Doing the job you love with the people you love in the state you love part II

Perception is always an issue for me, in school I would get pulled up saying that I am smart, do better. Same in engineering where the guys were all toppers and I was the dropper, getting backlogs in subjects. The only way to get out of it, was to focus more on extra curricular where I would get more marks in practical exams rather than theory exams, literally. The next was to follow my bible the Seven Habits of Highly effective people, where I started focussing on what I want, rather than what people think.

Which meant focusing on how I communicate and then create a club on how others can communicate. Learn, then teach!

It was hard, and kept ending at the first point, like I was playing Snakes and Ladders. 

But after the first time with the mike, when it didn't seem to work, it then became an instrument, a magic wand if you will, which allowed your voice to overpower all. 

Then it's just you. 

And yes, the perception you create, which is different from the person you are, because the perception of who you are changes in some respect with who you are interacting with, but once they are all in the same audience, it's back to who you want to be. 

Then the only fear is of losing your voice, which happened as well, bringing me to the point where I realised that I might lose my voice, my marks, but never the ability to guide. 

Hence the tough choice between taking an MBA and bring a sound engineer, because when you are an MBA you lead, but a sound engineer is the guy in the cubby hole playing with buttons. 

MBA also taught me that I preferred acting like theatre, true teamwork, rather than the typical ego massage.