In a world where “adulting” now apparently includes tracking your EMIs, deciphering electricity bills, and fending off existential crises. All this, sometimes before breakfast. Mind-draining! Akshat Shrivastava, a well-known educator and content creator, has broken down life’s daily struggles and offered a surprisingly simple solution: discipline.
Shrivastava’s experience resonates with every Indian, as we all have felt the weight of monthly loan repayments. Or let us say, the dread of hearing, “Just ignore the noise and focus on yourself.” For some of us, this is an everyday scenario, while for others, it’s a bit often. More or less, we all go through these phases.
His recent comment draws from real-life anxieties: financial stress, professional exhaustion, and the never-ending quest for self-improvement. These are the problems that Shrivastava jokes about, saying, “Don’t discriminate by age, only by the size of your Google Calendar.”
According to Shrivastava, the modern Indian is beset by a catalogue of chaos—rising expenses, career uncertainty, and that distressing sense that everyone else has it “figured out.” But his prescription isn’t a time machine or a tropical vacation. Obviously, it is life, not a movie.
Rather, he shares an unfashionable but effective solution: building the discipline to show up and keep moving forward, rain or shine, Monday or Sunday.
“People keep searching for magic hacks,” Shrivastava quipped, “but the best investment, with zero risk and infinite returns, is discipline. It’s the only stock with guaranteed compounding—whether you’re in your 20s or 60s.”
Of course, he admits that being disciplined is hardly glamorous.
He adds, “It’s not going to get you viral on Instagram, but it might just keep your blood pressure steady.”
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The Takeaway
For the millions feeling like their ambition is forever outpaced by the EMI calendar and WhatsApp family groups, Shrivastava’s message is refreshingly realistic:
- Embrace the routine.
- Put one foot in front of the other.
- Remember: if nothing else, today’s troubles will at least make for great dinner table stories tomorrow.
In a time where self-help advice is often as fleeting as an online sale, Shrivastava’s celebration of discipline is a call to arms for the perpetually tired, frequently broke, and occasionally hopeful. After all, as every adult secretly knows, surviving life’s madness with sanity (and maybe a little savings) really is an achievement worth celebrating.
