A book by Vijeta Dahiya
You are not stuck because you are unlucky. You are stuck because you were taught to run a race instead of looking for the exit. This book is about finding the exit.
Read it on any device. Or listen to it on your commute.
Picture a jail holding fifty people. Someone announces a race.
Forty-five of them run. Five refuse, and get mocked for refusing. Everyone knows only one can win, and yet all forty-five believe it will be them.
Eventually someone wins. He gets a medal. He does not get out.
The five who never ran spent that time looking for a way out of the jail. They are the ones who leave.
Your salary is the medal. The office is the jail. And the reason this feels uncomfortable to read is that you already knew it.
If leaving were simple, you would have left already. Here is what actually holds people in place, and all of it is dealt with inside the book.
Walking out is not a plan. Building the thing that replaces the salary before you walk out is.
Most people do not. The book argues passion is not something you find lying around. It is something you build by exploring in a specific way.
Social pressure is not a small thing in India and the book does not pretend otherwise.
Fifteen years of being told what to do leaves a mark. Undoing it is a skill, and it can be learned.
Neither had he. Chapters ten through fourteen are what happened when he tried, including the parts that failed.
He quit three jobs, including a government post people spend years trying to get, and started over.
It reads like a story, not a manual. It starts inside the cubicle and ends on the other side of it.
No payment, no commitment. If his voice is not for you, you will know in ten minutes and you will not have spent anything.
[430] pages. Read it on a phone, a laptop, or a Kindle.
The same book, fully in Hindi. Read whichever one sounds like you.
[7] hours. Turns a commute you resent into the thing that changes it.
He is not writing this from theory. He quit three jobs, including a government post, and rebuilt from nothing.
An engineer from Delhi College of Engineering who joined Ranbaxy Laboratories, then took a government post as an Assistant at the Ministry of External Affairs. The kind of job most people in this country are told to want.
He left it, moved to Mumbai with a camera and a film script, and spent years failing at auditions before working out that he wanted to make the work rather than perform in it.
Since then he has written and researched videos for Dhruv Rathee, Fukra Insaan, Coolmitra, Hypertroph and Sonu Sharma, written the feature film Dararein, the web series Opri Paraai and the short film Take Care, published two books, and won Quora's Top Writer laurel in 2021.
Chapters ten through fourteen of this book are that story, told without the parts usually left out.
No. That advice is easy to give and expensive to follow. The book is about building the exit before you use it, which is slower and considerably more useful.
That is the reader it was written for. Chapter three deals with exactly this, and its argument is that not having found a passion is normal rather than a personal failing.
Both are included in one purchase. The audiobook is in Hindi.
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The question is only whether you keep watching the race or start looking for the door.
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