all right hi very good afternoon love me
to introduce myself my name is shibir
I’m so happy to be out here so I’m
basically from Chennai that’s my excuse
for being hot did I miss out on the word
headed I was born in a small place
called
Tirupati TripIt or is it the north or
cot of Tamil Nadu so that’s my nanny ha
that’s where my grandmother is every
summer vacation I love to go to Tirupati
or just to see my grandmother not so my
grandfather quite a grumpy man yeah so
it’s a beautiful little town turpitude
Greenfields please filled with green
mangoes those mangoes being cut and put
for dehydration by dehydrated people
open street open rain but people love
you with open arms I love the sight and
smell of pure couture now there plenty
of things that a young man could do out
there at that time there was no TV at my
grandmother’s house so what we would do
is we kids would sit around and tell
each other stories one of our favorite
story was that of a man relieving
himself underneath the tree on a dark
night and a jinn which is a ghost comes
and gives him one tight slap now
something about the idea of a man
getting slapped while relieving himself
which evoked peals of laughter from all
the children around and I realized then
that a love telling people stories I
love making people laugh and those games
this wonderful wonderful games that you
could play around interpreter beard
would go around to these dried-out lake
beds will play kick it out there would
swing around on the trees would swim in
the ponds but my absolute favorite toy
my favorite came was the pinwheel now
for all those of you who don’t know the
pinwheel it’s a very simple toy it’s a
paper fan you mount it on a stick and
you run something like this yeah and
when you run you don’t run mute you run
you make noise like this Chaka Chaka
Chaka Chaka Chaka Chaka you run we could
have said anything if we would have said
we
right a Western kid would probably I
said we but we said chocka chocka chocka
chocka chocka chocka why did we say
jacket chuck because every time a blade
would go down it go Chuck Chuck Chuck
Chuck Chuck Chuck Chuck Chuck Chuck
Chuck Chuck Chuck and run right now if
this is of two colors if the single
color would say tuck tuck tuck tuck tuck
and run if this is two colors we would
say Chuck Chuck Chuck Chuck Chuck a
second run and it happened to be a four
colors we would say Chuck Chuck Chuck
Chuck Chuck Chuck Chuck second run oh I
love the pinwheel come back to the
pinwheel a little later from Chennai I
went to Bangalore to do my engineering I
did my engineering from the iit
Bangalore okay IIT is Islamiyah
Institute of Technology thank you that’s
me okay so um why do my engineering I
saw this course and multimedia I was so
fascinated with multimedia there were
these power max this power pcs being
introduced so I thought I’m going to
take a break from engineering puts a
little bit of multimedia so walk across
to this Institute and I told them I want
to do this course it’s a one-year
diploma in multimedia and I want to do
it free they were appalled they were
amused and they laughed at me I said I
wanted free and I will work for it so it
is a barter the guy managed to indulge
me and he gave me a cost-free also the
same time where I indulge a little bit
in radio I hosted international music
shows for the whole India Radio finally
completed my engineering went back to
Chennai and tried my hand at being a
mechanical engineer six months down I
decided no this is not what I want to do
I wanted to pursue my passion I wanted a
horse shows I want to tell people
stories I wanted to conduct games I
wanted to design games and that is what
I wanted to do when I said I’m going to
do that a lot of people my friends my
parents my well wishers told me Shabir
that is stupid
because you don’t want to do anything
mainstream you don’t want to get in
television you don’t want to get into
movies there is no professional
FM radio at the time right so how will
you make a career what will you feed
yourself how do you sustain how do you
maintain you loved once I did not have
any answer but I only knew one thing
that I wanted to go pursue my passion
it’s been 15 years now that I’ve been
doing what I love doing I’ve been
driving and the quite a few lessons that
I’ve learned from it and today I like to
share my lessons with you now what I
realize is life is like a pinwheel and
here are my lessons from the pinwheel
right number one act to those colors if
you see something if you’re passionate
about something and if you really want
to do something don’t worry about
anything don’t think whether you can
utilize it or not whether it be useful
or not invest everything you’ve got
invest your money invest your passion
invest your time you would not regret it
and don’t worry you will keep utilizing
them time and time again or a number of
people ask me shall be you did your
