Voyaging Towards Excellence is an essay written by Indian businessman and writer, Achyut Godbole. The story of essay centers around a life of writer who shares his learnings and experiences through the story.
VOYAGING TOWARDS EXCELLENCE BY ACHYUT GODBOLE
Summary of Voyaging Towards Excellence By Achyut Godbole
The story of essay begins with writer who was from poor family and their house was very small. The writer’s family doesn’t even had money to afford basic things like Fan, geyser, Refrigerator and dining table etc.
When writer took admissioin in college then he received a watch from his family. In childhood, poets like Vinda Kandikar, Mangesh Padgoankar and Vasant Bapat used to visit writer’s home. The writer used listen their talk for hours. Vinda, Manges and Vasant Bapat used to talk about English Literature in writer’s house.
They used to talk about other famous poets like Keshavsut, Mardhekar, Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. The writer never get bored listening to them and his interst in Literature was increasing day after day.
The writer say, I was very young and not able to understand their conversation properly but I loved listening literature talks. Apart from this there are other people who used to visit writer’s home like Pt. Kumar Gandharv, Pt. Bhimsen Joshi and Pt. Jasraj.
They used to talk about Indian music. Through this, writer developed immense interest in Literature and Indian Music. The writer say, even though I doesn’t know much about music at that time but I was developing my interest in music by listening to them.
I loved English literature but that doesn’t mean I don’t like other subjects. I also like Science and Math and in school I never studied for marks, I studied as I loved studying. When I was in seventh class then I used to solve problems of class 9 physics and Math. Here writer is trying to say that he is very intelligent since his schooling days.
The writer’s habit of solving physics and Math problem helped him in IIT Entrance. He almost score 100 marks in all his Math exams. Apart from this, he had 16 rank in SSC Board. When writer get admission in IIT, he was very happy but his happiness doesn’t last longer because every professor in IIT were teaching in English and writer doesn’t know English. Writer was very weak in English and was not able to pronounce English words so he was feeling alone in IIT.
One day, writer was sitting in his hostel and one senior came to him and started talking with him in English. Senior student finds faults in writer’s English. Senior say, you are making lots of mistake in English, don’t you know how to speak in English ? Senior insult writer and goes away. The writer felt very bad and was going depressed. Writer wanted to quit and want to go back home. But writer decides that he will learn English language and will speak fluent English like other students.
The writer realize that he is from small rural village, he is a top scorer in University and he is very good in Math so English is nothing for him. Afterwards, writer started learning English daily. He first started reading English newspaper and English novel.
After this, writer started reading etymology and phonetics. The writer used to stand in front of mirror and practice English speaking. Writer practice English speaking for 9 – 10 months consistently and become fluent English speaker. He got confident to speak English in front of anyone. His English speaking skills help him in his professional life.
The writer say, he met many great people in his work life. He used to learn lots of things from them. After meeting great people, writer realizes that he needs to learn many more things in life. When you sit between knowledgeable people, it make you realize that you need to learn lots of things.
The writer wrote four books in starting of his career which are around 500 to 700 pages. In all his four books, writer has talk about technology. All his books were published by Tata MCgraw Hill. Afterwards, writer books were converted into Chinese language.
The writer learn many great things in life, one of the great things he learn is the importance of teamwork. Writer believes you can’t achieve anything in life alone. If you are egoist and believe you are the only person who can do great things in life then you are wrong. If you are team person then you can win anything in life. You can achieve anything in life by teamwork. You should treat your colleague as a friend.
After working for years in Software companies, I left them. I started doing what I love the most which is Reading and writing. I started writing about Human life and existence. Even though I got 2 offer of 3 crore to be a English writer but I rejected them because I wanted to be a Marathi writer. Afterwards, I wrote 34 books in Marathi. Many of my books become best seller.
Thousands of people reads my books. How much book I sold and how much money I make was not important for me, for me importance thing was how many people read my book and how many life I changed through my books. My two books has cure thousands people depression. And these two books are Musafir ( Autobiography ) and Manat ( Psychology book ).