Make your life worth living...

Almost no one likes uncertainty in life but uncertainty is what makes our life worth living. Excitement of doing things for the first time, not knowing whether it will be successful or not, gives us butterflies in the stomach. What other feeling in life can match the feeling of giving an important competitive exam, being late for an interview with slightest chance of making it on time, the feeling just before the results are going to be out, the feeling of purposing first girl in the life (the fear involved ranging from a firm No to a ‘I think I don’t like your face’ to even a Slap; but also slightest chance of Yes). How much boring life could have been if there were no uncertainty, had we known everything about the future?

Still we fear the unknown world more than anything else. We are not ready to take risks in life. But the fact is that we almost never regret doing something but we regret things we didn't do in life. We regret for love not shown, for words not said, for not understanding the viewpoint of a friend, for not giving full hearted efforts at something which interested us once, not taking enough risks. By living our life on safer notes all the time, aren’t we depriving our grandsons of stories of our adventures, depriving ourselves of the line- 'I was so crazy once'; depriving ourselves of a life that we could have made?

Always be confident enough in life to make it worth living.

a dream is not what comes to u while sleeping but it is what doesnt let you sleep...

Imagination takes us to the world where we fly, birds dance, flowers speak and where offices are perfect, people mingle easily with each other, bosses give unbiased reviews, everybody talk to each other with good intentions (without being selfish), ideas free flow (better say there is space for ideas), you learn new things (not doing the same thing over and over) and you get intellectual people there. But not all the dreams come true, not all the imaginations bring fruits.

It was my first exposure to the corporate world when I entered there for my summer internship project, with a reputed company. I had my own assumptions regarding the corporate life, none of which came true when I joined. Birds were not supposed to dance in the world of practicality, flowers were not supposed to talk. Only thing where this experience has helped me is in building in me a strong desire to become an entrepreneur. I have given a good amount of thinking about my personality, what makes me happy, what is my turning on points etc. Once I had an eccentric discussion with my MBA Prep coaching classes’ Director on the day after my final selection call for SIBM, about the futility of MBA. “Throughout your MBA course it will look useless to you, but if it makes you realize your dream and what you want to be in life, you will understand value of MBA. In fact this is only thing in MBA worth looking forwards to – attitude, which you acquire there is with you for a life time. You will need nothing else in life once you get the right attitude and your choice. Everything, then, will fall in place” said he. Today I realize, although to only some extent, how true it is.

I am devoting most of my energy for last few days (not to mention sleepless nights that i am going through) towards cherishing my dream- to contribute towards education industry (more about it in any of the next blog entries). At the same time I am also working with a friend of mine on the business plan which we had presented in Innovation Challege 2008 and won the first prize. Currently I am working as the HR Consultant for the company. The level of freedom of taking decisions and challenges is enormous and gives a diferent kind of feeling altogether. Now i am planning about going in full terms as an entrepreneur. If everything goes as per planning sibm will get one more entrepreneur from its soil. In reality, I will never be able to forget sibm for making me realize where my true flair lies. At the end of the day what matters is whether we are satisfied or not, whether or not are you following a distant dream? A dream is not something which comes to you while sleeping, it is what does not let you sleep.....let me work upon my dream once and see what comes out of it. Two main things which are driving me towards education sector are- all my passions will be fulfilled there and freedom of work while staying in your own state, with your family, friends, people whom you know, who know you. Hopefully I will be able to make a positive difference (education system needs a lot of them) in a better way in an area where my interest lies.

I am looking forward for a partner, enthusiastic about a career in education sector, to make our journey together.
- sunil Rao

A system avoiding failure or a system for FAILURES......?

Why does it happen so many times that people who top an engineering College or MBA College or any other teaching institute are not the most successful people in life also? Why do we see people like Bill Gates or Ambani there? Why do we see that CEO’s of most of the companies are never the toppers of their school or college days? If life is one factor which gives us the most important lessons of living then why do we need an education system? Is it for those failures or dumb people who can’t learn from life? May be no but may be yes also.

Education as a system itself corrupts our mind in the sense that it provides us with the limitations, it teaches us a few notions which we carry throughout our life without even thinking how true they are. It gives us a conformity criteria in which we try to fit ourselves. Isn’t it possible to allow everyone to explore things on his/her own? No boundaries, no formalities, no compulsion to be the same like everyone else is. But with this freedom we run a big time risk of failure also. Whether failure prepares you for a better day next time is a separate line of discussion. But this fear of failure is one of those things which are the base or oxygen of education system.

Do you think our system needs only brilliant, innovative, idea generating, strategically thinking brains? Never the case. If all people are genius then who will do the mundane, routine tasks (without thinking much) which provide us basic necessities in terms of production or services? For example shop floor activities or even engineering stuff like coding, testing etc for that matter.

This is the base of education system- it prevents you from absolute failure because it will make you the way system needs you. Therefore toppers may not be the most successful people but they are almost never a failure in life also.