College Days are very crucial and important in our life: Motivation Guru, Cdr. Jaitly
While it is important to teach them how to achieve success, it’s equally important to teach them how cope up with failures in life!
New Delhi: Commander VK Jaitly, a veteran Navy official, motivational speaker, mentor, trainer for corporate world, author and presently Board Member of IIT Bhubaneswar, (a premier training institue of India), laments on the incidents of student suicides and feeling of pessimism among the young minds, due to directionless race for excellence.
An alumni of IIT Kharagpur and advisor at Partha Ghosh Academy of Leadership, he feels the incidents of students committing suicide in some colleges like IITs is very unfortunate. “I think students need to be taught how to plan and achieve success in their life, without tension. Equally important is to teach them how to cope up with failure in life. I am trying to contribute in stopping such unfortunate incidents through a large number of talks in colleges and universities.”
In 2016, at the end of my first talk at IIT Kharagpur, a student came to me and said, “Sir, I want to share something with you.” “Please go ahead,” I replied. “Sir, …… after listening to you, I have dropped the idea of committing suicide. ….. “, the first yr boy from RP Hall told me very calmly. I was stunned. I put my hand on his shoulder and sat with him on the nearest bench. He told me his story and reiterated that he is now fully motivated and shall never think of that stupid cowardly act. Those words keep ringing in my mind, whenever I read such sad news. I think such incidents can be reduced drastically if we talk and talk with these students.
College life is very important in our life. These 3 to 6 years can lay a very strong foundation for the rest of the life if used properly. So the Orientation Programs for the 1st yr students in the first 7 days become very important. Great motivators can do wonders. Commander VK Jaitly (an ex IITian and National Coordinator, Youth4Nation) has created a 90 minutes Audio Visual program titled “Shaping Your Future in the Next 2/3/4 years @ (Name of the College). Last year he did programs at SRM University at Chennai, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Bhubaneswar, IIT Dharwad, BVRIT Engineering College for Women at Hyderabad, NIT Warangal, Priyadarshini College at Nagpur and SCSVM Kanchi Math University at Kanchipuram. He interacted with a total of 15,000+ students, faculty and others during these 2 to 3 months. This year also IIT Mandi, IIT Indore, Manipal University Jaipur, IIT Kharagpur, SRM Chennai, IPSA Indore are in the pipeline.
Cdr. Jaitly has written several books on mentoring students and corporate executives like ‘We Can, We Can!’, 100 Great IITians and more!
If interested, you can contact him at : cdr.vk.jaitly@gmail.com
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