Yukti is the pen name behind the Gamified Library, a ten-book series that applies behavioural design and the psychology of play to the parts of life we're usually told to simply grind through — the mind, studying, money, focus, the body, relationships, leadership, and meaning. The name is Sanskrit for ingenuity: the knack of finding the clever design where everyone else sees only hard work.

Yukti takes what psychology and game design quietly know about motivation and aims it straight at the desk — the syllabus, the 2 a.m. ratta, the mock-test grind — practical, witty, unmistakably Indian, and written for the student in the back row who was handed a broken game and told to try harder.

The series is published by Certaze Technologies under the banner Reach Your Summit — a company built on a single stubborn belief: that most of what we call a lack of discipline is really a lack of design, and that the right design can unlock far more human potential than willpower ever will.

Design, Don't Grind.