It’s rather obvious that the most important lessons of life cannot be learnt within the classrooms. It’s obvious that the life teaches you more than what you learnt during your school days. But the question I am asking is what our best of the schools doesn’t teach us?
I started thinking about these recently and I wish someone would have told me about these points back then!
Grades are not everything: Grades do not really matter, if it is 70.2% or 79.9% there is not much of difference. I was told, you need to get good grades to get a better company in placement; true. But most successful people of the class are not really the nerds. I wish; I could have understood this fact back then and taken my student life a bit relaxed, focused on complete personality building rather than just being tensed.
Ability to build Relationship: Corporate life or in general just the life is all about building or managing the relationships. With the new global village concept, one probably needs to build a global network and have a global perspective.
Power of Perspective: I think one should get some insights on how the world can be seen with different perspectives and why it’s important to have clear thought process about any matter of life. All successful people have a clear perspective of what is right and wrong in life. It’s also important to respect other perspective and how to balance. This is a great quality in corporate life.
Life is journey: Education is all about having a goal and figuring out how to get there, be its internal exam, or an entrance exam; we have cut-off and we want better numbers. But, today I realize life is a journey and is not a destination itself. The more we reciprocate with life, we learn from it.
Follow your heart: Heart is at your left but it’s always right. I wish I was told back than to follow your heart and do something which you truly, really love doing. I wish I was told to find something which interests me and start following that dream. Life is not all about the books, magazines, research papers or internal exams!
Money: One major goal of life while we were in college is to make money and more money. But, life’s satisfaction is somewhere else. Some colleagues, some different perspectives of people made me to realize, money will just follow if someone is capable enough. Money is a by-product but back then money was the only goal!
Global Perspective: How important to have this global perspective? About how people have evolved, what global history might teach us? What students in another country are doing research on? Or just, having a wide perspective about life?
To sum it up, I was just fighting for the placement process to get a ‘dream job’. But it looks like a mirage now. I might have done well in exam by memorizing few things or might not have understood anything in one of the subject; finally I got degree. What stayed with me is the confidence that I can solve any problem that comes my way.
And that is the ultimate gift of any education.
I started thinking about these recently and I wish someone would have told me about these points back then!
Grades are not everything: Grades do not really matter, if it is 70.2% or 79.9% there is not much of difference. I was told, you need to get good grades to get a better company in placement; true. But most successful people of the class are not really the nerds. I wish; I could have understood this fact back then and taken my student life a bit relaxed, focused on complete personality building rather than just being tensed.
Ability to build Relationship: Corporate life or in general just the life is all about building or managing the relationships. With the new global village concept, one probably needs to build a global network and have a global perspective.
Power of Perspective: I think one should get some insights on how the world can be seen with different perspectives and why it’s important to have clear thought process about any matter of life. All successful people have a clear perspective of what is right and wrong in life. It’s also important to respect other perspective and how to balance. This is a great quality in corporate life.
Life is journey: Education is all about having a goal and figuring out how to get there, be its internal exam, or an entrance exam; we have cut-off and we want better numbers. But, today I realize life is a journey and is not a destination itself. The more we reciprocate with life, we learn from it.
Follow your heart: Heart is at your left but it’s always right. I wish I was told back than to follow your heart and do something which you truly, really love doing. I wish I was told to find something which interests me and start following that dream. Life is not all about the books, magazines, research papers or internal exams!
Money: One major goal of life while we were in college is to make money and more money. But, life’s satisfaction is somewhere else. Some colleagues, some different perspectives of people made me to realize, money will just follow if someone is capable enough. Money is a by-product but back then money was the only goal!
Global Perspective: How important to have this global perspective? About how people have evolved, what global history might teach us? What students in another country are doing research on? Or just, having a wide perspective about life?
To sum it up, I was just fighting for the placement process to get a ‘dream job’. But it looks like a mirage now. I might have done well in exam by memorizing few things or might not have understood anything in one of the subject; finally I got degree. What stayed with me is the confidence that I can solve any problem that comes my way.
And that is the ultimate gift of any education.
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If it is 90 degree then take right, do what your heart says, and if it is 180 degree then look back.
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