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Soham Gavankar
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Underrated life advice: Just be easy to work with. Show up on time. Do what you said you'd do. Bring solutions, not problems. Never create drama. Be responsive. Be emotionally consistent. Be kind. People will always want to support someone who just makes their life easier.
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The secret of life is to approach it playfully.
Everything can be approached with a sense of lightness, joy, and ease.
Doesn't matter what you're doing. Working at a cafe. Meeting someone new. Going out to dinner. Taking a work call. Writing a tweet. Going on a crazy travel adventure.
The illusion is that things are meant to be taken seriously.
This morning, I caught myself racing against time.
I had a friend arriving in Thailand.
I wanted to work out, jump in the ocean, and get coffee before he got here.
I was stressed and tense — battling against reality instead of flowing with it.
But everything changed with one mindset shift.
It's what I have tattooed on my arm:
"It's all play."
I decided to see the entire situation as a scene out of a movie to experience — rather than something to control and fight.
Ripping my motorbike through town, jumping in the ocean, and grabbing a cappuccino became an electric experience to enjoy rather than something to rush through.
My friend arrived, and the rest of the day flowed magically because my vibrational state shifted from tension to flow.
So whenever you're rushing, tense, or way too serious — a red flag should go up in your mind.
Life is not meant to be taken so seriously.
Reality is not meant to be controlled and fought against.
This is meant to be a game, a movie, an exploration in consciousness, and a journey your soul chose to experience through the character of you.
Sink into that state of awareness and watch your life play out more magically than you could have ever controlled from a tense, rigid mind.
It's all play.
10 satisfying things at work
• Clearing your inbox to zero
• Finishing a task before the deadline
• A meeting getting canceled
• Solving a problem no one else could
• Closing your laptop knowing nothing is pending
• A calm, productive workday with no interruptions
• Getting clear feedback instead of vague comments
• Automating something you used to do manually
• Logging off exactly on time
• Being appreciated without having to ask
I just turned 35.
Every year, I use my birthday as a day to reflect on what I've learned along the way.
Here are 35 life lessons from my 35 years...
1. You can reinvent yourself whenever you want.
You’re never stuck. You’re allowed to change. New habits. New mindsets. New standards. New people. New career. There are no fixed timelines for reinvention. No age restrictions. No maximum limit. You can reinvent yourself today, tomorrow, and as many times as you need to create the life you want.
2. Tolerance for uncertainty is the most valuable human trait.
It’s easy to show up when the path is clear. It’s hard to show up when it’s anything but. The most dangerous person in the world is the one who shows up every single day even when the rewards are uncertain. The one who can tolerate the most uncertainty is the one who will eventually win.
3. Energy is the most attractive human trait.
Not looks, wealth, or status. Energy. Walk into rooms with genuine enthusiasm, curiosity, and interest. You'll become a magnet for the highest quality people. Energy is contagious. Spread the kind you’d want to catch.
4. Nobody cares.
My entire life changed when I realized nobody cares. When you’re winning, nobody cares. When you’re losing, nobody cares. It doesn’t mean nobody loves you, it just means nobody cares about your life as much as you do. That thing you’ve always wanted to do? Nobody cares. So, go do it.
5. Always get your dopamine from action.
Dopamine from information gathering is a dangerous drug. The real goal is to have a razor-thin gap between information and action. Your entire life will change when you stop gathering information and start acting on the information you already have.
6. Your professional success is proportional to your ability to figure it out.
You’ll constantly be handed tasks you have no idea how to complete. There's nothing more valuable than someone who can just figure it out. Do some work. Ask the key questions. Get it done. If you do that, people will fight over you.
7. Never let your head outsmart your gut.
My grandfather once told me: The worst decisions in life are made when you allow your head to talk you into something when your gut already said no. It took me a lot of painful experiences to realize just how true it really is. Your gut is earned intuition—a refined, elevated biological protection mechanism. My rule: If your gut says no, the answer is no.
8. Showing up is the key to life.
Show up when it’s hard. Show up when it’s messy. Show up when no one’s watching. Show up when you don't feel like it. Just show up. You can never bet against the person who just keeps showing up.
