One of my friend asked me as did so many others "what are you planning to do next?CAT,GMAT,GRE??" When I said none, he was so disappointed for me that I saw empathy for me in his eyes. Some other day, someone recited "you know, if your english is good, you are on top, man." I am sure he believed, more you speak in GDs and interviews, more your chances are. Listen another friend "yaar, tell me some course jisme attendance fight nahi ho aur grade bhi lag jaaye." I told him about one course that if you do little bit of work, you would get A- without attending much classes. He further asked "Achha yaar, yeh bata. Kya koi aisa course hai jisme bilkul bhi mehnat na karni pade aur A- lag jaaye!".
The reader would have to bear one or two more incidents. One of my colleague told me joyfully "yaar, I designed certificates for their club. The design was so good that I asked one for myself. I got one easily because signature on it was done by my friend in the club in the name of G.Sec. If you need, I can get one for you too." I gave him some cold water as he was tired carrying bundle of certificates. One last incident. My friend asked " yaar jiski Mckinsey mein job lagi hain, uske paas inter-IIT, exchange, aur EDLC tha... mera bhi inter-IIT aur exchange to ho gaya hai to mere chances kitney hain?"
These all incidents have one common cord that we all today share with each other and that is -making fool of each other. Today, every other newspaper has story and analysis of some MBA college placement- average domestic package, highest international salary etc. Oh! Why would not that attract to a young Indian average class man or woman (who always keeps in mind average salary figures, of course). People are convinced by media and their friends that one who does not have leadership skills, does not stand a chance in today's world. Well, if someone of you do not have them, we can feed them to you by spoons. The other option is always there where you can fight for whole of your lifetime to convince others that you have leadership skills. Gandhi did not need to develop leadership skills for his Satyagraha movement.
When we see people fighting with each other for all nonsense, call it posts, certificates, grades by doing maximum fraud that they can, I really doubt about their claim of leadership skills. A artificial leader can be made when we teach him how to stop others from becoming leaders. A leader is governed by knowledge and wisdom , the terms whose meanings we confuse today with smartness.
We live in world where people know very little but dilemma is that they are getting trained to make big by becoming smart, not by knowing more.
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