My Speech

This is the speech that I gave on the occassion of FE induction programme of VIT

Date:      23rd August,2010 

Venue:   Reading Hall,
              Vidyalankar Institute of Technology.



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Good Morning everyone…!!







Firstly, I thank my institute for giving me an opportunity to share my opinions with the new-comers in this institute.




Let me ask you …..


What is your ultimate goal in your life? To be successful and affluent? Just to be happy? To achieve a unique identity in society? Or, if you have already matured as a person of substance, to give back something to society? Or to seek pleasure and nothing but pleasure as a goal of life?


Your answer to this question may be, “Probably all these, though that’s quite impossible.” Yet my purpose here is to share with you a single formula that, I believe, can help a person as it has at least helped me realize all the above goals and more.




As you know “Success doesn’t come without Perseverance”.


Mere Perseverance is not essential. What is more crucial is that Perseverance must be coupled with PROPER GUIDANCE.


While the first one depends wholly on an individual, the second one I gained from Vidyalankar. To say that VIT teachers guided me to SUCCESS would be an under-statement because they served not only as mere guides to me but they also proved to be an indispensable source of knowledge in my course of First Year of Engineering... Ocean of knowledge... I was thirsty.... They quenched my thirst.


I am here to share with you what made me worthy enough to be delivering this speech.






If you want to get what everyone is getting, do what everyone is doing.


If you want to excel do what others don’t! BE DIFFERENT!


Being different means: - Not being afraid to challenge the norm. - Being willing to take a chance.- Asking why.- Making your own track, not just following the well trodden path.- Charting your own course and destiny.- Being the person that you were meant to be.






MY ADVICE?


If I can leave you with one piece of advice it would be this: READ


Society celebrates mediocrity so much that it does not take much to set yourself above the rest. Doing that one thing regularly will put you way above the rest. Read books that challenge you and that make you think.


I have decided to read at least one book every month. I’m already amazed at the results.






MY FINAL WORDS


In closing I’d like to say to those of you that are skeptics out there, those of you that are saying “oh, he is just experienced ripe success. He’ll get over it, and then he’ll be just like everyone else.”


My words to you are:


“I am not going out like that. I know that I have an abundance of potential within me and I will bring it out to use. Why?”


“Because…I’M DIFFERENT!”


Lastly I would like to thank VIT for making me a student worthy enough of delivering this speech. I wish them good luck in continuing their arduous task of providing students with an education of superlative quality for the years to come.






Thank you…


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