There are no. of ways to get a higher position and you have to apply them all together. the things like I have to be dynamic, flexible, cooperative and adaptive. Students shall apply these approaches too.
3. What is it like to juggle between a leadership role and normal college life?
To sort this issue of dancing between a professional life and a normal life, the adaptation is required i.e. when you can apply professionalism in your normal life too. One could be always a Leader whether it outside or inside.
4. What have been some of your biggest challenges and learning from what you do?
Maintaining patience is one of the biggest challenges that I have to face every day, whatever is in your mind should not be spilled out because if it does you might lose the positional powers or even your followers too. Calmness is basically required at every format of life and that is the biggest learning that ever had in my life.
5. How do your parents look at you participating in extracurricular activities?
Unlike many other parents, my parents have been very supportive from the starting. My mother used take us to different places for participating and my father always shared his experiences of his extracurricular activities which really helped a lot to get through the difficulties.
6. What are your career goals and how is what you are doing going to help you with that?
My career goal is to form a company where we are going to work for environmental sustainability. Recently, a couple of years earlier we have formed a club within our organization where we work to develop waste paper craft , art & craft etc. You may find it as a parallel process like some of the students are extremely talented, some of them know about the work and some of them are somewhat capable of doing things.
So it gives a variety to work with and that is what helps us to think in different ways. Also we work for a regular basis, so we have developed a system to support the work flow, where skilled people prepare the crafted object, some of them shoot it and some of them upload it on the different social media platforms. Therefore we are not only developing a craft piece but also we doing some kind of marketing too and learning process goes with it simultaneously.
7. How can we encourage more young students as yourself to take-up leadership roles?
See extracurricular things in our local sentiments have always been a key feature to add but that is not what people assume to be their goal, only some of them tries to give all of themselves into it. You do not say “I am leader” to yourself it is what others might call you at the times of inspiration.
Extracurricular is always doing something extra then a regular life, so if you choose it, then you are a leader by virtue.
8. What’s your message to encourage students to do internships and attend conferences?
In a professional life at the corporate, industries, army, organizations etc. you will always meet different people and they all will have different mindset than you. Sometimes we feel uncomfortable in between and that is what reduces the rate of our performance because we lack interaction, communication etc.
Attending internships and conferences increases our rate of cooperation and work ability as a group, there are so many ways in which you can learn how to communicate with different people and that will help you in the professional world too.
Interviewed by - Chirag Pant
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