Nirmit Shah

The Skill We Need To Learn Today To Get Better At Anything Tomorrow

What if I told you that it’s possible to learn anything you want in just 20 hours?

Be it learning a new language, playing a new instrument or understanding a technical tool. Any skill that you want to learn can be learned without you feeling overwhelmed or lost.

It’s not magic. At least, not in the conventional sense.

The trick is to understand how our brain actually assimilates knowledge.

If you know the skill of “Learning How to Learn”, you can use it to learn anything you want.

Read on to find out how to acquire this skill.

By Nirmit Shah, ago

What GOT Can Teach Us About Communicating Ideas That Stick?

“Stick’em with the pointy end.”

These simple six words probably managed to communicate the most important idea in Game of Thrones.

However, good ideas often have a hard time succeeding in this world.

And yet, there are some statements which catch on like wildfire.

What is it that makes some ideas more compelling and sensational than other ideas?

Can we use those underlying traits to make our own messages stick, influence and persuade?

By Nirmit Shah, ago

The Only Thing That’s Stopping You From Designing Your Dream Life

We all have some version of a dream life that we want to live. It’s also safe to assume that most of us are not living that life right now.

The question is “How do we go about designing that dream life starting today?”

Is there an obvious something that we are getting wrong?

I discovered that something recently and it made me rethink my approach to life.

In this post I have shared my experience and learnings in the hope that it helps you design your dream life too.

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How I learned to fall in love with criticism and why you should too?

How do you react when somebody criticizes you?

It feels like a punch in the gut, our shoulders get tense, our face gets serious and our ego goes into a hyper-defense mode, ready for war.

What if we could short-circuit that reaction and substitute it with a growth mindset?

Read on to find out how you can use criticism as your biggest tool for self improvement and personal growth.

By Nirmit Shah, ago

How Army Officers Helped Me Learn an Important Lesson in Team Work and Efficiency?

“No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.” That’s what the army says.

This is what Sales Folks say: “No sales plan ever survives contact with customer.”

So, how do we ensure success?

An army officer says he knows the trick.

Read on to learn about a brilliant insight which is the key to achieve excellent team work, individual efficiency and eventually, project success.

By Nirmit Shah, ago
better decision making

How scientists taught me to make better decisions and eliminate overthinking?

Decision Paralysis can happen to the best of us. The overwhelming anxiety of choosing between two or more options can be crippling.

Unfortunately, decision making is not one of those activities that we get better at by repetition.

The question is “Can we do something about it?”

Read on to know how to make decisions that make us more self-aware and help us reduce post decision regrets.

By Nirmit Shah, ago

Why some people almost always find time to pursue their interests, even in the busiest of schedules?

There is enough research done to show that “We have more leisure time today, than what we did a few years back.”

However, between you and me, do you really feel that you enough leisure time in the day? I mean, we can never get around to reading that book or learning that language.

In all this chaotic busyness of our lives, how are we supposed to carve out time for ourselves? How are we supposed to find the time that makes us happier, that allows us to pursue what we love doing?

A Harvard Professor has found good answers to this question. Read on to find out.

By Nirmit Shah, ago