mechanical engineering it’s gone wasted
right how are you utilizing your
mechanical engineering
remember if you passionate about
something you will channelize all your
skills everything that you learned into
your passion my mechanical engineering
did not go waste it
it helped me design I’ve designed a
bridge I’ve designed a boat
I’ve got patents and both of them and I
use it for my team-building activities
I’ve got many more patents that are
pending copyrights that are pending
so hey in case you like something in
your life don’t worry don’t think I
don’t of this colors and remember more
the colors more beautiful your PIN we
would look number to stick it all
together there are a number of people
who have got talent but they are not
organized I’ve seen a number of people
failing because their skill be it a
single scale or multiple skill is not
organized like an individual blade of a
pinwheel it makes no sense at all right
and if you have two three pin a pinwheel
a blades and you’re putting them down
upside down in the opposite direction
it’ll never rotate make sure they’re all
facing in the same
direction make sure that they work only
when the wind comes would it work now
ladies and gentlemen mount it up on a
stick and put it up for the whole world
to see now this is the most important
thing the number of people are there who
talented but they’re scared to expose
themselves to the world put it all on a
stick mounted up let the whole world see
who you are
expose your talent if you don’t put it
up for the whole world to see and if it
is shy and you’re keeping it down when
the winds come it’ll never rotate now
sticking out your neck or putting it up
on a stick and showing it up is not easy
it’s never is it was not easy for me
so when I went back to Bangalore I said
hey I wanted to pursue my passion I did
not have a place to stay I was too proud
to go and ask my father I had already
finished all my crying during my
engineering days I do not want to ask
him for money now so I come back to
Bangalore I contact a college junior who
I hardly knew and he’s staying with six
other people I told him I want to stay
with you and finally I managed to
convince him he managed to get me a
place today he’s my business partner now
I did not have good food to eat at that
time I did not know where to start my
career I walk across to this local club
and I told them give me a job they gave
me a job
500 rupees a week and I had to conduct
house e house II and I hate conducting
house e house he as a matter of fact I
used to call it lousy lousy so every
time I would pick up my number right
every time I pick up a number I was
always disdainful about the game but I
remember that although I’m disdainful I
need to entertain people that’s my job
so when I pick up a number if it said
one – I would say double digit number
one – egg though Pig though if I see two
– I’d say 2 2 2 2 do if I say 3 3 it’s a
Gayathri sorry 333 I would say what
comes to my mind people loved it it was
my job to entertain people but I tell
you the real secret why I used to do
house e house he for 500 rupees a week
because that one day gave me a decent
meal
it is a grand buffet and I could eat
what
to eat and that was my one great meal
for the year or for the week right there
was a time when there’d be no how is he
how was he they would say don’t come
there is no how’s he how is he very less
people I still go
I still go conducted free four five
people just because I got to eat that
mean the first time I auditioned for the
All India Radio they failed me during
audition the first time I hosted a big
show thousand people watching I goofed
up and the beauty pagent when I came up
to me she took the mic from my hand and
she said my name is not dis my name is
Dutt and she gave the mic back to me
personally embarrassing but no matter
what put your pinwheel arm
hoist it up let the whole see who you
are you will not regret it now next run
run you’re talented you put it all on a
stick you hoist it up for the whole
world to see but you’re sitting at home
the number of people who do that the
young people let talented people
they got massive talent out there right
but they complain nobody recognizes me
nobody is giving me a break nobody is
giving me an opportunity
imagine you’re stuck you’re stuck on an
island in ruined right and what would
you do you’d wait for somebody to come
and rescue you you spend a few days but
then what happens if nobody comes and
rescues you what you do is this is what
you do you would create opportunities
for yourself you would possibly go build
shelter
you’d be a hunter you’d be a gatherer
you forage things around
alright you heal yourself you’d be own
doctor you’d possibly entertain yourself
you’d get somebody as a pet animal
etcetera entertaining yourself
it’s inbuilt in you so don’t sit with a
pin wheel run create those opportunities
