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Acknowledgements

Welcome! I am a product of India that got refined by experiences in America and Europe. I am grateful to the Defence Forces of India where I grew up; KV schools across India, NIT Jaipur, IIM Lucknow, Stanford University, MIT and Harvard University for giving valuable education; ABB, BP, Citibank, CME Group, Nasdaq, Fidelity, and Infosys for giving valuable work experience, and wonderful alumni for a lifetime. I am grateful to all of you. Thank you!
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A Hanumantha Rao, A Suryakantam, Aditya, Emilie AVSB, Ravi Ayyala, Linde, Milan, Prakash Kumar, Anubha Pali, KK Khurana, Kusum Khurana, Sudha Gupta, Gayatri Devi, IR Garg, Savitri Garg, Kamal Garg, Shefali Garg, LN Saraf, Vandana Saraf, Rohit Saraf, Sujata Saraf, Sandeep Khurana, Aditi Khurana, R Balachandar, Pooja, Durga Devi, Radha Roy, Krishnamurthy Rao, Anil Rao, Rashmi, Vikas Sharma, Shubha, NC Chawla, Suraksha, Divya, Garima, Sonal, Kaveesh Chawla, GK Saxena,Shashi, Sandeep Saxena, Priyanka Singh, Sita ji, Umeshwar Prasad, Nirmala Varma, KSP Sinha, Prabha Sinha, ML Verma, Ramesh Verma, Rajender Verma, Lakshmi Roy, Keshav Dubey, Avani Dubey, Dheeraj Dubey, Saraswati Banerji, Dinendra Marik, Sanhita Marik, Neelesh Marik, Anuradha Pradhan, Arvind Pradhan, Samir Pradhan, Nishant Pradhan, Ravi Tikekar, Parag Tikekar, Satya Narayanan, Gautam Puri, Maneesh Rai, Ashlesha Rai, Srini Chakravarthy, Sumit Mehrotra, Sandeep Verma, Rupika Verma, Rohit Sharma, Vishwas Jain, Ashwin Lal, Laxminarayanan Ramalingam, Pooja, Pradeep Kumar, Ashwini Sharma, Sridhar Ponnada, Dinesh Patel, Harshit Patel, Puneet Sharma, Nidhi Sharma, Raghu Dhulipala, Girish Mallapragada, Shiva, Madhav Vedula, Neeraja, Sridhar Vedula, Surya Vedula, Meenakshi, Murthy Vadlamani, Tripura, Arun Vadlamani, Kalyani, Mohan Saripalli, Kameshwari Dhavala, A Poushya, Durgam Sastry, Phaneendra Durgam, Neeraja Durgam, Maria, John Chacko, Jayant Saha, Ranjit Jagirdar, Prashantha, Meghana, Sakshi, Prashant Mohan, Pooja Kadian, Jyoti, Padmakar Zalkikar, Brij Mohan Sharma, Rukmani Devi, Asha, Manish Sharma, Abhilash Tripathi, Ramesh Reddy, Ranjit Patnaik, Bhuvan Sharma, Pranav Shukla, Kartik Sarwade, Prashant Tayal, DHA, Satya Chilukuri, Mahesh Motiramani, Abhinav Arya, SP Jain, Satyadev Singh, Sangram Singh, Gajendra Singh Yadav,

