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Bolaget TechBuddy skall noteras på sidan av börsen hos Pepins. Pepins är en plattform för onoterade aktier. Jag kan rakt av säga att jag Inte kommer att teckna i deras emission. Mestadels för att värderingen är helt galet högt satt enligt mig.

Många bolag verkar överskatta sig själva rejält när de skall ta in pengar från investerare. Antingen handlar det om övertro på sig själv eller snålhet, man…

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

As a child, we all go to schools to learn various concepts in a group of humans with similar mindsets, sitting together in a conducive learning environment. We grow up & enter into a college, & again we come across the similar experiences. So, why does the output or performance level of students differ from one college to other or rather at a microscopic level, within the same class?

As a part of the Lead Generation process in our company, we conducted lots of interaction sessions with the students belonging to different colleges & cities. Fortunately, I got a chance to be a part of most of these sessions & closely understand the factors impacting the mindsets & outlook of students in these colleges. In one of these sessions, a student, rather hopelessly, declared his college environment & culture as responsible for their lack of interest in their subjects (thus, in engineering) and hence lower outputs. His belief was that if they would have been studying in any of the IITs, they would have performed much better in the academics & would have been able to explore millions of other opportunities. This point raised by him turned the flow of discussions towards one of the most debated questions of our generation – How are IITs different from any other college?

My reply to his point started with a very basic fact proven by scientists worldwide that, Our brain is a highly malleable organ & the environment in which it lives & works plays a much crucial role in impacting it’s efficiency. The kind of environment to which we are exposed in our childhood times or in our college influences our habits, manners, ideologies & beliefs and hence defines the curvature of the graph of our professional career & personality development.  During our graduation days in IIT, the kind of enthusiasm which most of the students exhibit to explore & learn more and more things brought that expectations of excellence in the culture over there, which kept the remaining students on their toes for their own betterment. But, the noteworthy thing is, that this environment was created by the students themselves, keeping in mind the impact which it would create on their lives.

The fact is that it’s easier to put the blame of our failures on our environment, but we never realize that it was the end product of our attitude & efforts. People blame their environment, but there is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves. Whatever we do, whatever we think, slowly & steadily it starts reframing the culture around us and after a period of time, we become an integral part of it. The lack of intent which we initially showed in our regular work, eventually becomes a part of the cocoon which we sew around us. And this is the problem faced by most of the students in current times, where gradually with our own lack of efforts to build a cohesive learning environment around us, we rather end up being a part of the environment where mediocrity becomes the target to achieve.

So stand up & break the cocoon around you. Start building an environment, where excellence & determination are the supports, optimism plays the anchor role & the objective is not just to find the reasons of our failures, but to act upon them to find their solutions.

It was one of those founder’s calls which we used to do with the students, before they come to our workshops, to discuss their roadmap to achieve their professional goals & dreams. On the other side of the phone call was a student from one of the prestigious colleges. Her voice reflected the innate desire to achieve her dreams & goals, but her mind was a mirror image of a teenager’s wardrobe – full of irrelevant stuff & kept in a haphazard manner. Her society, colleagues & seniors loaded her mind with ample lucrative career opportunities ranging from Working in a big IT company to clearing her GATE examination. But the sad part was, none of these opportunities were going to take her even a step closer to her goal, a seed which she had been sowing since her childhood – A dream to become an IAS Officer. Compared to those lucrative opportunities, walking on this path was a high risk proposition with lesser chances of reaching the summit. So, the chances of failure were much higher in this case. And just after 2 minutes of our discussion, she popped up an intriguing question – Why are we always tempted to Play Safe, even though that’s not what we always dreamt of? At that instant, my thoughts took me back to my graduation, when we faced the same question in front of us. And my answer to her was same which we gave to ourselves 3 years back.

Since that call, I have faced this question numerous times from the students, belonging to varied backgrounds & different dreams to achieve. But, my answers have never changed, Because they always pointed to the same problem – Temptation to Play Safe. We, as humans, always have a tendency to slip into the comfort zone, a secured zone where we force or are forced to shrink our dreams to a mediocre level and start believing that this zone is where we always wanted to be in. We spend our whole life in the same illusion, living each day & night with incepting the same thought again & again in our minds. But, when we reach our death bed, a place where all the illusions are shattered, we start re-playing our life & slowly we realize that for the past 70 years, we just Played Safe. Sitting in that mode, we never gave a single shot to our childhood dreams.

My answer to this question was based on the same realisation. Once we step into our college, we are bombarded with loads of opportunities, where we can easily become a part of the herd and lead our life easily. To get out of this Play Safe mode, we need to break the shackles of safety & security around us. And once we are out of that mode, we can take our First Step towards our dreams. This is just like winning a single battle in a World War. There are many more fronts to be won, many more peaks to be scaled, many more failures to be seen & many more Play Safe modes to avoid. And if you can survive all of them, you will be never tempted back again in the luxuries of life and the road to achieve your dreams would be much smoother.