Essay On My Talent

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

- said Einstein in Letter to Carl Seelig, his first biographer. When I first came across this in high school, I marvelled – ‘Success without talent - how could it be true!?’ To validate the hypothesis, I tried invoking my first cherished learning - I learnt during childhood that a LED across AAA battery glows only with a proper polarity while putting it across the AC socket on wall can trip the MCB as well as pique of parents. So, curiosity certainly was the driving element, but, still, is talent redundant?

Under the aegis of my father and mother, professors in physics and mathematics respectively, at home itself I understood the phenomenon behind the ‘LED’ observations, which also sparked my affair with technology.

My newfound love brought me to IIT Roorkee for a degree in electrical engineering. Gaining knowledge was interesting, enthralling and empowering. Getting to know the working of microcontroller and then embedding it in robots to make it dance to my tunes made me feel invincible. No technology seemed too tough and no code uncrackable.

I was dejected, humbled, humiliated in my first leadership role – as head of college robotics society. I had to lead a team of 20 people to a national level robotics event, which was to be telecasted on Doordarshan. The challenge was tall,

I find that my most cherished bits of learning indeed emerged out of bare curiosity, propelled by passion. Lessons learnt through these attributes manifested themselves as talent. Apart from these two, my academic and professional experiences also made me include hard work, resilience and critical thinking as indispensable ingredients in recipe for success. I wish to perfect this recipe through IIMB’s diverse thought pool which will be helpful in inculcating talent that would enable me to think more as a leader should — critically, strategically and