Yet another provocative question we have asked Dr Bhaskar Das in the Das ka Dum series. Read on…
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Q. You have been into hardcore sales for most of your professional career. And then you went on to do a Ph D. And not one, but two. Isn’t a bit of a contradiction – the ‘saleoo’ and the ‘gyaani’?
A. This question suffers from the usual attribution myopia and stymies the human potential. Can you tell me who is not a salesman in this world? So I am not ashamed of being labelled a ‘Saleoo’. Academic interest liberates you from the darkness of bounded ignorance to the world of unbounded curiosity. In the process, one gets conscious of one’s imperfections and surges forward to an enlightened space.