ABG- wonderful combination of quality and trust - Pratyusha Sharma, IIM Visakhapatnam

So, starting from the GRASIM dress material bought by my mother to the more supermarket near my office - Aditya Birla Group is influencing my life some way or the other since my childhood and I believe it will also play a similar role in my future life.

• How have I overcome hurdles in my life?

Since childhood, my life was going in a smooth way. There was not much ups and downs and I was a kind of introvert who neither can mingle with people nor can talk without hesitation with unknown people. My mother did not even let me out alone in the road fearing that I would not be able to walk there cautiously, and which will finally lead to any accident.

In these circumstances, when I got my offer letter for joining in an IT company that too in a different city, my parents were very scared and too was I. I was fearing that there I will not be able to stay with unknown people in a completely unknown environment. But my parents sent me there forcibly. During the first few days, I was very homesick and longed to go back, but as days went by I started to talk with people around me and finally ended in making new friends which I could not even think of if I was in my comfort zone i.e. in my home.

So, being an introvert was a great hurdle in my life and moving out of my comfort zone helped me to a lot to overcome that and today also I am working on this issue and trying to improve it day by day.