Prem Nath Angral, Krishna Devi, Pankaj Angral, T Shankar, Kamlesh Kumar Jain, Gagan Kumar Pathik, Tithi Jain, Rahul Jain, Richa Sheth, Rakesh Sheth, Vidya, Pranav Uchil, T Srinagesh, M Palaniappan, Navin Agarwal, Hariom Gupta, Prasant Thakkar, R Srinivasan, Sumit Mehta, Sandeep Kamath, Divya, Anurag Vohra, Hemant Tamgade, Manikandan M, Venkateswaran Mahadeva, Saurabh Gupta, Anand Bhatia, Parvinder Bhatia, Aditya Pathak, Aneesh Issar, Joe Joseph, Sagar Chaudhuri, Gangadhar Sulkunte, Joseph Rajadurai, Nishant Saxena, Manish Tiwari, Jayarama Krishnan, Gauri, Hari Ramachandran, GC Tripathi, Kavita Jindal, Piyush Shah, Ajit Velankar, Manish Velankar, Mukesh Rathi, Nitin Gera, Pooja Raheja, Anuradha Goyal, Samiksha Nanda, Shakti Devi, Ajith KG, Abhishek, Ananth Ramakrishnan, Arup Raha, Shilpa Kamath, Sangeeta Das, Sandeep Raju, Praveen Kumar, Mohit Joshi, Jitin Goyal, Rajesh Varrier, Karmesh Vaswani, Rajesh Murthy, Ramachandran Kallankara, Rajesh Rao, Chandrashekar Kakal, BG Srinivas, NR Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, K Dinesh, Shibu Lal, Kris Gopalakrishnan, Basab Pradhan, Nivedita Bhagat, Sudhir Chaturvedi, Dinesh Bajaj, Sandeep Dadlani, Ravi Kumar, Rakhal Barve, Mohandas Pai, AG Pandu, Lakshmi Pillai, Vijay Ratnaparkhe, Anand GCP, Payal Rai, Sajit Vijayakumar, Sunil Senan, Anagha Senan, Anand Sam, Prince Thomas, Suraj Ramaprasad, Sridhar Rangachari, Raju Goteti, Raghuram K, Prakash Rajbhoj, Smriti Gupta, Santoshi, Raju Bannur, Raghu Cavale, Rajeev Naidu, Sushil Agarwal, N Srinivasan, VR Subramanian, CP Bhatnagar, Neelam Kinra, Utkarsh Majmudar, M Ravi Sundar, Janakiraman Moorthy, Vipul, Neerja Pande, Malay Bhattacharyya, PC Purwar, Rajiv Srivastava, Chakraborty, Devi Singh, Ganga, KN Vaishnav, Sanjeev Agrawal, Mrs Santhanam, Bhuvaneshwari, Julia Raj, Rohit Kumar, Mrs Rao, Muralidhar, Jhanavi, Lalitha, RK Jain, Pandey ji, UT Kumar, Laxman Rao, Subbarao Manchala, Suren Sista, Madhu Jayadevan, Rajkumar Jain, Saurabh Srivastava, Vyas, Sandeep Batra, Karan Manocha, Rajeev Naidu, Pankaj Agrawal, Anubha Phophaliya, Sandeep Phophaliya, Amarjeet Virdi, Sachin Dole, Punit Agrawal, Chavand Tak, Gaurang Raval, Neeraj Pandey, Priyaranjan Jha, Baldev, Dev Singh, Sid Sawhney, SK Mehra, Yogesh Nath, Shalabh Sharma, Lokesh Venkatappa, Shanti, Yogesh Malik, Bharat Mendiratta, Vijay Singh Sengar, Vipin Varshney, Sen, Virendra Singh, Ajit Bhatia, Naveen Bhandari,

