Lesson # 45 : Alma Mater ~ A Tale of Destiny?

I saw it in bookstores, painted across the web, on my facebook feed and even on other people's bookshelves. Personally there's a reason why you don't do something. In this case it was just procrastination.  So after roughly six months of contemplating whether I should spend 83 bucks on buying a book about an Indian Entrepreneur(Key words Indian and Entrepreneur used one after the other) I finally chose to go ahead and instead of buying two Twix bars and taking a rickshaw home I bought the book and walked down.

Now right on the first page Varun Aggarwal is pretty clear at stating that he ain't no author. And believe me when I say this he can't write for shit but the story that he tells is inspiring, witty and insightful. (He did not pay me to write this)

Any ways the whole idea is that when you read his story there's three things that the book delves into - Anu Aunty, Porn and well somewhere through mid way Alma mater.

Around the same time I also watched Matt Damon's we bought a Zoo and through the course of the entire movie there's one line I take back "Twenty Seconds of Courage"

I think that perhaps each one of us need to have those twenty seconds of courage. I am yet to have mine but I think Varun Aggarwal had his share of twenty seconds and co-founded a million dollar company. Was it destiny? I don't think so. If he would have been trying to wait for destiny come knocking on his door he would have been a part of the hundreds of engineers who work for an Infosys or a TCS.

So that's that every entrepreneur has a choice either to face up and gather his courage for those twenty seconds when he/she are faced with a choice. On one side is a cliff in which all of us eventually do fall the rat race which all of us try so hard to avoid and yet we end up right at the place which we choose to avoid and on the other end is a choice to run into a unforseen jungle one which hasn't been heard of or seen one which is meant for the brave hearted. If in those twenty seconds one can make that choice then perhaps life in itself can be completely different as it was Varun Aggarwal.

So was the book worth a read? (Considering I finished it in 2 hours.Yes)

Finally, gather your twenty seconds of courage and leap into the jungle of the unknown atleast that's what our Indian Entrepreneur thinks.

On behalf of Doodle 

(Udit Sabharwal)