Author: nikhileshsaw
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Entrepreneurship has a way of revealing you.
Not publicly first. Privately. In small, daily moments where there’s no place to hide. You can try to fake confidence, clarity, conviction. But the work keeps pushing back. The responses you get reflect something real. Eventually, you’re forced to look at yourself more closely than you might want to. It changes you if you’re paying…
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What is Functional Training?
Functional training isn’t about new exercises. It’s about whether your fitness holds up when conditions aren’t controlled. Most people don’t notice the gap until something feels harder than it should.
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On pursuit, possession, and what fades
A reflection on why pursuit feels alive, possession feels flat, and what systems are meant to hold once novelty fades.
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On reading Man’s Search for Meaning
The book changed how I think about hope. Fixing survival to a specific future date didn’t always help. Sometimes it killed. I noticed how often I endure things only because I believe they will end soon. When the date shifts, the fatigue feels disproportionate.
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On why high performers struggle with health
A reflection on systems, consistency, and why health often breaks down even among high performers.
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What to compare, and what not to
A short note on effort, process, and why outcomes are a poor place to anchor accountability.
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What comparison quietly takes away
A note on comparison, context, and the things we forget to appreciate in our own lives.
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December, as a coach
A note on December, seasonal slowdowns, and what coaching teaches you when momentum drops.
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On choosing corporate work, or not!
Most conversations about founders versus corporate roles are framed as exits.As if leaving corporate life is proof of courage, and staying is a lack of it. That wasn’t my experience. I didn’t leave a corporate role because I was tired of it or because I “couldn’t do it anymore.” I left because I wanted to…
