dealing with life….

We are all extremely intelligent individuals.

We crack CAT’s, GRE’s and GMAT’s , excel in ENGINEERING and MBA exams, give presentations that would put a shame on a manager’s face, analyse balancesheets and give our suggestions to the CEO’s…

      The only thing we cannot do successfully is deal with LIFE.

The same guy who scores a 99.99 percentile in CAT feels insecure in front of his friends. The same girl who presents confidently in front of a CEO, fails to express in front of her own father.

Aren’t we dealing with life the way a student, who is afraid of maths deals with the subject? Because it is difficult, we leave it for the last day, hoping somehow it will be taken care of.

”Waqt aane par dekh lenge” 

And just like a maths paper, we fail. Not because it was tough but because we didn’t spend enough time on it.

The way I see it, the moment we take a relationship for granted…we are in trouble..Remember, the same prof. who seems to be the most easy going, exam mein wohi sabse jyaada  waat lagata hai! 😉

And this makes me wonder..how come nobody taught me how to deal with life……Neither parents, nor schools or colleges…no coaching classes.

WHY????

# We spend so much time on trying to understand ‘consumer behavior’ why no classes on  ‘parent behavior’ ??

# We learn so much of ‘organization development’ but why do we stress so little on ‘self development’ ??

# I learnt  ‘International Business’– and how  to sell a refrigerator in Antarctica – but nobody taught me on how to convince a friend to quit smoking.

# To do business in a particular country we go to the extent of learning and imbibing their culture and language and yet when we are asked to adjust (and i am not even saying the C word- compromise 🙁 ) with our in-laws, we are not ready.

# We all talk of TQC (Total Quality Control) , what about the Quality of our life????

waiting for answers….

Abha Deshkar

29/10/2010.