Aneesh Reddy Boddu, founder of Capillary Technologies, discusses mental health as a secret weapon for business success and how to transform negative.
Aneesh Reddy Boddu, founder of Capillary Technologies, discusses mental health as a secret weapon for business success and how to transform negative self-talk into positive action. He also shares tips on fundraising and surviving challenges like COVID-19.
You will have times when things will go down, things are not working as you thought they would. I mean, when you've run something for 10, 12 years, you've definitely taken a lot of wrong decisions. Uh, you know, which you're, you know, having to correct and and your mind starts playing these funny tricks with you on, you know, there's this constant voice in your head which is constantly criticizing what you've done, right? That this could have been done better, that could have been been done better. Uh and I I thought around 2018 19 I got to a place where my mind was just so overcrowded with all the stuff that went wrong. As a founder I think that your mind is either your best friend, your best uh asset or it's your best enemy, right? It could just like uh drive you crazy. And around that time is when you know u a friend suggested I go do this vapasa thing. you know uh masa is like it's
like a 10day silent retreat uh it's free you know and uh all all you do is you know you every time your mind runs away you bring it back to your breath right so you're really controlling your mind to come back to like not run away and not get into uh this criticize or constantly painful mode right uh and uh you know I spent 10 days doing that uh and you know at the end of the 10 days I came back with feeling 15 years younger It felt like I was out of college again, right? like it just felt like the whole world was an opportunity and because suddenly you had these all these negative voices in your head that were constantly criticizing or were worried about money running out or about that customer leaving you know all those voices were gone right 85 90% of them were kind of cleaned up right so and that was the first time I realized that look uh like taking care of your mind is just such a
um uh is just so important for a founder Right? Because you just live with so much ambiguity. You live with so much chaos. There's just so much outside your control, sphere of control as a as a founder. Uh and uh and you know, you're constantly in anxiety, you're constantly in fear, you're constantly in greed, right? I mean, that's how most founder lives are, right? This vapasta thing really like unlocked that thing for me, right? That I was suddenly like, look, I can I'm not the voices in my mind. Uh you know, I can like keep them away, right? So uh and that started a very beautiful journey.