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Learning is a way of Life and Excellence it’s objective | Vikram Gupta | TEDxIIMJammu


okay I think you’ve heard a lot of
thoughts today from different leaders
coming from where it feels different
backgrounds and I think it has been a
phenomenal experience from today our
cell spawning because I think he started
off from something that correlated to
psychology moving to technology and then
to being you know a griddle so he SP
have a lot of things that we really need
to think about that is what it is but I
think I just spooky for me today his
back and she says look we find didn’t
even invite you we want you to speak and
she sends me an email with saying they
say he must take a moment and think I’m
like how many ecology personal it looks
more philosophically what do I actually
say about it and then finally I did okay
fine give me another day let me give it
a thought
honestly I didn’t get time to do that
and she calls me up again and she says
we’re waiting for your answer so I I’m
still thinking so she clearly comes back
and tells me you really don’t need to
think a lot he doesn’t need to speak
from your heart
so and that is a very entire part right
and thanks to her so I thought okay fine
instead of you know correlating impacted
my experiences correlating it with it is
something more structured let me
actually speak what I feel about today’s
order what we really need to think how
things really need to change I mean
let’s start this conversation they have
a conversation instead of me just
speaking about things so let’s start
with conversation with one question and
that question there is what do we really
want from our lives what do we really
what what’s the purpose
so how many of you actually know what’s
the purpose of your life or what do you
really want to do just one that’s it
okay let me help you understand this
better
so how happy we you know if you look at
our names range from Chinese who are
living from the time you were born until
they what do they really do you know
you’re a small child
nowadays you start with the place food
in our times it was not there right then
you may think of school you move to the
same standard then yes you have a
decision to make right three options you
choose a particular stream why you
choose the particular stream is not
something that you decide Nene do we
have any fasted our minds who it’s tell
us why are we doing it by choosing
Sciences commerce but even then science
gets close like medical non-medical know
so what it is you know that is what our
family expects us to do right our
society expects us to do we’ve done it
so what do you do you completed your 12
spatter now your engineer adopter
probably be doing something else still
unclear about a purpose that clear about
what we really want to do then okay fine
so what it is if it’s a professional
course so societal order say is 90 to
get a good job right if I get a good job
good enough if I’m still not satisfied
what do i do okay a lot of my strengths
are acting like I’m doing MBA vivid
attends me out
then you can draw somewhere right so the
inner playing engineering because that
is what I thought she expects us to do
with in France not because they’re
interested in it we take a branch based
on this is the question not even society
here it’s the thing people come back
word stream has a scope and this is the
question that a lot of people ask you
and I think two years back I was sharing
a chord with some of the students here
last night at dinner
so it was like lettuce comes to me
almost two years back she asks me you
know my son actually wants to get into
engineering 14 that has been shrinking
it’s fainter into so I said person who
am I to actually take decisions on his
behalf
he is one person who needs to understand
what is expecting from his life what he
wants to do and that is what he really
should be doing and in her answer is
you’re misleading so I’m hosting a
clear-cut answer of what he should be
really doing and you are not telling me
what he should be doing so I really told
her see if you talk about the
opportunities lines and I everywhere
because my path to success for your path
of whatever you want to do you are going
to face difficulties every day every
movement and you ready need to fight it
back right there’s anything you are
passionate about what you’re doing
you’re passionate about what you really
want to achieve you are not going to get
them you will fight for a couple of this
and that you’ll say okay fine now I give
up its job so I really need to find
something else this thing was not my
calling
they say you know you’ve completed your
engine range that let’s see if I am free
I am Jenny I am any business cool let’s
see okay so how many of you are clear
about what you really wanted I and our
folks not really right because I see
what we are program for is now you need
to choose electives
what specialization and the bias we
chose it somebody totally poverty has
better jobs it’s about paying job
objects are actually snot right so
please stop thinking we do things
because they exist that is what the
society tells us that is what our family
told us but I think they do means
everything you’ve answered thing the
friendly mortal people that think alike
aspiration of none of the two people
said it together even a few who are best
friends cannot be a like if you expect
something completely different from your
lives and that’s what you should be
doing right agree no okay so that is
what it is they’ve stopped challenging
things you’ve started accepting things
the way they are because it’s easy right
so what do we do
let’s say how to machine operator you
know what is automation
okay so what we do this set works low
okay so you have died algorithm to it so
there is a laconic movement and yoyo for
sale okay fine it’s there from step 2
step 3
so these are different time intervals
that is what we are doing right so it is
a societal order that directs us right
and how it is lympha it’s playing back
to our stages of life right and a
biological life cycle two things
combined together with what we are
expected to do that is what gave me I
think this is something that we really
need to start thinking about this is
what needs everything and this is one of
the major reasons why all of us you know
any opinion a Delaware
they are unsatisfied we are unsatisfied
because you know we just go with the
flow there are reasons to it so for me
you know if you tell me what is the
human life on today I say it’s more like
more human life form it is the ultimate
life form you know a life that is led by
a business of people who weren’t buying
which are driven by just two things them
can correlate back to your stage of life
I am your biological life cycle that’s
it tell me how many of us different
types and just everything we follow
right I mean different so this is what
differentiates us we are talking about
we being superior to machines I think
once we start actually reaching the
level of maturity will become redundant
right we should and what is happening
you know there’s one major thing we all
lack that’s innovation that’s creativity
you know what we’re doing because
weren’t easy like hospitable then they
don’t want to change the status that can
either be doing a fun challenge the
reason is we want to be well in the
comfort zone we really want to be very
comfortable with what we are doing
because anything extraordinary that you
want to achieve requires a lot of
sacrifice requires a lot of hard work it
wants you to actually you know you
