Hard Work Is a Lie: The ₹3.6 Crore Career Trap No One Warned You About | ft. Ashwin Damera
A Think School conversation with Ashwin Damera, founder of Eruditus and a Harvard Business School graduate, on why professionals around 35 feel stuck and how to build career capital. PARTIAL COVERAGE: the episode runs about 63 minutes and the available caption text is cut off, so this summary covers the opening framing, the career capital framework and the start of the long-term thinking section, not the end. Salary and layoff figures in the intro are the host's and are unverified. This is a summary of the speakers' views, not career, legal or financial advice.
Executive Summary (TL;DR)
A Think School conversation with Ashwin Damera, founder of Eruditus and a Harvard Business School graduate, on why professionals around 35 feel stuck and how to build career capital. PARTIAL COVERAGE: the episode runs about 63 minutes and the available caption text is cut off, so this summary covers the opening framing, the career capital framework and the start of the long-term thinking section, not the end. Salary and layoff figures in the intro are the host's and are unverified. This is a summary of the speakers' views, not career, legal or financial advice.
Key Takeaways
Why 35 feels stuck
The host says executives expected life to feel great at 35 but feel more anxious than at 20, partly because of younger workers with new tools and talk of AI job cuts.