now let’s talk about the race when you
run with a pin wheel in your hand and
when you’re running with this this is
the colours that you’ve added onto your
pin wheel and you’re running with this
you’re not looking right you’re not
looking left you
not looking at the competition you’re
just looking at your own pinwheel and
you’re running and you want to run and
you want to run really fast because the
faster you run the more beautiful that
kaleidoscope of colors is the cornucopia
of colors the melange of colors is a lot
more beautiful and that’s the only
reason why you’re running fast and when
you reach the end of the road what you
realize is it’s not a race it’s just a
run and there is no finishing line so
what happens when you really are
admiring the colors in your pinwheel
you’re running with your own pin B you
reach the end of the road what would you
do a kid nervous is okay I ran it was
nice he doesn’t go back home he turns
straight back and starts running Chuck
Chuck Chuck Chuck Tackett check check
check attack he runs in the morning
Chuck check a check check check a check
check check a check he’s running in the
hot 40 degrees son of turpitude
immediately after lunch much to the
annoyance of his mother he’s still
running Chuck Chuck attack tactical
check he’s running late in the evening
mother’s worried about him he can’t even
see the pinwheel he’s still running
tactical check check check attack and
when the night is over he wakes up in
the morning the cycle continues and that
is the beauty of loving your run of
enjoying your run and not concentrating
on the race or not concentrating on the
finishing line as a matter of fact never
have a finishing line but some people
draw or finish the line I say never have
a finishing line there is no finishing
line but if you’re drawing your
finishing line I will tell you the
dangers of having a finishing line and
I’ll tell you the dangers of having a
finishing line using a story since I
told you I love telling people stories
now this is not an original story this
is not an authentic story so listen to
me carefully this is a story of Fox and
the grapes all right
Fox saw a bunch of grapes Fox try to go
get those grapes could the Fox get the
grapes no what did the Fox say
the grapes are sour sour grapes now
that’s just a half the story
today I’m gonna tell you the full story
now the Fox is walking away somebody
stopped him and told him son where do
you think you’re going he said I try at
the grapes I saw walking out he said son
you’re a loser you’re making excuse
you’re walking out you think nobody saw
you there was a rabbit below he saw you
there’s a crow sitting on top of the
tree he saw you they went around telling
the whole jungle about it you’re a loser
you’re making excuses try try and try
until you succeed the Fox is a young fox
gets encouraged gets bumped up so every
day it comes and practices jumping to
that height he spends a significant
portion of his life
trying to get to those bunch of grapes
trying to jump at that level and one
fine day with the entire jungle watching
Fox finally gets the grapes a big round
of applause for the Fox let’s hear it
out ah big news Fox is a celebrity
focuses on the headlines of the
newspaper headlines jungle news Fox gets
the grapes Fox is on fox news breaking
news Fox get the grapes with great
aplomb Fox proceeds to eat the grapes
and guess what the grapes are actually
saw the grapes are you his hour now the
Fox had walked out no way back saying
the grapes is ours invest a significant
portion of its life trying to get to
that level to do as bunch of grapes
grapes is sour now it can’t tell
everybody now grape says I everybody
will laugh at him he’ll never live it
down it’d be the laughingstock for for
hundreds of years to come it become a
folklore right so what he does he
pretends to eat and enjoy and he
pretends it’s sweet right just to show
off the whole people that he’s having a
great time it’s sweet and then he slinks
away banishes himself out of the jungle
that my dear friends is the risk of
concentrating only on the finishing line
and only on the grapes if the Fox would
have said I love the run I
of the jump I’m celebrating the fact
that I can reach that level these bunch
of grapes as our show me another bunch
of grapes its life would have been a lot
more wonderful in conclusion that is one
I won’t tell you never have a finishing
line constantly not on the race but on
the run and this is my conclusion right
in a nutshell this is what I want to
tell you add on to those colors put it
all on a stick hoist it up let the whole
world see who you are or what you are
and run and when you run you see this
beautiful kaleidoscope of colors your
life will be a beautiful kaleidoscope of
colors and you’ll have music in your
life that goes Chuck Chaka Chaka Chaka
Chaka Chaka Chaka
thank you [Applause]
