single person that I knew in my class
placed in the best firms possible name
at UBS evite Deloitte fancy some of them
getting into Microsoft Google I’m like
wow okay this is this exciting
everyone’s getting the offer letters
walking outside so happy and most
importantly it’s even better to see
their parents faces when they you know
come to college saying that okay my
child is placed here I’m so excited to
see him do so well I think you know this
this this is exactly what they had to do
and on the flip side I had my dad and
mom worrying about things that I never
thought they would worry about so they
never came to college because there was
a complain about me or something like
that but at this point they were really
worried as to what went wrong in my life
cuz I never sat for something like this
I didn’t think of you know going that
route but but probably because of what
was happening in my head and I couldn’t
explain it to my parents but here’s
what’s exciting right my dad and mom
came to me one day and said ya know what
what’s what’s wrong with your life like
did you fall in love or something or are
you dating somebody like are you going
through a depression I said no I mean
I’m not like it’s it’s all okay what
happened why why aren’t you sitting for
placement why don’t you want to get a
job why don’t you study further what are
you doing right now right so that’s when
I like the the person that I am very
dramatic said I’m going to follow my
passion right so now here’s what’s very
what is passion right nobody has a clue
like I didn’t have a clue but but
something told me that I wanted to do
something that I feel very strong about
that I I felt like I would be doing
justice to as a part of right I didn’t
know we explained it to my dad mom
then and which is what was the biggest
issue in my head right so I said if I
have to do something and if I couldn’t
convince my dad and mum about it how
would I go around the world convincing
people to believe in what I believed and
that was very important so here’s what
it boils down into June 2015 I am NOT
placed anywhere
I have nothing fancy happening in my
head it started some cool things in
college as a party trick as as something
that would you know get me some mileage
in college but nothing serious nothing
that I thought that would make my life
henceforth right and that sort of hit me
on June 1st and I was sitting on on my
bed not knowing where to go I didn’t
have an office to go to I didn’t ever
I’d never a place to go to as opposed to
when I was in college I was startled by
the idea of what I was gonna do about my
passion now here’s what that led me to
find out right so the misconception
about passion June first everything
worked I said okay I’m gonna do this
call my lovely partner I said hey buddy
we need to do things and we need make
things work but something that then
never occurred to me and a lot of people
kept telling me follow your passion
follow your dreams this is fashion that
is passion but I never got myself to
understand what passion meant right what
it was and why people are talking about
it every single day some people are
saying hey go do this go do that there
was no clarity and with my with my tiny
little time that I have onstage I want
to bring to you what I learnt about
passion and most importantly what
passion is not right so the first and
foremost thing is that the fact of about
passion is that it is not a hard and
fast rule right more often than not
almost every single time when anybody
talks about passion they say follow that
one thing that you really like you
probably want to do that one thing that
you’ve always wanted it to do in life
that you didn’t do till now go forward
follow that thing follow your dream
follow your passion yadda-yadda-yadda
but here’s what passion is it’s not a
hard and fast rule
I’ll tell you what passion is passion is
multiple things you can love many things
you can feel strong about hundreds of
things and you can be passionate in all
of those things right nobody tells you
that you can be passionate about
multiple things at the same time right
so the best example about this is when
we are kids right a childhood we will
not stop from doing anything
and as rightly said before creativity is
at its peak when you are a child because
nobody is telling you to do something
the way they wanted to do it they’re
letting you be they’re letting you be
yourself in the and the way you want to
be and this is very important for all of
us to understand that there is no
hardbound rule about passion right you
can be passionate about multiple things
you don’t have to choose one thing and
say this is the only thing I wanted to
do for the rest of my life you don’t
have to it is not a rule you can do
multiple things you can be good at every
single thing it is okay but however the
reason why people say it choose one
thing and do that thing is because you
can focus and put all your energy into
that one thing I don’t deny it when
people say that way but the most
important part is for you to not stop
yourself from identifying other parts of
yourself according to a research that
happened about about ten years back
actually we need three percent of our
total human brain is used or put to
creative use in the entire existence of
our life right almost 97 is gone unseen
right so like I was saying it is not a
hard and fast rule but here’s the second
and the most interesting part about
passion
I’ll break the word passion down as a
very simple definition passion is an
intense emotion towards something you
feel strong about passion is an intense
emotion towards something you feel very
strong about right this is the
definition of passion it is not an idea
it is not the intention it is the
feeling
what is an emotion and emotion love is
an emotion right there are multiple
emotions that we go through in life
passion is one of those intense emotions
that you have in life it is a feeling
about something that you want to sort of
build and create and make a difference
to but it’s not the idea the idea comes
after feeling strong about something it
is a feeling it is the emotion it is not
a particular idea so tomorrow don’t go
and be like hey I’m passionate about
something but my idea towards that is
this right that is the secondary part of
your passion while you’re solving a
problem or you’re seeing something that
you feel strong about right that is
fashion so you can be passionate about
falling in love you can be passionate
about being there for each other you can
be passionate about anything in the
world but that’s a feeling towards
something you can feel passionate about
stray dogs you can feel passionate about
engineering you can feel passionate
about anything that’s the feeling what
you do about it is what this is all
about when someone first asked me and –
like how how do you define like what
what do you do with your passion like
what what what’s passion right and every
time I used to think for myself that
passion was music passion was design
passion was art passion was fancy
passion was everything that I thought
would make me look cooler right but it
is not the art or it is not just the art
