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Stay the Course

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I was obsessed with cricket during my school days. There was a chance to represent my school in a match against a visiting South African U-19 side, and I was pushing hard to secure a place in the final eleven for our team.

I played as a leg spinner. And if you’ve ever bowled leg spin, you know it’s a bowling style that dances on the edge of brilliance and disaster. I often struggled during practice matches and net sessions. One delivery would turn sharply, the next would land halfway down the pitch and disappear into the trees. Some days I felt unstoppable. On most others, I felt like I didn’t belong.

After one particularly frustrating session, I told my coach I was thinking of giving it up. “Maybe I’m just not cut out for this,” I said.

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Nobody Knows Anything

There’s a comforting illusion many of us as investors hold onto, which is the idea that if we just read enough, track enough, listen to the right experts, and follow the right indicators, we will finally be able to predict the direction of the market with some confidence.

But experience, history, and honest reflection reveal a more humbling truth: nobody really knows anything for sure, especially in investing.

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Now, don’t get me wrong here. It’s not that people aren’t smart or that research doesn’t help. It’s that markets are shaped by a complex web of human emotions, economic variables, political decisions, global events, and plain randomness, none of which can be forecasted accurately and consistently.

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The Psychology of Investing #9: Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There

A quick announcement before I begin today’s post – 

My new book, Boundless, is now available for ordering!

After a wonderful response during the pre-order phase, I finally have the book in my hands and am shipping it out quickly. If you’d like to get your copy, click here to order now. You can also enjoy lower prices on multiple-copy orders.

Plus, I’m offering a special combo discount if you order Boundless along with my first book, The Sketchbook of Wisdom. Click here to order your set.


The Internet is brimming with resources that proclaim, “nearly everything you believed about investing is incorrect.” However, there are far fewer that aim to help you become a better investor by revealing that “much of what you think you know about yourself is inaccurate.” In this series of posts on the psychology of investing, I will take you through the journey of the biggest psychological flaws we suffer from that causes us to make dumb mistakes in investing. This series is part of a joint investor education initiative between Safal Niveshak and DSP Mutual Fund.


If there’s one thing the stock market is good at, it’s making us restless. When prices go up, we worry that we’re missing out. When prices fall, we fear we’re losing everything. And when prices do nothing at all, we grow impatient, wondering if we should be doing something to “make our money work harder.”

This constant swing between fear, greed, and boredom creates a discomfort and a nagging itch that tells us we shouldn’t just sit and watch. That maybe we need to act or intervene to feel in control of what’s happening.

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On Santosha and the Good Life

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After a wonderful response during the pre-order phase, I finally have the book in my hands and am shipping it out quickly. If you’d like to get your copy, click here to order now. You can also enjoy lower prices on multiple-copy orders.

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I grew up in the India of the 1990s, when life was simple and contentment wasn’t something you had to search for. It was built into our days.

Our house was small, our possessions few, but our lives felt full in a way that’s hard to explain today.

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10 Money Revelations in My 40s (An Indian Perspective)

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After a wonderful response during the pre-order phase, I finally have the book in my hands and am shipping it out quickly. If you’d like to get your copy, click here to order now. You can also enjoy lower prices on multiple-copy orders.

Plus, I’m offering a special combo discount if you order Boundless along with my first book, The Sketchbook of Wisdom. Click here to order your set.


Growing up in India, we’re taught early that money is serious business. Whether it’s our elders chanting “paise ped pe nahi ugte” (money doesn’t grow on trees), or the unspoken pressure to earn well, save religiously, and buy a house before 35, financial responsibility is part of our DNA.

By the time you hit your 40s, you’ve likely made some of life’s biggest financial decisions. You’ve taken a home loan, invested in gold, started saving for your children’s education, maybe even planned your retirement.  

But this decade also brings reflection. You start questioning old money habits. You revisit long-held beliefs. You move from just “accumulating” to wondering what it all means. 

So, if you are in your 40s, or about to reach there, here are 10 money revelations I’ve come to embrace in my 40s. I’ve tried to draw these from Indian realities, our cultural quirks, and a growing desire to lead not just a financially stable life, but a meaningful one.

Let’s go.

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The True Measure of a Life

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After a wonderful response during the pre-order phase, I finally have my new book Boundless in my hands and am shipping it out quickly. If you’d like to get your copy, click here to order now at a special discount that’s available till 25th March.

I am also offering a discount on my first book, The Sketchbook of Wisdom, which is also available till 25th March. Click here to buy now.

Plus, I’m offering a special combo discount if you order Boundless along with my first book, The Sketchbook of Wisdom. Click here to order your set.


