Crazy Lamhe (moments)

At times, I wonder where did all the entrepreneurial skills, displayed during days of schooling, disappear. Here are some reasons to believe that these existed in the past -

1. Empathy - First crush was in grade 3, saw a girl cry n started liking her.

2. Innovation and Passion to excel - Though the concept of bunking lectures has existed since time immortal, i just redefined it by practicing it from grade 6. n what more.

3. Early mover advantage – If not the first person, would have been one of the few athletic people who run away from the school even jumped high walls at times.

4. Good Listener and a mentor – My grandfather was my mentor who used study aloud for me. Imagine taking tests without studying otherwise.

5. Build Stakeholders Confidence - People somehow had the confidence that I displayed the quality of becoming a doctor, so what if it was for my handwriting.

6. Thinking out of the box - Many discoveries came during schooling - participated in many games that i never knew to play, practice always gives you a valid reason to be out of school.

7. Follow your own path / Experiential Learning – When the entire class would try to do an experiment described in the text, I used to do some of my own. I discovered in the process of breaking some test tubes, water taps that not all experiments are successful, some of them fail.

8. Perception Management - Professors were surprised when I suddenly scored well, just that they had to ensure with a surprise test to believe.

9. Step into the shoes of customer - HSBC calls itself the world’s local bank - Provide people with what they want or they can relate to, rather than create a want for what is provided – This was the challenge during exams, as I had to get into the psyche of professors. Imagine answering a question on bi-products of milk that ran into 20 odd lines...with just 2 bi-products mentioned in the narrative

10. Managing relationships - Believe it or not, i was shy guy especially with girls around, may be till i was in 7th or 8th grade. Even my sister had to bribe me Cadbury’s Gems to stay back at her place.

11. Trust & Faith - Pre exams and pre results were some days i loved to be called devout as my faith quotient leaped few hundred points northwards.

12. Social Responsibility / Conserving Natural Resources– As a De-facto brand ambassador for “Go Green” concept, I contributed to conserving the waste of many pages spent in writing.

Well isn't that a good way to remember some moments and go on ego trail.