Summary:
Stay Hungry Stay Foolish is a compilation of stories of 25 IIM-A graduates who chose the path of entrepreneurship over a cash milking cow of a job. The individuals in the book are categorized by the author as:
- The Believers: People who had no second thoughts about their goal of being an entrepreneur and followed it right away after college and never looked back
- The Opportunists: People who were on the path of working for major corporations and then capitalized on an opportunity to go solo as they found it
- The Visionaries: These visionaries look beyond the monetary aspects of business and try to incorporate social-welfare into their business models
Review:
The title is taken from the final issue of The Whole Earth Catalog, a 60s publication. The stories of those who have made it big with constant thrust onward can inspire one and all, regardless of their field of activity. The attitudes of self-belief and perseverance are the common link in all the stories. The book enlightens the reader on topics like decision-making and how to have that win-win approach towards things.
The author of Stay Hungry Stay Foolish, Rashmi Bansal, sees Steve Jobs as her mentor as the selection of her book titles suggest. And just as her mentor she wants people to have a dynamic and creative approach towards work, whatever it might be. The author through the stories tries to combine Steve's philosophy of accepting end as a new beginning. The failures that the various entrepreneurs encountered on their path to success and their rise from them are an excellent description of courage overshadowing fear.
The author through her book tries to elaborate the importance of setbacks in one's career and in learning the lessons that they teach. The whole point in staying hungry is to be a go-getter and in reinventing your drive to work every day in order to excel. After all your hunger for the goal decides the time you spend in achieving it. The passion needs to take form of a relentless hungry beast that would only stop at the goal and at no intermediate destination. The stay foolish aspect according to me is to subjugate our tendencies to be deviated from the goal. Staying foolish implies not taking the bends and the curves of the road as threatening but to keep ignoring the restraints and being focused on steering clear of the obstacles that you encounter.
Stay Hungry Stay Foolish is a book that talks about the basics, working for the growth of one's career is not separated from the growth of the nation. The rewarding quality of being a team-worker is also highlighted in this book. So whatever you are set out to achieve, you cannot without the help and assistance of the employees. This book can be a great read for beginners as well as seasoned entrepreneurs for it appeals to the human being in an entrepreneur and draws all the attention on being a better person first and a better entrepreneur next.
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