As one of India’s most successful businesspeople, Anand Mahindra is also one of the most respected. His following on social media is impressive and his posts routinely go viral – because they are funny or tell an interesting story or because they are motivational or inspiring. Mahindra shared this video of a rock-climbing toddler recently – take a look.
It is full of a bunch of inspirational messages – about impossible goals, journeys beginning with single steps, ignoring discouraging people, being strong, self-belief etc. The accompanying video is that of a toddler climbing a wall – carefully, efficiently.
It is great that this intrepid little toddler is climbing a difficult wall – but maybe a little bit of protection could have been used? After all, prudence is the better part of valour?
This twitter image claims that nothing is lost, everything is transformed – the inference being that there is something positive even in the worst of things.
Fear is largely a learned emotion; something that is absent in little kids. Perhaps kids are not limited or inhibited about going after what they want in the same way that adults are.
As motivational quotes will always tell us, it is only the fear of failure that hampers us.
They felt that the message conveyed by Mahindra’s video is simple but beautiful.
A Twitter user with a doctor in the name narrated how they decided to solve a problem by quitting a corporate job, getting a law degree and taking the matter to court.
People shared other inspirational stories about people triumphing over the odds and achieving their goals, such as this one
While a lot of people, as usual, posted their complaints and customer services queries for Mahindra vehicles and services, others said thanks for the motivation.
And so did his video of the rock-climbing toddler.
Anand Mahindra has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, one of India’s highest civilian honours. Many thought this was very well deserved and said congratulations.
All too often, it is parents who protect and mollycoddle children to the extent of stifling their aspirations. It is true that the toddler wouldn’t have been climbing that wall had it not been for a parent who overcame their instinctive, even understandable apprehensions.
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