Himalayas changed my attitude towards entrepreneurship

We want to share with you the history of Nijar Savant (Nihar Sawant), co-founder of the Exposure, who believes that the journey to the Himalayas changed his attitude towards entrepreneurship.

Recently I was in the Himalayas two weeks. During these two weeks, I had virtually no contact with the outside world. Climbing to a height of 14,000 feet in the wild natural environment left my mind in complete desolation.

By the time I got home, I felt like a white sheet - though I was reborn. It has helped me quite a different look at life.

Over the past five years, I have a lot of introspective, and watched the people around me. I realized that most people make is that they do not want to do, what they do not need, and most importantly, they do not think about yourself.

Rather than reflect on what they really need, people just buy things advertised to appear "cool" and "modern."

They do not like their job, waste everyday, live in anticipation of the weekend and scribbling tweets about what a stupid they work and what their asshole boss.

Your time is limited, so do not waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs

I always thought that I did not like at all "these" people: I am much better, even more correct to say - above them. Instead of stupidly follow fashion trends, I always asked myself: "Why should I do that?".

I thought I was listening to your inner voice, and not to the external noise around. I tried to live a simple life and not to fill their lives with things that I do not need. I believed that I lived the way I wanted.

But I was wrong.

When I returned from the Himalayas, I appreciated his former life. I looked at the people, which was followed in Twitter; newspapers and magazines that I read; on blogs, which I signed; in the event that I had attended. And I realized that I was not an exception: I'm no different from those people, above which itself set.

From the college I wanted to become an entrepreneur. And not because of what I really wanted it, but because I was inspired by the example of Paul Graham, Jack Dorsey, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and others.

I wanted to change the world, because Steve Jobs said about this in the video. I created his own start-up, because I read a lot TechCrunch. So I followed the trends in the same way as the people around me. The only difference is that entrepreneurship and start-ups - this is a very ambitious tendencies.

What is entrepreneurship?

After I realized this, I decided to discard their digital lives. I removed about 70% of Facebook friends (and was almost ready to delete your account permanently), significantly reduced its list of "read later ", which contained about a thousand articles, and eventually unsubscribed from almost all the blogs who only do what they are writing about startups.

I was surprised when I saw how simple it is - let go of all this digital existence. After I lived in such isolation of the week, I asked myself: "Why am I doing this?". And the answer was quite simple: the thrill.

The reason that I decided to go to the Himalayas, traveled 650 kilometers and refused to work with high salary and the opportunity to move to North America: it made my heart beat faster.

Entrepreneurship - this is not a science to acquire and no way to get a million dollars. It's the thrill, the unpredictability, the various limitations, the case with which constantly have to push yourself to the next level and be an innovator.

I crave this and enjoy every moment. That's why I chose the business.

Our life is beautiful: we are free to do whatever we want. You want to change the world? Go ahead and do it. But first ask yourself if you really want it. Or is it just because you saw a similar idea in someone's autobiography?

Dedicate your lives to favorite business. To old age have not been futile regret that you spent your life not what we wanted. When you do what you love, you really enjoy life and only if you live to the fullest.

Otherwise you just die of boredom, waiting for the next "awesome" weekend.