You're unhappy because you do nothing worth being proud of. You haven't done anything hard in months. You haven't made anything. Fought for anything. Dared anything. You coast, consume, complain, and repeat. Then you wonder why life feels empty. Fulfillment comes from building something that outlives your moods.
Major cheat code for life: Master the art of the fresh start. From a bad morning. From a bad interaction. From a missed workout. From a poor decision. The goal isn't to avoid the fall. It's to shorten the time between the fall and the reset. Fast recovery compounds.
My honest advice to someone who wants to make a lot of money.
3 things nobody told you:
1. The only way to make a lot of money is to create a lot of value.
No one hands out money. No one is going to pay you just because they like you or think you're cool. That's not the way the world works.
Money earned is a direct byproduct of value created. Create value, receive value. If money is the goal, value has to be the focus.
This isn't just some vague idea: The only way to get rich is to create an enormous amount of value for others, and capture a small portion of that along the way.
It's not talking about the thing, it's not brainstorming about the thing, it's not asking about the thing, it's not thinking about the thing. The only way to create value is by doing the thing.
And if you don't know where to start, look around you. Customers, colleagues, bosses, shareholders, employees. Every single one of them has a problem. What problems can you solve for the people around you? Figure them out, solve them, scale that solution.
That's how you make money.
2. You have to demonstrate excellence in everything you do.
Your income scales proportional to the amount of excellence that you're able to demonstrate.
Strategic incompetence is a lie. You don't get to pick and choose when to show up, because the world will ignore your best and judge you for your worst. Everything matters. Every single thing.
Top performers show up with energy and enthusiasm for the little things just as much as they do for the big things.
If you're in the top-10% of performers, there's no ceiling for what you can do. But the self-awareness to identify where you currently stack up, and adapt to the honest feedback on it, is very rare.
If you're in the top-10%, you know it. If you're not, figure out why and fix it.
3. You don't need passion, you need energy.
I still have no idea what it means to follow your passion.
You don't have to be passionate about your professional pursuits, you just need to find energy in them. You just need to feel a pull towards them. You just need to feel that spark of curiosity in them.
Passion is usually a byproduct of energy.
When you have energy for something, you'll give it your deep attention to learn more. You’ll ask the right questions. You’ll figure it out. You’ll win.
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And remember: Nobody is coming to save you. It’s just you. There’s a power in that.
Go do the thing.
Your wedding date can be anything but the day you understand that your wife can get angry without any reason and you don't need to waste time in finding the reason to fix it, that day you're truly married.
You become the best version of yourself when you work on things that people can't take away from you. Work on your mindset, character, personality, transparency, and communication. That's the real upgrade.
When a boy is heartbroken, He will replace the girl and move on, but when a man is heartbroken, He will fix his wallet, body, and mind. Big difference.
Mark my words land will be one of the biggest assets in India over the next decade or two.
A relative of mine bought a flat in Chandigarh for ₹28 lakh in 2004 by selling 15 acres of land at just ₹2 lakh per acre.
Today, that same land is worth around ₹92 lakh per acre, while the flat has appreciated to only about ₹1.5 crore.
Just imagine the difference! Urban properties do appreciate, but in the long run, well land can create far greater wealth.
Wherever you buy, land is likely to remain the real game changer! 😉
Being 43 is wild. People your age are living completely different lives.
Some are grandparents. Some are raising toddlers. Some are newly divorced. Some are newly engaged. Some haven’t slept in three years. Some are in St. Tropez posting Aperol spritzes from a yacht.
Some look 25.
Some look like they personally remember the invention of Tupperware.
Nobody got the same assignment.
Fastest Rapid Addition of 1000 Single-Digit Numbers Solved by a Young Genius Girl
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So that Lyari Gang war scene where reporter is live reporting in between and Sanjay dutt says "Hatt ja Bh*dwe warna g0li lag jaegi" is also real.
Excellent Homework this...
Some stories in cricket don't need a hundred Tests to matter. Swapnil Asnodkar played nine IPL games in 2008 and became a name nobody forgot.
Picture this. A boy from Porvorim, barely 5 & a half feet, walks into a Rajasthan Royals camp with cost of less than a Mumbai apartment. Shane Warne looks at him. Sees something & calls him the Goan Cannon...
The name stuck because it made no sense & perfect sense together. Goa has those old Portuguese cannons rusting near beaches. Small, Heavy, They still work.
Asnodkar opened with Graeme Smith that year. Big man, little man. Smith would block & watch. Asnodkar would slash over point, whip through midwicket, make 60 off 34 balls in his first game like he had been doing this forever...
He hadn't.