really need to get out of your comfort
zone and be on your toes and try to
achieve something because something that
even your fellow means your friends your
society nobody’s going to a set but as
something that is going to make you
successful right so I was having a
conversation with one more person down
there so I said okay fine what do you
expect after doing your every it’s good
so that was the conversation we had
a good job I said what expect from a
good job
she is a good salary so you know what my
answer to how was it was you’re going
after wrong objectives your object that
should not be a good salary objective
should not be a good job
your objective should be a life that
you’re learning every moment you’re
requiring knowledge every moment of your
life because that is one thing that is
going to stay with you forever
people will take your money away you
know circumstances can take any of the
material wealth away from you what
cannot be taken away from you is your
knowledge and as what will help you be
built whatever you have to change
perspectives just look at material
benefits tactic that I work up things I
think what you really need to look for
it is what our objective are we striving
for excellence
I think that is one major thing you need
to be focused on strives for excellence
and trust me if you strive for
excellence we are talking about money
you are talking about position you are
talking about your stature and society
these will come as byproducts to you
because people who focus on these things
their focus is short-lived right so
their focus is really short clear
because what do you say you say I
already won money they let’s take it
back to companies how things operate in
Google right so they say what Google is
half the weight a technology companies
we have in the world today so what is
the object of our vision or mission of
Google this is nothing a lot of funny is
it showing you a lot of acts is it
research easier for you know the vision
statement or the mission statement of
Google is organizing words information
and by the organized words information
everything yes eventually is incidental
you see what the case for their mission
si
you know we started building this
company if they really wanted to husband
to 100 years of doing it what we are
working on is they’re trying to strive
for excellence trying to bear the
groundbreaking product that dominating
service which can cause destruction
right so is very simple and it was
connected legacy so why I say you know
my object is reaching evaluation of
expression or is better than so many
years or having revenues
h-town but having so many people
employed know our region is very simple
we really want to create connected life
and whatever happens again is incidental
and that is what should happen because
as we move towards the vision as we to
move towards ambition that we have taken
forward so these are all things to
create a number a victor or two things
that were friend we need people who work
with us why are we moving it yes we’ll
create an organization an organization
that creates opportunities for people we
really sustain as an organization while
we are attaining sustainability we are
making profits we are having the
revenues but again those can not be the
smaller object terms of existence it can
be any business then right you have to
be driven by a vision and you have to be
driven by ambition what you really want
to do and something you should be doing
in your language to also and this is one
thing that we all laugh we laugh clarity
we don’t understand what do you want to
do and you know this is a fine time they
undertake every day within my office
well so ok so every day people are just
thing to be just once right there for
the second day every day people who have
options right
so when everybody’s talking to me the
first thing I tell them you know what
there’s one basic habit you already
created and then 100 is reading see
there’s one basic principle even if you
were born right turn off let’s say and
in every and any information that’s
available in the world was known to you
let em tonight
he read some part the world still
working there is new information that
gets generated this they need to
redirect a friend in it it’s not going
to come to yours to you on its own I
mean what mindset mechanic I study the
Finnish right but how about job career
so we are having a job we really don’t
want to study when I go back to my team
I tell you need to be stuck in this the
high discharges ask know they’re in a
job right so but they need to understand
two surgeries what you need to do you
need to keep yourself updated you need
more knowledge right other thing is
you’re just part of town there has to be
a differentiating factor there has to be
what are you saying right word for it a
competitive differentiator that you paid
for yourself right otherwise what you
like any other person working and you’ll
be redundant if you look at any of the
company any organization anything that’s
happening globally what we do we are
following footsteps of others see what
does exceed what is comfortable what is
proven wherever you know we don’t get
out of our comfort zone we don’t risk
what we have we played safe
right so we want to play safe we don’t
want to risk things we don’t want to put
an extra here comes do you ready number
one that cook is fine do i disturb it if
I start doing it we’ll be able to call a
holiday I won’t be able to enjoy my
weekend
I wasn’t have a sound sleep at night but
at the end of the day then how does it
differentiate us from other mammals the
humans right we should have a
differentiating factor even being humans
so that is what we all really need to
start thinking about and that’s one
major thing we should be thinking about
people have been talking about
artificial intelligence and they’re
having two camps right so one kind of
saying is it will help humanity
ii will say no machines will take over
humans birthday but if we continued even
leading our lives as prototypes as we
are eating today obviously they’re going
to be redundant machines are going to
take over we need to become more
intelligent lifeform we need to become
more intelligent we need to become more
initiative take a right and we really
need to develop competencies in our
cells that rather than machines making
us redundant we control them we manage
them that is what the future is and that
is what we should be thinking about so I
think time is running out if I thought
that you’re talking on this and you’re
not really talking about this whole day
right so but I think this one major
thing that we really need to look at it
today I think the team was they’ll take
a moment and think I really want you to
start anything now I really want to
conclude anything as I close my talk
today because my conclusions cannot be
your conclusions we are all humans that
is what I am trying to tell you right we
are all humans we think differently we
have different objectives you have the
split aspirations so all our conclusions
are going to be different completely
different so what I am doing is I am
just writing some point so that you so
that it is our thinking son Jamie who
you are what you really want from your
lines what do you want to achieve in
life what do you really want to do meet
that vision the basis of your life and
don’t mix that up with material benefits
that you derive out of it link material
benefits with a byproducts you read for
excellence and your – that’s a thank you so much
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