Many of us grew up with Spiderman. We all heard Uncle Ben’s advice to Peter Parker. With great power comes great responsibility. Those words have been immortalized through repeated remakes of the franchisee. While the mantra is excellent for a fantasy comic book hero, it is lousy advice for real…

The scientific name for our species is Homosapiens. The Homo Neanderthalensis was our cousin. We all carry some per cent of their genes even today. Despite being stronger & larger than Sapiens, the Neanderthals perished. This fact has perplexed anthropologists, archaeologists, geneticists & historians alike. We will never know the…

What are your goals? Do you set goals? Do you live your life with a purpose to achieve your goals? If the answer to the above questions is a resounding ‘no’, then you are either living in blissful unawareness or unawareness that’s bliss. …

They say opportunity knocks only once. This is the world I grew in. This built a scarcity (poor kid) mindset in most of us. Fear & anxiety was the driving emotion. Today, opportunity knocks all the time. We just don’t care to open the door. This is building an excess (rich kid)…

Garry Kasparov wrote “How Chess Imitates Life” and one could mistake the title for a biased view of a Grandmaster who is obviously going to see life through the lens (of chess) that’s most familiar to him. There is truth to this assumption. This is quite common. When you have…

As a species, humans have always been anxious about the future. Every turn, a possible danger. Every next minute, a potential threat. We have survived because we’ve channelled this anxiety into doing what’s needed to handle the danger and avert the threat. In the 21st century, the challenges have changed…