Raj Shamani

Are you working on improving yourself as hard as you work at your job?

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Which is that one thing you have done by going out of your comfort zone? Comment down below :)


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Which is the one quote that always motivates you? Share with me in the comments :)


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The universe rewards you in ways you never imagined. Don't give up just yet.

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Small steps every day bring you closer to the big goals.

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What is the one thing that you have learned in the last 6 months? Share with me in the comments :)



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Have you noticed a pattern in how you do things? Do you think it works well?

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Do you struggle to sell? Let me know in the comments!

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Starting out is rough. It’s tough and it tests every ounce of you. But stick with it, push through because, it only gets easier from here.

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How will you make this underrated hack work for you in 2025? Tell me in the comments below!

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Having clarity is powerful 💪

P.S. How do you seek clarity when you're confused?

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Do you think people match the ambition that comes out of their mouths with their work?

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The road to building a billion-dollar business starts with solving your own problems.

As a result of their inability to manage their son's skin problem, they were feeling parental stress.

The majority of baby products in the market included toxins that were harmful to their child.

They noticed there was a need for 100% organic products.

After doing a lot of research and testing, they came up with 6 baby products that were natural, organic, and toxin-free.

That’s how Varun Alagh and Ghazal Alagh started the journey of Mamaearth!

They saw that the problem was larger than they realized and that this solution would benefit other parents like them.

Varun and Ghazal's vision and hard work made Mamaearth the first choice of parents and their babies.

To learn how they establish the process of establishing such a remarkable company, I recently recorded a podcast with this incredible duo.

We had an intelligent conversation that featured a lot of laughter, serious discussions, skincare, and abroad stories.

Listen to the podcast to uncover the brains behind one of India’s fastest-growing unicorn companies (link in comments)!

Do you rely on your mood to be productive at work?

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Your friends need your support. Hype them whenever you can. You never know what positive words might motivate them to grow.

Which one would you choose? Tell me in the comments!

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If you're in your 20s, read this!

[1] Enjoy your own company

-Go to the park or go to jogging.
-Work in solitude.
-Spend time with yourself.
-Learn to get comfortable with silence and your inner self.

[2] Invest in learning

When you invest in learning:
-You avoid expensive mistakes.
-Learn a year's worth of knowledge in a span of a month.

[3] Consider your appearance

Exercise daily, and choose clothes that make you feel confident.

It's significant to begin taking care of yourself early on. It boosts your confidence.

[4] Travel

Begin by exploring the city, then try visiting nearby towns and eventually cover different countries.

You'll learn about culture, people and most importantly yourself.

[5] Journal it down

To write clearly is to think clearly.

Pick up a pen and write:
-What all things do you want to achieve
-What is bothering you.
-What you want to change in your life.

And you will slowly find the difference.

[6] Take risk

Start a business, and pursue a far-fetched goal.

The upside is full of possibilities. The downside is mediocrity.

[7] Build meaningful relationships

Date and spending time with someone is not a sin.

You can have a person to share your love and happiness with. All you need to know is to strike a balance between both.

[8] Read self-help books

Finishing a book gives you a hit of dopamine.

Applying the lesson you have learned from it makes all the difference. So read to implement.

[9] Find your role model

We all need someone to guide us. Be it books, friends, coaches or family members.

Having a mentor can change your life for good.

[10] Self Educate

Google is free.

YouTube is free.

Twitter is free.

The best teachers and information is available for free. So, learn and upskill yourself.

That's it. Thanks for reading.

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How do you deal with your competition?

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Photo dump from India vs Pakistan match✨

What was your best moment from last week? Share with me in the comments :)

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What do you do to keep yourself from getting bored of doing the same work every day?

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What's the best life advice you have ever heard? Tell me in the comments below!

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Do you think people spend more energy making excuses than they do actually doing the work?

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I want to tell my 16-year-old self that thanks for not doubting yourself when teachers and society were. I am proud of you. Thanks for choosing love for storytelling over everything else.

And I want to tell my 60-year-old self, watch out, ‘We are just getting started. It’s still day 1’.

I am overwhelmed because who thought that one day a creator from a small city would come to the city of dreams, walk on a red carpet and get an award on the stage amongst the country's biggest celebrities.

