 So, you know, he is a master in the kitchen, and I'm sure I could have done a lot with you back home today. But I need further ado, can you just invite Arjun to work? I am certainly going to address you guys. Please welcome Mr. Arjun. It's when you meet people who come to universities or professors, you must first ask them for their discipline. So, I, my profession, I am history professor. But I teach the story of cities through food. So, my first class, any introduction or space, understanding India through Biryani. Also, the walk-ins through my story, and some of you are going to try and find a connect. The other thing that I usually talk about, and cross-moving in India, I get boulevard, it's a football team, a sport called Arsenal. Usually, India's full of matches in the United States and Chelsea fans. Mostly people like our glory actors. But we get the how many of you watch the India, how many of you watch the English version? Okay, it's quite a few. Are there any Arsenal fans here? Yeah, I feel the story of my life. Is this me against the rest of India? Okay, so, I grew up in Calvary. I went to the old boys' school in India to study. So, generationally, the most traditional school set up by the British in the early 1800s. Very strong school, very traditional, a lot of legacy. The school started in 1836, so there's a lot of focus on overall development. Now, when I was growing up, I was really bad at math. Extremely bad at mathematics. Now, how many of you here genuinely think you're bad at math? Put your hands up and put it up confidently. Awesome. This is great. It's not bad to be bad at math. Some of you teach it with math teachers, but try and not look me with their eyes right now. So, when I was growing up, I was good to believe that if I wasn't good at mathematics, I wouldn't do anything in life. It was like the Holy Gospel. It was the truth. Oh my God, you're not going to be bad. You're going to be a failure for the rest of your life. Now, that fear of mathematics overtook understanding the subject. So, when I was growing up, my parents made it a point for me to attend as many math institutions as possible. Now, India's the only country in the world where you have to get better at something you're bad at to spend more time with. Okay. So, we're sent to course. Two students, one, two, three, four. And my friend, I'm a really child. So, my friends obviously didn't think of anything wrong with me. It was mathematics. So, with four tutors, it's still failing math and learning more about that subject and paying for knowing and learning stones because one of the best well-known drummers in Caledon was my math tutor. So, he saw no scope for understanding technology. So, I started learning the drums and started learning how to play to a beat. Started listening to the doors, the beatles, the stones and this company, education and music allowed me an introduction to our school culture. The general hierarchy of education in high school in India is science, commerce. Now, I think works of humanity is one of this person doing life. These are the three different structures. When I was growing up, I always wondered was there a written law to tell me that science is more important than the other? And is that the reason why most of us are fast-paced, age-free looking, IIT but not to study engineering, but to secure a salary? So, those questions can be very, very young. Now, given how bad I was at math and having zero understanding of physics or chemistry, science is obviously wounded but I really enjoy understanding how psychology works in your mind. I really want to know philosophy. I read a lot when I was growing up. So, I wanted to know more about literature and poetry but being a boy, I was asked what do you want to be when you grow up? I was a school teacher and that made me question another thing that the most underrated profession in this country is being a teacher and they are the people that shape your life and the kind of people who give up their life to make sure you live a great life. So, when my housemasters were coming to chat with us I always wondered why wouldn't we, college, be teachers and which is when I'm going to ask you do you want to be a teacher? Zero to one. Raise your hand higher. Come on. Okay, four of you, five of you. I'm so proud because five of you are what I'm going to call the minority report. Okay? Because the rest of the country doesn't think that your age says you can even imagine making a teacher. So, when I was growing up I was told if I become a teacher or I learn it I'll be literally in the Kutta Bajama being a ballot 126 school is over. Now, imagine having that image in your head. Right? It scared me. So, I wrote a letter saying why I should study humanities. I got called into an office for a rollercoaster and I was told that a very young age humanities is for girls. Now, imagine. Imagine you're a 17-year-old boy who's on the cricket team or the hockey team, the bosses, plays rugby and is suddenly tied in the past and it's being a girl. Okay? Education does not have gender. Remember that education should never have gender. You study what you love. It's very important for you to realize that. So, I ended up studying commerce. Okay? And I never understood accountancy. There was something in accounting like FIFO and FIFO. Last year first and first and first. And I thought to myself why am I studying this? Then whatever you want last or first as long as I get my marks, right? And I never had that sense of responsibility to want to know more which is the worst thing that happened in academia. If you're not curious if you're not hungry to move on why do you study? You know, when I was delivering my first debt talk I did something around why you must chase what you love and I did it completely around the poor that I read and I was very young. It's the American poor who claims charts because of it. Okay? And because he said find what you love and let it kill you. I never tried to be someone else. I had a very clear understanding at the young age that science wasn't for me. I was curious about how things worked, how dials went in circles for a car to move but I wasn't going to build those dials for the car. I just wanted to sit and get some point in the point being to do something I love. At 17 how many of you will raise your hands and say, I won't be able to be? I want to contribute to society. I want to make a difference in the world I live in because none of these things are going to be you. None of