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Abhishek Chakraborty
Ode to My Father There are certain events in life, after which, everything changes irreversibly. There’s no way to...
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Ode to My Father

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There are certain events in life, after which, everything changes irreversibly. There’s no way to get back to the old way of things. For me, it when I got the call from the hospital.
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The Problem With Too Much Conviction There are times when you may not know for sure if this is the right decision. There are times when...
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The Problem With Too Much Conviction

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There are times when you may not know for sure if this is the right decision. There are times when you don’t know anything about something, and you’re still asked to do something about it. These kinds of situations are in fact more common than others. What do you do then?
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The Problem With Too Much Comfort The recurring advice for writing any good story: keep the interesting parts, remove everything else....
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The Problem With Too Much Comfort

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The recurring advice for writing any good story: keep the interesting parts, remove everything else. If you watch a good biopic, you wouldn’t want to know about their boring afternoon visit to the doctor unless it contributed to the screenplay of the movie.
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Opportunity v FOMO Competition gives us a framework to measure ourselves against others. It tells us where we stand in...
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Opportunity v FOMO

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Competition gives us a framework to measure ourselves against others. It tells us where we stand in the world, how far ahead or behind we are from those similar to us. But too much of it is detrimental.
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Truth is Ruthless If your wife asks you if she looks overweight, you will utter “no” without flinching, whatever you...
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Truth is Ruthless

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If your wife asks you if she looks overweight, you will utter “no” without flinching, whatever you actually think. On the other hand, all of us consider it morally wrong (under all circumstances) to make sexual advances on children. This fuzziness however creates some interesting...
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The Problem With Too Much Logic It doesn’t pay to be logical if everyone else is also being logical. Conventional logic is a...
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The Problem With Too Much Logic

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It doesn’t pay to be logical if everyone else is also being logical. Conventional logic is a straightforward mental process that is equally available to all and will therefore get you the same place (and same life partner) as everyone else.
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The Perks of Being Relentlessly Curious Being relentlessly and randomly curious about everything around us is something that each of us can...
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The Perks of Being Relentlessly Curious

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Being relentlessly and randomly curious about everything around us is something that each of us can push ourselves to do, every waking hour, just as Leonardo did.
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The Perks of Being Resourceful Mark Watney is hands down one of my favourite characters from a movie or a book. Apart from his...
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The Perks of Being Resourceful

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Mark Watney is hands down one of my favourite characters from a movie or a book. Apart from his one-liners and uplifting sense of humour (even in the direst of situations), what makes Mark Watney standout from the rest of us is his limitless resourcefulness.
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Success Comes With a Price Tag Like everything, even success comes with a price tag. The key is figuring out what that price is and...
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Success Comes With a Price Tag

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Like everything, even success comes with a price tag. The key is figuring out what that price is and being willing to pay it. The problem however is that the price of a lot of things is not obvious (or remain hidden) till the very end.
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The Perks of Being Vulnerable Contrary to its literal meaning, vulnerability is not a weakness. As we shall learn, vulnerability...
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The Perks of Being Vulnerable

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Contrary to its literal meaning, vulnerability is not a weakness. As we shall learn, vulnerability is actually about confronting our deepest fears so that we can be honest with ourselves and, by extension, others.
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The Selfish Reason Behind Our Helpful Nature We have an inbuilt habit to help those in need. While it wouldn’t be wrong to assume that human...
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The Selfish Reason Behind Our Helpful Nature

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We have an inbuilt habit to help those in need. While it wouldn’t be wrong to assume that human beings are good in spirit and hence they help out, it wouldn’t be as much interesting to understand why we really help others (as a species) and how it actually benefits us (as an...
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Black Swan Bias: Rare Events Don’t Happen Everyday There’s wisdom in the saying, “Lightning never strikes (the same place) twice.” Black Swan events...
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Black Swan Bias: Rare Events Don’t Happen Everyday

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There’s wisdom in the saying, “Lightning never strikes (the same place) twice.” Black Swan events maybe rare but the distortions caused by them don’t disappear for a long time.
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Problem Trading: Why We Should Learn to Live With Our Problems It’s interesting that the most practical problem-solving lessons are business lessons. It’s because...
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Problem Trading: Why We Should Learn to Live With Our Problems

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It’s interesting that the most practical problem-solving lessons are business lessons. It’s because the stakes are real in business and you have real skin in the game. If you don’t make the right decisions, death is certain. In fact, the default outcome for any startup is death.
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Don’t Seek Too Much Stability A stable life is one where—in theory—nothing goes wrong. You have an okay job, a happy marriage,...
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Don’t Seek Too Much Stability

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A stable life is one where—in theory—nothing goes wrong. You have an okay job, a happy marriage, good kids, and live in a decent neighbourhood. But soon we’ll learn that longterm stability is only a ticking time bomb and, if we know any better, we should avoid it at all costs.
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The Problem with Too Much Fairness We care so much about fairness that we are willing to sacrifice economic well-being to enforce it....
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The Problem with Too Much Fairness

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We care so much about fairness that we are willing to sacrifice economic well-being to enforce it. Research shows that just to ensure shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.
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