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Parth Sawhney

seek counsel, not opinion

There’s a great difference between opinion and counsel. Opinion is just a casual comment that is based on lack of experience and expertise, flawed beliefs, lack of relevant knowledge and ignorance, given by a family, a friend or a relative. While counsel is professional advice that is given by

the luxury trap

In Sapiens [https://amzn.to/31PEdiL], Yuval Noah Harari beautifully explains the reasons why our ancestors decided to transition from the life of a forager to the life of a farmer. However, once they became farmers and as the agricultural societies prospered, this change in lifestyle proved to be a

worship your art

Take a few seconds out and think about the work you do. Why do you do it? What are your motivations behind doing it? If you ask the same question to any of the most successful people out there who are constantly refining their craft — no matter what their chosen

don't quit on yourself

Once there was a woman who was tired of facing the obstacles and challenges that life had been throwing her away. She was frustrated with the way life had been unfair to her and couldn’t help but go through the ‘feeling behind’ syndrome. One day, she couldn’t endure

a story about never giving up

Kieran Behan is an artistic gymnast and an Olympian who has already battled multiple lifetimes of adversity and setbacks in the three decades he has lived so far. When he was ten years old, a tumor was discovered in his thigh. The operation to remove it went badly and resulted

short-term vs long-term

Many situations arise in our life where it gets difficult to choose between right and wrong. In a state of confusion, we don’t know what kind of action we should take. In these circumstances, we can evaluate the merit of an action by asking ourselves a few important questions

less is better

Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor and a relentless student of philosophy, was an incredibly busy man. After all, he was a king and he had countless obligations and responsibilities that he had to fulfill as a leader of the empire. In one of his personal reflections, he wrote, “If you

leadership is a thankless job

Leadership is about doing the right thing, not an easy one. It involves making hard choices, stepping up and providing a much-needed service whether it is at work, home, in the community or the entire world. If we expect ourselves to be leaders, then we must understand that leadership

your work is your reward

Your work is an important opportunity for you to make your highest contribution to the world. It’s not a means to get more money or fulfill your lust for material desires, but think of it as the end. It is extremely important to make this distinction in our mind.

lead by following

In their book The Dichotomy of Leadership [https://amzn.to/2Z6YqTO], Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, two ex-Navy SEAL commanders, write about their extraordinary experiences while stationed in Baghdad and Ramadi during the Iraq War which helped them become effective leaders. They learned some invaluable lessons and after returning