these things are things you get marks on. You know, I wherever I go the one thing I really talk about is India's obsession with marks and now I speak with full responsibility because the team of physicians in probably the country is number one private college where number one law where you implement the plans but I will tell all of you that when we look at a patient we look at the person and it's very important we realize that because when I was applying the college to the US to the UK it wasn't just the green all of you have a name your name signifies who you are not a percentage you're on 91, 96 or 61 or 74 you have a name and no one is going to say how you are 95% there's a word for that how we are required to pass on our things so why do we therefore later at some point develop this crazy handover of this grade and this mark that's going to define the rest of my life it's very important these are things that I'm telling you because this will shape the future of India if today some of you are studying something that you're not passionate about you will always be second best you know why because there's someone who's passionate about it when passion and commitment is there in academics and in our case it's just chasing something we're not that good at that person will always give you steps ahead of you and this is when you realize that each of you sitting here is good at a particular subject so I started applying for jobs okay I applied over 100 jobs for a platform okay and I said what's wrong with these guys I was called after an apartment and you know I had they were hiring me and I said realize it's more about these models if you were head voice that's great to get into college and that's when my life is if you got into college and someone else you did your first job remember that you're building blocks and your time lines are very short-term on that one so it's cool if you're thinking for the school team it doesn't even go to work when they work it doesn't even so you're thinking this time line should be all on 24th so when I started applying a friend of mine said she said why don't you apply to Maryland now Maryland is the biggest investment bank in the world JT Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Maryland Edge, Morgan Stanley they pulled the world okay the math stress okay I was like you know there's no chance you'll never pass this and she said it's online what's the best you can do with this child so I went there I said you know I'm just advocating courses like I need to read some of the questions and they said okay you can pass now so I got to London on the field and I stayed with my flatmate for my degree 10 years and I worked in a corporation that was my own child because he's the only man in history of mankind and I have six places of job in one city it's not easy well because I'm really hungry I'm having six places but I'll be with my child and it's not easy to child it still doesn't so I go to child and I come and stay with him and I say yeah I'll show up go go down to London and I say and you know when you just want a job it's time to have a job it's no more you just come you come a week in advance you stay with me Now, I'm going to tell you a very important lesson, which is you've got to learn something you love, and for me that's awesome. Okay, it's known as the world goes on. I started supporting from politics in 2019, so I want to support if you're working to this, irritate them. And, I just want to ask them, I just thought that it's a great deal because it's a wonderful time for me to ask them. So, I went a little to the ground, I felt like I was home, my father told me why it's disgusting, we went in. Asked them what she's doing against what's happened, my life changed, and I became a beautiful life. And now I'm also telling them that my current wife is the biggest friend of mine from the world. But like I said, forgiveness is the key element in life. So, I've got to keep moving on. So, when I'm at Charles Love, Charles had to do one request. He said, you go on Fridays, I do laundry. Now, this statement made no sense to me. I said, okay, prepare for the biggest interview of my life. Socks. Look at a shirt, and a tie, and a jacket, and trousers, and shoes. No gloves and socks. And I insist on the rest of your life, keep in front of the socks and more. Okay? I wait for the interview on a Saturday morning at 6 o'clock, right? Today is the first of the 7. Okay? I'm up finding everything ready all night. I've seen drafts, and equations, and different facials that made no sense to me. It's not getting ready. And my shoes, yes. And I can't see the single person outside the copairs, and some of it's what you'd use. So, I see Charles Browning walking through with some breakfast, and he's like, all of the best friends you'll ever meet. And he's like, oh God, I want to show the team on you. What logic is this? I mean, so at this point, I can prove it. You won't kill him then. The second person is going to take me back again. And no one ever wears a trousers over them, because it looks extremely awkward. So, I open my eyes for the first time. It's the biggest interview of my life. And this is the crazy part. But then, everyone was like, what's he wearing underneath his trousers? And so, I know some people who love me, but they don't do something you love. And I went to them and they said, what are you wearing? And I said, well, I'll ask this on the first floor. Now, this is the greatest conversation I've ever had. Because we started speaking about football in Brighton. Now, I grew up in Cabinet. I put my grandfather's name on it for a moment, but now, they've been there. And all of Brighton trains essentially have to with a sense of religion about it. So, at least before this movement began, it's essentially saying, Cabinet was in Bangladesh. In this era, they're not supposed to celebrate it. And in Cabinet, at least before, the price of fish goes up because people celebrate. And if more people celebrate, the price of prawns go up. And this is fascinating. And then, the conversation which was made by Samandha, asked in Canada. Rangers felt it. Cabinet didn't protest it. India, Pakistan, Africa, I said, okay, don't get me there. But just think about it. For the next one hour, in the biggest investment plan, we spoke about things I love. Things no one has ever created me on. Congratulations. I think I'm going to descend on the rest of the desk. So, your mind is post office. It's like Uber ratings. You