to introduce myself my name is shibir
I’m so happy to be out here so I’m
basically from Chennai that’s my excuse
for being hot did I miss out on the word
headed I was born in a small place
called
Tirupati TripIt or is it the north or
cot of Tamil Nadu so that’s my nanny ha
that’s where my grandmother is every
summer vacation I love to go to Tirupati
or just to see my grandmother not so my
grandfather quite a grumpy man yeah so
it’s a beautiful little town turpitude
Greenfields please filled with green
mangoes those mangoes being cut and put
for dehydration by dehydrated people
open street open rain but people love
you with open arms I love the sight and
smell of pure couture now there plenty
of things that a young man could do out
there at that time there was no TV at my
grandmother’s house so what we would do
is we kids would sit around and tell
each other stories one of our favorite
story was that of a man relieving
himself underneath the tree on a dark
night and a jinn which is a ghost comes
and gives him one tight slap now
something about the idea of a man
getting slapped while relieving himself
which evoked peals of laughter from all
the children around and I realized then
that a love telling people stories I
love making people laugh and those games
this wonderful wonderful games that you
could play around interpreter beard
would go around to these dried-out lake
beds will play kick it out there would
swing around on the trees would swim in
the ponds but my absolute favorite toy
my favorite came was the pinwheel now
for all those of you who don’t know the
pinwheel it’s a very simple toy it’s a
paper fan you mount it on a stick and
you run something like this yeah and
when you run you don’t run mute you run
you make noise like this Chaka Chaka
Chaka Chaka Chaka Chaka you run we could
have said anything if we would have said
we
right a Western kid would probably I
said we but we said chocka chocka chocka
chocka chocka chocka why did we say
jacket chuck because every time a blade
would go down it go Chuck Chuck Chuck
Chuck Chuck Chuck Chuck Chuck Chuck
Chuck Chuck Chuck and run right now if
this is of two colors if the single
color would say tuck tuck tuck tuck tuck
and run if this is two colors we would
say Chuck Chuck Chuck Chuck Chuck a
second run and it happened to be a four
colors we would say Chuck Chuck Chuck
Chuck Chuck Chuck Chuck second run oh I
love the pinwheel come back to the
pinwheel a little later from Chennai I
went to Bangalore to do my engineering I
did my engineering from the iit
Bangalore okay IIT is Islamiyah
Institute of Technology thank you that’s
me okay so um why do my engineering I
saw this course and multimedia I was so
fascinated with multimedia there were
these power max this power pcs being
introduced so I thought I’m going to
take a break from engineering puts a
little bit of multimedia so walk across
to this Institute and I told them I want
to do this course it’s a one-year
diploma in multimedia and I want to do
it free they were appalled they were
amused and they laughed at me I said I
wanted free and I will work for it so it
is a barter the guy managed to indulge
me and he gave me a cost-free also the
same time where I indulge a little bit
in radio I hosted international music
shows for the whole India Radio finally
completed my engineering went back to
Chennai and tried my hand at being a
mechanical engineer six months down I
decided no this is not what I want to do
I wanted to pursue my passion I wanted a
horse shows I want to tell people
stories I wanted to conduct games I
wanted to design games and that is what
I wanted to do when I said I’m going to
do that a lot of people my friends my
parents my well wishers told me Shabir
that is stupid
because you don’t want to do anything
mainstream you don’t want to get in
television you don’t want to get into
movies there is no professional
FM radio at the time right so how will
you make a career what will you feed
yourself how do you sustain how do you
maintain you loved once I did not have
any answer but I only knew one thing
that I wanted to go pursue my passion
it’s been 15 years now that I’ve been
doing what I love doing I’ve been
driving and the quite a few lessons that
I’ve learned from it and today I like to
share my lessons with you now what I
realize is life is like a pinwheel and
here are my lessons from the pinwheel
right number one act to those colors if
you see something if you’re passionate
about something and if you really want
to do something don’t worry about
anything don’t think whether you can
utilize it or not whether it be useful
or not invest everything you’ve got
invest your money invest your passion
invest your time you would not regret it
and don’t worry you will keep utilizing
them time and time again or a number of
people ask me shall be you did your
mechanical engineering it’s gone wasted
