26 Lessons at 26

26 Lessons at 26

1. CHARACTER: You are bigger than your problems. It's not the problems that decide your character, it's your response to the problems that decides your character.

2. INEVITABLE: Problems are inevitable. As Buddha said: "The First Truth is that suffering, pain, and misery exist in life".

3. FAILURE: Anyone can fail. Even the most intellectual ones, most hard working ones, most humble ones. Everyone! Failure is looked down upon but it can teach you the most important lessons in your life.

4. LOVE: Love is perceived to complete a person. Love cannot complete you, wholesomeness of ur individualism will complete u. You complete yourself.

5. EXECUTION: You can steal ideas, but you can't steal execution. Planning gets u started, but it's the execution that helps you move fwd. Planning is on the whiteboard, execution demands you to be in the wild.

6. VISION: Executing things mindlessly without a vision is as good as sitting on a gold mine & saying it's a dump-yard.

7. HEALTH: It's not wrong when people say: A healthy mind lives in a healthy body. You will be far more productive than the diseased ones. It's your fair chance of being miles ahead of others just by taking care of ur health.

8. CREATIVITY: You NEED a creative outlet to produce original things. CREATE DON'T CONSUME.

9. COMPROMISE: Compromise your comfort but never your self-respect. Compromise while learning but never while leading.

10. SELF-ESTEEM: Self-esteem is not about what you have achieved but what you're capable of achieving. Self-esteem provides you the conviction to do epic shit.

11. MOTIVATION: Motivation is like orgasm, it only lasts for a few seconds. You need motivation to achieve short goals, but you need inspiration to achieve long term goals.

12. READING: No other activity can open your imagination, the way reading does. If I ever bump into you, I will always ask: "So, what are you reading these days?"

13. WRITING: If reading gives you imagination, then writing gives you clarity. Writing is you putting your imagination to work. Write your story yourself, no one knows you better.

14. AWARENESS: Awareness is not only knowing your strengths but your weaknesses too. Awareness is not only "KNOWING" but also trying to bring about a change.

15. INTROSPECTION: Introspection is giving importance to yourself. Introspection helps u become less insecure about ur insecurities.

16. COMMITMENT: What no one tells you is that commitment precedes success. If success is a pillar to stand by, then commitment is the foundation.

17. PARENTING: Parenting is an art, not all parents are good parents, not all kids are good kids. If school lessons are important for a child then parenting classes are important for a couple. How can you parent a child without understanding the psyche of a child?

18. ENTREPRENEURSHIP: If you want to be your own boss then sign up for entrepreneurship, they told you. What no one tells you, is that entrepreneurship is a thankless job & it guarantees that you never have a "work-life" balance.

19. WISDOM: The biggest lie about wisdom is that "it comes with age". I have seen wise kids and foolish adults.

20. SKILL: When you combine passion with commitment & relentless efforts, the end result is always skill.

21. CLARITY: Clarity is not absence of complexity but it's an organised form of complexity.

22. LEADERSHIP: Leadership isn't about controlling people, but it's about binding people together & giving them freedom at the same time.

23. HUMILITY: Humility doesn't keep you grounded, it keeps you real. Knowing your strength is a super-power. Not knowing your weaknesses is self-destruction.

24. BOREDOM: If you're bored of urself, you have been doing wrong things. Boredom provides u the awakening that you need to explore more interests.

25. GENUINENESS: Always surround urself with genuine people, having genuine feelings, who who're doing genuine efforts to live a genuine life. But get rid of genuinely fake people.

26. GROWTH: Outgrow yourself. Don't try to fit in the places u've already outgrown.