My Life’s Philosophy

All my life’s goals, mission and philosophy can be summed up in four words,

 

SEEK WEALTH, NOT STATUS.

  • Here Wealth= Good Health, Positive sum games, Startups, Reading, Net worth, Relationships, Gym, Fitness, Experiences, Travel, Friends and Family.
  • Status = Money, Zero-sum games, Hierarchy, college and universities, brands, materialistic possessions, politics.

  • Trade short-term benefits for long-term happiness.

  • One defining quality of success is humility.
  • Become Money Mature. If you were poor and became a billionaire overnight, would you still be hanging out with the same friends, follow the same routine, eat the same food, treat the people around you in the same way, talk to your parents in the same frequency, help others in the same way and stay grounded? If not, you are not money mature.
  • Commit your life to something big, it can be anything but big enough than you. Because your life is not worth to commit it to something small.
  • Anything you do, be sure it is creative. Solve problems at scale.
  • Time is your greatest asset. In terms of time, we are all given the same opportunity and are equal on the time-rich scale. It is what you do with it matters.
  • You should be giving away your resources to guard your time. But you are doing it the other way around. Think about it.
  • All of life’s success boils down to → courage and obsession.
  • Spend your free time reading and writing. It will put you miles ahead in the future.
  • The only real test of intelligence is if you can get what you want out of life. Not your aptitude, not your grade, not the university you went to. To get what you want out of life, you should know what you want out of life in the first place. Find.
  • There is nothing more useless or a waste of money than a university degree. The future belongs to self-taught, self-learned, curious builders who strive to make this world a better place.
  • Be a perennial optimist. Always believe that the future is bright and that good things are ahead of you. The subset of pessimistic successful people is a handful. They are accidental.
  • Live on the edge of risks and sacrifice. Prove to the world that you can do hard things. Everyone should do hard things. Even if it is as little as quitting your comfortable job and starting up.
  • You make three big purchases in your life. Car is a financial decision – Home is an emotional decision – Marriage is both an emotional and a financial decision.
  • Life is meant to be hard, it should test your limits, and drain you emotionally, financially and mentally to the point that you are on the verge of quitting. The sooner you experience this, the better. Don’t quit. Life will not become easy, you will have the ability to stand any storm.
  • If you are confused between any two equal decisions, choose the one with the immediate short-term pain. Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.
  • Travel as much as you can. Travel far, travel alone, travel with friends, travel with parents, travel frequently. You will spend a lot of money but a lifetime of learning is guaranteed.
    • Everybody should lift weights.

    • It is a sin for a man to die without knowing his true potential.

    • If you can’t bench press your body weight don’t ever think of speaking to a girl.

    • Any idiot can lose weight and get an abs. It takes hard work and resilience to build strength.

    • The measure of strength is Push-ups, Pull-ups, and dips. Check if you are progressing in these numbers.

    • Aesthetics should be a by-product of strength and proper diet. Not the other way around.

    • If your goal is to lose some weight and post on social media for clout, you are not into fitness. You are just another jackass influencer living a fake life.

    • A proper fitness routine will involve a clean diet, 60 mins of weight lifting and 30 mins of cardio. 5-6x a week.

    • I’ll have zero respect for you if you can’t deadlight, bench press and squat your body weight and still have a six-pack.

    • Maintain your body fat % at 12-15%

    • If you have fat friends, you are responsible for it. Make them strong.

    • Fitness is a process. A lifelong one. It is not something you do for 6 months, post videos and pictures and discontinue.

    • You don’t need to starve to lose weight. Calculate your maintenance calories, and go 250 cal on deficit from it. Lift the weight and repeat the process until you see results.

    • Measure, measure, measure. What gets measured will be managed.

    • The fancier your workout plan, the more delayed the results.

