Rethinking EdTech

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friends

sometimes we don’t find our passion

you know in life but i would urge you

to try to find a passion uh for yourself

and just go after your passion today all

of you are in uh

are in one of the best colleges in the

country and all of you will have a very

good career

irrespective of whether you become

entrepreneurs or not but

i want you all to create wealth to

create employment

rather than just run after a job

it takes time it takes courage it takes

effort but i encourage you strongly to

pursue your passion however do remember

that every passion

must make financial sense a lot of times

we we are not able to foresee how our

passion can give us or reward us

in terms of money or fame or whatever we

want in life

and the same happened with me i could

just could not foresee how

the profession of teaching can give me a

very fulfilling career

but today and that time it was not a

not a covet time or the online

online teaching was not very popular

however i still ran after my passion

without

worrying about anything without thinking

about anything and

it rewarded me after three years it

takes time

to build a career in anything when our

passion does not reward us

our motivation dies out so we have to

make sure

that while we run after our passion uh

we

we carry that hope that yes one day it

will reward us

uh i know that sometimes the situations

in our life don’t allow us

uh to to do any startup or to start

something

we might have loans on our head

education loan we might not have

family support but i think whenever we

get a time in our life we should just

uh just run after our passion if we have

found our passion

friends today i’ve been teaching current

affairs and gk

for almost 6 years and there is no

degree there is no degree that makes you

expert in it it’s a career purely born

out of passion

if somebody told me six years before

that you can make a career

by teaching current affairs i would not

believe it

but today i sit here in front of all of

you

and i can say that this career has given

me everything

so i definitely urge you to to not think

about money for a while if if you can

if you can give some time you will you

will not have any regret in life later

on

you uh you may not earn that much but

still you will be happy

doing or whatever whatever you are

interested in

friends today what gives me satisfaction

is that we

employ around 150 people in our company

and that gives me tremendous

satisfaction this entrepreneurial

journey

has been a satisfying one and the one

it’s almost like a self-discovery

today online education has become the

main stay of education a few years back

online education was merely seen as an

adjuvant to the

conventional learning or offline

education but today the idea that online

education will eventually replace

offline does not seem all that

impractical uh everybody today is

learning online

uh it’s difficult to imagine a world

today where there is no online education

and it is only bound to grow

we did not know that it will become so

big uh that time

but today it is the mainstay

over the years i found that in online

education

if you are a teacher it has certain

advantages you can

teach any subject number one you are not

restricted by your degrees or your

education background

you can just teach anything for for fun

for passion

uh you can teach anything you will not

have intermediaries

who will judge you so this is the second

advantage we are directly connected to

the

end consumer and they only judge us

there are no intermediaries i’m sure

if six years back i went to any top

coaching institute or

top institution they would reject me

because i had not cleared any

uh exam any exam like ugc net or

any ctat or these exams which are

required to become a teacher

in online it’s just you with directly

the consumers

that is another advantage in online

education third advantage is that

you can teach multiple subjects you are

not there is not a tag that is put on

you that you are a math teacher or your

english teacher

friends anything under the sun is gk or

current affairs

so today i’ve been teaching a range of

subjects on

on youtube and students have been our

viewers have been very very satisfied

friends it was not an easy decision for

me

to become an entrepreneur i was 27 i was

a doctor i had done my mba

and it was not a rational decision after

having spent almost 10 years

in different fields i was expected to

to join a company and do job but

and people kept on telling me that why

you spent 10 years when you finally had

to do a startup and you had to quit

everything

and i just told them that just because i

had spent 10 years in my education

doesn’t mean i’ll spend the rest 30 40

years of my life doing

that only which i don’t enjoy so i would

just tell you

to just take a leap of faith just

believe that you can do it

i’m sure there’ll be rough times i faced

rough times my

offline model did not work somewhere i

found success in online

so there is only so much that we can

foresee before we start anything

there is only so much research that we

can do the the the

main fun the enjoyment is in the journey

and

i’m still growing i’m still learning and

may that continue

if you’re passionate about something you

will surely find a way even in the

roughest of others

so that is my only advice to you that

if you get time i’m sure you are all of

you are having

going to have a great career but if you

get time then please find some time for

yourself please find some time for your

passion

thank you thank you so much

you