00:00I was born in a family of bureaucrats. I was class six or seven when I started reading almost religiously
00:06the competition success review. It used to contain the interviews of IAS toppers. I must be an IAS officer. I
00:12must be an IAS officer. Dream.
00:15You will go to IIT to become engineers. I went to IIT because most of the IAS toppers were IITs.
00:21Look at the mind. Now I write the examination. I also clear it. I get a rank. Not IAS topper.
00:27One of the allied services. However I discover that this is not what it is. If I really want to
00:32do something I must not be in the government. But that is what intelligence demands of you. That even if
00:38you have it in your hands give it up if you find that it is not worth it. I had
00:43to give it up.
00:44I gave it up. All your dreams are your limitations. First of all they come from the past. Second they
00:51limit your present. Thirdly they are going to become your chains in the future. How many of you are really
00:58eager to live in a trap? I know it hurts. It hurt me badly when I had to give up
01:02my dream. But better to do that early. I put in two years of effort and then gave it up.
01:07Far better to not to have a fixed idea of the future and let it just flow.
01:14It flows beautifully.
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