How to Take a Year Off and Balance Your Life with Vikram Seth

In this episode we talk about:

• “The Great Resignation” happening now. Why are workers quitting jobs?
• What is a sabbatical?
• What forced Vikram to re-evaluate his life and confront his own mortality
• How do you arrange a sabbatical with your boss?
• The two things you need to do before you can ask for extended time off
• “Hunting like a lion” at work
• Managing your schedule and your energy to do your best creative work
• How to play to your strengths and gain leverage in negotiations at work
• So you’ve arranged a year off… now what? How should you use that time?
• A fateful first stop in Dubai, leaning in to serendipity and where it leads
• What a 10 day Vipassana silent meditation retreat teaches you
• How to get out of your head and back into your body
• Eastern vs Western views of time. “Transcend and include”
• Zooming out to see the “upward Spiral Graph”
• What is Hindu philosophy, once you strip away all the mythology?
• Mysticism and the power of direct experience
• Consensus mechanisms and why crypto gives Vikram hope for humanity

Links to Resources and Other Books Mentioned:

• Vikram on Twitter
• Bounce Bhangra Website
• Bounce Bhangra on Instagram
   
• Confessions of an Economic Hitman
• Vipassana
• Ido Portal
• Wim Hof
• Mammalian Dive Reflex