9. Fear comes from inexperience, not incapability.
You're afraid because you haven't done it yet, not because you can't do it. Inexperience is the problem to be solved—and it's only solved through having the courage to act in the face of it.
10. Learn to work without validation.
Quiet progress creates loud results. Write when nobody’s reading. Build when nobody’s watching. Train when nobody’s cheering. It doesn’t take talent. Just desire. Just care. Those willing to work in the dark will eventually shine in the light.
11. Anything above zero compounds.
Ambitious people allow optimal to get in the way of beneficial. The truth is that showing up consistently matters more than showing up perfectly. Small things become big things.
12. Take pride in finishing things.
The world is full of half-written books, half-built businesses, half-pursued passions, and half-kept promises. You stand out by closing loops. By stepping into the arena. By doing what you said you’d do. Anyone can start, but few have the doggedness to finish.
13. Life improves when you embrace your inner extremes.
My entire life changed when I made peace with the paradoxes living inside me. Deeply emotional in peace, deeply rational in war. Creative wandering at times, rigid structure at others. Quiet writer, aggressive lifter. Extroverted introvert. You’re taught to avoid extremes, but leaning into them is how you find your flow.
14. The most important things take a long time to build.
The worst mistakes in life are made when you try to do fast what’s meant to be done slow. Real, durable things take a long time to build. Careers. Businesses. Relationships. Health. There are no hacks or shortcuts—and chasing them leads you into peril. The long way is the right way.
15. Be unapologetically yourself.
When you edit your personality, you attract relationships that need constant maintenance. Stop filtering who you are to be liked. The right ones will stick. The wrong ones will walk. That’s a blessing, whether you realize it or not.
16. Do what most people avoid.
Wake up early. Focus deeply. Move your body. Eat real foods. Obsess over one thing. Read old books. Be present. Have difficult conversations. The recipe for a good life is found by running towards what most people run from.
17. Life will test you with the same challenge until you learn the lesson.
The same fight in every relationship. The same burnout in every job. The same plateau in every pursuit. The same regret in every missed chance. Until you do the inner work, the outer world won’t change.
18. Your standards decide your future.
Every time you let something slide just this once, you train yourself to accept less than what you deserve. That's how principles slip. That’s how goals erode. That’s how a vision deteriorates. Set your standards, then hold the line. Even when it’s hard. Especially when it’s hard.
19. Choose a partner you actually like being around.
I'm convinced that 99% of a successful marriage is just genuinely enjoying each other’s company. People make these long lists of values and traits they want to find in a partner, but so much of life just comes down to being kind and pleasant to be around. And if you’re going to make a long list of values and traits you want to find in another, make sure you’re embodying them yourself.
20. If you want people to believe in you, start carrying yourself like someone worth believing in.
Do the old fashioned things well. Stand tall. Move deliberately. Make eye contact. Take care of your body and mind. Listen. Speak with intention. If you do that, you’ll start believing in yourself, and the world will have no choice but to follow suit.
21. Don’t wait.
Just start. Take that crazy leap of faith. Say the words now. Tell people you love them. Apologize when you should. Forgive. Everything in life has an expiration date. Opportunities don’t wait until you’re ready. Miss them now and you miss them forever.
22. Confidence isn’t about knowing you’ll win.
Confidence is about knowing you’ll bounce back even if you don’t. Real confidence is built on resilience. Adaptability. Tolerance for uncertainty. Fear loses when you embrace that failure is never final.
23. Stress and anxiety feed on idleness.
You feel stressed and anxious because you’re not doing anything. When you take action, you starve them of the oxygen they need to survive. The answer is found in the action.
24. Working out will rewire your brain.
There’s no such thing as a loser who wakes up at 5am and works out. It creates evidence that you have the power to take an action and achieve a desired outcome. That you have agency over your own journey. That you are at the wheel. That has ripple effects into every area of life.
