Coming back to life
This blog started off with interesting things happening around. Actually, the last one year has been the most boring time of life ever! But it came with lots of outcomes and learnings, terribly important for understanding a few fundamental things.
sixth term of IIMB - extremely chill maadi time of life, similar to the final semester of IIT! With no fin companies coming for placements, there was zero requirement for any kind of preparation :D
placements - The image (or illusion) of IIM placements created in peoples' minds and the reality of which I was a part of.. Just stretch this gap to its maximum! Even though the 3 idiots was a super hit, the reality of 250 idiots from the same campus wasn't a good story! The principle to follow was - being employed somewhere is better than being unemployed and sitting back at home with two degrees from elite colleges. I landed up in some company...!
Post-IIM working in a company - Here is a simple math. Assuming 8 hours of sleep every day, at least 12 hours of the day spent for work with weekends off. In a week - more than 60 hrs are spent for the employer and approx 50 hrs that you are awake are outside office. Now, at the age of 25, if you spend quite more than 50% of your life doing something that doesn't engage you nor aligns with any of the purpose that leads you, then its quite a big problem. I couldn't have learnt this better!
Switch to a job in Gurgaon - a new place, a new life, some motivating and interesting work... But take the previous case and flip it and consider the life outside work... I'm on a path of learning something on this side of life. Life doesn't always move ahead the way you cherish but at the same time it never gets so bad that it can't get worse. Its very tricky to understand the level of trade-offs to make and rationalize the expectations. Too much dependence on things that are not possible in the environment you are in, is the cause of depression.
Fantasizing is a loser's instinct.. temporary happiness, even though its good and it works, is a fool's paradise and artificial high backfires! The pursuit of permanent sources of happiness is indeed the very need of this hour. And, I want to know how to learn some practical psychology as it is in the mind that is everything... to that extent that I feel we actually live in the world that we create in our own minds.
sixth term of IIMB - extremely chill maadi time of life, similar to the final semester of IIT! With no fin companies coming for placements, there was zero requirement for any kind of preparation :D
placements - The image (or illusion) of IIM placements created in peoples' minds and the reality of which I was a part of.. Just stretch this gap to its maximum! Even though the 3 idiots was a super hit, the reality of 250 idiots from the same campus wasn't a good story! The principle to follow was - being employed somewhere is better than being unemployed and sitting back at home with two degrees from elite colleges. I landed up in some company...!
Post-IIM working in a company - Here is a simple math. Assuming 8 hours of sleep every day, at least 12 hours of the day spent for work with weekends off. In a week - more than 60 hrs are spent for the employer and approx 50 hrs that you are awake are outside office. Now, at the age of 25, if you spend quite more than 50% of your life doing something that doesn't engage you nor aligns with any of the purpose that leads you, then its quite a big problem. I couldn't have learnt this better!
Switch to a job in Gurgaon - a new place, a new life, some motivating and interesting work... But take the previous case and flip it and consider the life outside work... I'm on a path of learning something on this side of life. Life doesn't always move ahead the way you cherish but at the same time it never gets so bad that it can't get worse. Its very tricky to understand the level of trade-offs to make and rationalize the expectations. Too much dependence on things that are not possible in the environment you are in, is the cause of depression.
Fantasizing is a loser's instinct.. temporary happiness, even though its good and it works, is a fool's paradise and artificial high backfires! The pursuit of permanent sources of happiness is indeed the very need of this hour. And, I want to know how to learn some practical psychology as it is in the mind that is everything... to that extent that I feel we actually live in the world that we create in our own minds.
posted by Pradeep Kanade @ 1:25 PM
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