[Applause]
good morning ladies and gentlemen many
years back when I was in the Indian Army
my job was to hunt terrorists while you
may think that that was a tough job
I loved it that was because I was good
at my job and more importantly there was
complete certainty in my life the army
had planned my life all the way to my
retirement if I did well I would go all
the way to become a general and if I
didn’t do so well I would go and at
least retire as a colonel so my life was
very simple but in 2007 my life changed
I had to step out of the army due to an
injury now I thought I was intrigued the
big bright world where I had complete
freedom but alas that was not to be
because when I stepped out I realized
that I had complete freedom to do what I
wanted but no clue what to do I had
complete freedom to go anywhere I wanted
in life but I had no idea where to go
and suddenly I found myself completely
lost confused and almost got into
depression
somehow I had to figure out my life and
that was when I discovered a few
principles that helped me get my life
back on track
and drive it to where I wanted it though
and today I want to share a few of those
principles with you I hope you find it
of use in your life the first and most
important part
in deciding where you want to go in life
is to have a destination when I stepped
out I thought to myself where do I want
to go and I worried about it now if you
have to think about it that was like
having a big bottle of plain water
and I was trying to paint my destination
with that plain water so what I did I
dipped my brush and tried to paint okay
maybe I want to go and what kind of
picture did I see it was blank and then
I told myself like a commando come on
think harder and I shook the bottle hard
and I said come on you got to figure
your life you can do it and then I
dipped my brush and I paint it but alas
no magic the painting was blank again so
I gave up and luckily for me my parents
suggested that I simply sit at home and
relax and they were very happy because
after a long time I had come back home
and I was with them so as I idle at home
I started reading about different
carriers and all as I started reading
about different carriers suddenly it was
like adding color into my brain
different colors and as I started adding
different colors my brain started
enjoying it it started saying hey wow I
love these different colors that are
coming in and then it started telling me
out of all these colors I like these two
three colors give me more of it and then
I thought how do I give more of it I’d
read whatever there was to read about it
and then I decided okay let me go and
meet people in those domains so I did a
whole lot of telephonic conversations I
went and met people I traveled out of
town I even connected with people in
different countries and suddenly even
out of those two three colors my heart
fell in love with one color and that was
consulting I didn’t beg me give me more
give me more please I love this give me
more and then I was like okay now what
do I do
so I searched around
and luckily I got a lucky break in a one
man consulting firm so when I joined
that firm I was the guy who opened the
gate I was the guy who made be and often
I would also plead in the office but
every day I got apprenticeship in
consulting from my boss and that my mind
loved so soon with so much of color it
started painting multiple possibilities
for me in the field of consulting and it
painted wild and with each day the the
picture became more vivid and one fine
day it painted to me the best the very
best in consulting which was McKinsey
and company and then my mind simply told
me go for it so ladies and gentlemen
three years after I left the army and
found myself completely lost and
confused I received an offer from
McKinsey & Company for her India office
that was when I discovered that there
was a certain magic in life in the mind
and to activate that magic the only
thing that you needed to do is to put in
as much color into your mind as possible
lead as much as possible meet as many
people as you can and experience
whatever your heart craves for and soon
you will find in your life that your
mind will paint the most amazing
destinations for you
now that we’ve learnt about how to paint
destinations for your life but how do we
go about getting there the fuel of your
life is your very life however long you
live that is the distance that you can
traverse and as you paint great
destinations for yourself you have to
realize
like at one point in your life when
you’re still in college at that point
you are standing in the center of the
universe and you can step into any
direction you want to because your fuel
is full and you can aspire to reach the
very top in that field and become a
legacy leave your imprint in the sands
of time for someone like me and for many
folks out here maybe that fuel tank is
only half full but even then we have the
desire to still use that half tank to
still leave a legacy before we either
retire or maybe die however as you think
of this limited fuel and a great
destination that you painted for
yourself you need two things you need
speed and you need mileage know speed
comes from loving what you do as long as
you just love the field that you’re in
you’re gonna get up everyday waiting to
go and run in that field and you
wouldn’t bother about time you wouldn’t
bother about anything you just love what
you do you just want to keep doing it
and you’ll race ahead those are the
folks who eventually become legacies
however if you do not find yourself in
the place where your heart loves what
you do then as Steve Jobs said keep
looking and don’t settle no the other
bit is around mileage for mileage it all
depends on your vehicle and when I mean
vehicle I mean your body and your mind
now often people live in this I am NOT
syndrome I’m not tall I’m not fair I’m
not beautiful I’m not rich I know this I
know that I do have spent my early years
in that I am NOT syndrome what you need
to realize
is this body and this mind is not you
this body and this mind is your vehicle
to take you to where you want to reach
in life and what you will realize is
that when you take care of it
you may have been born with a Maruti but
if you take awesome care of it and you
cherish it and you nurture it then one
day as you go on your journey your
Maruti will become a Ferrari the movies
the obamas the Steve Jobs or some other
terraces of the world are vivid examples
of having been born in the I am NOT
syndrome and having risen to show the
world what mileage is so that is what
