Sorry about the gap. Father was unwell.
Coming back to the episode......
I attended the Board Meeting and sat meekly amidst the suited booted Directors. I saw what a Board Meeting was like for the first time, how past performances analysed, projections deliberated upon, issues discussed thread bare. After the meeting, I told myself that this is where I belong, in the Board rooms. From then on, EVERY DAY, before I slept, I visualised that I was sitting in a Board room, others directors were posing questions and I was answering all of them with aplomb and there was a sense of appreciation all around. That visualised experience used to charge me up so much that I used to get up fully energised the moment I was woken up at 3.30 am for my studies. This experience also gave me a different perspective to my approach to studies. I used to study the lesson imagining that the next day I would be asked questions by the other Directors about these topics and I should be able to impress them. So, I NEVER prepared for exams or my academic approach was NEVER examination centric. It was more to understand the concept, the topic, to have a clear over view of what that chapter was all about. For eg, if the chapter in Company Law was about Share Holders, I used to read and analyse the chapter to prepare me to answer all the intelligent questions posed by the other Directors in the Board Meeting the next day.
My student days or more particularly, my CA days, were driven by by ambition to settle well by the time I was 28 years and my visualised Board room experiences.
I was so sure that I would achieve both of these through education. At the cost of repetition I reiterate that I never compromised with life's little thrills of seeing a movie on 1st day, watching cricket match, hanging out with friends etc. By the time I come home, I used to go back into my "zone" of visualisation.
In retrospect, this approach helped me immensely.....
Coming back to the episode......
I attended the Board Meeting and sat meekly amidst the suited booted Directors. I saw what a Board Meeting was like for the first time, how past performances analysed, projections deliberated upon, issues discussed thread bare. After the meeting, I told myself that this is where I belong, in the Board rooms. From then on, EVERY DAY, before I slept, I visualised that I was sitting in a Board room, others directors were posing questions and I was answering all of them with aplomb and there was a sense of appreciation all around. That visualised experience used to charge me up so much that I used to get up fully energised the moment I was woken up at 3.30 am for my studies. This experience also gave me a different perspective to my approach to studies. I used to study the lesson imagining that the next day I would be asked questions by the other Directors about these topics and I should be able to impress them. So, I NEVER prepared for exams or my academic approach was NEVER examination centric. It was more to understand the concept, the topic, to have a clear over view of what that chapter was all about. For eg, if the chapter in Company Law was about Share Holders, I used to read and analyse the chapter to prepare me to answer all the intelligent questions posed by the other Directors in the Board Meeting the next day.
My student days or more particularly, my CA days, were driven by by ambition to settle well by the time I was 28 years and my visualised Board room experiences.
I was so sure that I would achieve both of these through education. At the cost of repetition I reiterate that I never compromised with life's little thrills of seeing a movie on 1st day, watching cricket match, hanging out with friends etc. By the time I come home, I used to go back into my "zone" of visualisation.
In retrospect, this approach helped me immensely.....
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