Multitasking is inevitable
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hello everyone
so before i begin i just want to thank
all the members of tedx fib for
conducting
this event online during the pandemic so
right now you would be watching and
you’ll be wondering
who is this person right so i am shana
roda the co-founder of one of the ed
tech organizations of india
and you would be wondering that now what
is he going to talk about
there are people who talk about their
stories there are people who talk about
many other things that changes your mind
they try to inspire you they try to
motivate you they try to share their
inspirational stories with all of you so
that
maybe the ones who are watching this
will get some idea about
how to achieve the things that i
achieved right
in this in this talk i just
i just want to talk about how do we
change the common misconceptions that we
have
how do we change the attitude how do we
change the common mindset
i think this is something that i really
want to share with everybody who is
watching this
because this is something that we don’t
talk about this is something that we
all just blindly follow because someone
else told us to
this is something that we all just do
because someone else is doing it
so the whole motive of my talk
would be to just change the common
misconceptions this thing change the
attitude
just change the mindset right i would be
thinking that
if he’s saying all this did he do it on
his own so i’ll just share my story
i’m a recent graduate from university of
delhi
and i had become honors but my interest
was in corporate finance and investments
in stock market
so at the age of 18 i started with some
nfc certifications later on i did
frm and i had it i i became one of the
youngest people in the world to clear
from
there was one thing that i noticed when
you have
people around you of the same age 18 to
20 21 22 and so on
these are the people who either know
their interest
or they do not know their interest
because they want to build their career
right now
so i had people around me when i was
interested into finance there were
people
coming to the centers for finance they
were people who wanted to give finance
exams who wanted to gain finance
knowledge as much
as much as possible so i had people
around me
there was one thing that i found that
these people know
what they want to do but they lack
a helping hand a helping hand that could
teach them from where to start and how
to start
you might be knowing that at this point
i’m here i want to reach this point
how do i bridge down the gap that is
something that the people
of my age couldn’t really understand and
this was something that i picked up
early
i noticed this thing way back that
people
they know what they want to do there’s
no person who is going to come to you
and tell you that
i don’t want to be successful i don’t
want to do anything in life
i just want to sit back and do nothing
at all there’s no one who’s going to
tell you this
everybody wants to achieve something
all they lack is again those two very
important questions
how to start and from where exactly
start
so this is something that i understood
and
later on i started with a channel on
youtube
in which i started teaching people for
free it was all corporate finance and it
was free
i continued to realize that people are
going to enroll for this people are
going to watch your videos
people are going to learn from you it
doesn’t matter who you are
if you are teaching anyone and the
person is interested
they are going to come come to you so i
did that for five six months i taught
around 250 people
and later on once i got a clarity that
this is something that people want this
is something that the people lack
this is something that is solving a
major problem in life
i started with a website and i started
teaching people again
but this time there were more courses
and one thing that i kept on realizing
is that
i have conducted many seminars many
webinars across india
talking to lacks of students even now so
i just
kept on understanding that fact
understanding the point
that people actually misunderstand
what they want to do and if they
understand what they want to do
they lack the same two questions which
i’m continuously repeating
they lack that thing so how do i help
those people
who are around my age only they want to
do something
but are unable to understand from where
to do it
so i continued to do all this
and there were people around around me
who asked me questions like
what are you going to do after
graduation i told them that i’m going to
continue doing this
and then there were many questions from
the society
be it anyone around you they ask
questions like
do you think this will sustain do you
think that you can do this all your life
i don’t think so it will work i think
you are a little over ambitious
and this is something that you should
not be doing
you should probably be going for mba
maybe you can do a job
maybe later on you can go abroad and
study and come back and then again
continue
doing a job these are the questions and
statements and phrases and all these
things around me which i
continue to listen on and on for the
last two years
so what made me continue with all this
what made me
leave my job and do this i got an offer
from after my graduation but i did not
do it
i could have applied externally also but
i did not do it i continued doing this
so how did i change my mindset
how did i change my attitude
from a person who maybe thought that
initially he thought that maybe i’m
going to do these these courses then i’m
going to
maybe do such a course then i’m going to
do a job and i’m going to continue
doing that for the rest of my life how
did
i change my attitude before i tell you
about myself a little more i’ll tell you
one quick
story we all know who won the 1983
cricket world cup it was india right
but india won the world cup the dominant
team
from from the last decade till the next
decade as well was best indies
and india had a final with western days
in 1983.
