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warikoo Wanderings

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YOU ARE IN THE WRONG SPOT!

You are in the wrong job if your boss always tells you exactly what to do.

You are in the wrong friendship if your friend blames you for not knowing what they are going through.

You are in the wrong room if you are mostly talking.

You are in the wrong career if the only reason you are in it is your salary.

You are in the wrong relationship if it is your responsibility to keep the other person happy.

You are in the wrong organization if they always start with “we can’t trust them to do it”.

You are in the wrong family if your parents blame you for not fulfilling their desires.

You have the wrong mindset if you are always asking “why doesn’t the world understand?”.

You are watching the wrong thing if it makes you feel shitty about yourself.

You are in the wrong school if it teaches you the right answers to questions.

You are in the wrong college if your high paying job placement will be on their admission brochure.

You are working with the wrong client if they say “why this high a charge if it won’t take you too long?”

You are eating the wrong thing if it makes you want to eat more if it.

You are drinking the wrong thing, if it could have been eaten.

You are lifting weights the wrong way if you can easily lift them.

You are hiring the wrong people if their ambition is to eventually manage people.

You are hiring the wrong way if you are looking first at the resume.

You are in the wrong startup if you know the valuation of the company but not the NPS.

You are admiring the wrong people if they never say anything that you disagree with.

You are investing the wrong way if you always feel like selling.

You are with the wrong person if you can’t spend 30 minutes with them in absolute silence.
You could be that wrong person yourself. With your own self.

You are in the wrong spot if the world tells you that your life is perfect and yet you are not happy!
You are in the wrong spot if you did everything you thought you needed to do to be happy and yet you are not happy!
You are in the wrong spot if you lie to yourself that you are happy!

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HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU NEED IN LIFE?

A few weeks back, I shared an opinion in this newsletter that if you do not know how much money you need in life, you will end up chasing money all your life.
I also shared that to fulfill everything that I wanted to do in life, I needed Rs. 21.7 Crores.
People were stumped with the precision of the number and several of you asked me how did I arrive at this number.
I created a video on that - you can watch it here.

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BOOK I AM READING THIS WEEK

Finished "Just keep buying" by Nick Maggiulli.
The book is slightly American, but is brilliantly simple in its approach to start investing. I am tempted to convert it into a course, which I might pick up soon.

Started reading BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making​
The author is Tony Fadell, who was the man behind the iPod, the iPhone and eventually Nest (which Google bought for $2bn+) - so this guy clearly knows how to make things worth making.

The good thing about the book is that it is not just about products. It is about experiences. Whether a product, a service, a mindset.

Highly recommended to those with the builder mindset.

Everyday, people tag me on IG with their copies of DO EPIC SHIT. I have recorded them over the past month and concluded that right now 70% of all copies being sold are pirated (because 70% of the shares are that of the paperback, which isn't even launched by us). I am frankly happy, because people are getting to read the book and hopefully start a habit of reading. A small price to pay for that :)
If you are interested, you can buy an original copy of DO EPIC SHIT here.​

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QUOTES TO SHARE

Every time I declared to the world that I am going to win, I invariably lost.
Every time I shut the f up and worked, I invariably did well.
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Don’t make your 30s hard for you by making your 20s easy for you.
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Nothing beats a team that trusts each other.
Nothing saves a team that doesn’t.
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RESPONSES TO LAST WEEK'S QUESTION

Last week I asked you:

How often do you order outside food or go outside to eat?

1. More than once a day
2. Once a day
3. Few times a week
4. Few times a month
5. Don't order in or go out to eat

Here are the responses:

• The responses are on expected lines.
• Ordering once a day is not yet the norm, across any age group.
• Ordering few times a week peaks in the 20s, goes up to 30s and then begins to slow down.
• Most folks are ordering few times a month. Which tells me that ordering in or eating out is still looked at as recreational, as against a necessity.
• Very few folks do not order in or eat out at all.

My response:
​We order in or eat out few times a month. When we order in its mostly Dominos Pizza (we all love pizza) and eating out is typically 3-5 times a month.
My prediction is that in 10-20 years, less and less houses will have kitchens. Just as 100 years back we used to make our own clothes but now buy them, the same way we will stop making our own food.

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PICTURE OF THE WEEK

With my buy of the day. Bookstores make me happy :))

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QUESTION OF THE WEEK

If you follow someone online quite actively, which of these would you want to know about them?
​This is in addition to what they already share. Assume they can only share one of these 4 things below.

1. Their songs playlist
2. Their reading list
3. A vlog about their life
4. Pictures from their life

​​Click here to let me know your answer (anonymously)​​​​​

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CONTENT I SHARED THIS WEEK

Podcast:​
Title of episode: Memories
​Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, JioSaavn, Gaana or YouTube.

YouTube:​
Title of video: 20 books to read in your 20s
​You can watch it here.​

Instagram:​
I just couldn't walk
​You can watch it here.​

Twitter:​
7 recent purchases that I would like to gift you
​You can read it here.​

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You can, of course, always write to me by simply replying to this newsletter.

I love reading all your emails, even though I may not be able to reply to them all.
Yes! I READ ALL MY EMAILS. ALL OF THEM.
​​​(KK ki yaadon ki kasam :(( )

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