Yes, you can. "In my case, I stumbled. We all stumble. And if we are lucky, we find what we love doing.", said the legendary author Gurcharan Das. Julia Cameron refers to this phenomenon as synchronicity in her landmark book ‘The Artist’s Way’. The way we magically encounter events and people when we are becoming aligned to who we are and our dreams.
It was a fanboy moment for me to listen to him during the Hyderabad Bizlitfest earlier this month.
My first encounter with Gurucharan ji's work was in 2009 while reading the poignant book 'The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma' where he delves into Mahābhārata and its double-binds it metes out to its characters, exploring the different emotional turmoils and proposing Dharma as a contextual dynamic idea and practice, and not a static monolithic rule-book.
Years later, as I stepped out of a corporate role to start my own ventures, his book 'Dharma of Business' became a guiding light and inspiration in looking at 'artha' (wealth) as an enabler of Dharma.
My own experiments in the past few years has been in one way a tinkering around of the idea of what does it take to be a 'Dharmic Entrepreneur', one who can create wealth (without demonising it) and be of service to the client and the context in doing so.
I've had many learning opportunities along the way in discovering the fine balance between 'lābh' (profit) and 'lōbh' (greed). And today I realise it is always a work in progress.
During the interaction, I asked him about his take on imposter syndrome while writing. He asked what that syndrome is! 😀 And went to share that he just started writing over weekends and it led to the books. Simple anti-dote. Take action!
While signing the autograph on his memoir 'Another Sort of Freedom', he light-heartedly asked me, "Have you seen Dirty Harry movie?" When I said not yet, he told me it is a great movie.
As I watched that vintage Clint Eastwood movie this weekend, I realised perhaps he was hinting at the 'just-do-it' energy of Harry who doesn't care about imposter syndrome in the movie, not to mention the richness of ethical dilemmas and ambiguities in the story.
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