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Being "Cool" is not enough

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        How many times have you read this quote? -“Back-benchers become entreprenuers, and then they hire the first-benchers”. This is the most inaccurate description of the Reality.               Coming late to class, bunking, becoming a murga, making fun of teachers… is it funny? Hell yes!! And, maybe even ‘cool’. But you know what is even cooler? –Earning 2.28 MILLION rupees per annum- that’s the median salary of the IIMA students in 2018. Cool enough, eh? And, you know what? Many of them do become entrepreneurs, and they will never hire you. Sorry, they will never be sorry.               It doesn’t matter if you are a back-bencher in a class, become a first bencher at whatever you love. Sachin Tendulkar has failed grade 10th board exams thrice. but, he was the first bencher in the field of cricket. He might even be richer than those Ivy League graduates, but the question is, how many of these back-benchers do succeed? The answer is- only a small fraction. Now, how many of