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I have been asked several times what is the secret sauce of my success during the HSC period.  I consider that time (2010-2012) to be my golden era. I was a driven individual back then, a man focused on purpose, a person with a clear goal in his mind. I will call it tenacity. I failed several times, I was humiliated, I was called off as a poor student by my tutor. But I refused to quit. 

2010 World Cup Final, July 11. Our class at Notre Dame College (NDC) had just started 10 days back. That night I was watching Spain vs. Nedarland's final with my dad.  Match went in the tiebreaker after both teams finished 90 minutes without scoring. As far as I remember, just a few minutes before Andres Iniesta scored for Spain, I accidentally threw a glass jar full of tomato catchup on the floor out of excitement, and tried to collect those broken pieces from the floor. In no time, I had a quick deep cut beneath my left foot from broken glass. And I missed an entire week from going to college. That's the only time in my entire life when I regretted not going to an academic institution (I was happy to bunk my school/ university). Why do Notredamians always put their college first before other institutions? I had the privilege to be a student of the best (at least so-called, you may differ) academic institutions in Bangladesh. What is so special about NDC? In a word - Disciplin...

Invest in good stock... Being a finance student, I have always been told that investors make much more profit compared to traders in the long run.  In a sense, that statement is apparently true. If you take the historical gain reference of traders vs. investors, the latter will come triumphant without any confusion. But remember, few traders make much more profit compared to investors.  For the traders, the profit curve is seemingly positively skewed, only a few can truly make a profit, but most of them lose money and cancel out the average profit. For the investors, the profit curve follows a normal distribution and returns an average profit to the clients in the long haul. And most importantly, it is always the small ticket-sized shares that give you the best return. For instance, a stock priced at BDT 10 has the potential to go up to 20 or 30 TK, giving you a return from 100% to 200%. But imagine a good stock that is already priced at BDT 600, how much can it go up? I alway...

Several weeks ago one of my friends was texting me, ''You know what, the stock market has gone bull in the last few days, I should have invested a year earlier.'' I replied, ''So be ready to invest now, it will come down again no worry...'' ''But I am too late you know, now I have to start from scratch.'' You are stopping yourself from success Imagine a highly successful person, who had completed her Ph.D. by the age of 25, had become a CEO in her mid forty and died from stress in her late fifty. Her friend who had completed her graduation in her late 20s is now 65 and running her own pet shop. Which life would you prefer? Even I don't know, it's hard to tell whether the later lady has been more successful in her life. Success subjectively depends on the human perspective. Perhaps, a high achiever at an early age is revered for her steep success curve, but I'm pretty much sure those high achievers would have wanted to be a per...

SDG Chart Topic: Sustainability, Research, Policies, and Practices Written for Dr. Abu Yousuf Mohammad Abdullah, Professor, Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka Honorable Chair of today’s panel discussion, respected panelists, moderators, and dear participants, thank you all for allowing me to share my thoughts on Sustainability, Research, Policies, and Practices organized by the Social Acceptability Study Network of Aalto University. Being an alumnus of this prestigious university, I am honored and thankful for your kind invitation. As a researcher of international business and circular economy, I have written myriads journals and research papers on economic policies and marketing practices. Referring to my humble experience in industry and academia, I want to emphasize that no research, policy, or practice is complete without a proper guideline of sustainability. The word ‘sustainable’ itself signifies whatever we do to advance civilization - that cannot harm our...

Hard time will generate better reward, PC: here Theoretically, the wider our success-thinking horizon is, the better we tend to perform in the long run. In other words, the furthest we can see ourselves; 10 to 20 years down the line, the clearest we can schedule our present to prepare for the future. But preparing for that far is definitely hard enough, you'll feel like quitting in the middle. And why not? Every so often life will offer you something instantly gratifying alternatives - better than your struggling career. It's outright easy to lose the long term momentum. Especially when you have just started. In a 10 years marathon timeframe, the first 5 years will probably work as the warm-up session, you'll spend most of the time fueling your car. Can you imagine a car which will take 5 years to fuel up? In such a caveat walking or taking a rickshaw is an absolute no brainer - if the destination is closer. Example? Suppose you live in Motijheel (Dhaka) and you want to tra...

Previous post is available here. I have been having acute sore throat for the last three days. Yesterday, I stopped by a local food court and ordered a bowl of soup. There I saw something interesting, and alaring at the same time. A little boy with traditional Islamic dress was having a noodles platter with me. His parents were sitting besides him, and what got me astonished was that they were not seeming to be practicing Muslims at all, but had some imposed ideology that is in practice imparing their thinking capabilities.  Now don't get me wrong, I'm not bothered with Islamic ideology (I'll explain in another blog why), neither do I care who chooses which lifestyle or cling to what school of thought. Rather, I am concerned about the inhouse braindrain that is slowpoisoning our educational ecosystem. Recently, Bangladesh has been ideologically radicalized with extremism and vandal propaganda, and ironically those are being brewed from a captive learning environment. I'...

Holla!  After a lapsed episode of daily dramas, finally, I am back with my blog. Writing this article to briefly note what happened last four months: 1. June: We left AYM sir's den at Banani, started working with Muspana (If you haven't read my miseries yet, read here ). Atik Bhaia and Rojel Bhaia were the angel saviors back then. We were indeed searching for a little straw to save our souls from drawing.  We had a solar project at Madaripur, 35 kWp, got introduced with Bakar Bhaia from Kaptan Bazar Solar Market. The project is still on hold. I and Asif literally had 7 days of eerie experiences in Madaripur. From climbing 11 floors up and down 6-8 times a day to painting solar structures bare hands by ourselves - we had it all! 2. June 22 was the date, my Namecheap hosting got expired for versedblogger. The renewal price was irrationally higher for me (at least for an unemployed wantrepreneur, I was penniless back then), so I decided not to renew the hosting package. After tha...