Hanuman Ram Jat, Gita, Arup Chakravarty, Manoj Gupta, Manoj Kumar, Manoj Agrawal, Manoj Verma, Manoj Shelar, Srini Peyyalamitta, Deepa Vasudevan, John Prashant, Sonali, Chethan Srikant, Prasoon Rohit, Vipul Dixit, Sandeep Hegde, Sanjay George, Ashish Dixit, Niket Jain, Rajesh Dubey, Shukla, Satyendra Kumar, Sunil Sharma, Kiran Bableshwar, Ajay, Gaurav Karandikar, Manoj Khanvilkar, Abhimanyu Sahoo, G Bhaskar, Kamlesh Bansal, Alok Vashishtha, Alok Kumar, Arjun, Vikas Mishra, Parag Rokde, Pushparaj Mujumdar, Rishi Aharwal, Amrinder Singh, Ram Narayan Shah, Rahul Tandon, Disha, Bhushan Mittal, Samir Rastogi, Ankur Kansal, Pritesh Punjabi, Palani Muthu, Narayan Singhal, Parmar, Tarun Choithani, Ravikumar Iyer, Shibu Matthew, Shobhit Bhargava, Sumeet Singh, Sujeet Singh, Sanjay Sainani, Shyam, Dharmesh Manuja, Dheeraj Sahu, Deep Rahul, Lalit Saraswat, Himanshu Kacker, Shrinivas Bajaj, Harikrishna Pandey, Raja Roy, Yash, Diksha, Sarah, Hanif Shaikh, Nafees Ahmed, Jasdev Singh, Nirbhik Puar, Siddharth Sharma, Sarthak Pattanaik, Raju, Mandaar Barve, Maneesha Barve, Lakshay Khattar, Pronoy Upadhyai, Proasheem Suleebka, Srikanth Tatikonda, Uma, Hemendra Bishth, Hemant Ahire, Sriram Shankar, Sanjay Chaurasia, Ajay Singh, Rohit Sood, Deepak Das,Manoj Sharma, Digvijay Singh, Vikram Saini, Alok Bajpai, RamRoop Pandey, Priya, Ramesh Chandra, Pradeep Joshi, Sandeep Khanna, Vishakha Pushkarna, Deepak, Prashant, Sudhir, RKS,Suman, Sangeeta, Poonam, Renuka Dwivedi Dabral, Anita Dubey, Sheetal Shukla, Nielam Tripathi, Mahua Paul, Kiran Gupta, Amit Agrawal, Ashwini Kumar, Naba Kumar, Mona Bhatia, Shiv Prakash Mishra, Prasanna Rao, Somyasmita Juneja, Rajesh Nair, Samit, Taruna, YS Raju, Yogesh Tiwari, Neeloy Saha, Narayana Bhatta, Aranya Bhattacharya, Bali, Vaneet Arora,Satya Samal, Deepak Agrawal, P Nilakantan, Sudipto Kundu, Tarang Puranik, Chaitanya Gandikota, Ajay, Kajal, Kishalaya Sarangi, Datta Kulkarni, Somnath Basu, Anirban Ghosal, Ujjal Banerjee, Madhu Pulasseri, Balaji Rajam, Ankit Jain, Krish Shankar, Vivek Karunakaran, Bindu Madampilly, Neelam Mohanty, Rahul Shah, Sandeep Prasad, Anand Shah, Samya Ghosh, Paurush Roy, Ramani Ramachandran, Venugopal Ramakrishnan, Surendra Baliga, Jainendra, Vivek Saraogi, Manjush Kumar, Shaleen Mahar, Raman Kataria, Rakesh Mishra, Anoop Jain, Palani Sankar G, Sushil Kedia, Samir Arora, Sanjiv Bhasin, Sanjeev Kapoor, Satwick Tandon,