25. Energy fuels growth.
Give your energy to stress, complaints, and negative people, they will grow. Give your energy to ambitions, gratitude, and positive people, they will grow. Choose wisely.
26. Nobody is thinking about you.
You aren’t afraid of failure. You’re afraid of what other people will think of you if you fail. Well, guess what? Nobody is thinking about you. They’re too busy thinking about themselves. So, go do the damn thing.
27. You have to know when to stop.
Stop arguing with people who don’t listen. Stop chasing people who run away. Stop forcing relationships that drain you. Stop grinding on things that don’t matter. Stop saying yes when you mean no. Stopping isn’t weakness, it’s wisdom.
28. Do hard things every single day.
There’s nothing better than a hard-earned win. Nothing. The pain. The struggle. The resilience. The grit. And then, the reward. The thrill of knowing that you paid the cost of entry for the thing you wanted to achieve. Hard things are good for the soul.
29. Reliability is more important than talent.
My grandfather once said: You’ll achieve much more by being consistently reliable than by being occasionally extraordinary. He was right. You can get pretty damn far in life by just being someone people can count on to do the work. Stop overcomplicating success. Say what you’ll do. Do it. Repeat.
30. Don’t complain about anything.
If it’s within your control, go do something about it. If it’s not, you’re just wasting energy thinking about it. Complaining gives too much power to the thing. Take back that power.
31. Emotional control is the ultimate sign of personal growth.
The ability to remain unshaken by the little collisions and inconveniences of life. To avoid assigning false narratives to everyday slights. That’s when you take control of your own life.
32. You can just do things.
We live in a permissionless world. In 2025, I published a New York Times bestselling book and launched a natural skincare business. Nobody told me I could do that. I just wanted to do it. So, I did it. Technology has cracked the walls of credentialism. Opportunity is more freely accessible than ever before. You don’t need a stamp of approval. You just need to create things of value. You just need to go do things.
33. You’re going to miss this.
Every single thing you do today is something that your 90-year-old self will wish they could go back and do. Slow down. The good old days are happening right now.
34. Nobody is coming to save you.
Nobody will fix your problems. Nobody will change your mindsets. Nobody will set your boundaries. Nobody will hand you the things you want in life. It's just you. It's all on you. You are in control. There’s a power in that.
35. You're one year of focus away from people calling you lucky.
Most people overestimate what they can do in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. Your entire life can change in one year. One year of focused, daily effort. One year of showing up with intention and clarity. The transformation won't be easy, but it is possible. And once you do it, everyone will call you lucky.
I hope you saw yourself in one or more of these lessons—and I hope they spark a positive ripple in your life.
Cheers to a beautiful, hard, growth-filled year ahead!
- Sahil
7. The World’s Greatest Stretch
Mobility keeps you moving freely. Lose it, and everything else declines.
This dynamic hip stretch improves flexibility, balance, and fall resistance.
Do it daily for three minutes. Think of it as oil for your joints before they rust.
We have all had that moment where we sat down to study during school, realized the time is 6:47pm and said to ourselves, I will start at 7pm!
The same thing happens when at 11:53pm in the night we tells ourselves “ok, just 7 more minutes of reels, before I sleep”.
It is oddly satisfying to round off time.
Especially when it comes to something we know we have to do, or something we know we have to stop doing.
It is almost as if time has an emotion.
As if 11:47 is less capable, less ready than 12:00 :))
But time is time.
On 31st December, as midnight strikes, there is no change in nature.
The sun and moon are still doing their thing.
The plants are doing their thing.
So are the animals.
Yet, almost all of humankind gathers around to celebrate the rounding off of a year.
As if 1st Jan will bring with it a new time.
But it is all in our head.
Which is what makes it fascinating.
Because ‘our head’ is a powerful thing.
It can make us do things we didn’t know we were capable of.
And it can stop us from doing things that were well within our reach.
So many of us use the New Year as an opportunity.
To reset a bad time gone by.
To focus on an important time ahead.
To set goals/targets.
To make a plan on how to hit them.
To make promises to ourselves with a renewed sense of rigor.
And you know what - that’s awesome.
