Woice with Warikoo Podcast

This episode is about the mystical land of tomorrow, where 90 percent of human productivity is stored. We all know how tomorrow turns out for us. Today I want to do a simple exercise that I hope will keep you from putting things off.

I wanted to share 15 thoughts that help me look at the world and resonate with me. Hopefully they resonate with you too.

In this episode, I would like to talk about some of the things that I wish were told to me in my twenties. A lot of these things I found out just by living life. For some things that's the way for them to really sink in, but I wanted to share them anyway.

When I first became a parent I had no idea how it would change me. I wanted to share some things that I have learned about life through life through the eyes of my children.

I love the fact that I have routine. Most people might find having one boring, but it works for me. That's what I would like to share today.

We don't often think about boredom leads to. It's been proven that boredom is actually a great way to become creative. This episode, I want to talk about how that works.

I want to talk about the word "yes". Why do we keep saying yes every time someone asks for something? Something we don't often think about is that whenever you say yes to something, you say no to something too.

Here are some things you most certainly have said to yourself, especially if you are in your twenties. I would like you to stop saying them.

I often wonder about the relationship between help and expectations. I don't understand why we help. The reason human beings are the dominant species on the planet is that we cooperate at scale. Help takes many forms that I would like to examine today.

I wanted to leave you with three questions to ask yourself whenever you are in doubt. It's important to be honest with yourself when answering.

Everyone has opinion on how you should do things, but the world doesn't need you to do things the way everyone else would. It needs you to do things your way.

I often ask myself why it's not considered okay to be ordinary. Why do we convince to believe they are losers if they are ordinary? We fixate and agonize about how to be extraordinary, but why is that?

I wanted to talk to emphasize how much the people you spend your time with matters. We are a culmination of the ideas that we are exposed to through the people around us.

This episode I wanted to talk about memories. If we had a way to erase memories, would we? I would argue that most people would want to erase bad memories because we don't do enough to create good ones.

I wanted to share some reflections of mine after living for 42 years to hopefully provoke you to think harder and make you reflect as well.

We are all chasing money, but very few of us actually know how much we actually need. How much money do you actually need to live? I'd argue that you don't need a lot. If this is true, then why are we working so hard for it.

I want to talk about ending relationships. A large part of life is ending relationships, whether we like it or not. I'm often surprised by how hard it is to end them, that we have a hard time accepting that they might not be good for us and letting go.

If there is one episode I think it's important that people listen to in this series, it would be this one. We constantly ask ourselves what we should do in our lives. We've been raised to believe that there's a map to our lives and we should follow it to our goals. However, those who don't have to get to a destination are never lost.

This is going to be a free flowing take on the notion of time. More specifically, deadlines. Whenever we set goals, we always have a consideration of time. What happens when we remove time as an element of our targets?

I'd like to tell you about a wonderful thread my friend Shreyas Doshi had written. Very often we find ourselves in situations where find ourselves doing a lot of work, but this hard work may not be in the right direction.

Unfortunately most of us are raised in a biased system. When a problem is posed, we take fast problem solving as a measure of intelligence. Brilliant people don't solve problems, they ask questions. Here are 7 you should be asking.

I want to take you back top when I was 24. I was a PhD student in the US. Everything was going according to my plan, but I still did not find myself happy. Why is it that we sometimes don't feel happiness and exuberance inspite of doing exactly what we're good at.

One of my closest friends who lives in the US and I performed an interesting experiment. We decided to stay in touch through images. One picture per person everyday. Here is what we discovered.

Last week, my team and I met for our quarterly offsite. At one of our lunches, one of my team members asked me if I experience imposter syndrome. I answered yes. That's what I would like to talk to you about today.

At my first ever job, I was struggling, but I needed to look for another job because I really needed the money. When a dear friend referred me to a new job, I had an experience that taught me some important life lessons that I'd like to share with you in this episode.

In this episode I wanted to share 25 life hacks that I personally use. People I've told to use these so far have told me that they really work.

I wanted to try to answer a question I get asked pretty often and that is: when do I give up? How do we know when it's time to let go and try something new. How do you know if what you're doing is fake persistence or irrational optimism and you should give up and do something else.

I wanted to talk about something we are told we should all have our lives: ambition. While there's a lot of talk about it, but we don't truly understand it or how it works through the ages. It's often pegged to something false or not very foundational.

A few weeks ago, on my newsletter, I asked people when was the last time they cried, with the option of giving the reason. Looking at the responses gives us a lot of perspective. We think we are the only ones crying when everyone else is sorted, we are not.

There's something fascinating about childhood. Almost everyone remembers their childhood with a certain sense of nostalgia, euphoria, and even regret. What about childhood is so captivating?

No matter how good we are at something, we will bump into somebody who does not agree with us. Maybe they won't agree with our choice, suggestions, ways of working or something else and unfortunately we are not trained well on how to handle disagreements. So if someone disagrees with us, our brain tries to tell us that we are in danger and hence we become defensive. But, we must reflect why and where these disagreements are coming from. Their negative and positive forms. How are they affecting us and thus react in a more informative way or so, not react at all.

