Possibility Rebooted
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with humility i can say that i’m a
fairly successful global businessman in
the exhibitions industry
i did my schooling from around the world
i’ll talk about that later i’m married
for
35 years i’ve got two daughters and i’ve
got four granddaughters
so i’m proud for everything in my life
what i am today
the most important thing is that i come
from a very proud middle class family
and that pride remains with me
regardless of where i stand today
i am a son of a diplomat so my early
years
was roaming around the world studying in
you know missionary schools
acclimatized with various aspects of
societies from around the world
became very confident because one of the
best forms of education is
interaction with people and at the end
of my schooling it so happened
we came back to india and i finished my
schooling from the
american international school at that
time and today is known as the american
embassy school
and i decided to obviously go in for
higher studies
i took on
economics honors from hindu college you
know
uh vipassani was talking about miranda
house earlier i think you all know about
hindu college also
and it’s standing so here i was this
youngster
ready to roar gonna take on the world
first year hindu college economics
honors
and i failed
not only did i fail but i failed
miserably
i was absolutely shattered
you know the world had finished there
was darkness all over
what to do uh
i took an immediate hold of myself
established my self-esteem
which was most important
went back to my roots
and with the guidance and support of my
family especially my father
got a hold of myself and went back
to do my first year economics honors
again with my
head high it wasn’t easy right
and it worked it worked
i went on to finish my economics honors
i took on a lot of i went into the
debating society into
other cultural programs and
went on further to do my masters
in business economics and by the way i
wanted to be a professor that was my
first
passion so anyway i’m really enjoying
myself talking to all of you
but destiny had other things in mind for
me
and we got into business by accident
and well nothing is accidental god wills
it
and i won’t go into details of my
business but in today’s date
uh i i i can say that
you know you know we are we are very
successful in in what we’re doing
we have a reputation we have a global
reputation individually we have a great
name
so it’s all it’s all looking great
but then it was that
period that one year
when i failed you know and
when you know when you fail you’re a
teenager
you know be possibly i can imagine what
you went through when you failed you
were in the fifth standard
here i am you know youngster a global
trotter
and you know it was terrible
but it worked and i was able to do what
i
what what i but i took on myself to to
redeem myself
and be successful
so what is the model of the the thing
be careful of becoming over
confidence you won’t even realize it
you you will you will not even know what
is happening
and if that happens it is the recipe for
failure
so here i am
as maher said when he started this
program
i was at the bottom and the only way was
up
the bottom bottom line of going up is
always
that over confidence never humility
always humility always
so be confident be humble
do whatever you are doing with humility
and believe me
no failures can stop you from achieving
your goals