Anish Passi

I once met someone who had done a lot of winter treks in Himachal. And I don’t mean the kind where you hike in snow for a day and return to a warm homestay. I’m talking 14-day treks: day after day in snow and ice, harsh cold, and remote conditions. He had also done winter […]

My son and I learn Spanish on the app Duolingo now and then. The other day, we got a simple matching game: five English words on the left, five Spanish on the right. My son started with the pair he found the easiest first. Then the next, and the next. The fourth one made him

I often look at my mistakes and think: “Ugh. That was dumb!”. Quite common, no?  I have started looking at mistakes from a different lens now, though. I’ll explain with an example from cricket. Hope you’re familiar enough with the sport to understand. I was watching the highlights of an IPL match, and a batsman

I saw this idea and similar images floating around on LinkedIn: “If you give yourself 30 days to clean your home, it will take 30 days. But if you give yourself three hours, it will take three hours.”* In fact, the concept also has a name – Parkinson’s law. Parkinson’s law: “work expands so as

The year was 1999. I was excitedly telling my mother about a movie I had recently watched. “It stars Sanjay Dutt. He plays a don in the movie. The name of the movie is Vaastav. (Vaastav means ‘reality.’)” I hadn’t even finished when my mother, quite matter-of-factly, said: “He must be dying in the end.”

Let’s say you have a goal of getting 6-pack abs. How would you go about it? Believe it or not, GMAT prep and working out have a lot of things in common. On the one hand, the list below might seem quite obvious. On the other hand, I know of far too many people who

We had a vision test at school—a big board with rows of letters, just like this: The nurse would cover one eye at a time and ask us to read the letters with the other eye. I read them quickly—even the tiny ones at the bottom. Then, feeling extra clever, I joked, “I can read