you could dig for your mileage now the
last big we’ve spoken about painting the
destination we’ve spoken about driving
in there with speed and mileage and
let’s talk about the journey when I was
17 I got selected into the National
Defense Academy with the top ranked All
India ranked and I was delighted I was a
star in my school and I loved the
attention I got especially from the
girls but when I landed in India it was
as though I had just jumped into hell
the rigorous military discipline the top
seniors and the physical punishments I
got scared of it all and suddenly I
wanted to run away from there I was all
alone I just wanted to run away and so I
called my father I said dad just get me
out of here I don’t want to be here
please a my dad said okay done and true
enough
a week later I received a package I was
delighted so I called my friends here
I’m getting out of here see you guys and
I rushed into my room
from the package I mean I opened the
package I was stunned the first thing
that jumped out of me out of the package
was a newspaper article saying Indian
army shot up 20,000 officers and I was
like who I care the second was the copy
of a bhagavad-gita the warriors called
for duty I was saying now what and the
last was a three page letter from my
father and it had a simple message it
said my dear depot my father fondly
called me people he said my dear depot
if you want to change your career and
you want to become an engineer oh you
want to become a doctor or a lawyer or
anything in life I’m gonna come and I’m
gonna get you and whichever carrier you
want to go to I’ll help you get there
but if you are finding the situation
difficult and you want to quit and run
away because it is difficult then please
think again because once you run away
from a situation that is difficult in
your life and you learn that then every
time in your entire life you find
something difficult and you will run so
son please think again and I did think
of it well I clung on and four years
later that same scared boy not only
graduated from the National Defence
Academy with honors but also volunteered
for the commandos and after six months
of the most grueling probation in the
world that same scared boy got selected
into the Indian Army’s 9th battalion
Special Forces of the Paris
Regt and Friends that is the same unit
that carried out the surgical strikes
last year but did my journey end there
no from the scared little boy I became a
special forces leader and went on to get
in to the Indian Institute of Management
and the baths and further went on to get
mentored by the former President of
India a man I hugely respect and would
love to emulate and then went on to join
the most prestigious consulting firm in
the world and last but not the least had
the privilege of meeting his Excellency
XI Narendra Modi and my journey still
goes on so as you walk out today back
into your respective lives know that you
can add all the color in the world into
your mind and paint the most amazing
destinations for your life and know that
your speed and your mileage is in your
hands and most importantly every time
you face a tough road in your life know
at that point that you have the choice
at that very moment to become a great
driver thank you
you
good morning ladies and gentlemen many
years back when I was in the Indian Army
my job was to hunt terrorists while you
may think that that was a tough job
I loved it that was because I was good
at my job and more importantly there was
complete certainty in my life the army
had planned my life all the way to my
retirement if I did well I would go all
the way to become a general and if I
didn’t do so well I would go and at
least retire as a colonel so my life was
very simple but in 2007 my life changed
I had to step out of the army due to an
injury now I thought I was intrigued the
big bright world where I had complete
freedom but alas that was not to be
because when I stepped out I realized
that I had complete freedom to do what I
wanted but no clue what to do I had
complete freedom to go anywhere I wanted
in life but I had no idea where to go
and suddenly I found myself completely
lost confused and almost got into
depression
somehow I had to figure out my life and
that was when I discovered a few
principles that helped me get my life
back on track
and drive it to where I wanted it though
and today I want to share a few of those
principles with you I hope you find it
of use in your life the first and most
important part
in deciding where you want to go in life
is to have a destination when I stepped
out I thought to myself where do I want
to go and I worried about it now if you
have to think about it that was like
having a big bottle of plain water
and I was trying to paint my destination
with that plain water so what I did I
dipped my brush and tried to paint okay
maybe I want to go and what kind of
picture did I see it was blank and then
I told myself like a commando come on
think harder and I shook the bottle hard
and I said come on you got to figure
your life you can do it and then I
dipped my brush and I paint it but alas
no magic the painting was blank again so
I gave up and luckily for me my parents
suggested that I simply sit at home and
relax and they were very happy because
after a long time I had come back home
and I was with them so as I idle at home
I started reading about different
carriers and all as I started reading
about different carriers suddenly it was
like adding color into my brain
different colors and as I started adding
different colors my brain started
enjoying it it started saying hey wow I
love these different colors that are
coming in and then it started telling me
out of all these colors I like these two
three colors give me more of it and then
I thought how do I give more of it I’d
read whatever there was to read about it
and then I decided okay let me go and
meet people in those domains so I did a
whole lot of telephonic conversations I
went and met people I traveled out of
town I even connected with people in
different countries and suddenly even
out of those two three colors my heart
fell in love with one color and that was
consulting I didn’t beg me give me more
give me more please I love this give me
more and then I was like okay now what
do I do
so I searched around
and luckily I got a lucky break in a one
man consulting firm so when I joined
that firm I was the guy who opened the
gate I was the guy who made be and often
I would also plead in the office but
every day I got apprenticeship in
consulting from my boss and that my mind