Ganesh Iyer, Srikanth Iyengar, Atul Pandey, Sudhir Nair, Krishna Gubili, Rambabu Kaipa, Shoubhik Das, Senthil S, Atulya Chandra, Sarat Chandra, Avnish Anand, Saurabh Jauhari, Pankaj Agarwal, Vinod Sankaranarayanan, Balaji Iyer, K Srilatha, Namgyal Basi, Santanu Chari, Joybrata Das, Ranjit Poddar, Anil Khanduja, Udayan Dasgupta, Arvind Saxena, Santanu Debroy, Sandipta Dutta, Sumantu Datta, Binu Balachandran, VineetJain, Neelesh Asati, Keki Mistry, Jairam Panickssery, Anand Giridhar, Sandeep Kaimal, Rajiv Kaka, Aseem Bhatnagar, Rangarajan Iyengar, Alpna Gainda, Devi, Sudha Srinivasan, Saurabh Kunj, Ram Baran, Rohit Dogra, Mukesh Saraswat, Balaji Athreye, Ravi Garg, Saurabh Desai, Ravi Vasudeva, Vijay Mishra, Nitin Ghai, Anindya Ghosh, Dhruv Chadha, Rohit Johri, Krishna Kumar, Sanjay Dhawan, Balasubramanian V, Nitesh Bansal, Eshan Joshi, Saurav DP, Amit Dua, Ramesh Chougule, Jai Venkat, Gopi Krishnan, Ananth Vaidyanathan, Murali Vasudevan, Bharat Pasupathy, Kaushal Mody, Hisham Mundol, Ashish Goel, Sudhir Pai, Rajeev Suri, Sachin Bagla, Arindom Basu, SanjayJayaram, MukeshNakra, Shanthikaran Sharma, Srinivas Kamadi, Ritesh Idnani, Avinash Subramanian, Balram Suguna, Rahul Malhotra, Mellener Coelho, Ketan Ambani, Ashish Ambwani, Atul,Lokesh Chawla, Pankaj Kulkarni, Pankaj Patel, Pankaj Pandey, Suraj Rangashayi, Raju Kadian, Mayoor Tandon, Sukhraj Khassa, Siddharth Sharma, Ali Khan, Brian Dsouza, Priya B, Harikishan Narayanan, Ashish Pathania, Atul Saxena, Manish Sarswat, Vimal, Sheshu Gunisetti, Saurabh Lauria, Ananda Kumar, Aarti Karande, Deepti Bhutani, Richa Varshney, Suraj Kumar, Dharma Rajah, Ravi Bijlani, Vijay Gautam, Amit Singh, Sanket Singhania, Sunil Kumar, Mohamed Anis, Vivek Lodha, Suprio Banerjee, Amit Bhandari, Ankit Bhandari, Aman Behl, Vinu Varghese, Vikas Gupta, Amol Patil, Sunil Sharma, Maya, Sonali Anand, Rakhi Makad, Ravikanth Ganesan, Anurag Nigam, Aneet Shukla, Sridhar Challa, Dinesh Rao, Srinivas Rao, Simhadri Basava, Gayatri Chandrasekharan, Sajith Sankar, Sachin Phansikar, Mayank Manish, Surya Prakash, Sunil Makhija, Siddharth Dwarkani, CB Dubey, Vishal Gupta, Daljeet Singh, Prabh Simran Singh, Rachit Garg, Anand Lunia, Apurva Sharan, Manish Rathi, Pankaj Lal, Prasad Sivalanka, Manish Rathi, Nagmani Mishra, Ankur Kansal, Shishir Manuj, Sandesh Goel, Ritesh Goyal, Surendra Goyal, Suresh Garg,

Suraj Sharma, Rajeev Pandey, Raghav Ranjan, Nagendra Hamsala, Satyajit Samrendra, Chalapathy Tenneti, Aseem Bhatnagar, Shishir Singh, Pavan Goyal, Teginder Kaleka, Sairam Tadigadapa, Ravi Singhania, Pankaj Verma, Rahul Mehrotra, Saket Kakkar, Avinash Thakur, Rajdeep Dua, Prakash Hariharan, Vivek Bajpai, Praveen Rana, Ajay Ohri, Joydeep Bhattacharya, Avinash Kumar, Surbhi Agrawal, Uma, Durga, Dipankar Das, Deepak Wankhade, Sumi Vivek, Maria, Prakash Kamath, Anupama Raghunathan, Arjun Ramdas, Sakshi Bhandari, Shraddha Panara, Puja, Shivani, Bhavani, Ramya, Kaushik, Swarup, Gyanendra, Vaibhav Agarwal, Suramya Gupta, Manish Gupta, Syed Hussain, Deven Shah, Vivek Shah, Noopur Chaturvedi, Pooja Jain, Akhila Palli, Akhil Krishna, Prashant Achanta, Sabaleel Nandy, Vijay Ganti, SidSarangi, Virendra Pratap Singh, Gurpinder Singh, Sameer Taimni, Niraj Pant, Vivek Subramanyam, Rishi Verma, Pankaj Agarwal, Shweta, S Vijayanand, Deepak Maheshwari, Amit Sethi, Nikhil Newalkar, Vishal Anand,Tushar Sud, Sameer Shahapurkar, Ajit Thomas, Amitabh Nandan, Amneet Singh, Rahul Kumar, Siraj Dhanani, Shrikant Vaidyanathan, K Birla, Shomic Saha, DipuKV, CVRao, Ganesh Sankaran, Sivaram Bandhakavi, Amit Bhagat, Lalith Rajan, Subodh Gupta, Ashish Parmar, Sridhar Srinivasan, Sundarrajan B, Rajanikanth C, Rohit Jain, Rhitu, Chirantan Barua, Ramnish Kochgave, Gautam Sharma, Sudhendu Saxena, Ratish Trehan, Ranjit Nambiar, Bhandari, Mayank Saraswat, Saurabh Singhi, Kapadia, Kothari, Laxmi, Sunil Kumar, Manish Mittal, Vinit Chauhan, Nitin Das, Amin, Deepak Chaudhry, Ravi Luthria, Abhijit Maulik, Paul, Rahul D’Souza, Omar Blake Wade, Maneesh Dharmarajan, Vijay, Ravindra Gudapati, Nandkishore, Anil Chauhan, Bal Mukund, Vikas Golechha, J Srinivasan, Hitesh Gossain, Ayush Jain, Anjan Roy, Shankar Prasad Jha, Anil Tanwar, Manishi Varma, Shankar Bhaduri, Lorho Kholi, Lokhi Prasad Deori, Ranjith Thomas, Priyank Singhvi, DigantaDas, Sanjay, Phaneendra, Chintan Kharbanda, Naren Nagpal, Dennis Varghese, Lokesh Prasad, Ashwani Lata, Amandeep Sangha, Gagandeep Kaur, Pratul Chopra, Ashish, Kapil Pawar, Sukhi, Amandeep, Sodhi, Vishal Chadha, Tejbir Singh, Devendra Singh, Gurdeep Singh, Abhishek Singh, Anil, Khera, Bishnoi, Nanak, Randhawa, Wadhwa, Sahni, Bedi, Sandeep, Deshpande, Deshmukh, Gopal, Venugopal, Shastry, Parmar, Kedar Desai, Soni,

