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We made rockets, landed on the moon, and built nuclear weapons.
In short, a superhuman.
We have the best of the luxuries in life.
What have we not achieved?
We have cured the incurable and increased our lifespan.
We are still fighting with each other, getting divided over caste, color, and religion.
Are we conquering or made captive?
Entrepreneurship has no standard SOP. Books, podcasts, events, or masterclass tells you otherwise. Each problem is unique in itself, and so are the challenges in solving it.
Success and failures are the byproducts. The journey is what defines and makes an Entrepreneur.
Edison, Tesla, Eintstine, the Wright brothers, and numerous other innovators had multiple failed attempts before succeeding in their innovations.
Van Gogh died painting in poverty, loneliness, and lack of companionship. But he kept drawing.
An Entrepreneur’s mindset is about not giving up but going down time and again, rising from the ashes, and becoming more powerful and mature.
People in the tech industry, glamour industry, or experts need responsibility for how they portray their thoughts or observation.
It is because many of us look at them for inspiration.
When a leader shares his learning or teaching under any influence, bias, or half-baked expertise, it results in disaster.
It has been noticed time and again.
If you consider yourself an expert or thought leader, be more responsible with sharing your learning, experience, or opinion.
Please own responsibility and be naked about what you don’t know and this world will love you more.
I love my country. I am lucky and proud to be an Indian. It does not mean I will not question the wrongdoings of my administrators or will have a close eye on the policies.
My nationalism is for the prosperity of my country. My nationalism is on unity, not division. We want to change the nation. For that, we have to bring change within ourselves. Complaining is easy, but owning the challenge and solving it is magical.
Our country is big so are the challenges in our hands. We can add value to education, healthcare, agriculture, employment, or a sustainable environment.
No government is perfect, and no political party is clean. We have to take things into our hands and bring change to millions of others, build something to change the lives of all.
In the end, on our death bed what matters most is the lives you have changed in positive ways. Your marble statue will be full of pigeon shit. Once a year, someone will clean it and add garland.
I owe most of my success in this life to my mother. Mom believed and persuaded my father to send me out for higher studies.
I have no clue what I would have become without her belief in me.
I have been staying away from them since the year 2000, all alone on my own.
I feel blessed and lucky for all the accomplishments in life this far. Time and again, I believe our mothers shape our life by keeping us for nine months and afterward shaping our life.
All the wealth and achievements are secondary to hers. What matters most is whether I am eating on time, keeping myself well, or in good company. Talking every day to her makes me powerful.
Why are only a few centers in our country flourishing, and everyone else has to move here for work or earning? Our country is gigantic and varied cultures and dynamics. Why do we have to suck, be stuck, or live a matchbox life?
If we see history, this has always been the case. Nalanda and Varanasi were the knowledge centers, and cities like Kolkata, Delhi, and Mumbai were for trade and administration.
With technological advancement, we should have many wealth creation centres. It will eliminate mass migration overall nation will flourish.
My entire village is empty: elderly, wives, and young kids live there. The festivals do not give the same vibe, be it Diwali, Holi, or Durga Puja. What have we become robots chasing money to feed ourselves by giving away our independence? We are eroding an entire culture and civilisation because work opportunities are concentrated across a few cities.
Youth in our country is a case study in itself. The emergence of social media and thought leadership has changed the way most of us grew 20 years back.
On the positive side, everything is at their fingertips, always connected, and no need for school, library, etc. Earning is not limited to getting a government job. More avenues have opened.
On the negative side, the generation is more under pressure to be the best at everything. The importance of looks and creativity was not this much. We had no Instagram, Tinder, or other platforms. Overall success has become external validation. Most are living in reel than real life.
Mafatlal has been in the tailoring business for eternity.
His father took him as an apprentice at age 5.
Mafatlal is in his 70s. He has chickenpox marks on his face. His bread is untrimmed flying high, and his big nose is like an electricity pole in a paddy field.
The Jadeja family of Rajkot had called for them 100 years back.
Initially, he looked at me with suspicion, but my mad curiosity about the chicken pox marks on his face started the conversation.
I was at a roadside tea shop in Rajkot.
I will be last in my generation doing this, says Mafatlaal.
There is no money or respect left in the business.
During those festival seasons, we had to call for more men from our native, and seths would pay us anything.
Now things have changed.
Everyone wants everything quick and mechanized.
The craftsmanship is no more recognized.
So, here I am fighting for survival.
Sometimes we crave people in our life to talk to.
We end up sharing life stories with strangers, as they listen to them with curiosity.
Neither of his children is interested in carrying the business forward. Looking at and listening to him makes me painful.
How easy it is to live in anger like a dormant volcano. Does it help anyone? Be it a relationship or business: disagreements are part of it. But keeping grudges makes things only worst. We start forming our own opinion and put everything in a prejudiced bucket.
Who does it help? None
Who does it affect? Each one of us.
The only solution to avoid living in pain and anger is to speak up then and there instead of sulking.