Entrepreneurial Gyaaaannnn

Attended a session on entrepreneurship today. Learnt a lot many good things, which I m sure I will forget till tomorrow  or max till day after that, u see, I have a quiz to prepare for. But for the little time I heard Siddhartha Sharma, I was awed, not only by the content but the way he delivered in 75 mins. The examples, the theories, a couple of hard facts about corporate life (which I was cognizant of but not very conscious of), a peek into the future et al, which he presented, asked me to give it a thought.

The man was not only trying to instill in us an entrepreneurial spirit but was also trying to make us aware of what is expected out of us by us (can say it was a bit of spiritual bias but more towards psychological side). Making money is good and required but not by getting frustrated and doing things half-heartedly every day, or the way the world expects from you, cause the world sees you as just another individual but you know you are unique. People worth people who are certain of themselves and know what they are doing and why. The theory goes as:

Passion into Profession

A tale which he shared was of Bopcy Salasar, a 6 year old firefighter, who was having cancer. When his Mother comes to know this, he asks Bopcy what You want to Do in life, and he says I want to be Fireman, and she puts in efforts to make this happen with the help of an NGO. It happens. The boy gets to do firefighting  with the firemen team due to special consideration by the supervisor. The joy he must have felt, how many of us can really feel after a hard days job.

A step based approach to get started is to consider the four major questions: What, Why, When and How. The questions are as succinct as they seem, but can be elaborated as much as desired but just to get confused.

This is quite amazing that we like all this stuff and gets pumped up when anyone else tells us or exemplify before us or Amir khan says "Kamyaabi ke liye nahi kabil hone ke liye padho, kamyaabi jhak maar ke peeche aayegi", but we never dare to go for it. There are reasons to justify this like parental expectations, family responsibilities, societal pressure, I am happy I can handle this pressure and what not the F but can it be justified anyhow?

At the last moment of life four things Talent, Skill, Potential, Dreams which lie dormant for a big part of our life will suddenly became active and will ask, "why were we wasted? We came to the world because of you."