Recently attended an investor conferences organised by one of the reputed brokerage houses...as a part of the event they had organised a small one hour gyan session with Mr Chetan Bhagat....
The 1st thing that comes to your mind when you hear him speak is that he comes across as a sincere guy....He was not bombastic about how good a writer he is or how he has arrived in life....
The crux of the lecture on how he managed to be a writer was....
1) The 1st step is to find out what you like to do.....it might come from within with luck or it might come with struggle....but it will come if you are serious enough(as a kid he wanted to watch TV but his father being a army man was strict and never used to allow his kids to watch TV. So to circumvent this he and his brother used to makeup stories and narrate it to each other....tats how he got his knack of writing stories....
2) The 2nd step to moving on in life beyond your job is to realise that money is not the only thing but self actualisation is (he left his job as a director of a MNC bank to start writing cuz one day he realised how boring and irritating his life had become...he wrote his 1st novel at work)
3) The 3rd step to come out of our comfort zone is to convince your family....(it took him two years to convince his wife that he wanted to be a professional writer)
and finally he concluded saying....."Dont be serious....be sincere"
I normally am not fond of speeches but liked this session as what he said made sense and all of us in the room could relate to it.....
Wish all of us are able to do "Not what needs to be done but what we desire......."
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Hey tats so really true ya..chase ur dreams n do wat u truly like doing...for some its easy for some its struggle, but tat struggle is worth the life u lead..
ReplyDeleteagreed....i want to cross the bridge someday.....
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