Mansi Trivedi: Inspiration

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A blog shouldn’t be written for others. It should be written for the satisfaction of publishing your thoughts. Because you can. And most of the time, your blog is a loss leader for bringing you the important opportunities that truly matter to your personal success.

Someone once criticized me for straying from the topic of medicine on my blog. I told them to go read someone else. Your blog shouldn’t be a topic. It should be an accurate reflection of the proportion of ideas and thoughts floating around in that head of yours.

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“Millenials are all-too-often criticized for their supposed sense of entitlement. I think the alleged “you owe me” factor stems from a lifetime of homework, standardized testing, over-nighters and intense pressure to scholastically achieve – all leading to the allusive light at the end of the tunnel: graduation. Students come out of college, pockets empty, heads full of theoretical facts and knowledge, slapped in the face with the fact that getting good grades and getting a good degree from a “good school” just isn’t enough. Everything you ever worked for doesn’t cut it. That’s not entitlement you sense. It’s disappointment.”

“Sure it’s useful for agencies - and sure it’s easier to manage complex organisations to produce and deliver against them - but frankly, in a world in which social influence reigns, it’s less and less relevant. Do more stuff, place more bets, light more fires, give yourself more chances that one at least of your ideas takes off.”

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… do the thing you think you cannot do.”

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… do the thing you think you cannot do.”