[How I aced my #UPSC]🧵
On the day of my #IAS interview - I was sleep-deprived, overburdened with my office work, and was clearly underprepared
To make matters worse, a week ago -my then-girlfriend had broken up with me. And there were a million emotions running through my mind
On the day of my #IAS interview - I was sleep-deprived, overburdened with my office work, and was clearly underprepared
To make matters worse, a week ago -my then-girlfriend had broken up with me. And there were a million emotions running through my mind
Unlike my friends who had prepared full time for #UPSC, I had prepared along with a full-time job, and therefore, could take only 2 days off of my work to prepare for the interview. Long behold, my interview scores were amongst the highest in India that year.
What worked for me?
What worked for me?
1. Confidence: I am thoroughly convinced that confidence always supersedes the content. No matter how well versed you are with the subject, if you can not confidently articulate it - you are doomed to perform poorly in an #interview.
2. Calmness: Imagine how productive you would be if you weren’t anxious all the time?
Since I had a great #job to fall back on - I was a billion times more productive and calmer than the other aspirants - who were treating this exam as a do-or-die situation.
Since I had a great #job to fall back on - I was a billion times more productive and calmer than the other aspirants - who were treating this exam as a do-or-die situation.
To be brutally honest, it was because of my diverse experiences I was able to meticulously handle the stress of both interviews and the mains cycle.
Many youngsters preparing for IAS in India quit their jobs, take multiple years of sabbatical, and thoroughly screw up their 20s - in anxiety and depression with a hope of getting into civil services (that has a yearly cycle, less than .5% success rate, and an archaic curriculum
There is no better way to screw up your life than prepare for government exams in India (without any backup plan).
If anyone in your family is frustrated with the uncertainty of UPSC. I have created a few videos on YouTube that will allow you to make the best of your UPSC journey.
From a career in the United Nations to social impact, to getting laterally hired - you can do a million things to create a large-scale impact.
Do write to me, if you are crumbling under pressure because of a few bad decisions you made in your 20s.
Do write to me, if you are crumbling under pressure because of a few bad decisions you made in your 20s.
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