Recently, Chetan Bhagat, an ‘authorpreneur’ (which is what he liked to call himself because it sounded ‘cool’) had come to talk to us about his success and his strategies for that success. I had walked into that talk feeling tired after a long school day, but 10 minutes into that presentation I was laughing like a Hyena. Chetan’s humour had made my ears stick to his words for the whole presentation only to be lead to my jaw being dropped when I realized that this was one of his strategies for engaging the audience. Chetan related his methods of engaging the audience to his strategy for writing books and in general living life to its fullest. This strategy being changing the game. When Chetan started talking about changing the game, it really resonated with me as ‘adaption’ was something I have used quite a lot to overcome hurdles in life. Chetan also talked about success, which got me thinking, have I reached success? Have my friends reached success? Have all the people around me reached their goals, gained respect, gotten satisfaction? All these thoughts had been swirling around my brain throughout the second part of the talk until Chetan said, ‘be so busy improving yourself that you have no time left to criticise others.’
