Rajan Singh on finding a calling, meditation, focus, and a weekly digital sabbath [#7]

Best in Class with Harish Narayanan

In this episode, I had the pleasure of connecting with Rajan Singh (YouTube Channel, Linkedin). Rajan is the founder of HabitStrong, where he teaches morning routines, meditation, focused work and more, through many in-depth & habit-building programs. His impressive background before starting-up (IIT, IPS, Wharton MBA, McKinsey, PE etc) also contains lots of stories to learn from. Please use the timestamps below to jump to specific topics; I would highly recommend you to listen to his views on meditation and building the focus muscle.

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Timestamps:

• 1:00 Intro and his journey across IIT, IPS, Wharton, McKinsey, PE, Starting up.
• 13:08 Risk taking framework. Regret minimisation + living with less.
• 20:30 Habitstrong, starting with small experiments, building discipline, owning the morning, doing deep work.
• 32:28 Meditation and making it stick as a habit. (Creating a space between stimulus and response).
• 43:56 Practicing regularly vs seeking shortcuts.
• 48:16 Focus and deep work. ("Intention comes before attention").
• 53:36 Going off grid on Sundays (a Digital Sabbath).
• 57:36 Building focus and mindfulness in children.

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