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by
Raj Shamani
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May 2, 2023
There are three types of learners: auditory, visual and kinaesthetic. Auditory learners learn through talking and listening, visual people learn through looking at things and reading things, and kinaesthetic people learn through experience. Every single person is partially kinaesthetic, because everyone learns best through experience. I’ve given more speeches after getting inspired by a music album than I have by reading books.
I prefer more visual and kineasthetic learnings. I think I am not an auditory learner.
‘People who study a lot often study about people who do not study at all.’
like researchers and writers:)
Key Takeaways 1. Know how you learn. 2. Be curious—ask questions. 3. You don’t get a certificate of participation in real life. 4. Life is not fair, it is brutal. 5. Create better human networks.
Key Takeaways 1. There are things you suck at, accept that. 2. Learn and get better at the things you suck at. 3. Stop making excuses, start taking action. 4. Know your capabilities and weaknesses. 5. It’s okay to quit.
Key Takeaway The harshest realities of your life teach you the most important lessons.
Key Takeaways 1. Don’t restrict yourself, keep exploring. 2. The lowest lows of your life pave the way for the highest highs if you are just ready to take that one positive step.
Key Takeaways 1. Do what suits you, be it a business or job. 2. You can be a really good number 4, you don’t need to be number 1. 3. Come up with a business idea, choose your industry, meet as many people as you can. 4. It’s okay to fail.
1. You don’t need millions in investments to back you in order to start something. Start with whatever you have, and grow it. 2. Keep trying different ways of reaching your goals, irrespective of how unconventional they are.
Key Takeaways 1. Stop seeking external validation. 2. Keep trying new things. 3. Don’t walk away from negative people, run.
Key Takeaway Instead of focusing solely on your goals, focus on finding ways to achieve them.
I still remember when I was in high school. I wanted to get into my dad’s business and take it to greater heights, but I made the mistake of overthinking. I found myself choosing computer science as a subject when I should’ve chosen entrepreneurship. And I chose computer science because I overthought all the other options I had. As a commerce student, I didn’t want to take maths because I didn’t want to go through the same torture of trigonometry in Class XI after my dreadful experience with it in Class X. I didn’t want to take physical education because ‘there’s no scope’, and how will this
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Key Takeaways 1. Stop thinking, start doing. 2. There’s something about your first gut feeling, listen to it—it might not always make the best decisions for you, but it will always be the boldest one, and bold decisions without the thought of consequences can take you way ahead of other people.
None of us would’ve learnt anything if there was nothing to copy from.
‘Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower,’
I am a combination of every great person I admire—with my own touch.
‘The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from,’ said David Bowie.
‘Art is twice removed from reality’.
Key Takeaway Take inspiration from different places and create something of your own.
The easiest way to get rich is to become the producer of the thing you consume the most.
‘The easiest way to get rich is to become the producer of the thing you consume the most.’
Answer this one question today: Are you a consumer or are you a producer? This one question has the power to drastically shift your mindset from a person who is just thinking or dreaming about achieving big things to a person who actually achieves those dreams.
The people who consume end up spending more, and people who produce end up earning more. Producers win.
Key Takeaways 1. Be an executor instead of a knowledge hoarder. 2. Be a producer instead of a consumer. 3. The people who consume end up spending more and people who produce end up earning more.
If you learn how to have leverage over people, success becomes easy for you.
If you have money, you can do anything’, haven’t we?
Key Takeaways 1. Learn and become at least 1 per cent better than the 99 per cent of people around you. 2. You have to decide what is the one thing you are good at; no one else can decide it for you. 3. Figure out how to monetize the thing you are good at.
Key Takeaways 1. Zero in on the industry you love. 2. Find out what your strengths are. 3. Start observing. 4. Launch your product. 5. If you know whom to sell to, how to sell won’t be a problem.
Key Takeaways 1. Decide the price of your product or service depending on how many people are willing to pay you for it. 2. Put a price on your time.
You sell better when you focus more on ‘what am I giving’ and less on ‘what am I gaining’.
Key Takeaways 1. If you know how to use the information platforms available to you, you can sell anything. 2. Care about what you are selling and to whom you are selling. 3. Use personal branding to start selling.
Key Takeaway Find the driving emotion and learn how to tackle objections that come your way, and you’ll sell anything.
Key Takeaways 1. First rule of negotiation—power shift. 2. Second rule of negotiation—power shift.
The biggest superpower you have is the ability to observe; the more observant you are, the better your chances of winning in life.
Understand human behaviour.
Asian Parent Syndrome.
Key Takeaway To move ahead in life, you need to understand human behaviour—what people do and why they do it.
You don’t need to be intelligent; you just need to be average, again and again.
You don’t need to be intelligent. You just need to be average. Because only intelligent people understand intelligent content; the masses prefer relatability.
Key Takeaways 1. Create the kind of content you want to consume. 2. Focus on data to understand what works and what doesn’t. 3. You don’t need to be intelligent; you just need to be average and relatable.
Focus on building people and relationships. Numbers will automatically grow.
Key Takeaways 1. Either be a builder or a seller. 2. Focus on the quality of your audience instead of the quantity of your audience. 3. Aim for financial as well as emotional freedom.
When you shift focus from getting views to giving value, you win.
Key Takeaways 1. Keep the content true to yourself. 2. Choose the duration based on the topic you’re talking about. 3. Algorithms suggest what kind of topics you should do, but it’s not set in stone. 4. Try regional content if that’s what you want to do. 5. Be consistent.
People are not scared of failure; people are scared of being ‘embarrassed’ in front of others.
‘Life happens for you and not to you’—
Key Takeaways 1. It’s okay to fail, it’s not okay to keep dwelling on it. 2. Figure out the reason you failed, work on it, get over it.
Stop asking people for advice.
The best advice I can give you is stop asking for advice.
Key Takeaway Stop asking for advice.
If you don’t know what to say, ask questions.
