Showing posts with label Learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Learning. Show all posts

Monday, September 21, 2015

Please don't change the World !




I have been an Engineer, handling the entire Crude distillation unit of the Asia's second largest refinery.

I have been an Entrepreneur, heading three businesses.

I have been a Consultant, to Entrepreneurs, Professionals and Non-professional people of almost three continents.

I am trying to be a Researcher.

I am trying to be a Leader.

I am trying to be a Professor

I am trying to find a soul mate

I am trying to be a good Son, Friend, Responsible citizen and Non responsible big brother.

What is that one thing that I am not trying to do?

I am not trying to be the change that I want to see in the world.

I'll tell you one thing.

This is the bravest statement ever.

This is shit.

Please don't change the world.

Why?

In the last decade of my life, I've realized one simple thing.

Whenever you wish or want to change the world, something shit is going to happen.

It doesn't matter if that will happen with you or not, but it will be shit.

Why you would want to change the entire World? Just because you have an itchy ass and don't have anything else to do?

Or because you think there is still a room for improvement in the entire World according to your principles.

I am not sure what else could be the case, but please don't change the world.

World is the perfect in every and each scenario.

You are the perfect in every and each scenario.

This world doesn't need more of the change makers, engineers, business persons, leaders, doctors or assholes.

It needs,

Acts of kindness,
Gestures of love,
And selfless attitudes.


 These three things will only seem logical, doable, rational, executable, feasible, workable or needed, only when you are not in the herd who would want to be the change just so the world can be changed.

These are my favorite lines,


" If you want to do it, there must not be any reason,
If you don't, there can not be any excuse ! "


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Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Lesson #1 : Don't plan for the Perfection !

...and how much we lost ?

...almost the entire amount !

Any way to settle ? Should we file a suit ?

Hmm...it will be a civil suit and may take fifteen to seventeen years of trial, and there are much of the chances that he'll walk out safe.

..but how the hell this happened ? Didn't we plan for it ?

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Plan : a detailed proposal of doing or achieving something, says the dictionary.

I'm about to start the next set of business and still the previous blunders haunt me. Haunt the shit out of me. 

What if, the plan doesn't work out? What if the product isn't ready by the time? What if product is a shit? What if the market won't click? What if the network will break? What if there will be legal issues? What if the investors back out? What if the same things will repeat like last time?

What if !

Shit...it freaks me out. Sometimes I can't go to sleep thinking it.

But I'm getting better. 

Better and better at failing. 

Yes. Failing !

This is probably the fourth business in my twenties. And I don't think this will float like a duck.

Then why am I doing this?

Well, I'm in love with the concept and think it will solve a million people's daily problem.

Then why I think it will fail?

Because, I know it will. I always plan for the perfection. And it never goes as planned. So for me, every trial is a failure.

But not in the words of dictionary. My meaning for failure is; another way to know where the success isn't now !

Nothing is permanent. 

A green cafe, the whole and organic food, self brewed beer, solar and biogas powered outlet, battery driven delivery system, making every customer a stakeholder, idea; failed miserably. 

One knucklehead plotted a fraud deal for the rented space, so we lost a huge amount, investors got pissed, partners ran, workers fought for commitment, courts and police didn't help.

Now, there are people calling twice in a month to work for the same idea. How ? Did I do a magic?

Nope. Just time changed. Idea has its potential now when there is a huge capital proposed for the green and clean technology driven businesses.

Even if I'll take the call and start working for it again, I know it will fail. Why? Again, I planned it for the perfection.

A plan for the perfection has always failed on me.

But it has always showed me another way to race. It is not the destination, they say that matters, it is the journey. 

So, I learn from mistakes, and do some more to learn some more. The day I stop doing it, the day I'll be out of last breathe.





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