If he can do it why can't we

Imagine a person from rural Karnataka walking bare foot to school. He gets admission into a new military school just opened nearby and went into the army. After six-seven years, he felt constrained, quit and with PF of Rs 6000 came back to the village to find the whole village submerged because of the dam being built. The land allotted as compensation is barren and several miles away. He bought his relatives land with his PF money as down payment. He opened a silkworm farming with great financial and physical difficulties and made it a success.

He was playing squash with a fellow friend who was unemployed and was a pilot. He was shocked to know that this pilot friend has taken the job as a security in charge. Then he thought of operating a helicopter to connect remote places. Nobody was willing to finance him till he convinced a Japanese lease company to finance a helicopter. The Japanese company backtracked when Vajpayee government fell after 13 days.

Every success in whatever field starts from a few hundred grams of mass sitting on our shoulders called mind. It is like a muscle use it or it will wither.

The Asian currency melt down had a lot of helicopters idle/grounded in Malaysia. He again convinced the same Japanese MD to lend one helicopter and started the aviation firm. And thus followed his dream of connecting remote places and enabling common man to fly.

His name if you have not guessed it is Captain Gopinath- founder of Air Deccan.



A mind troubled by doubts cannot focus on the path to success.