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Things You wish you knew when You were in 20s ..

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: Learn, Unlearn & Relearn

1. Enjoy the Life's journey - Success is a journey, not a destination. It's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination. We all have goals and aspirations. You’re probably working toward something right now. Learn to love the journey and appreciate all the little failures and wins.

2. Learn to love change and mistakes - The only constant thing in life is CHANGE. Change is inevitable whether we like or not. It won’t always be easy, but change happens for a reason. Learn to be friends with it. Always remember to learn from your mistakes and keep growing. Do not take yourself too serious. and don’t doubt yourself so much!!

3. Say yes often - Sometimes stepping outside of your comfort zone and trying something new can be terrifying. But learn to say yes more. It’ll help you to open up, try new things and bring you new world of opportunities.

4. Focus - Don’t try to be a jack-of-all-trades. Focus on being really good at just a few things. Hard work is wasted when it’s channelized in too many directions.

5. Read a book a month - Reading opens your mind to new ideas and perspectives, help you express goals. Reading books benefits both your physical and mental health, and those benefits can last a lifetime. They begin in early childhood and continue through the senior years.

6. Stop worrying about what others think - Letting the opinions of your peers influence your decisions is one of the worst things you can do. You’ll realize later just how foolish it was. The only thing that is important is what you think and feel about yourself.

7. You don’t have much to lose as you think - Often times, fear of loss is what prevents us from pursuing our dreams. When you’re right out of college, you don’t have much to lose. Why not start doing things that you always wanted?

8. Meet as many new people as you can - It may not always be clear to you, but the people you meet can help you. Treat everyone like you’d like to be treated and be willing to make new friends. The world is smaller than you think. You’ll be amazed at who is connected to whom.

9. Leverage what you’ve got - Don't ever complain in life. Stevie Wonder can’t see, but he has an exceptional ear for music. He exploited that talent and his passion for music. Today he has 25 Grammy awards to show for it. Learn to work with what you’ve got instead of complaining about your situation.

10. Take big risks - Go after what you want. Jump out of an airplane. Start a business. You won’t always succeed, but you won’t always fail, either !!

ref:

    http://www.success.com/blog/21-things-i-wish-i-knew-when-i-was-21
    http://success.com/article/52-ways-to-get-out-of-your-comfort-zone
    http://www.success.com/article/7-parts-of-your-life-that-suffer-when-you-fail-to-change

Best Investment Books by Indian Authors

1. Finance Sense: Finance For Non-finance Executives - Dr. Prasanna Chandra

@ https://www.amazon.com/Finance-Sense-4th-Non-finance-Executives/dp/0070704546

2. Value Investing and Behavioral Finance: Insights into Indian Stock Market Realities - Parag Parikh

@ https://www.amazon.com/Value-Investing-Behavioral-Finance-Realities/dp/0070077630

3. Stocks to Riches: Insights on Investor Behaviour - Parag Parikh

@ https://www.amazon.com/Parag-Parikh-Stocks-Riches-%E3%80%902018%E3%80%91/dp/B07JM7RZF8

4. The Dhandho Investor - Mohnish Pabrai

@ https://www.amazon.com/Dhandho-Investor-Low-Risk-Method-Returns/dp/8126564636

5. Fundamental Analysis for Investors - Raghu Palat

@ https://www.amazon.com/Fundamental-Analysis-Investors-Consistent-Long-term/dp/8170947952

6. Retire Rich at 40 Rs a Day - P V Subramanyam

@ https://www.amazon.com/Retire-Rich-Day-New/dp/9387860310

7. 31 Stock Market Trading Tips - Ravi Patel

@ https://www.amazon.com/31-Stock-Market-Trading-Tips/dp/B00GZMSDEC

Indian School Education System

Schools in India offer both Indian and International syllabi some of which are:

1. CBSE - Central Board of Secondary Education.

2. ICSE - Indian Certificate of Secondary Education

3. State Board - Approximately 30 State Boards.

4. International - Cambridge University Programs.

5. IBO Programs and a few others such as - Ontario from Canada, EDEXCEL- From UK.

CBSE:

1. Started by the NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) with the aim to operate a chain of central schools (Kendriya Vidyalaya) that could cater to government employees who are in transferable jobs that involve mid year movements.

2. A number of private schools have started to offer CBSE since a number of private sector employees are also moving place to place

3. The CBSE Syllabus is very structured, highly predictable and, highly controlled

4. All national entrance examinations are conducted as per this syllabus.

5. A number of changes have been incorporated lately, the prominent decision being to make board examination at the end of Grade -10 optional

    6.Board exams conducted:
         1. Grade-10 (Optional )
         2. Grade-12 (Mandatory)

ICSE:

    1. An offshoot of the Cambridge IGCSE that existed during the British regime was taken over by the Anglo Indian Board and is now governed by the ‘Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations’.

2. Has taken in a lot of structures from the NCERT

3. At Grade-10 as of now is the toughest board examination

    4. Almost similar to CBSE in terms of controls, difference being this is quasi Government.
    Board Exams conducted:
        1. ICSE – Grade-10
        2. ISC- Grade-12

ref:

Central Board of Secondary Education(CBSE) books and support material - http://cbse.nic.in/welcome.htm

CBSE quarterly journal - http://www.cbseacademic.in/Cenbosec.html

CBSE newsletters - http://www.cbseacademic.in/newsletter.html

CBSE vs ICSE -

CBSE papers -