Description
We were taught to chase finish lines. Nobody taught us where to live while chasing them.
ING of Things is a calm, practical playbook for building a life around actions that don’t expire — learning, listening, creating, serving. Through stories, micro-tools, and simple frameworks, Preet Jain shows how to move identity away from outcomes and into daily verbs you can trust — even on your hardest days. This is not a book about doing more. It’s about doing what lasts.
ING is moving from noun named goal to verb called journey.
Preet Jain is a practitioner, educator, and coach who has spent years working with individuals, teams, and organizations across industries on the question of how people sustain meaningful work over time.
His work began with a simple observation: most people know what they should do. The gap between knowing and doing is not primarily a knowledge problem — it is a design problem. The environments we create, the identities we attach to outcomes, and the cadences we establish (or fail to establish) determine whether effort compounds or collapses.
ING of Things is his attempt to make that insight practical and accessible. It is drawn from his own experience, the experiences of the people he has worked with, and the research of the many thinkers and scientists whose work he has drawn on and admires.
Preet believes that the most important thing any person can do is find verbs they love doing — and then do them, daily, with patience, kindness toward themselves on the hard days, and genuine curiosity about where the practice will take them over time.
Preet is Bachelor of Technology from MNIT Jaipur and MBA from NMIMS Mumbai.