Lot of things were going in
my mind for few days after getting the idea. I don’t know anything about how to
run a business, who will be potential clients, how much they will pay me for
this, and all. But, the fiercest thoughts were what if things don’t work out?
What will I do then? What is my backup plan? Yes, I was going to complete
engineering, but I needed to convince my parents that I could do this; but they
were going ask me, what if you can’t? One thing was clear to me that there was
no way I wanted to go in engineering field, but no one knows whether it was
going to work or not. There has been nothing of this kind before. Yes, there
are palm readers, face readers, but smile readers? How people will be reacting.
After thinking a lot, I
decided that I will find a solution where this idea won’t fail and I don’t need
backup plan then. I love reading, so I started collecting books which would
guide me to find a way. I wanted to know how they plant new ideas in people’s
mind and do business successfully. I was watching Oprah Winfrey’s 2008 Stanford
Commencement Speech. In the speech, she mentioned a book by Dan Pink, ‘A Whole
New Mind – Why Right Brainers Will Rule The Future’. So I started read that
book. In the book, he explained why a new mind will be lead the 21st
century, how we are transforming from information age to conceptual age. I
could relate it with me. It seemed that that book had been written for me. It
gave me confidence that I can rule the future, because the things I was doing
were right brained things like pattern recognition, being intuitive, creative,
imaginative, big picture oriented thinking, etc. The book convinced me that I
was on the right path.
But, the mind. It was telling
me that this is not my cup of tea. It was a big risk, a gamble, no one do that.
People don’t even know what you do. When some uncle or relatives will ask you
what do you do, what will you say? They will not understand. Do a job and do
this part time. Don’t gamble with your life and lot more thoughts were haunting
my mind. It was saying to have a backup plan is reasonable and mature. Don’t be
a kid. You have to take responsibility and get a real job. Keep this idea as a
Plan-B. It’s safe and secure. Once you fail in this, then it will be harder for
you to take a U-turn.
I told some of my friends
that I was planning to do the full-time business. They were happy that I was
having some balls, I was taking brave decisions, some were thinking that I’ve
gone crazy, but many were like great, dude, work for yourself, don’t work for
others, you’ll have freedom. But, in my mind, I wasn’t so sure after reading
the book and encouragement from my friends. After all, everything seems
fascinating from outside, but the real taste can be known when we actually get
into the arena. So, I was thinking about having a backup plan. But, sometimes I
thought that why to work for others, if I have my own dreams that make me happy;
and plan-B may distract plan-A. But what’s the plan-A here? Honestly, I was
confused when I started this about reality.
Some insights from this phase:
1. It only gets harder when we think about living on our terms.
2. Difficult things make us stronger and more creative.
What Do you think, should we have a backup plan??
What Do you think, should we have a backup plan??
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