4 Secrets of Success I Wish I Knew When I Was 18

These would have literally saved me *thousands* of hours.

If you’ve been following my journey for a while, you’d know I’d always wanted to be a writer.

After my board exams in 12th standard, I didn’t even know writing was a viable career option. In my mind, the only way to go ahead was to take up a career in medical or engineering (the only two options my parents offered back in 2011), and keep pursuing my passion on the side by releasing a new book every few years until one of them became a bestseller of Harry Potter proportions.

Today, I know different.

I gave ten years of my life to engineering (4 years of BTech, 2 years of MTech, 1 year for GATE preparation, and 3 years of job+PhD).

In this post, I want to share the four secrets I wish I’d known when I was 18. These would have saved me ten years of my life. In addition, had I started a career as a writer back in 2011, I would have been a billionaire by now. You can calculate how much money not knowing these secrets cost me!

Read on, and don’t forget to share your thoughts by leaving a comment.

Things might have been different ten years ago, but in today’s world, most employers don’t care about your qualifications.

Even if they do, at the end of the day, it’s your skills that will help you climb up the ladder, not what your degree or CGPA says on paper.

I spent so much time studying engineering, but never took a single creative writing class. And yet, today, I am a full-time writer, while I doubt I’ll ever use my engineering degree again.

If you’re reading this, polish your skills, and work on them so hard that very few people in the world can replace you. It doesn’t matter what your chosen skill is. What matters is how hard you’re willing to keep working on it.

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