Courage
This is something that I have come to appreciate even more as time passes by. I have been courageous a few times in my life:
I decided to pursue Chemical Engineering after schooling, even though I was getting admission into the Medicine/MBBS degree. This was the first major instance in my life where I mastered my fear of the unknown.
I quit a very rewarding and promising job with Tata Chemicals to pursue my ambition of doing a MBA. Again, I managed to resist my fear of disturbing the status quo.
I was retrenched just one year after my post-MBA job. This was a major shock and really messed up with my confidence, initially. However, it also gave me the courage of conviction that I'll manage to fend for myself somehow. Since then, I have never been afraid of losing a job.
There have been other instances where, when I look back, I managed to either resist or master my fear. I will share them in a future post.