"When I was young, I observed
that nine out of 10 things I did were failures, so I did 10 times more
work." - George Bernard Shaw, Writer and Critic
I have come across with a number of
people who developed excessive ego due to early success in their lives. Success
went to their heads. I have seen most of them falling in their lives later miserably
as they failed to learn lessons in life. The truth is that everybody wants to
achieve success but the timing of success in one’s life matters a lot. If
people are humble by nature, their early success will catapult them to even
greater success in rest of their lives. Unfortunately,
some people develop excessive ego and make mistakes in their lives as they take
success for granted thus hitting lows in their lives subsequently and
regretting at the end of their lives.
Recently I have provided campus
recruitment training to students of an engineering college as an eminent IT
company was visiting the campus. I provided training to enhance their
employability skills to build their confidence. I conducted several role-plays, activities and
mock interview sessions to make them employable and deployable in the industry.
They shared their experiences and takeaways from the training at the end of the
session. I was thrilled and wished them good luck. Also, I cautioned them to
treat this campus interview as an experience only. If they are selected it is
fine. Otherwise, they should not take failure personally. I implored them to
look for other companies.
Fortunately, good number of students
was selected. Some of them have developed excessive ego and started to ridicule
the rejected candidates who are their colleagues. They went to the extent of
saying that they attended interview casually as they wanted to pursue M.S abroad.
Some unsuccessful students approached me and poured their woes and the
ill-treatment given to them by the successful people who were good friends
until then. I felt very bad and expressed them that I am not concerned about
the successful people but I am more concerned about the unsuccessful people as
they need my attention to inspire them and my services to train and groom them
to be successful. I shared the experiences of the people who rose from ranks
and humble origins after hitting several successive lows in the early part of
their lives including that of Abraham Lincoln. I implored them not to take
failures personally but to learn lessons why they failed in order to improve
themselves to grab employment opportunities.
In my personal life, I have seen many
people who rose initially but failed miserably in the middle of their lives and
went incognito ultimately. In life, who wins in the beginning of the life
doesn’t count but who wins at the end of life counts. Hence, dear unsuccessful
students I am always there with you to handhold and inspire you to make you
successful. Once you are successful I will not be concerned about you as I will
concentrate more on the other unsuccessful students to inspire them to make a
difference.
"Forget past mistakes. Forget
failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."
- William Durant
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