Ganesh Balakrishnan’s life took a flip when he confronted well being points a month earlier than his IIT-JEE examination. Regardless of feeling disheartened and on the verge of dropping out, his father’s recommendation helped him overturn his luck.

Do you will have an incident that modified the course of your life? For Ganesh Balakrishnan, co-founder of Aurm, it was his IIT-JEE examination.

As Balakrishnan writes in a put up on X (previously often known as Twitter), he had determined to drop out of his IIT entrance examination after he contracted rooster pox a month earlier than the examination. He was disheartened. The years of preparation would go to waste, he thought. However when he instructed his father about this, his father suggested him in any other case. He instructed him to take the examination.

I had nearly determined to drop out of my IIT Entrance Examination.

Till my father stepped in to (actually) change my life.

A month earlier than my IIT-JEE (IIT Joint Entrance Examination), I had a bout of chickenpox.

Subsequently, I couldn’t put together adequately for the final and essential section within the… pic.twitter.com/ZAI115riZ9— Ganesh Balakrishnan (@ganeshb78) March 8, 2024

“Ganesh, your obligation is to do your finest with the issues you may management, and let go of the stuff you can not management,” had been his phrases.

And it was this recommendation that received Balakrishnan into IIT Bombay within the very first try.

Was it luck that helped him? “I consider luck is on the facet of those that are constant,” he wrote. “I used to be relentlessly constant throughout the two years of preparation for the examination. So lacking the final month (regardless that it was tremendous vital) didn’t overpower the preparation of the final two years,” he added.

Edited by Pranita Bhat