Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of The Limitless by Radhika Gupta

I remember finishing this book on an ordinary afternoon—and feeling unexpectedly still.

Not the triumphant stillness of motivation, but the quieter kind. The kind that comes when someone has spoken honestly enough that your defences don’t know where to stand anymore. I was seated, book resting face-down, noticing my shoulders had dropped. As if something inside me had been allowed to exhale.

Limitless didn’t rush toward me waving answers. It waited. And then, very calmly, it began asking questions I recognized.

Questions about ambition—how loudly we’re allowed to want things.Questions about rejection—how many times we pretend it doesn’t hurt.Questions about confidence—how often we confuse it with certainty.

What struck me first was not inspiration, but recognition.

Radhika Gupta doesn’t write from a pedestal. She writes from the ground—where effort is visible, fear is admitted, and outcomes are never guaranteed. Her voice doesn’t perform strength; it reveals its construction. Page after page, the book behaves less like a guide and more like a colleague sitting beside you after a long day, saying: This is messy. You’re not imagining it.

There is a particular relief in that.

As I read, the book began doing something subtle. It didn’t tell me to be fearless. Instead, it kept returning to movement. Try. Adjust. Ask again. Fail better. It treats rejection not as a detour, but as curriculum. Not motivational poster wisdom—lived, inconvenient truth.

I found myself slowing down during the sections on criticism. The idea that tough feedback—when offered by the right people—is not an attack but an invitation. I stayed with that longer than expected. Perhaps because it’s easier to label criticism as cruelty than to admit it might be a map.

The book’s strength lies in how grounded it is. There is no myth-making here. No overnight transformations. Just decisions made under pressure. Course corrections. Plan Bs that quietly turn into Plan As. The world of work appears not as a battlefield to conquer, but as terrain to understand—uneven, unpredictable, human.

What also stayed with me was her insistence on investing in oneself—not as a slogan, but as an ongoing practice. Skill-building. Relationship-building. Self-awareness. The slow, unglamorous work that compounds quietly. In an age of Instagram-fed comparison, this felt almost radical in its restraint.

At times, I noticed a part of me wanting the book to linger longer in discomfort—to sit deeper with certain failures, to resist resolution. Some chapters move quickly toward learning, and I occasionally found myself wishing to remain a little longer in the uncertainty before the insight arrives. Not because the insights aren’t valuable—but because uncertainty is where many of us live most days.

Still, I respected that choice. This book doesn’t dramatize pain. It acknowledges it, learns from it, and moves on—much like real life often demands.

What I appreciated most is how personal experience is never weaponized into advice. Radhika’s story remains hers, even as it opens doors for others. She offers frameworks, not formulas. Possibilities, not prescriptions. You’re invited to adapt, not imitate.

By the time I reached the later pages, I realized something quietly had shifted. I wasn’t feeling pumped. I was feeling steadier. More accepting of my own nonlinear path. Less apologetic about ambition. More patient with becoming.

This is not a book that shouts you can do anything.It says something more believable.

You can begin where you are.You can ask again.You can pivot without calling it failure.You can be unfinished and still effective.

When I closed the book, it didn’t leave me with a checklist.

It left me with a permission.

And that feeling—of not needing to be louder, faster, or flawless to move forward—has stayed in the room longer than I expected.

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