I wish, I could point out, the exact day, time and the catalytic incident that pushed me over to the other side of the fence. But as an afterthought, I guess it would have made it more of a fairytale. Less convincing. Though let me admit, it would have surely made for a better story to tell... ;)
If I were to point my finger at one particular incident that was responsible for making me want to be an Entrepreneur, I think I would stick with my 'Attitude Problem'. I think its been forever that my Mom was summoned to the Staff Room at school, only to be told that although her son was a wonderful and intelligent student, his attitude was pulling him down; And Mummy would return from each of those meetings, all the more convinced to encourage me to follow my own thought process. Not to blindly follow, but to question.
If school was bearable, college was an unending saga of insurmountable agonies; incompetent teachers, preaching mediocrity, praising under achievers. It was a farce, in the name of education. Originality was deemed a sin. A questioning mind was termed arrogant and considered unfit for disciplined formal education.
What was worse, was the blind rat race, that the students themselves opted to become a part of. Everything else faded into the background. All that mattered was Marks. Percentage. A University ranking. And this stifled me. Suffocated me. This was not what I had come to do. This was not what I was meant to do. This was not what I wanted to do. And yet, it seemed that this is what I had to do.
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Attitude makes all the difference man. Btw, do you think wou will regret someday if you don't succeed
ReplyDeleteAwesome bhai..:)
ReplyDeleteI am sure...your "Attitude problem" here is not actually a attitude problem ..but actually a mind set to think differently..independently and opening.
ReplyDeleteI think once a person start question himself by asking himself,what exactly he wants,and what he/she is meant to do, he will start thinking out of the box..will start breaking stereotype..and then may be some of them choose not to be them...
Btw excellent writing...it was a good read..
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ReplyDelete@Anonymous - I would ideally like to say, "I will never regret doing this". "Atleast I tried". "Gave it my best shot". And all such, like a fallen hero! But to be honest with you, I really don't know. However, I would like to quote Steve Jobs, "You can never connect the dots looking ahead. You can only do so, when you look back". So, I guess that should somewhat answer your question.
@Gaurav Thank You Very Much. Glad you liked it.
@Akash Thank You. Glad you liked it. But when I said I have an Attitude Problem, I really meant it as a problem. What I have come to realise, at a dear expense, is that there's nothing called a free lunch. The Attitude which makes me want to question, think, and do things differently, is the same as the one which gets me into trouble with people, makes me seem rude and arrogant to them and often is the cause of lost relationships. You know what I mean...