This is the first for us, first for our FiguringOut army, we will get a lot more things, but the mission to help India learn better to become financially independent will always be the purpose regardless of whether we win awards or not.❤️

Well, If you are reading this, choose love over everything because creators are just getting started. Content creators will rule this decade. If you have ever wanted to start doing what you love or become a creator, this is it. Do it right now.

Thank you @mamaearth.in , @feminaindia , @ghazalalagh , @varunalagh . This one is super special. 🙇🏻‍♂️

Will you be willing to sacrifice comfort for growth?

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Do you think people glamorise the effort needed to succeed more than they should?

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Are you optimistic about your goals, no matter how delusional they may seem?

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“You should have these 10 hobbies”

Bullsh*t.

In January every year, people get this urge to change their lives completely.

Start working out, try a new sport, get into a side hustle, so on.

Which is absolutely fair.
Humans see the new year as a new beginning.

But one thing that I see is people forcing themselves to have hobbies.

“I need something apart from work.”
“I can’t just sit at home.”
“I need something interesting to talk about.”

If you genuinely like doing something, that’s a hobby.
If it helps you reset, even better.

But if you are doing it just because “everyone should have a hobby”, that’s just you trying to fit in.

It’s okay if work is your thing right now.
It’s okay if your weekends are for rest.
It’s okay if you only like one thing.

Filling every hour just to feel “productive” doesn’t make life better.
It just makes you more tired.

Try new stuff, yes.
But don’t pressure yourself into hobbies just to look more acceptable.

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Do you think that people choose comfort above everything else?

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What do you think prevents people with great potential from pursuing their dreams?

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Have you ever noticed this that the greatest of products are those that have a story behind them because stories connect us more with the product and that's how we constantly want to keep buying it.

Name one such product that you got for yourself because of the story behind it.

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Do you feel people crave external validation more than internal satisfaction?

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“I would prefer to die poor than live poor”, said Taapsee.

And I was surprised. Because most of us think otherwise.
To live on a budget and enjoy our old age days peacefully.

Well meet my recent guest, Taapsee Pannu.

From genuinely enjoying maths and physics,
To studying engineering,
And then becoming an actor,
Her story is nothing less than a movie itself!

In our recent podcast,
She shared that in her 2nd year of engineering,
She realized that this path would lead to a 9-5 job,
The thought of having a monotonous life and routine scared her.

She decided to try modeling,
Soon she was offered one Tamil and Telugu film at the same time.
After these movies,
She gave herself one year to see if she enjoyed doing films,
Otherwise, she would come back and do an MBA.

And the rest is history!
She did some of the most thought-provoking movies like Thappad, Pink, and Badla.
She has worked with actors like Mr. Amitabh Bachchan and Mr. Shah Rukh Khan,
 who are every actor’s dream co-stars.


In this episode, she talked about:
✅ Her decade-long relationship.
✅ How Shah Rukh Khan is a marketing genius.
✅ Why creators/ influencers can’t become stars.
✅ How Thappad movie was more than just about a slap.
✅ Red flags in a relationship and in men and women individually.

This episode will keep you hooked till the end.

Link to this podcast is in the first comment!

P.S. Tell me in the comments your favorite actor and what you like about them.

The President of the French Republic, H.E. Emmanuel Macron, was on Figuring Out.

It was an honour to host him.

But beyond the honour, we see this as a responsibility.

Because when someone like President Macron chooses to have a conversation with us, it becomes an opportunity to talk about India on a global stage.

What we're getting right.
Where we're struggling.
What the world needs to understand about us.

"The question is no longer whether India innovates. The question is who will innovate with India."

That's what the French President had to say about India.

The world's posture towards India has changed.
We're not the market they want to sell to anymore.
We're the partner they want to build with.

We talked about UPI, Aadhaar, and the way India leapfrogged legacy systems that other countries are still stuck with.

President Macron was surprisingly honest about where France went wrong.

A country that invented cinema, photography, and the hot air balloon and yet today, the largest tech companies in the world are either American or Chinese.

He admitted it openly. He said Europe's problem wasn't ideas, it was scale, capital, and appetite for risk. Three things. All three missing.

And then we talked about leadership. About respect. About what happens when private conversations between presidents end up on social media.

These are the kind of conversations we always hoped this platform could have.