It is stupid, but it is awesome.
Stupid, because time doesn’t care.
31st Dec and 1st Jan are no different from any other date or moment in time.
Awesome, because you, cutely choose to ignore this, and give the new year importance that it doesn’t deserve.
And build your life around this moment.
So this New Year, I wish you clarity.
Not just motivation.
I wish you courage.
Not just goals.
And I hope you remember this:
YOU have the power to give any day just as much importance as you give the start of a new year.
If a date can make you begin, a random Tuesday can keep you going.
May you see yourself in a new light.
May you fall in love with who you are becoming.
And may you make the most of what life offers you, without losing yourself in the process.
May this year called 2026 be special.
Only focus on what you want
I have worked with people who lean pessimistic.
What stands out about them is not their negativity but their precision.
They catch mistakes before they happen.
They anticipate failures long before anyone else even thinks of them.
Their work is often immaculate because their mind is always scanning for what could go wrong.
It is a skill worth admiring.
But the same mindset that protects their work often punishes their life.
The constant vigilance drains them.
Every day feels heavy.
And when you suffer that much through the process, you start desiring the outcome to justify your pain.
So if the result falls short, the disappointment hits harder.
Resentment grows faster.
The comparison with others becomes louder.
Not because they are bad people but because their inner cost was simply too high.
On the other end are the optimists.
They carry a strange lightness.
They don’t obsess over every detail.
They carry an irrational confidence that somehow things will work out.
Their work is rarely perfect, but their days seem easier.
They don’t demand the outcome to compensate them for the journey because the journey didn’t drain them in the first place.
Even when things don’t go their way, they bounce back because they were never emotionally over-leveraged.
Over time, I’ve come to notice a simple pattern.
Pessimists often create flawless work but suffer through the process.
Optimists often create imperfect work but enjoy the process.
Neither is right or wrong.
It is simply a choice of what you are willing to trade:
Perfection or peace.
Everyone needs to hear this…
In a 1998 commencement speech at Rice University, author Kurt Vonnegut shared a story about his Uncle Alex, who had an uncanny habit we can all learn from:
“One thing which my Uncle Alex found objectionable about human beings was that they seldom took time out to notice when they were happy.
He himself did his best to acknowledge it when times were sweet. We could be drinking lemonade in the shade of an apple tree in the summertime, and he would interrupt the conversation to say, ‘If this isn't nice, what is?’
So, I hope that you Adams and Eves in front of me will do the same for the rest of your lives. When things are going sweetly and peacefully, please pause a moment, and then say out loud:
‘If this isn't nice, what is?’”
And really, that's what Thanksgiving means to me. It's not about the big.
It's about the small hiding in plain sight.
It's a chance to pause and appreciate the things you prayed for that you take for granted today.
It's a chance to recognize that you're living the good old days right now.
It's a chance to stop, look around, smile, and say:
If this isn't nice, what is?
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
1/ In 5 years, Indian households could turn out to be worlds best investor , they are shorting the USD via INR and buying gold.
2/ If gold hits $10,000 per ounce, Indian households will hold around $10 trillion worth of gold ( assuming 30000 tonnes ) — a staggering store of wealth. I am not bringing this number of $10000 lightly as I believe gold is returning to monetary system as neutral reserve asset.
3/ Alongside this, I expect the Nifty to near 35,000, worth roughly $8 trillion in equity market value.
4/ Together, this means Indian households could control close to $18 trillion in movable assets alone combined gold and equity wealth.
5/So India could be in situation where the GDP is around $6 trillion but equities plus gold value reach about $18 trillion — triple the GDP.
@dougboneparth Do a poll
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Naval Ravikant doesn’t believe in retirement.
He calls it a "dangerous fantasy for people trapped in jobs they hate."
Instead, he built his life around "retirement in motion."
Here’s Naval’s anti-retirement system and how it works:
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Everything has a price:
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•Financial freedom = effort + sacrifice.
•Travel = risks + solitude.
•Freebies from politicians = your taxes + future debt.
You pay, one way or another.
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