He was a Ranji grafter until Warne & Smith told him to stop worrying about his wicket. Imagine spending 6 years learning to stay in, then someone says forget all that, hit everything.
He did. Average of 34.5, Strike rate of 133.5. Average partnership of nearly 60 with Smith, highest among all teams.
In the semifinal against attack of McGrath & Mohammad Asif, Asnodkar smashed 39 in just 21 balls & Royals scored 58 runs in powerplay itself. Royals went on to won the whole thing...
Warne visited his house during a break. Ate prawns with the family. Brought Smith, Watson, even young Jadeja.. The greatest showman of this game sitting in a small Goan home, talking to a player's mother. Asnodkar still remembers that meal.
Then 2009 happened. South Africa. Bouncy pitches. Fast bowlers who had watched his tapes. Short balls at his ribs. He averaged 12 that season. Injuries came & Form went. By 2011 he was sitting out. By 2018, Goa dropped him from the state side to give youngsters a chance...
There's a photo somewhere of him & Dhoni talking. Shadab Jakati made the introduction. Dhoni wanted to know about Warne's methods. How did he make domestic players feel like equals? Asnodkar told him. That conversation probably helped Chennai Super Kings more than it helped Asnodkar...
He is into coaching now, worked with Nagaland & Goa Under-23 sides. Holds a Level 2 certificate. Tried getting back into the IPL as a coach, but that hasn’t happened yet.
But here's what counts. Every time a small town Indian player gets picked in the IPL, some of that started with Asnodkar. The template. The proof that you don't need to be from Mumbai or Delhi. You can be from anywhere.
The cannon fired for one season. The echo never really stopped.
The older you get, the more you realize luck is just exposure.
If you sit in the same chair, same routine, talking to same people… nothing new happens.
You have to touch the world to win.
• Talk to strangers
• try a new coffee spot
• post on social
• Start a side hustle
The world rewards motion.
You don’t find opportunity sitting still.
You bump into it.
Life is amazing:
-gyms exist
-Coke Zero exists
-hot girls outnumber even moderately put-together dudes 2000 to 1
-every food item in the world has been hunted and gathered for you (grocery stores)
-you and your wife can drink 4 bottles of wine then smash all night without a condom
-you and your friends can hit the gym then smoke a joint at a John Mayer concert
-you could be working 16 hour days in a coal mine in a third world country breaking your lower back for less than $1
There’s kids who live in wheelchairs. There’s kids born with disabilities. No Prom, no Shoulder Presses, no sleepovers with their best friends staying up until 2AM watching Interstellar.
And you’re not SMASHING the gym like a grateful SAVAGE!? Eating healthy 90% of the time, calling your friends for no reason, CRUSHING it in your career, asking for the promotion, asking out your crush making her your girlfriend then your wife!?
You’re spinning on a sphere in an infinite universe and the fact you’re alive is a 1 in 500 trillion MIRACLE. You’re so lucky it’s absurd and you have nothing to lose :)
Sundar Brothers have made India proud. I don’t remember that two brothers ever attaining such spectacular height of success in different fields in Indian history. Older brother Sundar Pichai heading Google, one of the highest paid techie CEO in the world and younger brother Sundar Washington shining with bat and ball representing India in the international cricket
Bad founders never get a second chance… from stellar employees, even if they get it from mercenary investors.
Once you do bad things, they are never forgotten by those who suffered.
I know this one case from the dot com boom / bust where a founder screwed his team — none of them ever worked for him again even after him courting them multiple times over the past two decades. One them is a friend I’ve known closely who basically says a founder can break trust just once - and can never fix it.
This founder continued to raise top tier money and build multiple companies since — none of them worked out. Multiple of them had similar problems as the first company - alienated employees and even customers.
It’s not hard to understand the difference between right and wrong and to not do wrong things because people ever forget when you do wrong things.
@CricketopiaCom He was the first and last International cricketer from my home town Bhilai, which otherwise is famous for producing IITans. The whole city was glued to TV, during his debut, as if the IIT result was getting out that day. He did reasonably well in his career
वो बोलेंगे fog है तुम smog पर टिके रहना ।
वो बोलेंगे ratings ग़लत है तुम embassy पर टिके रहना।
वो बोलेंगे 200 AQI हेल्थी है तुम अपनी IQ पर टीके रहना।
वो बोलेंगे प्रदूषण सिर्फ दिल्ली की problem है तुम पूरे देश के लिए खड़े रहना ।
वो तुम्हें रोकेंगे, ट्रोल करेंगे, अटैक करेंगे, एक्सपोज़ करेंगे, soros एजेंट बोलेंगे, डीप स्टेट बोलेंगे तुम अपने माँ बाप और बच्चो के लिए डटे रहना ।