Failure. The single biggest fear for most of the people. I’ve had this for quite a sometime in my past. I would be shit scared to the question, “what if I fail?”, “will there by any headway for me after a failure?” etc
The people who were my back bone during this phase were my parents and for a later part, my wife. It is because of my parents, now I ask myself, “what can be the maximum extent?” and an answer comes back to my brain, “I’ll fail, that’s it. Nothing more.” My fear to fail has gone because of them. Their experience of failure, but never giving up ever makes me feel dynamic.
I’ve failed on numerous occasions.
Engineering – Did it in more than 4 years. FAILED ✅
Job – At some point of time, for one of the companies I worked for, couldn’t cope up to the horrible culture, as a result I had to quit the company. FAILED ✅
Decisions – I have taken some wrong decisions in my life, leading to mess. The above job being one. FAILED ✅ (PS – Thankfully, choosing my wife as a partner was the successful decision I took! 😂)
Relationship – Yes, at some point of time, I crashed here as well. FAILED ✅
Starting Up – At a mere age of 23, I had my first conversation with a B-Plan in one of posh hotels of Pune with a VC firm. He replied back showing the lack of data gathering and market intelligence, I had back then. Asked me to come back with proper plan in 3 months, I couldn’t show up. FAILED ✅
PS – With (then!) my idea, where there was nobody to work on, back in 2014/15, we have 3 major startups solving that problem.
The only thing that keeps me going is the sheer will to succeed and never ever giving it up. It’s only the perseverance that matters which I’ve inherited from my parents.
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