Sunday, March 2, 2014

Where do all the ideas go!?

There has been a lot of buzz about Satya Nadella, an Indian born, becoming the CEO of Microsoft. There were people mocking at those who were feeling proud about it. Their point is that he had to go to USA to reach such a great height. He is not even an Indian anymore and you can't take credit for it and you have got no reason to be proud of it. Well, I agree with them. Why is it hard for someone to succeed in India? Why don't we encourage budding entrepreneurs? Why don't we give way for innovations? Well, I must admit, things are changing these days. There are number of successful young entrepreneurs coming out with brilliant ideas. The social media has made it much more easier. But I feel that's only a portion of the youngsters in India. What about the rest? Do we all dream big... big enough to reach the stars? When I say why is it hard to succeed in India, I am not talking about the facilities, standard of education or infrastructure in our country. Its much simpler than that. I am talking about our thought process. How many of us really think about making it big?
I personally feel that not all of us are provided with enough freedom and support to think out of the box. For many Indian youngsters, the first problem arises when they are in a relationship.. Boyfriend... Girlfriend stuff, yeah. Most of our Indian parents cannot still digest the fact that their more than 20 year old son/daughter is in a relationship! Some of them feel its even wrong to chose your own life partner! Of course, caste is their problem. So they spend all their energy giving a tough time to these kids, trying to get them out of the relationship. And that's why most of the young generation's energy and time is spent in trying to face these problems, trying to convince their parents. If  basic things like love and healthy relationships are made so complicated and unattainable, how could someone go to the next level of thinking out of the box... taking their life to the next level, setting bigger goals, contributing to the society and so on. To be more clear, you must have heard about Maslow's hierarchy of needs. For those of you who haven't, here you go:



Here is the link for the Wikipedia page:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs.
I wonder, may be, If all the youngsters are given this freedom, the number of success stories, the number of young achievers will be much more than what it is currently!

8 comments:

  1. Claps:):) First para sooper:) but i felt that ur thoughts have gone deep into love and relationships in the second paragraph and got litl deviated :P and ur psychology lessons have come out well in the form of maslow's heirarchy;)

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  2. Thats an awesum wrk har!!! I liked d flow of ur topic frm SN to indian entrepreneurship... IMHO feel society n politics are major hurdles to growing minds!!! Gud jobbbbb!!! Looking for moreeee!!!!

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  3. Thank you Bala.. That deviation was intentional :)

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  4. Very true!! May be you write some more posts pulling up all the reasons :)

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  5. gud one.. :) But there are many other reasons that are not letting Indian youth to think out of the box..

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    1. Thank you Parikshit. Yes indeed there are many other reasons. I wanted to write about the one that i was seeing around me at that period of time.

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