My background and how I got into NLP:

           I come from a background in Psychology. Why did I take Psychology? My father handed me the prospectus of a college and said I could choose to study anything that I wanted. I glanced through and chanced upon this fascinating subject. I knew nothing about it except that it was about reading minds (or I thought so, like most people). My second reason was, I would have nothing to do with Mathematics or numbers if I took this subject (again, or so I thought!). The first year of college went very well. The start of my second year was when the professors dropped a bomb on me. They said we’d have a new paper called Statistics from this year on! I thought, “Oh no! What have I done! I deliberately went into the lion’s den.” But it was a point of no return, and I liked the subject very much.

                To add to it, my statistics teacher was very kind, unlike the rather strict Mathematics teachers I experienced in school. So, I thought, let me give it a shot! To my surprise, I aced in Statistics!! That was a euphoric moment for me! And that’s how I continued to do my Masters in Psychology as well. What about PhD….you ask? My Dad did ask that too! I registered! And the story ends there! This time, I backed out. I thought I’d save it for another day. I am too busy with other things, or so I’d like to say. 🙂 

                   When I wasn’t looking, I found a brilliant job in a fantastic company. That’s how I got into the corporates—a little over a decade of experience as an HR professional. But I did do two decades of work in that one decade itself. I had nothing else to do, so I thought I’d keep the ceiling from falling in the organisations I worked for by constantly sticking to the office walls! (You remember the lizard story from earlier, don’t you?)