  • Stick to the basics, same old boring workouts. I haven’t changed my workouts for the last 2 years. I follow the push, pull and legs spilt up.
  • Some good handful of friends are the greatest assets you can accumulate over your lifetime. These people would wage a war with you, stand by your side during your darkest phases and party harder than you when you win.
  • Never ever turn your back against your family. Your parents and siblings have done 100x more than you can even think to put where you are now. Always be grateful to them.
  • Take care of your parents. They sacrificed their entire lifetime for you.
  • There is nothing called forever in love.
  • As a man, you should be able to walk away from that girl at any point in time.
  • Attachment is the root cause of all suffering.
  • Give your 100% or even 200% to the relationship if you think it is worth it. If you doubt there isn’t equal contribution even for a second walk away.
  • Be true to your words. If you don’t like someone tell it to their face. Don’t be a coward to ghost.
  • Don’t cheat. It is the cheapest possible thing you could do as a human being. Once you have cheated, you are zero, worth nothing.
  • Don’t take women seriously. They are fragile, soft and fun-loving people. They want to be cared for and protected.
  • Not having friends is a far more cruel life than not having money.
  • Who you marry, where you live and what you do is a very very important decision. Think and decide.
  • Don’t even think about marriage if you aren’t financially capable. Marriages are like asking for problems that you are not willing to be part of. Avoid it mostly in your 20s.
  • If you are a girl would you still choose you over all the options that you have around you. Think about it.
  • Don’t be toxic, be loving, be kind and be humorous. Relationships will fall into place.
  • Have the courage to speak with random women. The worst that could happen is a rejection. But don’t be a predator. Be gentle and compliment them.
  • Boys of the age 16-25 should go through a harsh, brutal breakup. The sooner the better. It should tear you apart, teach you lessons and leave you in distress at rock bottom. You will find ways to get your shit together in the next 12-18 months.
  • A solution to a happy relationship is simply two happy people. You being you, the other person being themselves, accepting each other’s flaws and enjoying each other’s strengths not compromising over anything come to a common ground and decide to stay together.
  • If it ended despite the right intentions and efforts, then it happened for a reason.
  • Love is a feeling that will come and go in cycles. Remember the right person will always find a reason to stay. What is yours will always come back.
  • The measure of Love is Respect.
  • Arranged marriages are for losers, don’t fall into that trap. Get married only when both of you are mutually in love. Not because your parents set you up with someone. You will avoid 99% of the relationship problems by marrying the person you love.
  • True love is rare, don’t miss it by trying to find a better option. There are always better options, but a combination of all traits is rare.
  • Don’t force relationships. Have healthy, transparent, conversations, love will happen eventually.
  • Everyone should build a startup at least once. 7 billion people 7 billion startups.
  • Startups are one of the hardest things to do in life, apart from having a healthy personal life. Commit yourself to a startup and become the best version of yourself.
  • Growth at all costs is flawed. Embrace growth, but sustainably.
  • Startups are not fashion, startups are a lifestyle. Build one like you live.
  • Product or Tech is not a moat, distribution is.
  • Don’t write a single line of code if you haven’t spoken to at least 100 people. Be it audience, users, investors, teammates or customers.
  • If you don’t see working with them for a day, don’t consider working with them for a decade.
  • There is always a market. At least to prove you are wrong.
  • A startup can be anything. Anything innovative. Don’t buy from one place and trade it to another marking up prices. Anyone with money can do it. Do something creative and innovative.
  • Don’t hire product managers, consultants and strategists. If they are an MBA run far from them. They are useless for early-stage startups.
  • If you outsource the tech of your startup you are just a marketing company.
  • As a founder, your job is to set the mission and values of the company and bring together a group of phenomenal people, giving them all the resources they want to make them bring your vision to life.
  • The team you build is the company you build. Always bet on your team.
  • Your goal should be to find a problem statement (mostly the ones you had personally) and solve the problem with a small product that you can build in the least possible effort and time in a large enough and growing market with a few hundred users willing to pay.
  • If you are not rejected on a daily basis you are not talking to enough people. The best and perhaps the only way to measure early-stage progress is the number of weekly rejections.
  • Don’t ever give up. Be determined and resilient. Just because VCs turned your idea down doesn’t mean you are going to fail. VCs are wrong 90% of the time. It is up to you to succeed with conviction.
  • Startups are not built with capital. They are built with vision, resilience, courage, obsession and perseverance. Capital helps in the last.
  • There is no bigger level playing field than startups. Your users don’t care if you are funded or bootstrapped if you have a fancy office or work from a garage, if your parents are rich or poor, the tech stack you used, or if you built using code or no code. All they care about is if you can solve their problem by minimizing their time, efforts and money spent.
  • Don’t waste time trying to raise money from VCs. They are idiots with money. You are an idiot without money. The right time to raise funds is when you don’t need funds in the first place. Venture Capital is a farce. They fund stupid people with stupid backgrounds. The longer you can run without VC money, the higher the chances you can get VC money.
  • Sales is a founder’s job. You can’t delegate or outsource sales. The CEO is responsible for getting to the first $1Mn. Then you can have a sales team.
  • There is no bigger validation than revenue for a startup. All other metrics are useless. Chase revenues not valuations.
Scroll to Top