Letter To My Younger Self

By | August 11, 2018

After my UPSC results, someone came up to me and asked: “Now that you’ve succeeded after a long journey, you must have learnt a lot of lessons along the way. If you were to meet your younger self who is starting his preparation just now, what advice would you give him?”

I wrote this speech trying to answer that question. I titled it Letter to My Younger Self and delivered the talk recently to a group of bright, enthusiastic aspirants at the Ravindra Bharati Auditorium in Hyderabad.

Sharing it here so that it reaches those who couldn’t attend the event. Hope you find it useful.

Link to the Video

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70 thoughts on “Letter To My Younger Self

  1. Anonymous

    Good evening sir
    Sir please tells us what is the right time to prepare notes for gs and to make notes from current affairs

  2. Anonymous

    Hello sir I am Akash .my gs and optional (Anthropology) strategy only focus on model answer only . this step is right or wrong

  3. karan reddy

    whenever i feel broken, you give mi boost, thank u for all time support, love u sir

  4. Anonymous

    Sir,
    I’m lohitha… I’m studying 10th now
    When I was in 3rd class it’s my dream to become IAS officer and I don’t know the meaning of upsc when I was in my childhood..
    But there is one thing always roaming in my mind that is I want to become a IAS officer that’s it…
    And whenever my mam asked me
    What’s your goal??
    I always said that I’m going to be the IAS officer for our district..
    And whenever I said that she appreciated me
    Anudeep sir, I’m also from Bhadradri kothagudem dist, I’m from manuguru sir
    I met you when I was in 8th class.
    You came to Pinapaka as a training collector.
    You are really a gem sir
    You are my inspiration sir
    All the success stories were came from great failures…
    Forever you are my inspiration
    And I’ll promise you
    Am going to be the future IAS officer sir..
    It’s my challenge 👍

  5. Anonymous

    Good sir . It can bring back a person from turbulence to tranqulity … Good way of expressing sir to overcome sir

  6. Jadi vinesh

    Sir my name is
    JADI VINESH I am complete my intermediate so then please give mi a permission to meet you sir please my life is depends on you sir please

  7. aknk 47

    Sir can you please write an article on how to meditate?

  8. Thota Erappa

    Sir suggest some test series to get perfection on ncerts

  9. bhavani

    sir i want your guidance to clear my attempt in 2020

  10. Anonymous

    Sir…i just started my preparation a months ago for upsc…pls help me how can I aaproach towards my journey…i don’t have any idea regard to this as I am now in part1…i belong from small district of bihar where is scarcity of sources and financial condition…pls reply sir…

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