If you went through Engineering in India, the name Ferdinand L Singer likely triggers a specific kind of trauma. I remember sitting with his “Engineering Mechanics” for days. I read the chapters. I looked at the diagrams. Nothing stuck. The internal exams were looming, and I was staring at a wall of incomprehensible vectors. Then, one Saturday before my internals I did the only thing I could: I shut the door and stayed in the chair. Thankfully mobile phones existed in the sci-fi world then. For five hours, the world disappeared. No distractions. Just the friction of the problems meeting … Continue reading The Flow State: Unlocking Peak Performance