I was lucky to spend few years of my life in New Delhi, right after my college days. Used to take local bus service "blue line" (private bus service, notorious for their bad road safety records). Also notorious for not starting the trip unless the bus was full with passengers. They used to have simple sentence printed near the driver seat. "जल्दी आपको है, हमें नहीं" (you are in hurry, not us).
Now, let’s apply that to your career..
- Not everyone is in hurry
- Take it slow
- You need to take other people along
- Let’s accommodate...
How many times have you heard that? I guess multiple… Nothing wrong in these statements. But here is bad news. If you followed these statements, you most probably gave up on something you were passionate about. Just because
- someone else was not ready with their set of work
- someone else was busy with something else
- someone else didn’t care enough
- Someone else had other priorities.
Can you see a pattern?
Your growth, your success depends on ‘You’, it’s Your responsibility. Not just for getting the research done, or implementing it, but also taking it to the end. If someone else is in the way, whether it’s a person, or a system or a process, you need to find a way out. You need to overtake.
It’s not easy to pull yourself up to accomplish something, and once you have already put all the effort, don’t get held up by external reasons. Be impatient, very impatient for your growth.
The difference between the guy who became CEO and the one who retired at manager level, is not just talent.
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