My only advice is, be true to your inner voice. Joh karna hai tumhe zindagi mein, woh karo. If your inner voice says you really love the rat race and can be great in the rat race, please do it, just don’t attach any value systems to it. Many of my batch-mates have made great careers for themselves, built great brand equity, done well as global managers. If your inner voice says, that my route, got for it!
If your inner voice says your route is social entrepreneurship, do it. If your inner voice says, I want to be an author, journalist, write books, please do it! I had a colleague from St Stephen’s, Ramchandra Guha, who did economics and became a noted historian. And look at the brand equity that he has today.
What I find is many people hear that inner voice but just don’t have the conviction to act upon it.
Don’t get too concerned about peer pressure. You may be successful, you may be unsuccessful, but in the philosophical market, what is success and what is failure? At least you will have the pleasure when you face yourself in the mirror to say “I did what my inner voice told me!” Koi phikr nahi hai, tu apna kaam kar!
I don’t want to put a premium on entrepreneurship. It’s not a fad or fashion to follow.
So my only piece of advice is find purpose, means will follow. Life’s journey will take you wherever it is. Don’t worry about the fruits. Who Geeta wali baat hai – nishkaam karmayoga – duty without desire.
But be prepared to stick it out. Remember Narayana Murthy’s quote: “It has taken me 25 years to become an overnight wonder.”
In looking back it seems, we were in step with the turning in the economy. …. The truth is, it all just happened. In hindsight, you can call it strategy.
What management education does is provide you a perspective. But it doesn’t force you to work for anybody else. It’s an education degree, that’s all.
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