Build, Don't Talk: Things You Wish You Were Taught in School

by Raj Shamani

I still remember when I was in high school. I wanted to get into my dad’s business and take it to greater heights, but I made the mistake of overthinking. I found myself choosing computer science as a subject when I should’ve chosen entrepreneurship. And I chose computer science because I overthought all the other options I had. As a commerce student, I didn’t want to take maths because I didn’t want to go through the same torture of trigonometry in Class XI after my dreadful experience with it in Class X. I didn’t want to take physical education because ‘there’s no scope’, and how will this subject help me in the future? Then I started overthinking that if after school I am not able to do anything, I should have a backup, maybe build things through C++ and JAVA. Yes! Computers seem to have a great future, so let me take computer science. Now this decision was not because I was good at computers, or I knew something about them, but only because of overthinking that if everything goes wrong, I will still be able to do something. Because, according to society, if you don’t take maths with commerce, you won’t have any option in the future to do something good with your life, and that made me overthink and take a decision. Now I regret putting a little too much thought into one of the most important decisions of my life. (Important because, instead of going to two other tutors to learn something that I still didn’t understand, I could have learnt something interesting or at le...