Dots always get connected | #85

Believe that dots you create, will somehow get connected in the future

Aug 18, 2023

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Steve Jobs once said you don’t connect dots looking forward, you have to connect the dots looking backward.

In this newsletter, I want to tell you my 2 stories that gave a good direction to my life, the stories that helped me get internships before my 12th class, and how I started my content creation

Story 1

I decided to start my YouTube channel a day before my 9th class science final exam. But I paused it for a year because it was my 10th next year and I wouldn’t have been consistent. After the 10th finished, I was not starting my channel, I was procrastinating.

One day, I saw an Instagram post by Varun Duggirala about a Creator Workshop he was conducting. I immediately signed up for it. It was scheduled for 1-2 May 2021.

On 22 April 2021, I thought let’s start a YouTube channel before the workshop so that I can make videos and along with it learn from Varun Duggirala. So, in the next 2 days, I made a new account, scripted the intro video, shot the video, edited it, and made the thumbnail. On the 25th, at 12 pm, I uploaded it.

Though in the upcoming week, I got to know that the workshop was postponed to 15-16 May due to some reasons, but the workshop gave me a start to my YouTube channel. If it wouldn’t be scheduled for 1-2 and I wouldn’t decide to make videos and learn, I wouldn’t have started my content creation.

Story 2

I was not good at studies and never linked studying to school. I got less marks in every exam. I was scolded for my less marks and a few of my classmates insulted and made fun of me.

But due to that, I wanted to do something different and prove everyone wrong. So, here’s what I did when the corona pandemic started. (PS. My 10th and pandemic started at the same time)

In 10th I met a lot of amazing people on the internet. I got to learn a lot from them.

After the 10th I started my YouTube channel and Newsletter.

In 12th, I started making my Proof of Work and building side-projects.

Just before my 12th board exams, I started 2 internships in 2 startups. I got those internships just because I worked on my skills and built my Proof of Work.

Thanks to the low marks and the pandemic I started working on the important things in life, that was working on skills.

Due to all the projects I built and the startups I worked in, I got into my dream college and that is Masters’ Union. I’ll be doing my Undergraduate Program in Technology and Business Management. It will start next week.

The point I am sharing here is, the dots in my life aligned well. As Steve Jobs says in his 2005 Stanford Commence speech, you have to connect the dots looking backward and you have to believe that they will get connected and make your life better.

So, do you have a similar story to tell, you can tell your story to me in the comments or just reply to this mail

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WATCH

There’s a difference between Interested and Obsessed. Do you know what’s the difference? Here’s what Kobe Bryant tells the difference from his experience: Watch here

PODCAST

Do you know what can we learn from the JEE Kota culture? Do you know why JEE prepetition teaches you? Here is a podcast of NV sir on The Ranveer Show, where they talk about the Kota Culture, JEE Exams, and Engineering: Watch here

In this together,

Pranav ✌️

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