“Life is too short or too long to be lived in the same way”
In Conversation with Ruhan:
How far has Climber been successful in spreading its message and actually helping students to pursue their passion?
The climber has impacted more than 50,000 students so far in India. Through MyCaptain.in ,our Online platform itself, we have catered close to 10,000 students so far, of which many have taken a a huge leap into their fields of passion. Many of them have won business plan competitions, have started up, written and published novels, built their own websites and apps, gone on to shift careers into design and what not! A lot of our My Captain mentees and Event delegates’ lives have been deeply impacted because of how we want to define things when it comes to passions and education. As a United Nations SDSN recognised program, we come with a strong belief of impacting students vertically and we will continue doing so with a team that has grown by 10 times since we started.
In a world where everyone is busy talking about advancement of technology and politics why did you think that helping students discover their passion would be of prime importance and that you would actually be successful in helping them?
What would you ask your younger self to learn in school?
The art of Perseverance !
Now coming to passion and helping students discover it there is always a barrier. Supposing a student is not interested in science but his family has a big name in that line and his parents want him to pursue Medical and forces him to take it up. If you are given a chance to talk to both of them in a common room, how would you tackle the situation so that there everyone in the family is satisfied by a certain decision.
Remind the parents of how important it is for a doctor to be focused on his/her work because lives are at stake. If their daughter/son is not interested in the work a Doctor does, wouldn’t it be irresponsible on our part to force him into the field? Ask the student what she/he wants to become and connect them to someone young who has done great things in that field. This would give parents the assurance that their child can make a Career in the field with ease, and also would educate the student about the challenges and opportunities to explore.
How was your experience in volunteering at disaster helpine and relief organisation?
Does your engineering life have any connections with your decision to discover The Climber and helps student?
How do you plan to expand Climber in the near future ?
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If you had one piece of advice to someone looking for a start up what would it be?
Look for a problem to solve. I see a lot of students try to start up these days just to look hip and sound cool. That’s not what a start up is about. A start up (be it tech or non-tech) can only think of being successful if it tries to solve a problem. So look for a problem to solve, and ask yourself if you are passionate enough to solve it. Things will start opening up after that.
