There are around 7 billion brains in the world and each brain forms a different story about a particular thing. The story is influenced by a lot of factors like the mindset, past experiences, current situation, creativity of the individual etc. Sometimes the perception is also influenced by the system of which an individual has been a part of and in the present context for me it’s the education system. All of us have been through almost the same kind of education system that promoted us to learn whatever was taught by the instructor and the system thus tried to instill a standardised system of thinking in our brains wherein all of us thought in the similar way in order to reach the same answer. Slowly and steadily the above mentioned thought process got engrained in our thoughts and we started perceiving things in a biased way and strived to somehow reach the answer that would fetch us good grades. I carried the same thought process to my B school and in the very first lecture that I attended the subconsciously imposed system of thinking was challenged. The subject was statistics and as soon as the class saw the problem students started solving it and got the “right” answer. But, the instructor straightaway declared the answer wrong though he said that it was mathematically right. A wave of utter confusion went across the room and the students started discussing among themselves as to what was the instructor trying to point towards.
Then from the platform came a heavy voice probably to challenge the thought process of each one of us, he asked us What should anyone do with your solution? Will it help to make any decision? How will this answer help the manager? We tried and tried but all the efforts went down the drain as our thought process was encumbered with the past learnings. But, diligently playing the role of an instructor he said that the formula will lead you to answer but the direction in which you concentrate your thoughts will give you the solution and right course of action. The course of action may be different for everyone but then, that is how it should be after all we have brains to think and not just to process commands. That is what I would like to call my most amazing and enlightening experience in my till date journey of a B School.
ABG Company that I would like to be a part of:
The ABG Company that I would like to be a part of in the future is Aditya Birla Capital Ltd. The rationale behind my selection of ABC is my liking and interest in the financial services sector of which ABC is one of the biggest players in the Indian market. Being a brand of a stature that ABC is it will give me the right kind of exposure to pursue the domain of my liking in the best way possible and being able to pursue what I like will give me the motivation to contribute my best in every way possible.
Yash Choudhary
PGP 1st Year
IIM Shillong