loved so soon with so much of color it
started painting multiple possibilities
for me in the field of consulting and it
painted wild and with each day the the
picture became more vivid and one fine
day it painted to me the best the very
best in consulting which was McKinsey
and company and then my mind simply told
me go for it so ladies and gentlemen
three years after I left the army and
found myself completely lost and
confused I received an offer from
McKinsey & Company for her India office
that was when I discovered that there
was a certain magic in life in the mind
and to activate that magic the only
thing that you needed to do is to put in
as much color into your mind as possible
lead as much as possible meet as many
people as you can and experience
whatever your heart craves for and soon
you will find in your life that your
mind will paint the most amazing
destinations for you
now that we’ve learnt about how to paint
destinations for your life but how do we
go about getting there the fuel of your
life is your very life however long you
live that is the distance that you can
traverse and as you paint great
destinations for yourself you have to
realize
like at one point in your life when
you’re still in college at that point
you are standing in the center of the
universe and you can step into any
direction you want to because your fuel
is full and you can aspire to reach the
very top in that field and become a
legacy leave your imprint in the sands
of time for someone like me and for many
folks out here maybe that fuel tank is
only half full but even then we have the
desire to still use that half tank to
still leave a legacy before we either
retire or maybe die however as you think
of this limited fuel and a great
destination that you painted for
yourself you need two things you need
speed and you need mileage know speed
comes from loving what you do as long as
you just love the field that you’re in
you’re gonna get up everyday waiting to
go and run in that field and you
wouldn’t bother about time you wouldn’t
bother about anything you just love what
you do you just want to keep doing it
and you’ll race ahead those are the
folks who eventually become legacies
however if you do not find yourself in
the place where your heart loves what
you do then as Steve Jobs said keep
looking and don’t settle no the other
bit is around mileage for mileage it all
depends on your vehicle and when I mean
vehicle I mean your body and your mind
now often people live in this I am NOT
syndrome I’m not tall I’m not fair I’m
not beautiful I’m not rich I know this I
know that I do have spent my early years
in that I am NOT syndrome what you need
to realize
is this body and this mind is not you
this body and this mind is your vehicle
to take you to where you want to reach
in life and what you will realize is
that when you take care of it
you may have been born with a Maruti but
if you take awesome care of it and you
cherish it and you nurture it then one
day as you go on your journey your
Maruti will become a Ferrari the movies
the obamas the Steve Jobs or some other
terraces of the world are vivid examples
of having been born in the I am NOT
syndrome and having risen to show the
world what mileage is so that is what
you could dig for your mileage now the
last big we’ve spoken about painting the
destination we’ve spoken about driving
in there with speed and mileage and
let’s talk about the journey when I was
17 I got selected into the National
Defense Academy with the top ranked All
India ranked and I was delighted I was a
star in my school and I loved the
attention I got especially from the
girls but when I landed in India it was
as though I had just jumped into hell
the rigorous military discipline the top
seniors and the physical punishments I
got scared of it all and suddenly I
wanted to run away from there I was all
alone I just wanted to run away and so I
called my father I said dad just get me
out of here I don’t want to be here
please a my dad said okay done and true
enough
a week later I received a package I was
delighted so I called my friends here
I’m getting out of here see you guys and
I rushed into my room
from the package I mean I opened the
package I was stunned the first thing
that jumped out of me out of the package
was a newspaper article saying Indian
army shot up 20,000 officers and I was
like who I care the second was the copy
of a bhagavad-gita the warriors called
for duty I was saying now what and the
last was a three page letter from my
father and it had a simple message it
said my dear depot my father fondly
called me people he said my dear depot
if you want to change your career and
you want to become an engineer oh you
want to become a doctor or a lawyer or
anything in life I’m gonna come and I’m
gonna get you and whichever carrier you
want to go to I’ll help you get there
but if you are finding the situation
difficult and you want to quit and run
away because it is difficult then please
think again because once you run away
from a situation that is difficult in
your life and you learn that then every
time in your entire life you find
something difficult and you will run so
son please think again and I did think
of it well I clung on and four years
later that same scared boy not only
graduated from the National Defence
Academy with honors but also volunteered
for the commandos and after six months
of the most grueling probation in the
world that same scared boy got selected
into the Indian Army’s 9th battalion
Special Forces of the Paris
Regt and Friends that is the same unit
that carried out the surgical strikes
last year but did my journey end there
no from the scared little boy I became a
special forces leader and went on to get
in to the Indian Institute of Management
and the baths and further went on to get
mentored by the former President of
India a man I hugely respect and would
love to emulate and then went on to join
the most prestigious consulting firm in
the world and last but not the least had
the privilege of meeting his Excellency
XI Narendra Modi and my journey still
goes on so as you walk out today back
into your respective lives know that you
can add all the color in the world into
your mind and paint the most amazing
destinations for your life and know that
your speed and your mileage is in your
hands and most importantly every time
you face a tough road in your life know
at that point that you have the choice
at that very moment to become a great
driver thank you
you
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