That guy got an admit from IIM XYZ. This girl bagged a well-known brand internship. Someone else raised funding for their startup in the third year of college.
These are all whirlwinds – they create noise, stir excitement, and kick up a lot of dust.
The marks scored by memorizing past-year papers don’t guarantee real skills. That popular college club might just be a resume bullet point. The brand placement you ‘cracked’ could turn into a nightmare. And whether that funding was worth the investment? The market will decide sooner or later.
So let the dust settle. Don’t get too swayed by the whirlwinds.
When your peers have completed their higher education, when there are no more exciting twists left in the race, when exams, ranks, and placements are done and dusted, and the noise finally dies down – it becomes very, very easy to spot those who’ve separated real substance from mere milestones.
Start with small, consistent efforts: read for 10 minutes a day, write one page, and build one skill at a time. And let compounding do its magic.
That’s when your true growth becomes inevitable. Keep no doubt about it.