Do Epic Shit

You don’t control what the world says about you.
You control what YOU say when the world says something about you.
The world is invariably going to talk about you. This shouldn’t come as a surprise.
The consequences of those conversations are what you get to decide. You get to control them.
Because how you respond, is how the world will treat you further on.
So, in a way, the way you respond to the world is the way you teach the world how to treat you.
Spent years doing something that you do not enjoy any more?
Think of the time that lies ahead, not of the time that lies in the past!
Whatever has happened, has happened.
For good or for bad, you cannot change it.
But the day you realize what you are doing doesn’t work for you any more, you have two options to
choose from:
1. Continue with it, because ‘I have already spent so much time doing it’
2. Consider what lies ahead
Every single second you continue to hold on to the time gone by is a second away from shaping your

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future.
The past, however hard-working, shiny and glamorous it was, if it doesn’t hold relevance in your present,
it makes zero sense to drag it into the future.
People will help you only when you have helped them understand how they can.
The best way to get help is to make it easier for people to help you.
The best way to make it easier for people to help you is by being specific.
The best way to be specific is to reflect upon where exactly you need help. And why?
The distance between ‘I could have’ and ‘I have’ is regret.
I could have continued with my PhD in the US, done well in it, despite the fact that it did not make me
happy.
OR
I dropped my PhD, came back to India, didn’t know what to do next, took up a job at 
Rs 15,000 per month, and joined a five-year-old business school taking a loan of Rs 14 lakh.
But what I did get was the self-comfort of abandoning the comfort zone, and going after a decision just
because I felt it might make me happy. And it did!
What I didn’t want to answer was the question, ‘What if you had dropped out of your PhD because it didn’t
make you happy, and instead explored what could make you happy?’
What I didn’t want to answer was the question, ‘What if?’