Happy Birthday @neerajarora91

Today you've turned 34. Here's a list of 34 lessons I've learnt from you.

1. Be 100% committed towards your work
2. Utmost professionalism in work
3. Review 5 times before submitting the work

4. Don't make YT videos just for information. Connect with your audience.
5. Be honest with your work. People appreciate honesty more than hype of a person

6. Although, I am a person who's life is more sorted when in discipline. But I've learnt from you how to be productive even when there are periods of indiscipline in your life.
7. Enjoy little things. They matter.
8. Forgive people and come to terms with them (Faster, the better)

9. Editing in iMovie
10. Editing in FCP
11. How to write in simple words. Write for masses (& not just for yourself)
12. Don't just deliver a speech but hold the audience, make sure they're completely in sync with you.

13. A great teacher is the one can teach the same thing again and again, and still will not get bored.
14. Create awesome charts (study-related) and summaries for your students.
15. Be precise and to the point in your speech and don't make sweeping statements

16. Lot of people can do work, but only a few have great work ethics.
17. Don't judge people. But don't let them bust your ass too.

18. Family is important more than anything else. There are times, when you won't be able to keep a balance b/w your work & personal life. & that's okay. Don't fret about it. But when you do take out time for them, make sure you're 100% with them.

19. Plan your day. Write your tasks. Tick them off. It's the most satisfying thing.
20. Don't get intimidated by people. They're here to mess with you. The game is on. Play along.
21. Invest in technology, the ROI is always greater than the cost.

22. Ignore a**holes almost all the times but if someone is genuinely providing you with constructive criticism, use it to improve yourself.
23. Use camera equipments properly.
24. invest in yourself: Dressing, Sports, Productivity equipments (devices, softwares)

25. Develop a Vision.
26. Execute like a ninja. but always be mindful of the mistakes. Never be afraid of correcting the mistakes
27. Take accountability of your actions
28. It doesn't pain to say sorry.
29. Don't keep toxic and unproductive people around.

30. Capture the opportunities before anyone else does. First mover advantage has innumerable gains.
31. It's okay to fail. It's not okay to "not learn from your failures"
32. If you've made sth wrong, apologise immediately, pacify the person, to whom you've done wrong.

33. Punctuality is a commitment that you make to yourself before anyone else.
34. Whatever you do, be the best in that.

PS: Some of the lessons are "verbatim", some are paraphrased, others are silently observed and learnt from him.

You can learn a lot by just being in company of awesome people (if you really want to improve)