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The leaders are born not made…

This is always said and has been proven wrong by many of the great leaders. The leadership quality is the effect of the environment in which the child is grown. The common observation that a boy from marvadi or gujrati family thinks of starting a business and is most of times he is successful. This is interpreted as the business is in the blood of the marvadi n gujrathi. A south Indian is always proved to be good person in any technical field may it be IT or any engineering field. They are considered to be born with great intellect. A person born in the family of an artist is brought up in the environment where there is great appreciation for the art and everything related to art is around the child and the thinking and liking of the child starts growing around art.


Why people are afraid to accept the change? Every person in world has quality to excel in something but the tragedy is that very few are able to explore the opportunities and find that “SOMETHING”. Dhirubhai Ambani, the businessman whose example is almost every time given in inspirational book/ video/ lecture for establishing his empire from being the son of a school teacher in s small village of Gujarat. It is really inspirational that a son of teacher, who worked for son Oil Company in turkey, come to India and starts his business with textile industry. There is in fact no relation between these professions/ industries but what worked for dhirubhai was his ability to learn and this was the attitude, he acquired during his brought-up in family of a teacher. When dhirubhai started his business the regulation over were very less and most importantly nobody else was ready to start the business since it was newly independent India. The mentality of the people born during the period British rule hardly gave anybody even Idea to do so. Apart from this he had learnt the business processes in turkey by observing the businessmen there, which gave him the upper edge over the local old businessmen in independent India.

Thus, the overall view tell us that it’s just the ability of dhirubhai to explore new areas and the situation gave him the clean track to speed-up his way to success. Metaphorically it can be said that, he explored the way to find the right parts of puzzle and the situation and luck made it look like all parts of the jigsaw puzzle were close enough.

The situation of the middle class, mainly leaving in small town or villages is that they do not try to explore the ways so to find the area where they can find all related parts of puzzle together. They stick to the few parts they found and proudly say “one in hand is better than to in the bush”.

The mentality of the middle class from small town, don’t let them think beyond few profound career opportunities in the world that can be cashed upon. Any student passing is 10+2 from science is bound to go for engineering or medical and if not possible then pharma /science. If the student from pharma graduation wants to join a advertising industry or (better quote more familiar example) a student from engineering background wants to make career in finance field/banking is called foolish by our extremely talented RANCHO. What if the student is from small town and actually don’t even know what should be done to enter the specific industry? What if the guy has family pressure (obviously, because of small town mentality and lack of awareness) joins an engineering degree and then wants to do something he likes.  Not even industry takes risk to give such person a chance to prove his metal in that field. Why don’t we think beyond??

An electrical engineer from one of the most reputed American university can give his best by the silent physical comedy by becoming Mr. BEAN.

The mentality remains the same; the mechanical engineer opts for operations management only because he has great chance to get selected by the company because of his educational background and not because he wants to learn operations management.

To end with the note that every student should be able to explore the regimes in order to find the right parts of puzzle already close enough to join. The risk taking ability should be there, may it be a calculated risk or intuitive risk.

Simply do not limit yourself. Or you will limit your success!!!     

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