Self Acceptance is the First Step to Humanity

Let's a do a bit of back to past, and though this event is from the fall of 2018 fall, I have taken all my sweet time to share this Hallmark Event of my life. That said, I would like to stay on the course that it has my vulnerabilities, and the time it took me a lot of time to hear my inner self, and share this with all of you.

For a large part of my life , academically I have been just an average student. Always found ways of sliding through my grades more like dodging bullets in the matrix movie.

Coming from a middle class family, I could not dream of going to big colleges...and scholarship was far fetched either ways...you know my academic super powers. What supplements further is an environment, and to my luck have doctors and academically sounds cousins across the family tree...you know that statement when your folks say..."Why cant you be more like him / her".

Academics is not just about discipline, but it is about your own inner strengths, aptitude, and your level of mental dyslexia (just like IQ, I believe that we are all dyslexics, some high like me and some unnoticeably low). So when a kid does not know what to do, s/he either gives up, or puts on butterfly like strokes to swim and survive...I did the later...as I had the pressure of being the elder one...and to be successful...as my parents put a huge part of their hard earned in their effort to establish me.

Eventually, I accepted my weaknesses, and embraced a few strengths like communication. A huge journey entailed from hard earned college degree, and hardships of cleaning utensils to selling hotel rooms in the hospitality segment. Mercifully, I had gained a lot of respect for money earning with hard-work, and with ethics in this time. My Professor Y.G. Tharakan at W.G.S.H.A Manipal, had a huge role in shaping me into a better human being irrespective of the skill I could sharpen.

I must admit, for me, teachers who could play with humor, and nurture the audacity of their student turned into my heroes. I salute them as I stand and share this proud milestone with the world.

From making the right choices, to identifying the right company, and building on my strengths consistently...always made me more humble, and nurturing towards people. I will be honest, I have been only able to last in some roles as I had some beautiful people to work with, and they turned into my strength only giving me further more strength to be self-aware. I also believe that in their success lied my success, and suddenly working with great people moved me blindly to work for their success selflessly...not to forget it propelled my success to a different level, that I am indebted to these folks who have been a part of my professional life, but as loved as my family.

I am in a coaching program that describes that "Self Acceptance is the First Step to Humanity", and therefore this story only helps me believe that your inner voice, your self acceptance, your gratitude towards life, service to others, and respect for people is only going to take you much ahead in life, as though you had super powers to achieve, to be honest all this will be happening when you are expecting it the least to happen.

I have been to many reputed institutes like ISB, completed my Executive HR from Cornell University...but in Dec of 2018, I was sent to Harvard University to complete a program called Building a Culture of Innovation...it changed my way of looking at life...and the lens we use to view it.

This is my picture with my Professor Linda Lee, who is also the co-author of the book "The Collective Genius", a great coach...an amazing professor, an amazing mother and a wonderful writer.

I have certainly attained a goal of my life, a bigger goal behind the goal of being just successful, making a lot of my family, my professors, my friends proud...breaking the shackles of an average academically dyslexic kid (Yes Tare Zameen Par Made Me Cry...and crazily my mentor has the same name).

Isn't this a true discovery that makes you and your loved ones proud, when you do the right things and not dwell on your weaknesses forever. Self acceptance only makes you more self aware, and your strengths will emerge like super powers, so good luck to you all who could relate.