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Most students spend years learning how to solve business problems. Very few are taught how to handle rejection, comparison, anxiety, self-doubt, or pressure — the challenges that shape careers far more than any textbook.
What if the greatest failure of education isn't unemployment, but unrealised human potential?
This month more than 1,500 MBA students at SCMHRD, DY Patil, and Mahindra University are taking a course called *Indian Ethos and Values for Management* — built on a simple idea: students need frameworks not only to manage organisations, but to manage themselves.
The Bhagavad Gita spends surprisingly little time discussing markets — and an extraordinary amount of time discussing the mind.
Question:
What one life skill do you wish someone had taught you before your first job?
Every expert in the room had an answer. Better education. Smarter policy. More entrepreneurship.
Nobody mentioned character.
I was the only monk on that panel at the NSE — surrounded by entrepreneurs, policymakers, and business leaders debating what Viksit Bharat 2047 would take.
Competence was discussed. Creativity was discussed.
But character? Present in everyone's mind. Absent from everyone's agenda.
When my turn came, I asked one question. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆?
Society becomes a means to fulfil his agenda. We have seen this. In boardrooms. In institutions. In governance.
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"My manager said one sentence.
I replayed it for three days."
"I know I'm overthinking.
I just can't stop."
"I worked hard.
Someone else got the opportunity.
How do I stay motivated now?"
Most students spend years learning how to solve business problems. Very few are taught how to handle rejection, comparison, anxiety, self-doubt, or pressure — the challenges that shape careers far more than any textbook.
What if the greatest failure of education isn't unemployment, but unrealised human potential?
This month more than 1,500 MBA students at SCMHRD, DY Patil, and Mahindra University are taking a course called *Indian Ethos and Values for Management* — built on a simple idea: students need frameworks not only to manage organisations, but to manage themselves.
The Bhagavad Gita spends surprisingly little time discussing markets — and an extraordinary amount of time discussing the mind.
Question:
What one life skill do you wish someone had taught you before your first job?
#ConsciousLeadership #FutureOfWork #SCMHRD #IndianEthos #ManagementEducation #BhagavadGita ... See MoreSee Less
Have we confused resilience with suffering in silence?🤐
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When I was a child, my mother often called Bharat "सोने की चिड़िया — 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝗱.
As a child, I didn't think much about it.
Years later, I began wondering:
What made a civilisation earn that description in the first place?
We once contributed a significant share of the world's 𝗚𝗗𝗣, attracted students from around the globe, and influenced ideas far beyond our borders.
What changed?
Today we speak about decolonising education and thought.
But do we really mean it?
Or do we still look to Western models as the only proof of validity?
Decolonisation isn't about rejecting the West.
Nor is it about living in the past.
It is about taking our own history, literature, and civilisational wisdom seriously — not dismissing it before we have even studied it.
Perhaps the goal is not to recreate the past.
Perhaps the goal is to rediscover the principles that once worked — and apply them to the challenges of today.
Question:
What's one piece of Indian civilisational wisdom you believe deserves a comeback?
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Is your mind working for you — or against you?
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From an idea to a published book.
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Nobody warned me that working hard comes with seven invisible wounds.
→Not injuries from failure.
→Wounds from the act of trying itself.
He manages billions. He couldn't manage his own restlessness.
A CFO at an international bank. Every box ticked — career, family, performance, reputation.
After my talk he came up and asked quietly —
"𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘹𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘮 𝘐 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨?"
Just tired. The kind that sleep doesn't fix.
I recognised it immediately. I have felt it too.
Achievement doesn't dissolve anxiety.
Sometimes it deepens it.
The chase that got you here doesn't switch off when you arrive.
It just finds a new target.
I pointed him to the 𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗶𝘀𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀.
A week later he texted —
"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦. 𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦. 𝘐 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 — 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯."
He was carrying one of seven wounds every professional holds silently.
We carry them — in meetings, in submissions, in late nights, in the scroll after posting.
💡The Bhagavad-gītā named every one of them.
5,000 years before LinkedIn existed.
See which one you're carrying right now.
𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘁? 𝗗𝗿𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀.
Wisdom That Works — Penguin India. Link in bio.
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Are we looking for the right person — or becoming one?
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Every expert in the room had an answer.
Better education.
Smarter policy.
More entrepreneurship.
Nobody mentioned character.
I was the only monk on that panel at the NSE — surrounded by entrepreneurs, policymakers, and business leaders debating what Viksit Bharat 2047 would take.
Competence was discussed. Creativity was discussed.
But character?
Present in everyone's mind.
Absent from everyone's agenda.
When my turn came, I asked one question.
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆?
Society becomes a means to fulfil his agenda.
We have seen this.
In boardrooms. In institutions. In governance.
𝗩𝗶𝗸𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝗕𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀 — 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝘄𝗼.
Educational institutions build competence.
Government policy enables creativity.
Spiritual institutions build character.
Without character, competence and creativity create prosperity for a few — and exploitation for the rest.
Only when all three come together do we get prosperity for all.
The most underrated pillar is also the most powerful one.
And perhaps the most urgent.
Three questions were raised that day at NSE.
This was the first.
Next — 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘝𝘪𝘬𝘴𝘪𝘵 𝘉𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘦𝘵?
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