And thanks to all of you who watch us, your belief in what we're building, your support, Figuring Out is able to host such guests.

Full episode out now. Link in the comments.

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What do you do when you feel like giving up?

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Do you think doing too many things kills focus?

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Nobody has become the best version of themselves by being a couch potato. Wake up now to turn those dreams into reality.

Comment: Ways in which you beat procrastination. Your comment might help someone.

How many of these things have you experienced?

Weekly dump about too many ‘first-time experiences’, some great, some dangerous, some stupid, some scary but all worth it.

Post 1: Fully mudded for a pre ‘dead sea’ ritual.

Post 2: The first time saw one of the 7 wonders of the world. (Petra)

Post 3: Complaining to the elder sister about how difficult her husband (@rajivtalreja ) makes my life sometimes in the name of ‘transformation and growth.’ 🥲

Post 4: First time an airline started showing our podcasts on all their domestic and international flights. (Thanks for tagging me every time you guys see this on a plane) 🥺

Post 5: The first time experienced a dead sea and ended up burning my eyes. 😭

Post 6: The first time saw a pink cauliflower and I found it fascinating. 😂 have you ever seen one?

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What is one small habit that has helped you improve?

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Do you think people are afraid of failure because they lack self-confidence?

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Do you think you might be addicted to your phone?

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Most of you know him as a comedian, and a storyteller but today,
you will know what a beautiful human Zakir Khan is in real life.

He says,
”Most people don’t know what storytelling truly is.
They think storytelling is about narrating stories
But storytelling is the art of having a conversation.”

He shares 3 ways of becoming a great storyteller:
> Read and listen to various genres 
> Be around and listen to people who are better than you
> And talk in front of people who have less knowledge than you.

According to him,
“What you spent on others, they might not remember
But they will remember how you made them feel”

So the next time you meet someone, 
focus on making them feel::
> Warm
> Heard
> Belonged

And you will see how they remember you for the rest of their lives.

Zakir’s best advice on becoming a winner in Life
“If you want to be a big person in life, learn to be a small person.”
 
Be ready to become a smaller person…
Smaller person who listens…
Smaller person who wants to learn…

Be ready to be a giver,
You need to know what you can give to others
To give them, you need a lot within you
And you need to constantly fill yourself

He had a special message for all the viewers,
“If you like someone’s work then appreciate them, give them compliments, because there are lakhs of people to ruin their day.”

Throughout this episode,
We talked about,
> Love, relationships, loneliness and success
> His bond with his father and their heartwarming stories
> How to nurture different relationships in life

This podcast will feel like Zakir Bhai narrating your own stories.
Every story will make you relate to him and admire him even more.

Link to this episode is in the first comment!

P.S. Share with me in the comments your favourite comedian and why.



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The procrastination dilemma has killed more ideas than anything else!

Do you think multitasking kills focus?

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I used to use this hack to build confidence a few years back.

Every day I would do one of these things:
→ Read a new research/ news/ blog
→ Listen to a new podcast
→ Learn a new thing

This HACK is called Information Asymmetry.

Whenever you meet a group of people, you will have a new thing to share, which will make you a well-read and informed person.

This will help you boost your confidence every day and will slowly make you a confident person.

P.S. What is the one thing that helped you become confident? Share with me in the comments.

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Suniel Shetty almost left his acting career to sell idlis at his father’s restaurant.

A household name, someone who defined an entire era of Bollywood, questioning if his career was over because of one critic's comment.

Instead of defending himself, he decided to actually work on his craft. He said he hadn't even taken ten days of acting class before his first film.

So he stayed in the industry and focused on getting better.

He moved on, but not everyone around him did.

There was a time when a friend made fun of him for sitting at his father's restaurant counter, but he was confident that he'd make it big one day.

That was the only time in his life he said, 'I'll be bigger than you.'

We didn't call it manifestation back then. We called it overconfidence, he told me.

He came a long way for someone who almost gave up due to criticism.

In our second episode of the "Real Advice" series with Birla Estates, we discussed his biggest weakness, how much family means to him, and how he wants to be remembered.

Full episode out now, link in the comments.

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We need to dream to aspire to do something that keeps us striving.

But those dreams and ideas mean nothing without execution.

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Do you think people set low standards for themselves to avoid disappointment?

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If you want to bring change, start today.