Venkat Rao, Nagesh Prasad, Dipendu Saha, V Rajesh, Shiva Kumar, Elizabeth George, Lalitha Kiranmai, Jeba Punitha, K Sudhir, Karuna Annavajjala, Uthara Sibi, Asha Sharma, AshaPande,Samta Baid, Manjari Parashar, Anuja, Shantanu, Teja Lele, Abhimanyu Singh, Vivekanand Vellanki, Manish, Sakshi, Suresh, Dinesh, Kamakhya, Dennis, Winfred Wilson, Madhulika Srivastava, Anamika Sirohi, Parvati Devi, Gita, Sanket Mehta, Nita Mehta, Rahul Bhandari, Pramod, Rangachari, Amit Raje, Mehul Desai, Goswami, RK Jain, Shri, Ram, Vinayak, Rajan, Syed, Nafees, Ahmed, Mohammed, Kafeel, Shaikh, Pushan Verma, Dipika, Deepti, Jasmine, Fatima, Vaishnavi, Garima, Andileep, Divyansha, Priya, Anshima, Sanjana, Sahil Kumar, Shreya Gupta, Shirin Akhtar, Husnal Kaur, Jesus, Lily, Paula, MV Sam, Rinku, Sreya, Asif, Mariam, Ashna, Archana, Seema, Vandana, Vaishali, Neelam, Kavita, Kavitha Rao, Kavita Shenoy, Pallavi, Prachi, Gunjan, Hemlata, Avantika, Smita, Ganguly, Ankita, Mitra, Bhalla, Grover, Keshav, Yadav, Jhadav, Thakur, Sri, Vishnu, Janak, Joshi, Jindal, Patil, Parekh, Rawat, Reddy, Ganapathy, Dr Kulkarni, Dr Talwar, Dr Pradeep Kumar Kakarala, Siya, Vasudev, Payal Khanna, Ankita Singh, Krishnamurthy, Michael, Markus, Goldman, Faith, Sarah, Haliene, Natasha, Eddie, Lee, Marty, Maddy, John, Jeff, Larsen, Rahim, Natalya, Tara, Vicky, Anna, Kelly, Naz, Alex, Milan Dsouza, Charley, David, Jesse, Akira, Sanae, Mizuki, Hana, Hoshi, Nomura, Takaya, Yamada, Zerrin, Anita, Jaiswal, Kaul, Nathan, James, Steve, Luke, Morgan, Jean Luc, Tarique Mansuri, Ethan William, Marc Vergara, Dharani S, Yalda, David, Mark, Warren, Robin, Eldad Sagiv, Daniela Andrich, Tony Mundy, Fernande, Catherine, Jacques Sergent, Monique, Nelly Foque, Isabelle, Ludovic Legrand, Renuka, Ganesh, Mayaank Vadlamani, Sourab Vadlamani, Sailaja, Sudha, V Lalita, VS Laxmi, Padmini Ganti, Sujata, Kalyani, Kalpana, V Raghu, Sai Vedula, Krishna, Narayana, Venkata Sai Dhavala, Peri Sastry, Somes Peri, MD Murthy Peri, PMD Murty, MDA, Madhu Achalla, Satish SVS, Sai Harish, Premnath Ayyalasomayajula, Ydyanath Ayyalasomayajula, A Suryanarayana Murthy, AUNL Rajeswara Rao, Vedula Subrahmanyam, PS Rao, Peri Subbarayan, A Mahadeva Shastry, Peri Surya Narayana Sastry. The list starts with my father, and ends with my grandfathers. I am grateful to all of you. Thank you!

