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It is not the end
THERE IS NEVER ANY END
27th Aug 2002 - I took my first ever flight in my life.
It was for the USA.
Papa had to take a Rs. 55,000 loan to pay for the one-way ticket.
I still remember the scene at the Delhi airport.
My entire family had come to see me off.
Ruchi has come too.
Everyone was crying.
I was crying too.
But I was also excited.
For the future.
This is what I had always dreamt of.
To go to the US for a fine education, become a space scientist, join NASA, land on Mars.
And that dream was finally coming true.
27th August 2022 - exactly 20 years to the day I left for Michigan State, the university confirmed me as a speaker for their alumni speaker series.
I spoke at the University this Wednesday.
Shared my journey with the current students.
19 years back, when I came back to India, if someone had come up to me and said:
"Hey - I am from the future.
And I have some exciting news for you.
In about 19 years, you will have more than 8M+ people following you on something really cool called social media.
You would have written two best selling books.
You will be invited by top companies to address their employees and motivate them.
Forget all of that - this very university that you are dropping out from, will call you back to address their students."
I would have told the person to get a CT Scan :))
But here I am.
Living this life.
Not because I am the smartest person I know or the most hard working person I know.
I am living this life because I did not give up on myself.
A lot of you would be going through something similar in your lives.
A new company, a new city, a new career, a new relationship, a new experience.
And it may not always turn out to be what you wanted it to be.
But that's not the end.
There is never any end, until the day we all die.
Up until that day, you have yourself.
And I wish for you to find that yourself one day.
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📕 Book I'm reading this week
Finished reading Marching Powder: A True Story of a British Drug Smuggler In a Bolivian Jail - BRILLIANT read - please pick it up if you love real-time stories. This one was something else!
I am traveling this week and taking a break from reading.
In the meantime, here is a Twitter thread on 11 of my favorite books & my favorite quotes from them.
Do Epic Shit - hard hitting truths about life, one page at a time.
Get Epic Shit Done - answers to 36 life questions that we all have, for our lives.
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🗣️ Response to last week's question
Are you a morning or night person?
- Morning person
- Night person
- Ok with both - doesn't matter
- Still figuring it out
Here are the results
The results are on expected lines, for me.
As one ages, morning starts to become the default for most, while night remains constant. Basically people move from indecisiveness between night and morning, to morning.
So if you are in your 20s and not yet a morning person - don't worry - there are chances you will become. Automatically :))
My answer:
I too moved from being a night person (till my 30th), to a morning person (in my 30s and 40s)
🙋🏻♂️ Question of the week
At what age did you take your first flight?
- When I was below 18 yrs
- Between 18-22 yrs
- Between 23-30 yrs
- Between 31-40 yrs
- Post 40 years
- Haven't taken a flight as yet
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(and check the answers of others too)
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📸 Picture of the week
One of the prettiest airports I have ever been to. Can you guess where is this? Several hints in the pic.
🎙️ Podcast I shared this week
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🚀 Content I shared this week
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FY 2022-23 Financial Report for our company
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Entrepreneur, Author, Content Creator with 9M+ followers across platforms. I share this newsletter every Friday around personal growth, books, quotes, pictures - it is the most personal version of me online.
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