know? But they will come and be rated on like Uber ratings for post office people. If you're really listening to us, right? Use the first few years of the time you have to travel. There is no greater education in the world than travel. And then meeting people. So, the first step by the park actually is Musafi, okay? And Musafi is the owner. My great-grandfather was the creator of Golden Age films. If you have a Satyajit film, his guru was somewhat of a quick product. Films were screened across the U.S. The first Indian filmmaker who had really made it here. That love power doesn't pass away, but his cinema still stands so strong. And Musafi was a film that he wrote. And if you're all together too, it is biggest actress there. They're not actually getting part of that. So, for me, Musafi was a very strong place in my heart. And I kept traveling. I kept going. When I turned 13 three years ago, I told myself, there are no five countries that I have to be affiliated with. You don't need to be privileged to travel. You need to be smart to travel. It's a very important figure in the world. It's an experience that you can get in a village with a small town. You can do that. It's going to change the way you function, it's going to change the way you think, it's going to change the way you deal with other human beings. And the returns are not financial. The returns are human. I want to go today, when you go over to a couple of exercises. One, one piece of paper. Please don't share this with anyone. This is for you. If you don't share this with me, I thought I would not be a good person. One piece of paper. Draw a line down the middle. Okay. On the left, right, left. In the right, like this. Like this is a very strong one. Try and avoid using it as much as you can. Love. Write the subjects of love. Not just boring but stuff that is really interesting. Stuff that you like. Man, I wish I knew more. I would wish I had such a stronger understanding. These might be subjects you do really well, which isn't added when found between. Okay. So write them on the left. On the right, subjects you don't like. For me that's like math, math, math, math, math, math. Seven, eight, nine, ten. Or whatever it is you want to do. Look at it. When it comes to choosing college, when it comes to choosing your university, look at that piece of paper. Don't share it with anyone. Don't share it with your parents. Don't share it with your best friend. Don't share it with your father. Don't share it with anyone. Just make sure you keep that piece of paper because that is an inflection of honesty. When you go to university, it's a new chapter. You can reinvent yourself. No one will know you then. So try and give it everything that you wish you could be. Because it's the only thing you can do yourself. And that's very important for each of you to know. Now, if you're scared of not doing what you want to study in college, if a friend of a college is more important than a subject you're studying, because you live in that building, should I book that college because that college is a stamp? Should I go to the college because it's going to teach me something that I really want to know more? That book is a mushroom you can ask. No counselor, no teacher, no friend. You yourself will have to be the best judge about what it is you want to know. Okay? Now, I get the one problem for this particular, there are these psychometric tests. I don't know if this will make you do it. If they do, I'm going to say something about controversial. I personally believe the most important aspect is human. It's how do you feel if a piece of paper tells you what you have to do, tomorrow a robot can come to work. And the robot is programmed by a human being. So, remember when you're starting to think about college, all of you are coming to that point in time when the biggest, the first life decision that people take is college. Because why all of you are studying here is not your decision. Your parents are all incredible school. A great opportunity that you're studying here. You were in college, you were putting, but no idea what happened. And now you're in class 11. You're like, here you are. When you're in college, in college, in college, are going to say, It's the first decision that you will take. More than impulse, it's passion and it's right, and it's self-belief, and definitely there are no better things else. So let's not waste time on something from it. I mean a friend of mine, who is now in 19 forever, It raised my heart because you know properly we are going to find as many leaders in the other positions to direct ourselves to other things I know. And I keep thinking that if one day this guy works for this guy, we'll do it. But I hope that if you want to come to the judgement of how later you are free, how later you are not happy since you are the planet above you. So I hope that in some way you can distinguish the risks you get. And being a member of Indian society, each one have a lot of their own pressure and their own pressure. So going out of here, it is possible to look at this as well. Even for me it is a long time which I have not believed in what I wanted to do. I think the day I put the investment back here in 2016, I knew I was buying a JCPG. But till 2016, I had to buy a JCPG. So I told myself that this investment back here makes a lot of money. So if I do something for 3 years and fail regularly, I have enough to buy back here. One is do yourself a corporate space for different females. So you have a little bit of savings that you can rely on. And then start chasing something you really want to do. I want to do a different one. And I can do the same lecture to them as well, which is passion to give to others. Because if you are a child, if you are thinking for the best of a child, if you allow the child to chase and run and fly, if you keep saying that go to IITJHE, go to this coaching sector, go to that coaching sector, you have tried to lead your life for the child. Whereas I understand that most parents will want only the best for their children. Sometimes, societal pressure, aspiration comes over and beyond the reality of the situation. The best way of acting this way is to have a hard-won conversation with your parents on day one. Hopefully some people sitting here will be getting changes in the network, by actively having the support of their parents and chasing their children. Knowing that a failure happens, so be it for their future. Simple as that. Thank you very much.