I'm not the smartest person in the room. I'm also not the hardest working person in the room. I'm rarely the most creative, ambitious or disciplined.
This isn't humility, it's truth.
However, over 38 years, I've realised what I think I'm better than most at.
The ability to smile through any pain and not take anything too seriously.
Since childhood, I would be amused when my classmates would fret over bad marks. Or a broken heart. Or a fight with a friend.
I somehow smiled through JEE failures and broken relationships and surgeries and investor rejections and national television PR controversies and online hating over and over and over again.
It never affected me as much as people around me thought it would.
I would make immediate peace with my new reality and learn to be truly happy in it. It wasn't escapism or avoidance or denial. There was just a strange sense of 'F it, let's move on' every time.
And this trait - which I think I inherit from my dad and he from his mom - has been the true differentiator as a founder.
Now, nothing fazes me. The world can crash around me. But tomorrow I'll wake up and dedicate every breathing moment to my company. And people at BSC know this. Many of them are just like this - even more extreme some of em.
And you know the funny thing? Even if let's say Doomsday happens and we have to shut BSC down, we'll find homes for our employees, find ways to make our investors whole, cry a bit about what could have been but then smile it off and move to the next thing.
This is what will make us resilient. We just brush it off because nothing breaks us.
Not even a torturous 30 min MRI when I was in 10/10 nerve pain and forced to lie still. Smiled it off and wheeled my way home :)
PS - suffering a bad sciatica flare up. Beat it before, will beat it again. Not a biggie :)
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