atoms will eventually hand… Continue Reading →
Mr. San, There is a full lockdown starting from tomorrow. I was on a call with my team when I muted and took the call. It was from the local police station. Mr. San, you can go this the Facebook… Continue Reading →
Why the “Robbinghood” moment in B2B might come from browser plugins! I was “mildly” upset with the Robinhood guys for stealing customer data and misrepresenting how they make money. Why mildly upset? Because I used to think that if someone… Continue Reading →
I had just sold my first business and decided to build the 2nd company which was in healthcare and I had thought has the potential to be a $100M company. I was sitting down with a lab technician from a… Continue Reading →
Brands! We’ll put their name to the test!! When an animal tries to attack you, one trick that works is to make yourself appear more prominent. The same works if you want to hunt down an animal larger than yourself…. Continue Reading →
This meeting happened just before Mauritius went on lockdown, and we met a couple living in London from different countries. The guy was in the army of his country and was previously deployed in Afghanistan. We were having dinner when… Continue Reading →
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