Ajay: How was your college reunion?
Mazen: It was great! Meeting many of them after so many years! Was a wonderful feeling.
Ajay: Always good to catch up with old friends. So how are they all?
Mazen: All are doing great in life except this one person whom we all thought would make it really big in life. He used to be so good at everything, started working at a top MNC after college and then started his own company.
Ajay: That sounds great!
Mazen: But, eventually he just cut contacts with us friends. I heard he withdrew from other social circles too except those which were directly related to his work. Somewhere in between all this, his relation with his family also went sour.
Ajay: Now that sounds like many I know
Mazen: People around him say he did all that to fully focus on work, but unfortunately his company also is not doing very well now. Thats really surprising.
Ajay: I think the problem lies in seeing things in isolation and making monetary goals ones sole focus. Human relationships are beautiful. Family, friends, classmates, neighbours, acquaintances, other special people in our lives there are so many values we derive from such relationships.
Mazen: Yes, but what exactly do we learn?
Ajay: Where do we learn our interpersonal skills? Where do we learn how to handle people? Where do we learn trust, compassion, management, judgement skills? From our relationships, heritage and culture, right? An entrepreneurs life is about value generation. Therefore s/he, instead of shunning these things, should embrace them. Derive value from wherever possible. Because that makes us better entrepreneurs, better humans.