right how are you utilizing your
mechanical engineering
remember if you passionate about
something you will channelize all your
skills everything that you learned into
your passion my mechanical engineering
did not go waste it
it helped me design I’ve designed a
bridge I’ve designed a boat
I’ve got patents and both of them and I
use it for my team-building activities
I’ve got many more patents that are
pending copyrights that are pending
so hey in case you like something in
your life don’t worry don’t think I
don’t of this colors and remember more
the colors more beautiful your PIN we
would look number to stick it all
together there are a number of people
who have got talent but they are not
organized I’ve seen a number of people
failing because their skill be it a
single scale or multiple skill is not
organized like an individual blade of a
pinwheel it makes no sense at all right
and if you have two three pin a pinwheel
a blades and you’re putting them down
upside down in the opposite direction
it’ll never rotate make sure they’re all
facing in the same
direction make sure that they work only
when the wind comes would it work now
ladies and gentlemen mount it up on a
stick and put it up for the whole world
to see now this is the most important
thing the number of people are there who
talented but they’re scared to expose
themselves to the world put it all on a
stick mounted up let the whole world see
who you are
expose your talent if you don’t put it
up for the whole world to see and if it
is shy and you’re keeping it down when
the winds come it’ll never rotate now
sticking out your neck or putting it up
on a stick and showing it up is not easy
it’s never is it was not easy for me
so when I went back to Bangalore I said
hey I wanted to pursue my passion I did
not have a place to stay I was too proud
to go and ask my father I had already
finished all my crying during my
engineering days I do not want to ask
him for money now so I come back to
Bangalore I contact a college junior who
I hardly knew and he’s staying with six
other people I told him I want to stay
with you and finally I managed to
convince him he managed to get me a
place today he’s my business partner now
I did not have good food to eat at that
time I did not know where to start my
career I walk across to this local club
and I told them give me a job they gave
me a job
500 rupees a week and I had to conduct
house e house II and I hate conducting
house e house he as a matter of fact I
used to call it lousy lousy so every
time I would pick up my number right
every time I pick up a number I was
always disdainful about the game but I
remember that although I’m disdainful I
need to entertain people that’s my job
so when I pick up a number if it said
one – I would say double digit number
one – egg though Pig though if I see two
– I’d say 2 2 2 2 do if I say 3 3 it’s a
Gayathri sorry 333 I would say what
comes to my mind people loved it it was
my job to entertain people but I tell
you the real secret why I used to do
house e house he for 500 rupees a week
because that one day gave me a decent
meal
it is a grand buffet and I could eat
what
to eat and that was my one great meal
for the year or for the week right there
was a time when there’d be no how is he
how was he they would say don’t come
there is no how’s he how is he very less
people I still go
I still go conducted free four five
people just because I got to eat that
mean the first time I auditioned for the
All India Radio they failed me during
audition the first time I hosted a big
show thousand people watching I goofed
up and the beauty pagent when I came up
to me she took the mic from my hand and
she said my name is not dis my name is
Dutt and she gave the mic back to me
personally embarrassing but no matter
what put your pinwheel arm
hoist it up let the whole see who you
are you will not regret it now next run
run you’re talented you put it all on a
stick you hoist it up for the whole
world to see but you’re sitting at home
the number of people who do that the
young people let talented people
they got massive talent out there right
but they complain nobody recognizes me
nobody is giving me a break nobody is
giving me an opportunity
imagine you’re stuck you’re stuck on an
island in ruined right and what would
you do you’d wait for somebody to come
and rescue you you spend a few days but
then what happens if nobody comes and
rescues you what you do is this is what
you do you would create opportunities
for yourself you would possibly go build
shelter
you’d be a hunter you’d be a gatherer
you forage things around
alright you heal yourself you’d be own
doctor you’d possibly entertain yourself
you’d get somebody as a pet animal
etcetera entertaining yourself
it’s inbuilt in you so don’t sit with a
pin wheel run create those opportunities
now let’s talk about the race when you
