📚 From Failure to Greatness: Lessons from Dr. Abdul Kalam

What does it take to become great? 🇮🇳 In this deeply motivating episode, we reflect on the timeless wisdom of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam — India’s "Missile Man" and former President — who reminds us that greatness is not just about success, but about how we handle failure, imagine the impossible, and commit to lifelong learning. 💡

 🎧 In this episode, you’ll learn:

• 🛠️ Why managing failure is more important than celebrating success
• 🧠 How learning sparks creativity and fuels innovation
• 🔬 Why imagination has the power to change the world
• 🎓 The incredible impact teachers have on shaping lives
• 💪 The four essential mantras for success: Aim high, acquire knowledge, work hard, persevere

Dr. Kalam's vision is a clarion call to young people, leaders, and educators: be the captain of your problems, shape your destiny, and empower others to dream big. ✨ Whether you're in science, business, teaching, or personal growth — this episode will reignite your passion to create, contribute, and live with purpose.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
We should know how to handle not only how to
handle success, how to handle the failures. Particularly you are
in the management environment. What turn do I want the
young people to understand how to manage the failure? Because

(00:25):
any task you do, you are to come across problem.
Problems should not become the captain of the individual or
the project chief. The project chief should become the captain
of the problems and defeat the problem and succeed. Learning. Learning,

(00:46):
use creativity. Creativity leads to thinking. Thinking provides knowledge. Knowledge
makes you great. History has proven. History is proven that
those who dared to imagine the impossible are the ones

(01:08):
who break all the human limitations. In your for a
field of human and the work weather, science, medicine, sports,
arts and technology. The names of the people imagine the
impossible are engraved in our history. By breaking the limits

(01:33):
of their imagination. By breaking their limits of their imagining,
they change. They change the world. You take severe Raman,
you take Newton, you take Einstein, you take Chandrashega. By
breaking the limits of their imagine imagination, they change the world.

(01:56):
If you won't be discoverers, if you want to be innovators,
I am going to give you what type of what
type of characteristic you must have. Invention and discoveries have
emanated from creative minds that I have been constantly working
and imaging the outcome the telephone. He was imaging the outcome,

(02:20):
imaging the outcome in the mind. With imaging and constant effort,
all the forces of the universe work for that inspired mine,
thereby leading to invention discoveries. Sir, I would like to
hear from you a few tips for the upcoming generation

(02:41):
to succeed in life, well succeeding life. I have already
told you you have to do fourtys. Okay, Number one,
great aave. I will have, great heave, I will have
I will I will continue a queer knowledge continuously, a

(03:02):
queer knowledge. Oh, I will do hard work. I will
do hard work. I will persevere. I'll persevere and succeed
and succeed. Okay, that's mandra, Thank you, Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
You have many accomplishments. You've written books, you've served as president,
you're an aerospace engineer, you've been a professor. But you
say the title you like past is the title of teacher.
Why is that.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
You know? I had I had a teacher whenever was
a young boy ten years boy, what time the Second
World War going on? At that time? I used to
see my class fifth class teacher insides teacher, he entered
the classroom, and if you used to see the radiation

(03:53):
of knowledge from him, radiation of knowledge from me. When
he enters the classroom, my teacher, I see radish the
purity of life. And she's the way he thought. I
my dreams. God shaped what should be my way of life.
He's the person the teacher gave me the vision of

(04:15):
my life. Whenever a young fellow, now a teacher has
got a fantastic opportunity to grow minds, to yenderish the
minds and give the dreams to the young people, and
nurture the dreams with them, and they will become a
great human being. Sometimes they will become better than you,

(04:37):
but better than the teacher. So that happened you to
have I will have great head. I will continue to
acquire knowledge. Oh, I will do hard work. I will
persevere and succeed about the