My
Dear Student Friends,
Greetings!
This is Dr. Ravi Saripalle, Founder, Inspire to Innovate (i2i) Storytelling
Movement. Welcome to “Letter
to Student Series- Volume 2 and Issue 7”. Hope you enjoyed reading my
previous letter. The goal of these letters is to inspire students across the
country. Till date, we released 18 Student Letter Series and covered tens of
amazing people stories, achievements and accomplishments. At this point of time,
I would like to give a pause and check your reflections. Request you to answer the
following five questions and calculate your Future Readiness.
1. I read / hear stories
of amazing people
(A) weekly once (10 marks)
(B) monthly once (5
marks) (C) Irregular
reading (2 marks) (D)Not Interested
(0 marks)
2. I write letter
/ mail to my mentor (other than parents) for guidance (professional /
personal)
(A) every 6 months (10 marks)
(B) yearly once (5 marks) (C) Irregular writing (2 marks) (D)Not Interested
(0 marks)
3. I practice my passion
or natural intelligence (to know your
intelligence https://goo.gl/vgyD54)
(A) weekly 4 hours (10 marks)
(B) weekly 2 hours (5 marks) (C) Irregular practice (2 marks) (D)Not Interested
(0 marks)
4.
I manage my academics
with consistent percentage or grade
(A) A Grade and above (10
marks) (B) B Grade and
above (5 marks)
(C) C
Grade or below (2 marks) (D)Consistent
Failure (0 marks)
5.
I do physical
activity and maintain good health
(A) weekly 4 hours (10 marks)
(B) weekly 2 hours (5 marks) (C) Irregular practice (2 marks) (D)Not
Interested (0 marks)
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Check
Your Score and Title
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I wish you
should be either Performer (your score should be between 40-50) or Challenger
(your score should be between 25-40). You should not give any scope to be Lounger (relaxed) with 10-25 score or Laggard
(slower than desired) with score less than 10.
In my
earlier letters I used to write complete story in the letter itself. But I
realized that it is not serving the purpose. In this letter, I would like to
give you the gist of few valuable stories so that it develops an attitude of
reading positive stories on your own. Hope you agree with me.
1. You will be
amazed to read about this small time simple post man! He took over a closing
school with 11 boys, 1 teacher and with
11 bank balance. After 3 decades, now this school is shining with 2,200
students and 2,700 in the college, from the primary to the post-graduate! Jai Ramji ! A man with highest determination! You should
read complete story written by author: "This postman delivered
more than mail" http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/Magazine/
story/nandkishor-singh/P0/
2. Sometimes
animals are more faithful than human beings. Cows and Dogs are always
trust their masters. Read this story "How a Heroic Labrador in
Bengaluru Fought Armed Robbers to Save His Human" http://www.thebetterindia.com/91594/labrador-bengaluru-armed-robbers/.
I request you to save these faithful animals and protect humanity. They
always care for our welfare.
3. Art is not in your hands. Art is in your heart!
Art is the by-product of your determination. Anjana Malik, with no
arms, holding pen with her toes, drawing pictures of gods, sketches of birds. Anjana is now able to earn anywhere
between Rs 2,500 to Rs 25,000 apiece! Read this complete article. It fires lot
of determination in us- "Uttarakhand girl with no hands achieves
miracle feat"-http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/uttarakhand-girl-with-no-hands-achieves-miracle-feat/articleshow/57567855.cms
4. She
became amputee for a cause. However, she did not lose heart! You will be thrilled
if you read this story of first female amputee in the world to have scaled
Mount Everest! Padma Shri Arunima Sinha! Read the complete story- "All
naysayers in due course became my supporters: Arunima Sinha on scaling Everest
with artificial leg" at http://indianexpress.com/article/good-news/arunima-sinha-the-woman-who-scaled-everest-with-an-artificial-leg-shares-her-journey-and-aspirations/
5. I would like to present another interesting
social enterprising model. This enterprise is changing the way donations are
shipped! DonateKart, started by Anil Kumar Reddy and Sandeep Sharma,
graduates from VNIT, who worked for GOONJ before. The model is simple: Donate
Kart is a platform to connect donors and NGO Needs. Donors can buy and send
products directly to NGOs. I suggest you read the entire story: "This
young duo building Flipkart for NGOs and philanthropists!" at http://www.thepositiveindia.com/donatekart/
My Dear Friends, Appreciate your valuable time. See you
in my next letter. Thank you for giving me this wonderful opportunity to write
to you and help me to learn, unlearn and relearn. I personally thank all
websites, authors who are publishing / writing such an inspiring stories for
common good and contributing for better world. Positive Storytelling and Letter
Writing are powerful tools to establish vision in our life. Please do write to
someone you trust / your mentor regularly. You can also reach to me at sdindia2020@gmail.com I am happy to respond to your letter.
With Best Wishes,
Dr. Ravi
Saripalle
About Author: Dr. Ravi Saripalle is Founder of Inspire
to Innovate (i2i) Storytelling Movement and Director, Center for
Innovation, GVP College of Engineering (A), Vizag, AP, India. As part of Inspire
to Innovate (i2i) Storytelling Movement, Dr.Ravi is trying to instill
inspiration through spreading positive stories of amazing people in the form of
short stories, embedding them in the form of letters (epistolary form) and
sending them to thousands of schools, colleges, universities districts
administration across India. Also conducting Storytelling Workshops in select institutions.
Providing customized mentoring to inspired students. Dr. Ravi is having 18
years of experience in Industry, Consultancy, Training, Mentoring and Research.
Prior to this current mission, Ravi worked with Wipro Technologies for more
than a decade. Ravi can be reached at sdindia2020@gmail,com or http://i2itm.blogspot.in/ or https://www.facebook.com/i2istorytellingmovement/
Previous letters are available at http://i2itm.blogspot.in/
Disclaimer: The
goal of this i2iSM letter series campaign is to inspire students / youth
through storytelling and develop innovative leaders to build strong nation. In
this process, I have taken several data points from various websites, NEWS
articles, books, videos etc. I sincerely thank all the editors for providing
such an insightful stories and information. To the best of my knowledge, I
tried to acknowledge all the sources. I sincerely apologize for any omissions,
grammatical mistakes and hurting any reader’s sentiments. I request all the
readers to understand the spirit behind this effort. This effort doesn’t
involve any commercials. Letter series is for free distribution.
