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Murdering Mediocrity

Murdering Mediocrity

di Kapil Kulshreshtha & Shilpa Kulshreshtha

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Stop Being So Grateful

Kapil on the most socially acceptable sedative there is. Be grateful for the visa. Grateful for the job. Grateful they gave you a chance. On how gratitude got quietly turned into a leash, why it was never meant to replace wanting more, and the redefinition that changes everything.

Money! And How Badly Misunderstood "Spending" Is!

Kapil paid a hundred and fifty four thousand dollars cash for a car he did not need, and has never regretted it once. On why the usual advice about money splits your life into the wrong two piles, why the coffee, the seat, and the car all pay you back, and where the real waste is actually hiding.

How to make decisions that are more effective in your career

You wake up with a limited budget of good decisions, and most people burn it on nothing. Kapil on the famous study where a prisoner's freedom depended on the time of day, why Steve Jobs wore the same thing every morning, and how to stop spending your best thinking on what to have for lunch.

Why Your Nod Is Training People to Stop Telling You the Truth

The companion to the last one, from the other side of the table. Kapil on the leader who has an opinion about everything, fills every silence, nods too fast, and slowly trains the smartest person in the room to stop telling the truth. If you are the senior person, your face is not neutral. It is a magnet.

When Your Boss Always Give A Vague Feedback

Be more strategic. Work on your executive presence. You are just not quite ready. Shilpa on the vague, sometimes condescending feedback that leaves you more lost than before, why kind but empty feedback once cost her everything, and how to draw the real, usable truth out of a manager, gently.

Why You Need One Friend Who Is A Decade Older Than You

Shilpa on the friendship almost nobody thinks to seek out, and the one that has quietly shaped her whole outlook on life. Why a friend a decade older is like getting to read the next chapter of your own life before you have to live it, why it lets you sidestep drama before it even arrives, and why the late night conversations with them are worth more than a hundred with people your own age.

How to Get the Best Out of Your Quiet People In The Team

Shilpa, speaking for the introverts, straight to the extroverts. If you call instead of text, fill every silence, and expect answers on the spot, you are quietly getting the worst thinking from your best people. Here is what is really happening in their heads, and how to unlock the genius you keep leaving in the room.

If You Have a Parent Who Is Ageing

A deeply personal one. Shilpa on a small cartoon her sister sent her, her mother's dementia, and the ache of wanting to be with her while she still remembers her name. Ten things she is doing now, before that day comes, and one quiet truth about what love remembers long after the mind lets go

All You Need Is Just One Win

You have been quietly keeping score, adding up every no, every rejection, until the number started to feel like who you are. Shilpa, warm and honest, on why one win cancels all of it, and the one rule that keeps you in the game long enough for that win to arrive

Do you look for approval?

You are explaining your solution, and you glance at your manager, and they are nodding, and it feels wonderful. Shilpa on the moment that nod quietly becomes a crutch, why the person who knows the most so often says the least, and what the whole table loses when you wait to be allowed.

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