Celebrating entrepreneurship

Despite being immensely rewarding, the road to becoming a successful entrepreneur is not an easy one to traverse. For lack infrastructure or insufficiency of funds, the strides to transforming lives, creating rewarding jobs, and building a stable economy can be hindered at various steps, in turn evoking a strong sense of failure and dispiritedness. However, fervent entrepreneurs outlive such fleeting disappointments and strive hard all over again. Young Turks on CNBC-TV18 is the longest running TV show that features such accomplished entrepreneurs and their game-changing business ideas. Rather than being another cookie-cutter show with hardly anything novel to contribute, every episode of Young Turks stands out and remarkably narrates the inspiring journeys of zealous entrepreneurs who enjoy admirable achievements in their chosen business genres.

While present-day business shows channelize lion’s share of their attention on inherited and well-known businesses, Young Turks raises the bar of excellence by recounting several inspiring start-up stories from all over the country. With no repetitiveness and lacklustre content, Young Turks is a genuine effort to inspire the entrepreneurial mind-sets of several aspiring business owners. When it comes to taking baby steps towards setting up a successful business venture, getting an intimate understanding of the chosen business sector is indispensable. Young Turks features businesses from all major categories, thus playing key role in boosting the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the country. Apart from the parent show, the team has been a significant part of several laudable initiatives like TiE the Knot, thus promoting youth entrepreneurship in the country. No prize for guessing why the DIPP secretary Mr. Amitabh Kant referred Young Turks as “one of the most energizing and vibrant” program on television.

On Young Turks, every proven entrepreneurial venture is showcased in the most admirably unique and engaging manner, thus letting the entrepreneurial spirit of many thrive and prosper by leaps and bounds. By letting the bookish business concepts and methodologies take the backseat, the show keenly promotes and boosts novel and time- tested practical business ideas. This ground-breaking approach to promote viable entrepreneurship is an imminent need as well as a transformational and imperative step towards initiating creativity and innovation in entrepreneurship, thus replacing the conventional paradigms with more practicable alternatives. When every other television show on entrepreneurship is limited to predictable conversations and hypothetical theories, Young Turks is way ahead in their commitment towards instilling newer refreshing ideas on entrepreneurship. With regular mentoring to advice, guide, and recognise success in entrepreneurship, Young Turks continues to foster transformational breakthroughs in entrepreneurship.

Though entrepreneurs effortlessly flaunt their success stories, when it comes to admitting missteps in business, not many entrepreneurs willingly disclose them openly. However, those at the helm of the start-ups and thriving businesses that are featured on Young Turks honestly narrate both their failures and successes, thus sharing some of the most crucial pragmatic lessons in entrepreneurship and leadership, particularly those which are indispensable to thrive in adversities and difficult economic conditions. These never-to-be-missed learning opportunities cannot be found on any other TV series on entrepreneurs and start-ups.

As Make in India, PM’s flagship campaign, is taking the world by storm, Young Turks has been actively contributing several creative and leading-edge business ideas to translate this vision into a success. Such commendable and sustained efforts will go a long way toward accelerating the growth and progress of the country along with boosting competiveness and productivity in business, while stressing the necessity to avoid bottlenecks that impede innovation and entrepreneurship. In short the Young Turks Make in India events never fail to provide the right platform to learn, communicate, collaborate, and share the best practices for lasting success in the fast-paced and fiercely competitive world of entrepreneurship.

Breaking away from conventional concepts of making a TV series on entrepreneurship, Young Turks has been inspiring and empowering the business world for more than a decade, along with elevating the benchmarks of successful entrepreneurship to newer heights. The incredible efforts to nurture the future business leaders of the country team undoubtedly deserve a mention. The Young Turks book with several inspiring insights and anecdotes is another worth mentioning effort that emphasizes the team’s enduring commitment towards promoting entrepreneurship and business innovation.

Do you have a novel idea to make the world a more sustainable place? Watch Young Turks and get inspired to become an innovator!

Show – Young Turks
Channel - CNBC-TV18
Timings - Sat: 11:00 am & 7:30 pm, Sun: 12 noon

Being contented

Contentment in life; despite being a frequently used idiom, the perspective of a gratified life varies. In other words, the meaning of a satisfied life is not the same for each one of us.  While some are keen on attaining gratification with what they have in hand, some others are insatiable, especially when it comes to material pleasures. They believe in finding contentment by chasing for more riches. Despite being significantly reasonable in their views, it’s undoubtedly true that those who attain real fulfillment are the ones who unearth happiness with what they have.

Ambition is a prized trait, while constant failure to enjoy what’s in hand will drive one crazy. At times, fulfilled with what’s around is termed apathetic. In other words, ambition and fulfillment in life are very often associated in the wrong manner. Unmitigated determination and perseverance to excel are obviously the right catalysts to succeed. However, as the crave runoffs the optimal level, it transforms into an ever-prevalent sense of strong disappointment and despair. Irrespective of having sizable achievements to boast of, such people hardly attain happiness in their life, and continue to wearily chase more worldly desires.

The thin and blurry line between ambition and achievement is to be blamed for this confusion and stumble that most people experience in their life.  Nurturing a strong desire to succeed, or harnessing one’s entire potential, can be regarded as the right steps towards triumphing over the odds.  However, this pursuit takes the wrong deviation when the resultant gain is less than what’s anticipated. Anticipation or the ever-mounting level of desires is too strong to shorten even the mightiest of the achievements, replacing the feeling of being victorious with a crippled sense of failure and dissatisfaction. In other words, the achievement gets garbed in the intense feeling of disappointment and gloom.

The best and most effective way to combat this negativity is to learn to be fully contented with what’s in hand; to be at peace with what has been achieved.  Such a strong and positive stance bridges the extremities between one’s ambitions and attainments in life, without weakening the motivation to strive for excellence against all the adversities. It also helps create the constructive sense of a well-lived life.

A large desire is never to be blamed as none of us are good at carrying diminutive wishes. That said, as the gap between the list of wishes and attainments widen, there grows a sense of losing out. This is the disconnection that’s to be taken care of, as it destroys the entire sense of contentment in life.  In other words, an overpowering sense of disappointment and apathy lessens the serenity of life.  A strong balance between both ambition and achievement is where fulfillment lies.  Being realistic in ambitions and desires is the best way to get out of the mismatch.  Aspirations grow appropriately when one carries a strong sense of strengths, limitations, and humaneness. This critical step is indispensable to unleash the power of contentment in life.