run with a pin wheel in your hand and
when you’re running with this this is
the colours that you’ve added onto your
pin wheel and you’re running with this
you’re not looking right you’re not
looking left you
not looking at the competition you’re
just looking at your own pinwheel and
you’re running and you want to run and
you want to run really fast because the
faster you run the more beautiful that
kaleidoscope of colors is the cornucopia
of colors the melange of colors is a lot
more beautiful and that’s the only
reason why you’re running fast and when
you reach the end of the road what you
realize is it’s not a race it’s just a
run and there is no finishing line so
what happens when you really are
admiring the colors in your pinwheel
you’re running with your own pin B you
reach the end of the road what would you
do a kid nervous is okay I ran it was
nice he doesn’t go back home he turns
straight back and starts running Chuck
Chuck Chuck Chuck Tackett check check
check attack he runs in the morning
Chuck check a check check check a check
check check a check he’s running in the
hot 40 degrees son of turpitude
immediately after lunch much to the
annoyance of his mother he’s still
running Chuck Chuck attack tactical
check he’s running late in the evening
mother’s worried about him he can’t even
see the pinwheel he’s still running
tactical check check check attack and
when the night is over he wakes up in
the morning the cycle continues and that
is the beauty of loving your run of
enjoying your run and not concentrating
on the race or not concentrating on the
finishing line as a matter of fact never
have a finishing line but some people
draw or finish the line I say never have
a finishing line there is no finishing
line but if you’re drawing your
finishing line I will tell you the
dangers of having a finishing line and
I’ll tell you the dangers of having a
finishing line using a story since I
told you I love telling people stories
now this is not an original story this
is not an authentic story so listen to
me carefully this is a story of Fox and
the grapes all right
Fox saw a bunch of grapes Fox try to go
get those grapes could the Fox get the
grapes no what did the Fox say
the grapes are sour sour grapes now
that’s just a half the story
today I’m gonna tell you the full story
now the Fox is walking away somebody
stopped him and told him son where do
you think you’re going he said I try at
the grapes I saw walking out he said son
you’re a loser you’re making excuse
you’re walking out you think nobody saw
you there was a rabbit below he saw you
there’s a crow sitting on top of the
tree he saw you they went around telling
the whole jungle about it you’re a loser
you’re making excuses try try and try
until you succeed the Fox is a young fox
gets encouraged gets bumped up so every
day it comes and practices jumping to
that height he spends a significant
portion of his life
trying to get to those bunch of grapes
trying to jump at that level and one
fine day with the entire jungle watching
Fox finally gets the grapes a big round
of applause for the Fox let’s hear it
out ah big news Fox is a celebrity
focuses on the headlines of the
newspaper headlines jungle news Fox gets
the grapes Fox is on fox news breaking
news Fox get the grapes with great
aplomb Fox proceeds to eat the grapes
and guess what the grapes are actually
saw the grapes are you his hour now the
Fox had walked out no way back saying
the grapes is ours invest a significant
portion of its life trying to get to
that level to do as bunch of grapes
grapes is sour now it can’t tell
everybody now grape says I everybody
will laugh at him he’ll never live it
down it’d be the laughingstock for for
hundreds of years to come it become a
folklore right so what he does he
pretends to eat and enjoy and he
pretends it’s sweet right just to show
off the whole people that he’s having a
great time it’s sweet and then he slinks
away banishes himself out of the jungle
that my dear friends is the risk of
concentrating only on the finishing line
and only on the grapes if the Fox would
have said I love the run I
of the jump I’m celebrating the fact
that I can reach that level these bunch
of grapes as our show me another bunch
of grapes its life would have been a lot
more wonderful in conclusion that is one
I won’t tell you never have a finishing
line constantly not on the race but on
the run and this is my conclusion right
in a nutshell this is what I want to
tell you add on to those colors put it
all on a stick hoist it up let the whole
world see who you are or what you are
and run and when you run you see this
beautiful kaleidoscope of colors your
life will be a beautiful kaleidoscope of
colors and you’ll have music in your
life that goes Chuck Chaka Chaka Chaka
Chaka Chaka Chaka
thank you [Applause]
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