Nikhil's Blog

Being good enough is not enough.

Emotional intelligence is getting a lot of attention these days, thankfully so.

Pain earns compassion.

Imagine you have spent days preparing for something you care about.

We are all frauds.

Every single leader gets mocked behind their back.

I have been writing for a while now.

When you are preparing data, a presentation for your boss, or an important conversation, it is natural to plan every detail.

There is a particular freedom in not feeling anything.

Envy is far more common than we admit, because it rarely shows up looking like envy.

Self-loathing feels like honesty.

Most people who say a book bores them are lying.

There are some relationships which appear as if they were designed by God himself.

I have been watching a lot of movies from what is considered the Golden Age of Hollywood—the early ’30s and ’40s—and I was fascinated by Ingrid Bergman.

It is natural to find yourself in a situation where some people hate you for reasons of their own.

Tragedies are inevitable in life.

One of the ways to make your life more interesting is to take up a challenge.

People always know how to make room for those who matter to them.

My relationship with food has always been hit or miss.

Out of all the people we have ever met in life, how many are we still talking to?

Tracking your time is absolutely necessary if you are someone who likes to do too many things.

Have you ever wondered how you met the people who are now so important to you?

Remember when people you haven’t spoken to in a long time suddenly call to check on you?

When you have poured your heart into building something but there’s no applause waiting for you, do you break down completely or resent the world for not appreciating you?

If you have been working on a long-term project but struggle to finish it, one way to force yourself to see it through is to leave your current environment.

If you are in your thirties, you don’t have much of a career left.

There are two camps.

A man who is focused on his self-improvement, one who is so engrossed in his own life, will often appear boring to the world.

The Bhagavad Gita says that the most contented man is he who cares more about his actions or deeds and less about the fruits of those actions.