yeah to ask you a question did you make
a courier choice
recently have you made a decision which
was very very difficult for you yes
did you follow your heart or you
followed your mind raise your hands if
you followed your heart raise your hand
if you follow your mind so we have a mix
of both but we have more people here who
follow their mind you know 80% of the
people in this on this planet earth
follow their mind when they're making a
career choice
but do you know who are those 20% who
are more successful are they the ones
who follow their heart raise your hands
if you think so yes and are the ones who
actually followed their mind raise your
hand if you think so so we have a
decision here that everybody here thinks
either those people who follow their
heart could be successful or those
people who followed their mind could be
successful am i right we know of success
cases in both the situations but why do
then people ask a question very often
should I follow my heart or should I
follow my mind when I'm making a career
decision have you seen that people
asking those questions very often yes as
an educator and a career counsellor for
last 10 years I have been asked this
question many number of times students
come to me and ask me Purvi should I
follow my heart when I'm making a career
decision or should I follow my mind and
I tell them in either case you can be
successful but you need to know one
simple rule that if you follow your
heart you need to make sure that your
mind follows your heart later you need
to make sure that your mind is convinced
then that it has to support your heart
to make you successful and if you follow
your mind then you need to convince your
heart to make you successful
have you seen examples in the industry
of people who have chosen what they
really wanted to do in life from their
heart
I think one of the biggest example for
engineering students sitting here would
be mr. Narayan Murthi all of us know
that he really started an a as an
intrapreneur by borrowing funds right he
didn't have access to resources but he
really wanted to follow his passion of
becoming an entrepreneur did he become
an entrepreneur yes how did he do that
he borrowed money he borrowed resources
he followed his heart but do you think
he would have been so successful if he
didn't let his mind really work in sync
with his heart no right
so whoever follows their heart has to
make sure that they lead their mind to
support and be in sync with heart to be
successful in life so we can have as
many examples as you want of people who
have followed their heart and become
successful and other people who have
followed their mind and still become
successful and you know what today you
are living in an era where you do not
have to be restricted by a career choice
that you make after school or a career
choice that you make after college you
can continue to make choices you can
continue to change careers as many times
in your life and it will be beneficial
to you who says that a very very
important research conducted by Harvard
University says about 47% of the jobs
that you see today will vanish in a few
years about 47% of those people who are
working on those careers will have to
find another career so is it good or is
it bad yes it is good because then those
people will again get a choice and they
would have to ask should I now follow my
heart or should I follow my mind and at
that point in time they can again take a
decision maybe last time they took a
decision where they followed their mind
maybe this time they can take a decision
where they will follow their heart what
is easier in life following heart or
following mind yes
the important thing is making a decision
in favor of your mind is easier
because you can convince it by logic and
say this is the right direction but it
is always difficult to follow your heart
first because it doesn't really look at
logic it looks at emotions and it's very
difficult to convince ourselves with
emotions than by logic so what do you
really need to do you need to remember
as a student one important fact that
either your shell selecting a courier on
the basis of your heart or your
selecting on the basis of your mind
you will get a choice one day where
you'll be resourceful enough and you
will have the support of friends and
family to have a decision made in favor
of your heart and that will be the day
where you will cherish all those moments
of your career before that when you
probably followed your mind but you
ensure that your heart wasn't sync with
your mind and got you the results that
you wanted to achieve it got you to the
person who became that person that day
who could be courageous enough to follow
the heart and I would want to really ask
you do you know a person who struggled
enough in life but was successful later
raise your hands if you do yes everybody
has role models do you think that role
model never had a problem or never had a
challenge to discuss or decide between
what he should follow either his her her
heart or his or her mind yes everybody
does that so you need to ask yourselves
even if I'm in a position today where
maybe because of resources or maybe
because of the environment or maybe
because of a lack of a support system
around you to follow your passion and
heart if you're required to follow your
mind you will still give you a hundred
percent to it you will still ensure that
you will make your heart work in sync
with your mind to be successful to reach
a place where when the opportunity
knocks again saying knock knock
opportunity here at that point in time
you can confidently stand and say today
I will follow my heart and I know
everybody around me will be in sync with
me my family my friends myself
both system my nation my globe my earth
and my planet will all work in favor of
me working towards my passion what I
really want to do in life from my heart
and then really take action to become
significant in whatever you are doing
and at this point in time I want you to
know that each one of you has the
capacity and capability to become a role
model for someone who's probably a
budding student for somebody who is
probably a toddler today who would look
up to you your son coming and say this
was my role model who first choose
either the heart or the mind to follow a
career but ultimately reach the point
where he or she became significant
enough and contributed to the welfare of
the world and to take the humanity
further so I wish to ask you will you be
the role model for the next generation
yes that's the spirit I want you to live
with and make sure whatever decision you
take it would be for your favor it would
be to ensure that the point that you
really need to reach in life later would
be the point where you can see yourself
and say I have achieved something
significant I have made a difference I
have left the legacy for this world to
really consider me as a role model so
I'm looking forward to see each one of
you as a role model to the current
generation
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