Hi, I’m Ameya Agrawal.
I’m a gold medalist from IIM Kozhikode, the author of A Leap Within, and someone who has spent the last several years working at the intersection of education, strategy, and impact — currently working in strategy at MIT World Peace University.
I write here about three things I keep returning to: the mind, machines, and meaning.
The mind — the psychology beneath ambition, what drives us, what costs us, and why high performers so often feel quietly hollow despite doing everything right. Machines — what AI is actually doing to human agency, identity, and the way we make sense of the world. And meaning — the slower, harder question of what it looks like to build a life that genuinely feels worth living.
This isn’t a tips-and-hacks blog. It’s a thinking space.
What You’ll Find Here
The Psychology of Ambition
Why we strive, self-sabotage, burn out, and keep going anyway. Grounded in research, written for real life — not for performance.
AI & Human Agency
The machines we’re building are extraordinary. They’re also quietly doing something to us that we haven’t fully reckoned with yet. I write about that gap.
Personal Growth Without the Noise
Not another morning routine. Real thinking about doing meaningful work sustainably — from someone who has spent years at the sharp end of ambition, education, and leadership.
Start With These
New here? These are good places to begin:
→ Addicted to Progress: How Growth Culture Hijacked Happiness
Is the relentless pressure to improve, optimise, and achieve actually making you unhappy?
→ The Outsourced Self: When Meaning Becomes a Machine’s Job
We’ve built machines that can answer almost any question. What we haven’t figured out is why any of it matters.
→ The Quiet Erosion: How AI Is Rewriting Human Agency Without Asking Permission
As AI takes over more of our decisions, something quieter is happening — the slow disappearance of choice itself.
A Little About Me
I’m a gold medalist from IIM Kozhikode, author of A Leap Within (published at 21, earning a National Record), and currently working in strategy at MIT World Peace University. I founded the SkillSlate Foundation, which has trained 25,000+ people across 100+ organisations in four countries. My work has been recognised with two Presidential National Awards from the Government of India and published in Forbes.
I was admitted to Harvard. I chose to stay in India — not for a story, but because the work here felt more urgent.
