Going through the title one might easily assume that this is going to be a full ‘gyaan’ session but hey, hang on don’t judge me yet. Every one of us at some point or the other would’ve gone through a tough phase and I’m sure every one of us would’ve managed get of it irrespective of how well, each of us would’ve gotten of it. It’s obvious isn’t it that’s how evolution works. Well in my life it was stammering and getting caught up in forming sentences. Solutions can come from anywhere, trust me, anywhere so being already upon the fact that this won’t be a ‘gyaan’ I wouldn’t call it that but if you are stuck at similar thing in your life this might help you out a bit. In the corporate world no matter how great solutions you have communicating clearly is very important and big consequence of stammering is not being able create interest in the listener and this one small thing, trust me, manages to drain the enthusiasm out of you. Making people understand what you are up to is the most predominant thing because in a system each individual is dependent on other individuals, approvals, validations, sign-offs etc., etc., so in a system like this problem seemed to be a very big barrier. I have gone through so many websites, approached friends and did all that one would do. And the one solution which I narrowed it down to was reading books and communicating regularly. This looked promising and I was all encouraged to put it to practice. I’ve downloaded couple of interesting fictional novels and started reading them. After completing few chapters I’ve realized that all of the sentences or the words being used in the conversations didn’t appear to me as normal in the context of real world and that this is not going to work out. And just when I was all demotivated and ready to give up, my friend subscribed and this in my case was the greatest help I could’ve got. I mean there were so many series in there which had sequences involving two teenagers and they conversing in a normal way just like any two of us would do. With each episode that I’ve watched, carefully going through the subtitles, I’ve got better and better. Not just this sometimes me and my friend would turn on our most favorite episode, mute it and try to dub it watching the subtitles. This not only increased my vocabulary but enabled to speed up as I was required to catch up with the pace of the sequence. After doing this with for a period of three months I was able to notice the changes and so I kept on doing it regularly. Now after giving CAT and attending the interviews of some premier institutes, it also enabled me to convert them and got me into SJMSOM- IIT Bombay. Never really imagined out of all the things Netflix would come to my aid.
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