Dr. Apurva Chamaria

The most precious asset for a startup is the founder's energy. A company will figure its way through seven hells if the founder has the energy to keep pushing and building. So being in my best energy is actually my most important job as a founder. Some founders miss this. And take TED talks on servant leadership too seriously without context. As a founder, if you have adopted a style of work that drains your energy/ gives you bad emotion, you are doing your company, team and investors a MASSIVE disservice. Founders MUST operate in a style that works for them. That gives them energy. Gives them good emotion. Makes them feel like they have the power to change the world. Adopt a work style, work culture and lifestyle that allows you to be this person. Choose who you want to work with. Build the culture and team that allows you to experience your best energy and flow state. Be unapologetic about it. Let the world deal with it. Be yourself and tell the world. Strongly attracts the believers Strong repel the disbelievers. Cut off anyone and anything who gives you repeated negative emotion and energy. Ignore advice and TED Talks and biased examples people quote without context. Listen to everything. Ignore anything that doesn't ring true to your beliefs and your context. Guard your own energy and emotion like a Tigress guarding its young. If some part of your job gives you bad energy, outsource or limit or minimise. If someone around you gives your bad energy repeatedly, cut them off. This doesn't mean you don't have to change. Or you are perfect. All of us are dumb WIPs. But all change demands good energy and good headspace. And all changes must start from a place of self awareness and acceptance.. So first achieve a good headspace before you attempt to change and improve. Founders get bad energy when : 1. You are working on something you don't want to work on.. Fix that. Find a mission you are aligned with 2. You are working with people who drain you. People who don't align with your expectations/goals and keep slowing you down with poor outcomes. Replace them respectfully. You can't change people's outlook. You can't doubt your own expectations. Find people who are aligned with your style and expectations. 3. You are not winning. Get back to winning. Nothing else matters. Just win. Ignore all advice that doesn't agree with your instincts and wisdom. And especially if some entitled brat who has never built anything meaningful or hard, tries to dispense advice on how you should operate.. And how servant leadership is the only way.. Do 50 pushups to punish yourself for bearing with this idiot for those 30 mins And get on with your day :)

What would you order for lunch? Feeling hungry at Analog, CrossPoint Mall, Gurugram.