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Overcoming the challenges of Life

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Pranay Surana
Pranay Surana

If your first instinct is to run away from failures, then perhaps you’re doing it the wrong way!

–Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla

In the past 23 of years of life I came across many challenging situations in my life, Be it leaving home to go in a boarding school at the early age of nine and feeling a gap being a Hindi a medium student, to being a non-ambitious and carefree guy at teenage, to facing challenging financial and emotional situations. Like everybody else in the lot I have experienced it all but thing which marks me different from the lot is ‘Perseverance’.

Bootstrapped my way out..!!

One situation which stands out is when I was in my 6th semester of engineering and due to some of my unproductive habits I have got myself tangled into quagmire situations when I realized its time ‘Reboot’ my mental and emotional system and work towards a better life. It was quite challenging for a guy with poor communication skill and a pity score of 35 in HSC boards Mathematics to clear competitive exams heavily based these subjects but with determined mindset I started preparing with fundamental of ‘Consistency’ and started devoting an hour a day to study, then 2 hours, then 3 hours and at last 6 -8 hours of study a day and finally Consistency and Perseverance paid off with excellent marks in competitive exams where I Scored 99.98%ile in Mat, 98.34%ile in CAT and 96%ile in XAT with all the section marks going above 92%ile and bailed out myself and within same period I started analyzing companies in the stock market and invested little amount time-to-time from my savings for a better and endeavoring future and understood the importance of Planning, Investing and ‘Bootstrapping’.

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Overcoming the challenges of Life