 After enchanting us with the literary wonders of London in her vlog series, Arpita Karva embarked on a new chapter, a college tour across India. In each college, she shared her profound passion for literature, delving into her UGC-NET preparation journey and personally engaging with students. Today, we bring you a special snippet from Arpita's insightful lecture at Jain University, Bangalore. Join us as Arpita unfolds her career journey, sharing learnings that resonate beyond the pages, offering a glimpse into a world where literature meets inspiration. Get ready to dive into the essence of Arpita's wisdom, right from the heart of Jain University. Welcome to a journey of passion and knowledge. I request Dr. Sunvi Jain, area head of English to welcome our guest, Ms. Arpita Karva. We welcome you, ma'am, and we request you to kindly come up to address the young minds. Let's begin by just giving a quick introduction of my journey. Did my bee honours in literature with psychology as a subsidiary subject from IS University, and it was from 2013 to 16. Then I did my masters in English. I was a gold medalist in the entire state of Rajasthan. And then I did clear my UGC-NET in 2017. So right now what I do, I have put that on the slide. Though firstly I'm a YouTuber, I'm an educator, online educator as well on YouTube, where I put up videos related to English literature. There are certain skills that you don't need exactly for the job that you are aiming for. For example, if you're a software engineer, so coding is one of the hard skills that you need to know. Unless and until you don't know that, you won't get a job. Soft skills is something that helps you take on that career ladder a bit more faster. Law of Attraction basically says in terms of what Sharukh Khan has said in Om Shanti Om that if you want something from your heart, then the whole universe helps you with that. So that is what Law of Attraction is basically all about. Why do you think that my career story is worth your attention? So one very important thing that I would want to draw your attention to is the concept by Steve Jobs, if you've heard. Connecting the dots. In Satford University, in 2005, he gave me this speech where he said that whatever has happened in my life, when I look back, I can see that how all those things were so relevant in making me what I am today. We all live through multiple turning points. And if we look at each turning point as a life lesson, then it is a huge possibility that we will be able to see our life in a very different way and we will be able to learn from each journey. If you make any mistake, please never go on a guilt trip saying that I wish I could have done this or that. If you can just look at it that I made this mistake, let me see what lessons can I get from it. And if you just take that lesson with you and you move ahead in your life, it's going to be such a wonderful drive. So let's begin with my school life. There were four events in my school life. The first event was when I chose commerce with maths in my 11th grade. Two years later, I decided that I am going to shift my career and I am going to take humanities in my senior college, in my graduation. Second is I have a younger brother who is eight years younger to me. I am like his second mother and I was always very studious. I have taught him a lot. And while I was teaching him in my 11th and 12th grade, I realized that I really enjoyed teaching him. Number three, I found deep interest in English literature. So when I was in 11th and 12th grade, Kapil Sible was the educational minister. And he started something called CCE. I don't think you guys would have heard of it because it has been going on for a long time. So CCE basically said that it should not be just about the pen paper exam. It should more be about activities and assignments through which you learn. So we gave a lot of assignments in our school. One of the assignment was to write a book on our own. Then there was another assignment where I had to act Julius Caesar with a group of other students. And while I was doing all of this, I kind of realized this thing that the stories of literature appeal a lot. And finally, so I decided after teaching my brother and after going through a few English classes that I would want to pursue a career in English and teaching. A career that kind of clubs these dual interests of mine. So what lessons did I understand? The 4 years, 9, 10, 11, 12th grade period there were three lessons that I understood based on the key events that we just talked about. So the first lesson was to discover your passion and take the road less traveled. Number two, embracing change. It's never too late to take a U-turn. And then the next thing is the breaking the stereotypes. This was one of the hardest battle I've ever lived. The face of college life. So the face of college life, the first thing that I did was that I took a training under a mentor who was a soft skill institute manager. His name is Abhinav Dhaia and he played a pivotal role in my journey. He came to my college to give me this kind of a talk. And I got so inspired by what he said. So I opened my soft skill institute and in the entire college time, from 2013 to 2016, I was doing the honors in literature and in the entire three years, I have conducted four sessions every day from 4 o'clock to 8 o'clock. So there was no life in the name of college life. So my college years were all about very, very dedicated college years. Here I wrote a very important line which I have also highlighted which is about that mastery requires 10,000 hours of hard work. One very important thing. Please, don't prioritize your friends. I am telling you from my personal experience. These friends of yours, where will they be after four years? You never know. And your best friends will be lifelong with you. If you haven't given them the time and left them, they weren't even good friends. Now moving to the last phase which is about my startup journey and the lessons that I've learned. So the first key thing that I did when I started my website which was on 14th of February 2018, I was preparing for UGC net exam right before that and I was able to find out the USP. I finally, after three years of struggling with what I want to do with my life after taking English literature, I was able to find out one thing that was missing in the market which was not good quality teachers in the field of UGC net. Especially, humanity is my volume in general but in UGC net English literature there weren't a lot of key teachers right there helping students and that is from where I got an idea that why not if I'm so passionate about teaching in literature. Let me open my own startup. Let me start my own website. One very important lesson as an entrepreneur that I've learned as a YouTube creator when you put content on YouTube I'm telling you there will always be somebody criticizing you telling you you did a bad job this was not right, that was not right this is always going to happen there will be competitors who will be bloody jealous of you who are going to pull you down through so many ways and what you have to understand is that do you know the constructive way of handling criticism. Very quickly four mantras for the college life. Great minds discuss ideas I think you all know about this quote so if you want to be in those great minds like Aristotle and Shakespeare it is very very important that you start focusing your energy on thinking about working upon ideas and not just thinking about people and what are they doing. Another very important thing you can only underperform or perform at the level of your belief. When there is rain take a tub in the rain take a bucket take a spoon take a bowl you will be as heavy as that vehicle the vessel is its size there is a lot of rain if you want you can take a tub and fill it with water if you want in life then you can do a lot but you will be as heavy as your belief system Another important thing when you start early in college a lot of students will have this thing which is fear so fear is nothing but false evidence accepted real there is nothing that you believe in reality that is fear so if you want to get out of fear so the only thing that you need to understand is that we all make mistakes no one has learnt from their mother's womb we all make mistakes and when we make mistakes we will learn from that another very interesting philosophy which is you do not get what you desire you get what you deserve keeping all this in mind I think that I should you know end the session on the note that there are only few things that you have to keep in mind from the entire session the first is 10,000 hours of mastery aad se hi jitne bhi mahine aap ke paas hai please start investing 4 to 5 hours every day to do something that not a lot of other people are doing develop skills which will help you outside college to get a job to build your own start up and the very important thing that please do not get on a guilt trip if in case you are not able to reach where you want to reach we all have a journey where we are going to not reach the goal directly straight nahi hota hai khum firke kaise tahise karki aap pohachi jata hai jaha hum pohach na chata hai we just have to keep going consistently and we have to keep faith in ourselves okay so I hope the session was helpful I tried to like talk about my journey and the lessons that I have learned so thank you so much everyone