The True Measure of a Life

I was in Mussoorie a few days ago. The town holds a special corner in my heart. I had spent a good part of my early childhood there, during my schooling years in Dehradun. This visit was partly about revisiting those memories, the winding roads, the crisp mountain air, and the corners that still remembered me.

But there was another reason I was there.

I wanted to meet the beloved author Ruskin Bond and gift him a copy of my book, Boundless, which carries a chapter inspired by his timeless lesson on love.

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The Honey Jar Dilemma: Of Businesses, High Margins, and Competition

Over 30 million years ago, the earth witnessed one of the most remarkable shifts in evolutionary history. It wasn’t dramatic like the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, but a more gradual process.

The world was dominated by large mammals—towering rhinos the size of elephants, predatory beasts larger than today’s lions, and giant ground sloths that roamed the plains. These creatures, for millions of years, enjoyed an environment where food was plentiful and competition was limited. They grew big, slow-moving, and, for a time, seemingly unstoppable.

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Letter to A Young Investor #9: Live Your Questions

A quick announcement before I begin today’s post – My new book, Boundless, is now available for ordering!

After a wonderful response during the pre-order phase, I finally have the book in my hands and am shipping it out quickly. If you’d like to get your copy, click here to order now. You can also enjoy lower prices on multiple-copy orders.

Plus, I’m offering a special combo discount if you order Boundless along with my first book, The Sketchbook of Wisdom. Click here to order your set.


I am writing this series of letters on the art of investing, addressed to a young investor, with the aim to provide timeless wisdom and practical advice that helped me when I was starting out. My goal is to help young investors navigate the complexities of the financial world, avoid misinformation, and harness the power of compounding by starting early with the right principles and actions. This series is part of a joint investor education initiative between Safal Niveshak and DSP Mutual Fund.


Dear Young Investor,

I hope you are doing well, and that the lessons we have covered so far have helped you in guiding you through the early stages of your investing journey.

In today’s letter, I want to share with you something no one told me when I was starting out more than 20 years ago, and that I learned the hard way, by faltering and making mistakes.

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Life Begins at 40

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My new book, Boundless, is now available for ordering!

After a wonderful response during the pre-order phase, I finally have the book in my hands and am shipping it out quickly. If you’d like to get your copy, click here to order now. You can also enjoy lower prices on multiple-copy orders.

Plus, I’m offering a special combo discount if you order Boundless along with my first book, The Sketchbook of Wisdom. Click here to order your set.


A Gentle Disclaimer: Not everyone will agree with what you’ll read below, and that’s completely fine. There are many ways to look at life, and this is just how I see it. If you’re someone who feels a little lost after 40, questioning where life is headed or wondering what comes next, then this post is for you. If you don’t relate to it, that’s okay too. We are all on our own unique journeys.


Life Begins at 40

I’m 46 myself.

And if there’s one big thing I’ve realised over the last 4-5 years, it’s that I finally understand what the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung (pronounced as “Yoong” or “Young”) meant when he said:

Life really begins at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

I had first read about this in my early thirties but this idea didn’t make much sense then. After all, aren’t your 20s and 30s supposed to be the prime years of your life? The time when you build your career, chase your dreams, and prove yourself to the world? And isn’t 40 when things actually start slowing down?

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The Psychology of Investing #8: The Cost of Holding On

A quick announcement before I begin today’s post – 

My new book, Boundless, is now available for ordering!

After a wonderful response during the pre-order phase, I finally have the book in my hands and am shipping it out quickly. If you’d like to get your copy, click here to order now. You can also enjoy lower prices on multiple-copy orders.

Plus, I’m offering a special combo discount if you order Boundless along with my first book, The Sketchbook of Wisdom. Click here to order your set.


The Internet is brimming with resources that proclaim, “nearly everything you believed about investing is incorrect.” However, there are far fewer that aim to help you become a better investor by revealing that “much of what you think you know about yourself is inaccurate.” In this series of posts on the psychology of investing, I will take you through the journey of the biggest psychological flaws we suffer from that causes us to make dumb mistakes in investing. This series is part of a joint investor education initiative between Safal Niveshak and DSP Mutual Fund.


There’s a peculiar thing about human nature—we struggle to let go. We hold on to old clothes that no longer fit, relationships that have long since lost their warmth, and ideas that no longer serve us. We tell ourselves that we’ve already invested too much—maybe time, or money, or ourselves—to simply walk away. 

And like all of our quirkiness, even this reluctance to let go is deeply wired into us. Behavioural psychologists call it ‘loss aversion‘, which is the tendency to fear losses far more than we appreciate gains. It explains why people stay in jobs they dislike, why gamblers keep doubling down, and why investors often refuse to accept the obvious.

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