hardly anyone believed that india is
going to win
because vessel is a very dominant team
and something unusual happened that day
india won the world cup india beat
western is in the final
and the whole world was shocked
but west indies was hit the most
so once the world cup got over
westernities contacted india
and they told us and they told them that
we want to have a series with you
an odi series plus a test series so they
wanted to gain their respect back they
wanted to show
that it was just a fluke so they came to
india for
the odis and it was a six match series
india
lost 6-0 india couldn’t even win a
single match
and leave aside winning the game india
was nowhere near winning
in any game now the test matches started
the first test match people thought that
now the fortunes might change
but india lost the first test match very
badly i guess around
an innings and some 100 runs or so india
lost that much
so some counselors were brought to the
indian team after the first test match
and they had a word with mr sunil
goverskin
and they asked them what is going wrong
how are you not winning you are the
world champions what is stopping you
from beating west indies one more time
so he said that they have great players
malcolm marshall is the best baller in
the world
he told this thing to the counselors
the councillors told him that could be
true it could be true whatever you are
saying
if malcolm marshall is the best baller
in the world trust me
you are the best person in the world
this one line completely changed the
mindset
of sunny gaussian this completely
changed
his attitude the second test match
started
and and in the first over itself so
meanwhile
smashed four fours to malcolm marshall
at that point everyone realized that the
indian cricket will be changed
completely and since then it has always
been
increasing it has always been performing
immensely well
but what was the difference there was
only one difference that was a change in
the mindset
and the change in the attitude
this thing changed and the same person
who played five
six days ago was not performing well
changed completely
so this is how someone can change their
mindset
if you believe that you are not thinking
from within
that how can i change my mindset it’s
not coming from within
find someone who is similar to you find
that
spark outside find that inspiration
outside which may
help you change your mindset change your
attitude
and make you believe make you trust
yourself
that you are the best in the world and
you can do it too
if he can do it i can do it too if they
are coming here as speakers
maybe next year or next to next year if
i work really hard i’m going to come
as the speaker it doesn’t matter who is
the person speaking
to you it doesn’t matter what they are
doing in their life
it doesn’t matter what they will be
doing in their life some years down the
line
what matters is what you want to do some
years down the line
what road you want to choose for
yourself
do you want to continue or are you
satisfied with your current life
if not how can you change your attitude
how can you change
your mindset because trust me you have
the abilities
you have everything that you need just
one thing
which needs to be modified is the
attitude or the mindset
if you change that the same person is
going to perform
10 times better than his or her ability
and this is something that i’ve realized
on my own
so as i said that there were people
questioning me that do you think it will
sustain do you think
a startup it doesn’t succeed 90 startups
fail these were the facts you see around
linkedin instagram and all these
platforms continuously
there are people who tell you all these
things
but there was one thing which stayed
with me throughout was my attitude or my
mindset
i knew that if i give my hundred percent
if i completely focus on this there is
no one who can make this stock except me
no one except no one without
your consent can change what you want to
do
no one without your consent can make you
believe
who you are so when somebody else tell
you
when somebody else comes to you and says
yeah maybe
you don’t deserve to be here maybe you
won’t succeed
maybe you are not the right person for
this maybe you are not good enough maybe
there are so many questions and so on
and on and on
don’t listen to anyone except your mind
and your mind should always be telling
you that if i give my hundred percent
i believe i’m the best i believe i can
do it
and if your mind has that potential
if it has that mindset that attitude
trust me no one can stop you if i would
have heard about
or i would have maybe just go on with
those thoughts
go on with what the society was telling
me i wouldn’t have been here speaking to
all of you
and trust me it is really true i
wouldn’t have been here
at the age of 20 i was able to teach
more than 4 000 people
across india and that to corporate
finance courses ranging from
financial risk management chartered
financial analyst
some courses on investment analysis
stock market courses
i was able to personally teach all of
these
just because i had the knowledge but
more importantly
i did not listen to anyone except my
mind
who used to tell me every single day
when i woke up
that i can do it i deserve this and if i
give
my hundred percent there is no one who
can stop me
and the only barriers that we have
is not from the other people who are
trying to say that you are not
good enough the only barrier that we
have
is our own mindset the day we overcome
that
trust me you will be an unstoppable
force
every day just wake up in the morning
tell yourself
you are the best tell yourself that you
can’t do it
tell yourself that somebody else is
doing it i can do it too
and tell yourself that believe in
yourself
you have done enough you will be doing
more
and this is your day trust me we all
have equal abilities it’s all about
understanding your potential and
sometimes going beyond it failures will
always teach you more than your
successes
because after failure we comprehend we
com we contemplate
but after our success we usually just
have a good time party
so don’t be afraid of the failures just
trust the process
don’t focus too much on the results
process
if you focus on that results is nothing
but a byproduct of it
so i’ll just culminate by saying trust
yourself
have the right attitude have the right
mindset and
trust me no one in this world can stop
you
if you have personally decided
that it is you who is going to change
everything
it is you who is going to do it
and it is you who is going to
achieve what you have decided and there
is no one
else in this world who can change that
except you
so with this i’ll end my talk if anybody
wants to reach
out to me you can reach out to me on
linkedin my name is vishal naroda
and you will be able to find me and you
can reach out to me anytime
and i hope that my talk proved to be
fruitful to you
if there is anything i can help you with
i will be more than happy to do it
thank you so much