Template or Formula for a Successful Fiction Book

Hello Folks, today I wanted to answer one of the most common questions I get from book writers, and their question is this or some variant of it: “Hi, is there any template or formula for a successful fiction book?”

Well, there is no such template or formula. While there isn’t a one-size-fits-all formula for a successful fiction book, many successful novels follow certain structural templates and storytelling techniques that resonate with readers. Below is a general template (guideline) that can guide you in crafting a compelling fiction story:

1. Concept and Theme

  • Concept: Start with a unique, engaging idea that will captivate readers. This could be a “what if” scenario, an unusual character, or an intriguing setting.
  • Theme: Decide on the central theme or message of your story. This could be love, power, identity, redemption, etc.

2. Character Development

  • Protagonist: Create a relatable main character with clear goals, strengths, and flaws. The protagonist should undergo significant growth or change throughout the story.
  • Antagonist: Introduce an antagonist or obstacle that challenges the protagonist, providing conflict and tension.
  • Supporting Characters: Develop well-rounded secondary characters that serve to complement, challenge, or support the protagonist.

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How to Consciously Choose the Life of Your Dreams

Everything in life is a choice and your spiritual growth depends entirely on the choices you make and the spirituality information that you immerse yourself in.

The key to creating the life of your dreams is to begin the process of understanding how important it is to be conscious and aware of the choices you are making and whether those choices are serving you or not.

Relativity tells us that you can’t know something as an experience until you first come to know its opposite. That is the purpose of the theory of relativity and all physical life.

That is why we have this other beautiful, magnificent and glorious ability in our lives called choice. We get to choose whatever it is that we desire. We can say “the devil made me do it” all we want, but the ultimate reality is that we make a choice about every decision we make in our lives. Continue reading

Audio Book: 10 Steps to a Stellar Success Mindset

“I’ve distilled all I’ve learned about success from hundreds of clients and my own journey from working 3 minimum wage jobs to being a 7 figure business owner. Now I can work when I want, where I want. Here’s my story…” – Mark Tyrell

This audio book (10 Steps to a Stellar Success Mindset) is not an ordinary ebook or course. Its created and delivered by a successful entrepreneur (who has created a multi-million dollar business from scratch without any external funding), and a professional hypnotist. There are 10 parts in this audio course, and they are all valuable as a unit.

  1. Think Big
  2. Success Motivation
  3. Believe In Yourself
  4. Self Discipline
  5. Overcome Fear of Failure
  6. Overcoming Procrastination
  7. Plan Your Future
  8. Act on Your Ideas
  9. Improve Concentration and Focus
  10. Reach Your Goals

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Notes on Spirituality – by Richard Blackstone

Richard D. Blackstone profile imageDuring the first forty years of my life I was sleepwalking.

I listened to what other people told me about life and how I was supposed to conduct myself as I stumbled along in my journey from birth to death.

I was told to follow the rules because only by following the rules and working real hard would I be able to achieve this illusive thing called “success.”

So I bought into the idea that I was a separate entity from all other people and things and went about the business of hard work and being better so that I would be successful.

I got the college education, the job, the wife, the children, the house, the right car, the material possessions, the life-style, the alcohol, the drugs, the affairs, the divorce, the depression, and the guilt. While all this “life” was happening I always had this nagging feeling that there was something about life I didn’t know, the knowing of which could change my life in a more meaningful empowering way. Continue reading