If every person who receives an education becomes a successful entrepreneur, we would solve the problem of unemployment and growth permanently. I was reading a story in the newspaper just his morning, about a newspaper boy Shiva, aged 23, son of an illiterate mother and a father who was a truck driver, and who started his entrepreneurial journey at the age of eight selling flowers that his mother had threaded into a garland by the side of the road, just to repay a debt that had driven the family into poverty. He had earned his way through school and an engineering degree. And now he had cracked the CAT 2012 and is poised to enter one of the most prestigious business schools in the country.
Imagine where this boy will be in 10 years?
That's real success, a wispy ethereal concept that many of us who were born more privileged, yet can only aspire to it even at the end of our long and often meaningless careers that we stumble into when we are young, and then endure, endlessly justifying it by the monetary power we acquire to discharge our ever increasing responsibilities through life until suddenly, one cold winter evening, it is all over. No more, did we need those hectic schedules, the endless meetings, the go-to events, the nitpicking clients, the indispensable but unavailable colleagues, the countless phone calls across time zones in the middle of our night, the scurrying to and from airports cross the world.
Does genuine success come only to those who find purpose early in life? Maybe genuine success comes only after you find your purpose in life? Those who find it early are well on their way to an early success. So is the first purpose of life to find your purpose in life? Till then, what do you do?
Now I am really confused! Maybe I will explore this some other time.
Imagine where this boy will be in 10 years?
That's real success, a wispy ethereal concept that many of us who were born more privileged, yet can only aspire to it even at the end of our long and often meaningless careers that we stumble into when we are young, and then endure, endlessly justifying it by the monetary power we acquire to discharge our ever increasing responsibilities through life until suddenly, one cold winter evening, it is all over. No more, did we need those hectic schedules, the endless meetings, the go-to events, the nitpicking clients, the indispensable but unavailable colleagues, the countless phone calls across time zones in the middle of our night, the scurrying to and from airports cross the world.
Now I am really confused! Maybe I will explore this some other time.
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