Instance where I realized that my mind is my best friend:

There was a time during the final year of my undergraduate course, when I was confused

between joining two companies – Cognizant or Infosys. Having both offers at hand it was a

tough choice for me – Cognizant would give me the possibility to work in my own city and

Infosys would take me to Mysore. Now with these two offers from IT giants, most of my

friends and well-wishers were of the opinion that I should join Infosys because the training

they provide was the best in the industry. But somewhere in my mind I had this thought of

doing something else – something different than the regular IT job. The fact that Cognizant

would allow me to stay at my hometown thus appealed to me and I decided to accept

Cognizant’s offer. I thus, had the option of preparing for higher studies and reflect upon my

true call. While in Cognizant too, I got an amazing team to work with and grow myself

professionally. It was during my time in Cognizant only, that I found my true call of doing an

MBA. Most importantly, being at my hometown, I could devote time judiciously to prepare

for the entrance examinations which helped me to be a part of the prestigious IIM fraternity.

It was indeed a time when I listened to my heart and I was finally happy to see my dreams

coming to fruition.
Instance where I realized that my mind is my worst enemy:

The instance where my mind was the worst enemy was perhaps the time just after my board

examinations in the 12th standard. I studied in the Science stream during my higher

secondary, and I was confused. It was not that I was heavily invested in the idea of pursuing

an engineering course- just like all my batchmates, I too gave the exam. I failed to secure a

seat in a government engineering college. At the same time, I had applied for courses in

Statistics, at premier colleges of the city and even converted some. I was more less inclined to

pursue a course in that subject. But, one fine day a demonstration at the Science City changed

my mind. I was intrigued to hear about the emerging nanotechnology. Without much

thinking, I decided that I should join an Electronics Engineering course. During the course of

time, I was searching for my true call, as I could not really find what I intended for. But, at

the same time, I must acknowledge that during that time only I could finally find my true call

in data science. Life came to a full cycle when I decided to do an MBA and pursue my

interest in Data Science and Analytics. Though finally I did get my true call, but the journey

was a little longer. Perhaps at that time, if had joined a Statistics course, I could have done

things differently. But then, there is no denying that I could learn a lot from my experiences

which in the end I think, matters the most. This was such a particular instance, where I still

feel that I was largely driven by my mind to make a different decision.