Don’t look for rewards and
recognition in Life! In the end, they don’t matter. What will matter is this:
did you live the Life you were given – fully, usefully, purposefully, happily?
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400+ wannabe entrepreneurs: "The adventure is the reward!" |
Yesterday, I was addressing an audience
of over 400 students, from different academic streams, on ‘The Spirit of Entrepreneurship’. They were an amazing audience.
Full of Life! Raring to go!! Enthusiastic!!! My message to them was that
entrepreneurship is not what entrepreneurs bring to the table. Entrepreneurship
is what makes entrepreneurs! I said Life, at best, is a big gamble. And both
success and failure are mere labels, imposters as the Bhagavad Gita says! So, go have fun, enjoy the ride, because, I
said, the adventure is the reward!
Indeed. We must all learn to have fun in
Life, enjoying it every moment! Because the challenges that Life throws at us,
and which we invariably overcome and conquer, in retrospect are indeed
laughable! In school, when I couldn't get Math right, I would often feel
defeated. Now, when I look back, I joke about it! Similarly, when I was out of work,
21 years ago, because my employer shut shop, I thought I had lost in Life. But
when I review that period, I smile appreciatively because what I thought was
lost really was a new opportunity gained__because I wouldn't be where I am
today without that loss!
In the iconic Bollywood movie "Sholay", the ferocious Gabbar
Singh, often says, in a wicked drawl, "Bahut
Mazaa Ayega!", meaning "It
will be so much fun!". Just repeating this line in the same tone to
yourself whenever confronted with a challenge is a great way to remind yourself
that Life's, after all, a big game, a gamble, if you like! But you must keep playing
it, as long as there is Life, no matter what! As I left the auditorium after my
Talk yesterday, yet another student there wanted my autograph. I wrote: “Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game of Life. Trust me, "Bahut
Mazaa Ayega!"”