Rajan Singh - HabitStrong Founder

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Rajan Singh - HabitStrong Founder

In 1998, we went for our first counter-insurgency patrol in Nagaland very excitedly. We were a bunch of IPS trainees attached to an army unit fighting militancy.

Unlike in the Police Academy, the dangers here were very real. So we put on heavy bulletproof vests and headgears (‘patka’), and carried rifles and ammunition.

The start was exciting – you never know what happens next. But after a few hours, with the sun beating down, we were sweating and exhausted. The bulletproof headgear was so heavy that you felt like your neck would break. The tedium was unbearable.

The start of any journey is exciting. But soon, the excitement fades and reality kicks in.

What you do next determines whether you are a professional or a dabbler.

Professional musicians practice for 10,000 to 20,000 hours to qualify for major orchestras. Athletes train for years before even qualifying for the national team. Researchers spend years grappling with a single problem.

Even in a startup, the initial days are heady – you are talking ideas, designing logos, creating a website, and so on. And then, the reality hits you – the rejections, failures, and losses.

Always, the question is – what do you do next?

A professional is one who can keep grinding long after it has stopped being pleasurable. The rest are all dabblers and amateurs.

If you want to achieve mastery in anything, this is the deal. Take it, or leave it.

- Rajan

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Rajan Singh - HabitStrong Founder

Years ago, during my first startup, I took a shared office space in Bandra (Mumbai).

Every morning, on the way to work, I would see a retired-looking person (in his early sixties) idly sitting in his house by the window, with some jazz music playing in the background.

For one year, every single day, I would see him there. He never worked. He never read anything. He never did anything. He just sat.

In short, he was truly retired.

And I mention this because I see many youngsters craving early retirement. But is that what you really want?

I am positive that doing nothing for years would be worse than torture. Our mind needs engagement. It needs problems to solve, challenges to grapple with, and the highs and lows of daily life.

What you are looking for is not retirement, but meaningful work. You are looking for control over your time, good people to work with, and freedom from financial worries.

Retirement is just a dream solution our mind has conjured up to escape the drudgery of meaningless work.

Retirement is not the answer. The answer is to find a career that is meaningful and rewarding.

So experiment. Move away from what drains you. Move towards things that give you positive energy. Once you find such a thing, slog and become exceptional at it.

What you are looking for is mastery, control, and freedom, not retirement.

- Rajan

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Rajan Singh - HabitStrong Founder

Two questions:

1. If you were to die tomorrow, how would you live today?

2. If you were to live forever, how would you live today?

Between these two extremes, hangs our existence. But isn’t the question always the same -- to make today meaningful?

So how do we achieve that?

Answer: Focus on 2-3 tasks that truly matter. As simple as it is, this will change how you live today.

That is how all change starts -- one day at a time.

- Rajan

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Rajan Singh - HabitStrong Founder

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Rajan Singh - HabitStrong Founder

I knew an IPS officer who had cultivated the reputation of being a ‘crime fighter.’ And he did that by chasing petty criminals at night.

But alas, all he was doing was the job of a head constable. Admittedly, he was good at it but that is not what he was hired for.

His real job was to make hundreds of policemen working under him high performers, not to do their job.

I also knew one Transport Minister, who once caught a bus that did not have a proper permit. And for good measure, he even gave a slap to the driver. Again, that was not his job.

When we are hired for a tough role, it is very tempting to do someone else’s job. It is easy to stay busy caught up in emails, calls, and meetings.

Showing outcomes is hard. Showing activity is easy. But was that why we were hired?

Do your job. And help your team be good at theirs. That is the ONLY justification for managers to exist.

- Rajan

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During my childhood, since my father was in the armed forces, I ended up moving cities and schools a few times.

And whenever I started a new school, I noticed an interesting phenomenon. In the first few days of a class, if I raised my hand to answer a question, I kept doing that for the rest of the class year.

However, if for some reason I stayed quiet in the first few days (e.g., if the teacher was a strict one), the hesitation set in and I got into the habit of hiding in the back benches.

And this wasn’t just me – everyone showed the exact same behavior.

Also, this is not a childhood quirk – even as adults, we continue to do this in our daily lives.

Why does this happen?

When you try to hide from a challenge, the experience of raising your hand becomes unfamiliar. And what feels unfamiliar, feels scary.

The fears holding us back in life often come not from the underlying danger but from unfamiliarity. It could be something as simple as public speaking. Or writing your first blog post.

Once you face your fear, it vanishes – now it is just an experience. Like soap bubbles, these fears burst the moment you touch them.

So raise your hand. Stand up and be counted. Do things you have long wanted to do but have been hesitating to.

Just do it once. The fear will go. And you will be free.

- Rajan

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Rajan Singh - HabitStrong Founder

You need a non-zero failure rate. And here is an experience of mine to prove that.

In the second year of my MBA, as I was selecting my courses, I was faced with two options:

Option A: Take a quant course that I could easily ace.
Option B: Take up a course on negotiations, for which Wharton was quite famous.

If I took a quant course, a distinction grade was nearly guaranteed. But with negotiations, there was no telling how well I would do.

Since I was doing quite well grades-wise, I was sorely tempted to avoid sullying my grade sheet with an imperfect grade.

But thankfully I resisted. Had I not taken the negotiations course, I would have missed out on a wonderful experience.

When we seek certainty of success, we are tempted to only do what we can easily achieve. But what good would that do? If Roger Federer played tennis with me, he would crush me without even trying – but what would he get out of it?

Do things that have some risk of failure. Admittedly, you don’t have to do this every day. Nor do you have to take risks that give you a panic attack.

If you are acing everything you do, here is the bad news: You are capable of more. And you probably will never find that out.

- Rajan

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Rajan Singh - HabitStrong Founder

Fixing your productivity issues is within reach – and I’m here to show you how.

95% of productivity problems stem from only 10 underlying causes, all of which are covered in detail in this webinar (link below). Once you identify which ones are affecting you, you’ll be in the perfect position to fix them – and stop wasting time on solutions that don’t work.

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Rajan Singh - HabitStrong Founder

During my MBA, a college classmate visited us in Philadelphia. He seemed happily settled in the US, doing a conventional tech job at a bank, drawing a $90k salary.

His was a predictable job, with no growth prospects. Every year, his salary would go up by a few percentage points.

Worried that his career was stagnating, I asked him, ‘Do you plan to do an MBA?’

He said ‘No.’

Then I asked what he intended to do next. He said, ‘Nothing. I am happy.’

I was perplexed. How can someone just be happy? Don’t they have to achieve more?

But he enjoyed his life – he had a nice social circle, watched the local football games, and had no stress.

However, what he saw as a happy life, I saw as stagnation. How could you not aim bigger and higher? How could you not be restless?

But here was my friend, belying all my expectations.

Today, a decade and a half later, I think I understand my friend better. While I am still just as restless, I realize that no one approach to life is superior to another.

You can choose to be perpetually hungry and ambitious – or not. That is your free choice and nobody gets to define it for you.

Don’t live someone else’s life – live your own. Happy or unhappy, at least you will live on your own terms.

- Rajan

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