Entrepreneur · Author · Business Educator
Sahil Khanna
Sahil Khanna is an Indian entrepreneur, business educator, and creator known for Intellectual Indies and Lapaas. At Indies Education, he turns business research and operating experience into rigorous, practical lessons.
- 684
- Published lessons
- 1M+
- Primary-channel subscribers
- 2017
- Intellectual Indies founded
Background and practice
From engineering fundamentals to practical business education
Sahil’s published profiles describe a transition from chemical engineering into marketing and management. That combination—systems thinking from engineering and commercial judgment from business—continues to shape how he explains complex ideas.
He founded Intellectual Indies in 2017 and built it into a business-learning content ecosystem covering company case studies, startups, marketing, strategy, and candid founder conversations. He also founded Lapaas, a New Delhi digital-marketing and education business. Sahil describes his entrepreneurial journey as including the eventual exit from the agency he built.
Across workshops, courses, consulting, and digital media, Sahil’s work has reached students, startup founders, legacy-business owners, and operating teams. His primary Intellectual Indies channel has more than one million subscribers. Sahil’s public profiles describe a combined audience above two million across his content ecosystem, while Lapaas course pages report more than 140,000 entrepreneurs reached through its educational work.
At Indies Education, Sahil serves as author and lead educator. Every lesson is designed to go beyond definitions: readers should understand the mechanism, examine evidence and limits, apply a framework, and leave with an action plan and checklist.
Elsewhere
Profiles and source notes
Written by Sahil Khanna
Latest business lessons
Evidence-led chapters designed to move from understanding to action.
The ABC Technique: Events, Beliefs, Consequences
This evidence-based lesson explains ABC technique, the mechanisms and real-world conditions that shape it, practical action, measurement, privacy and safety limits, and when self-directed reflection or workplace support should give way to qualified professional or emergency help.
Using Affirmations: Evidence, Limits, and Better Design
This evidence-based lesson explains using affirmations, the mechanisms and real-world conditions that shape it, practical action, measurement, privacy and safety limits, and when self-directed reflection or workplace support should give way to qualified professional or emergency help.
How Self-Motivated Are You? A Better Assessment
A rigorous, practical guide to assess self-motivation as a changing interaction among value, autonomy, competence, expectancy, environment, energy, emotion, and opportunity. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
How to Motivate Yourself Without Shame
A rigorous, practical guide to create conditions for action through values, choice, competence, environment, implementation intentions, progress, social support, and compassionate recovery. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
Are You Procrastinating? Diagnose the Pattern
A rigorous, practical guide to diagnose procrastination by behaviour, emotion, task structure, expectancy, delay, environment, and consequences rather than labeling personality. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
How to Stop Procrastinating With Better Systems
A rigorous, practical guide to reduce harmful delay through task clarification, emotion regulation, small starts, environmental design, implementation intentions, feedback, support, and clinical referral when appropriate. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into.
Breaking Bad Habits: An Evidence-Based Change System
Unwanted habits persist because repeated contexts automate responses that once delivered a reward or relief. This chapter explains habit learning, cue mapping, environmental design, friction, replacement behavior, implementation intentions, relapse, measurement, identity, and when a pattern requires professional support.
Staying Challenged Without Burning Out
Healthy challenge sits between stagnation and overload. This chapter explains flow, deliberate practice, goal difficulty, job design, challenge and hindrance demands, feedback, learning portfolios, recovery, measurement, and how managers and individuals can create growth without romanticizing chronic stress.
Self-Discipline Without Shame: A Practical System
Self-discipline is often treated as character, yet reliable action depends heavily on context, habits, planning, emotion, energy, and social conditions. This chapter explains self-regulation, implementation intentions, precommitment, temptation, identity, measurement, recovery, disputed willpower claims, and the boundary between discipline and harmful overcontrol.
Stress Explained: How to Manage It Safely
This evidence-based lesson explains stress management, the work and personal conditions that shape it, practical system changes, measurement, privacy and safety boundaries, and when self-management or peer support should give way to qualified professional or emergency help.
Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale: Critical Guide
This evidence-based lesson explains Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale, the work and personal conditions that shape it, practical system changes, measurement, privacy and safety boundaries, and when self-management or peer support should give way to qualified professional or emergency help.
Supporting a Stressed Friend or Co-Worker
This evidence-based lesson explains supporting someone under stress, the work and personal conditions that shape it, practical system changes, measurement, privacy and safety boundaries, and when self-management or peer support should give way to qualified professional or emergency help.