Career Principles of Dr. Shashi Tharoor

An author, politician, and former international civil servant

Dr. Shashi Tharoor has been a long-time mentor to Network Capital. Through his extremely popular (and candid) masterclasses and podcasts he has helped over 100,000 millennials and Gen Z from 104 countries make smarter career choices.Today, we would like to take a moment to thank him for everything that he does and wish him a very happy birthday!

An author, politician, and former international civil servant, Shashi Tharoor straddles several worlds of experience. Through the multiple masterclasses and podcasts that he has created for Network Capital, you can learn how he has built a multi-modal career spanning across professions, geographies, and decades.

Three-part podcast series

In this three-part podcast series, Dr. Tharoor takes us through a deep-dive of his career and provides frameworks and mental models on -

  • The importance of conducting micro-experiments towards shaping a meaningful career

  • The art of being a contrarian

  • The power of multi-disciplinary learning and clear thinking

  • Building transferable skills

The Art of Writing

An author of over 50 books, in this masterclass Dr. Shashi Tharoor talks about his recent book ‘Tharoorosaurus’ and walks us through his writing process.

Book Discussion: “The Battle of Belonging”

There are over a billion Indians alive today. But are some Indians more Indian than others? To answer this question, one that is central to the identity of every man, woman, and child who belongs to the modern Republic of India, eminent thinker and bestselling writer Shashi Tharoor explores hotly contested ideas of nationalism, patriotism, citizenship, and belonging.

In this masterclass, he talks about -

  • The difference between nationalism and patriotism

  • Why Indian nationalism is the nationalism of an idea with pluralism as its core value

  • Mental models to understand who we are, where we come from, and where we are going.

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