so the art here is a mode of expressing
your passion the art here is what you
choose to express your idea or an
intention through the strong feeling
that you have about something right so
it’ll give you a beautiful example that
if you want to express your strong
feeling about something you probably use
music as an option you probably use art
as an option to express that feeling you
probably use something else which is
amazing probably like a startup or an
idea or an order or or a journey or a
travel expiry
that’ll probably spread that passion now
that feeling needs to be tread into
multiple stages of life through the art
and that is what the art does to the
entire passion so when I when I started
understanding this I felt passionate
about building communities for the
youngsters in this country and I created
what I created so that is my art or the
way I am trying or my mode of expressing
that passion that I had right so that is
something that most of them don’t
understand so today what happens is hey
everyone’s in in our adolescence what
what clearly happens is all our friends
are doing something we are bound by the
fear or the the thought of missing out
on something if you’re not good at
something right so everybody starts
becoming say everyone starts going on
and saying hey I want to try this I want
to be that I want to be a photographer I
want to be a designer but why what are
you feeling strong about what what mode
of art are you choosing to express your
passion right that is very important and
once you find that you will always feel
very strong about it they will invest
your time effort people resources
everything into making that happen and
that’s very important here’s something
which I know for a fact is a parallel
right passion was this profession
quickly how many of you think this is
the same how many of you think passion
and profession is the same how many of
alright so here’s something very
interesting about passion and profession
right passion and profession are two
different things but they intersect at
almost every single part of each other
right if you want to be good at a
profession you need to be extremely
passionate and if you need to be
passionate about something and do
justice to it you need to be extremely
professional
right so this intersection is very
important that people don’t understand
today when someone comes and says hey I
got into a corporate job and that is not
my passion I don’t get it
you can be passionate about your job
passion is not something that you’ll
take and say I did this as my hobby or a
dream while I was in college that is not
fashion that could be your passion if
you chose to express something through
it and you feel strongly about it then
you probably see that your passion but
what’s more important is passion and
profession go hand-in-hand all right you
can be extremely passionate about the
job that you’re doing and that is why
people who are doing that job do
extremely well at it and climb that
ladder which is totally ok right it is
it’s often that you see people who come
and say hey why are you climbing the
corporate ladder it is ok to climb that
corporate ladder it is it is fine to be
in that setting if you believe in it and
if you love it if you don’t quit right
now but if you do that’s exactly what
passion is all about it’s being
passionate about the thing that you’re
doing already probably you didn’t even
know how good you are at solving
problems using a software that you never
ever touched but that’s when you start
realizing these things right but I
always believed passion can be a
profession but a profession always has
to be a passion like if you don’t
believe in what you’re doing day after
day you’re only probably doing injustice
to yourself more than anybody else and
that’s very important to understand the
earlier you realize that the better it
is for all of us including me and this
is the most demonic disturbing thing
I’ve ever heard in my life like it kills
me what’s your passion everybody comes
in us so it’s like this one pickup line
you know yeah nice to meet you how
you’re doing it’s it’s it’s it’s been
it’s been a pleasure knowing you for so
long but but can you please tell me
what’s your passion like you know and
then do you understand I order some
coffee but you didn’t tell me about your
passion probably we connect and then the
person says hey I’m really passionate
about reading books maybe also books I I
love it right
what do you so when you when you when
you you realize what all you can do
towards making something work right you
put yourself completely in that
situation to make things work right for
me this question is is a terror in my
head right because all my life I’ve been
trying to answer this question day-in
day-out
right and I haven’t come up with the
coolest answer because if I don’t say
something cool everybody is going to be
like dude what the hell are you doing
right if you don’t say something fancy
and nice people are going to be judging
you’re saying hey that guy’s not cool
enough his passion is to drive the auto
right so you can’t really come up with
something that is that cool where
everybody’s gonna be like wow like what
a passion right so the biggest problem
is solving this answer or telling
someone that my passion is this and
pointing that out because there is no
answer to this question right the answer
should not be found now you should find
it every single day do whatever you’ve
got to do do multiple things do do
hundreds of things that’ll probably make
you happy and understand yourself in
this in this journey of life and that’s
what’s very important not answering
answering this question you know just to
prove yourself and just to prove it to
the people around you you start creating
something that you’re not passionate
about as as your passion and that is
what is humming a lot of us right
passion is not that you can feel strong
about hundreds of things do all of it at
the same time and you won’t have a
problem you know what is the best thing
in the whole wide world it’s uncertainty
right uncertainty sparks innovation and
I’ve always seen this when you know that
you are going to be certain about what’s
gonna happen tomorrow you’re not gonna
be thinking you’re gonna be just fine
and you’re just gonna be running the way
you’re running but when you’re uncertain
when you don’t know what is gonna happen
tomorrow you’re going to do multiple
things to make things work you’re going
to do every goddamn possible way to
react to a particular situation and you
have seen it day in day out of my life
right uncertainty sparks innovation when
you don’t know what your passion is
you’re gonna be constantly in this
journey of finding it and you’ll find
hundreds of things that you’re very very
very strongly good at and that is what
passion is and that is why we all need
to constantly find that journey where we
can tell ourselves that is not one thing
but multiple things we need not answer
this question for the rest of the world
but we need to answer this question to
ourselves by telling us that it is okay to not know your passion thank you