Questioner: So, my question is: we students sitting over here are among the top percentile in the country
in terms of education that we are receiving.
Yet all of us are wondering about what jobs we will get, we just want the best campus placements over here.
If that’s the scenario with all of us and we are not willing to take risks and have become risk averse,
from where will the jobs come for the country, when we are not thinking about starting our own ventures,
our own start-ups, our own firms?
Sadhguru: Now, see, India is a developing country.
Is that so?
What a developing country means is, so much is still undone, many many things to be done.
In this country, nobody should be talking about unemployment if you ask me.
Because there is so much to be done.
Now, the problem is you want only that certain kind of job where you will get the maximum pay
without doing the needed work (Few Laugh).
Yes!
Otherwise, it's a developing country.
There are a million things yet to be done in this country.
This is not a developed country, “What shall I do, everything is done?”
No, there are too many things yet to be done.
So, if you have a working brain and a seeing eye,
if you look around there are a thousand things to be done right around you, isn’t it?
So, I don’t think you should be looking in terms of campus placement.
The word “placement” sounds like you are in a hospice (Laughs).
This should not be the attitude of the youth.
What are you going to lose if you take a risk, I’m asking?
What are you going to lose?
Your friend may get into McKenzie, is that it (Laughter/Applause)?
That’s not the way to look at life.
If you look at life like that, you will regret.
I’m not making a comment about any particular company, I’m saying because everybody…you…
especially in Harvard Business School if you talk to anybody, say, “I’m…
I’m looking for a placement in McKenzie.”
I say, “What are you…
How many of you will go to McKenzie, hmm?”
There is so much to be done in the world.
If you have the brains and the guts to do something, there is so much to be done in this world, isn’t it?
Particularly in India.
So I would like to see from this institution that little more dare in you.
Nothing will happen.
“If I don’t do this, I will fall on the street.
I will become a beggar.”
No.
That will not happen to you.
Are you sure about that or no?
That will not happen to you.
But if you are enterprising, okay?
You think the world can stop you?
No.
The world will put obstacles in your way.
Either you can see them as obstacles or you can see them as possibilities always.
Where there is a problem, there is a possibility.
Isn’t it so?
Hello?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: Wherever there is a problem, there is a possibility.
That is, if you start looking what’s the solution for this problem.
If you just see the problem and you don’t think beyond that, that a problem is a great possibility,
because if you solve this, that’s it!
Lots of problems in our country.
Please see how to solve it.
That’s what you should invest in (Laughs) (Applause)