Count is still increasing...
Pata nahi is jeth ki dopahar me baarish ki pahli boond kab giregi...
Sometimes I feel frustrated, sometimes I am just indifferent. But one thing is for sure, it is giving me strength to be more focused. Rahul told me once that first year in IIMA teaches you only one thing - how to deal with failures. We all have been toppers, always successful in our life. This first year in IIMA is meant to fail you. If you don't learn it here, you will spend rest of your life learning it. Failure is inevitable, it is inevitable for success.
I am facing a brick wall. Stuck on this junction I can stop, or turn back or try harder to cross it. Prof Randy Pausch in his Last Lecture had this piece of advice - "The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!"
Anyways...
And here is one interseting thing. One of the firm requires us to answer this question as a part of their application process. [In fact this is the only requirement to get an interview for a internship there. No resume needed]
Q. Please describe yourself as a person to me. [prose, poem or essay]
No particular structure required. No word limits.
I am loving it...
ps: If you have not heard the last lecture by Prof Randy Pausch, please do so. Strongly recommended.
Reinventing myself, once again
4 years ago
5 comments:
tuft one ... there are ways to deal with failures ... the unfortunate thing is: i may not have anything better than what you already know ...
however .. i do agree that repeated failures can dent the confidence big time ...
i have been a product of repeated failures at my engg institute .. no matter how much used to try .. i cudn't make a convincing comeback ... that is the way it goes ...
but there are certain things that no one can change .. that you are an IIM A product ... failed how many times .. doesn't matter the day you come out...
actually .. if you ask me .. it doesn't matter even when you are there ... just that one needs to accept that this is how life will go .. and do things that give pleasure to themselves ..
however one shouldn't give up completely either ..
as you said .. coming from premier institutes .. being toppers .. add to the complication in life ...
Sri Randy Pausch ke baare mein main nahin jaanta ... but there is an option to say that i don't loose to the brick wall .. but i don't attempt to break it either .. Gandhian way .. let the wall do what it wants to ... you stand there .. the wall has to give up if not today .. tomorrow ..
or else you and the walls may become favourite pals .. eitherway .. you will find your way!
also i feel .. you should remain what you are ... don't change or write some crap for some interview or summer training application form .. afterall .. you got selected not by hook and crook .. you got selected by showcasing what you are ... so hang on there ... more than anything it's matter of time to put up a battle that you wudn't give up ...
you may argue .. that others can break it easily ..
well .. let them be what they are .. you try your own unique ways ...
so i feel it's important to just stay there .. and wait for the time ... parallely not forgetting the important fact: these are last countable months of the pleasures of college life :) .. it will never come back ..! :)
footnote: more than those failures ...i remember those teas at the chai ki dukaan ... that time pass .. cigarettes ...that class bunk .. sleeping late and getting up late .. doing all non academic things .. and the list goes on ...
This Rahul sounds pretty much like I do :) ... hang in there, am equally frustru with muggin tension, having any fin shortlists isnt helping much - how I would have loved to do marketing instead !
Cheerios
@shashank - Thanks a lot sir. That was a valuable comment.
@parcel - Sorry dude, this Rahul is not you. You are parcel. :P
wat is this count actually?..... i dont undrstnd coz i m a newcomer lolz..... well so what i have heard is true..... iim a can really break ny1.... :)
@Pritesh... Ditto... I remember the my first exam at IIT, and then I was not even in the top half of the class, I was so used to being a topper all my life and everything changed in a flash.
But frankly that was the time when I learned the most, learned to accept the failure, and more importantly learned that you cannot be best always, and then the best thing to do is to learn from the best.
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