Quite often we find ourselves in difficult circumstances, variety of difficult circumstances. Not feeling worthy of love by your loved ones, self esteem going down the hill every time we look at a social media post or being torn in what subjects to choose. We do everything in our power to succeed at our jobs, but still we feel the sense of lacking. Or maybe not able to crack any interview. Instead of getting disheartened looking at the ones ahead of the curve, you should ask yourself that what is it telling me? What could I change in order to change the cycle? And that is where all the answers lie. Listening to what is the pattern telling you and changing it productively.

Whenever you are faced with tough decisions to make in life, you should always remind yourself of what is going to be worst case scenario. It sounds like a defeatist approach but, on the contrary, it really works. Why? Because once you know what's the worst could happen to you, any scenario you deal with, is going to be better than what you had imagined. You are training your mind to be prepared for what's the worse could happen, you're prepared for it. But at the same time, that worst scenario is one of the million possibilities.

We all at one point struggle finding our purpose, goal or passion in life. But you don't find your Passion, you grow your passion. So, your passion is liking something you do, doing it constantly over the period of time and enjoying it while doing. You don't find passion hidden in the corners but the things you have stayed and nurtured over the time. Quitting your job or studies to find your passion is not an answer. In fact you are building pressure of earning from your passion from the day one. In order to fulfill your passion, you should first look for stability. Instead of giving up on your job, find time in in your current situation and devote it towards your passion.

That one failed exam or missed promotion or not being able to buy the latest car right now isn’t the end of the world. It is natural to feel a sense of disappointment when you’ve let those around you and yourself down… but remember, your life is not over. That path which you couldn’t walk wasn’t the only way to get to your destination. The material possessions you covet are means and not the destination. They don't define you. My wish for the first episode of the year... I hope this turns out to be the best year for you... by falling in love with yourself.

Everything we do in our lives, is going to have consequences, whether with a big or small impact. That means for our every action, there are going to be consequences and we need to be prepared. Most of us our guilty of focusing on firstly order consequence and not thinking ahead. To take the wisest decisions in our lives, the surest way is to go down to at least 5 orders of consequence for the decision we are making.

All of us at some point of time receive hatred, whether in person or on the internet. In a way, the people that hate us help us. All we have to do is dismiss the hate, because it saves us a lot of energy and time. That energy can be used in a lot of productive ways.

The Top 20 Lies we have been told all our lives. When the difficult questions about life were brought up, nobody had the answers and so the world came up with these rules or lies. And suddenly there was a right and wrong way of doing things, where the right ways were celebrated and the wrong ways became a taboo. My answer to all of this is: Don't allow the world to feed you these lies.

The top three questions that i receive in DMs, emails and messages: "I hate my job and I can't leave it"; "I hate what I am studying"; "I am in a toxic relationship and I can't get out". My response is the same: what is stopping you?

I wanted to narrate a story that left a huge impression on me and taught me an important lesson. We often accept things to be true when we hear it from someone we believe. This creates an important responsibility.

This episode is an audio version of a Twitter thread I wrote with ten ninety day challenges for your mind, your body and soul. These will help you become better in all aspects of your life.

When I speak to people in their twenties, they tell me about the things they want to do, but they also tell me how they struggle to go about doing them. This both excites me and disappoints me. This is because in the world we live in now, there are endless opportunities and we're still asking about how to find them.

Today I wanted to discuss overthinking. We all tend to overthink and it's always about the things that could go bad. We are hard-wired to think about what could go wrong. Our mind focuses on possibilities, not probabilities. We need to think about probability to solve this problem.

There's a regularly occurring theme in conversations I have and that is relationships with parents. Particularly in Indian culture, parents are regarded as close to God. It's a widely held belief that they cannot be wrong. This ingrained ideology is incorrect. Today, I would like to talk about why.

I'm going to take you all the way back to the year 2003. I was a student in the US in the third semester of my masters program. My professor set an assignment that he was convinced that no one would be able to solve. Here's how I solved this seemingly impossible problem with an email.

I wanted to talk about meditation and dispel some myths. The biggest one of these is that meditation allows you to control your emotions. After practicing and reading a lot about meditation, I recognise that this is wrong.

Every single interaction we have in world has an impact on us. I'm often asked what differentiates a good relationship from a bad one. For better or worse, our relationship with our parents has a huge effect on us. In our culture we are accustomed to revering our parents. Sometimes we forget that they are people too and can be wrong.

We often hear the phrase "scratch your own itch". It's often heard in entrepreneurial circles, and means that If you have a have problem, you think a product or company could solve, then you should start it yourself. In this episode, I tell you how this phrase is actually harmful.

I do a weekly AMA or ask me anything on Instagram and one of the questions I was asked was how to get rich before 30. In this episode, I give you three ways to actually become wealthy before the age of 30.

For the longest time, I wanted to be a space scientist. Enrolled in a PhD program in the US, I was well on my way to achieving this at 22, I realised that this was not what I wanted. The pressure of expectation was weighing down on me. At 23 I was unhappy with what I was doing and I had no idea what I wanted. Today, I want share something with those who might feel the same way.