It is like asking 'What does Virendra Sehwag need'.

When professionals are succeeding, they do not want to take a pause, reflect and understand ‘why are they succeeding’. At that time, if someone stops them to reflect, they are too busy and occupied with success. They argue that ‘explanations do not help’. However, when they test failure, they are unable to chalk a course of action in a limited time-window, due to which they may never get another chance to get back. Now they have ample of time at their command, even more free advisors to advise, but they cannot figure out ‘what went wrong’. They are stuck.

You will find that all sportsman face this problem one time or another in their life. When they ‘rebound’ in time, we never understand what happened. When they cannot rebound in time, we mourn their failure; such as we are doing for Virendra Sehwag, Irfan Pathan and now perhaps Munaf Patel. In the past we have heard about cricketers like Akash chopra, Vinod Kambli and others who never rebounced.

During my 18 years of research on careers, I have found that all successful individuals are afflicted with this ‘virus’. In professions like sports, failure gets noticed because it is visible to everyone. In corporate life this occurrence is even more predominant, however failure is not visible. It is therefore unknown to most people. But I have seen many careers ‘stopped’ due to this virus: some never recover, few recover and chose different paths, few become superstitious because they are confused, while few others blame bosses for their affliction.

But the root cause is somewhere else. It is the lack of framework. Without a ‘framework’ of how careers are made, one can never figure out what is happening. Only a career-building framework can help us take preventive actions much in advance. Only with a framework (which I call as model) can one diagnose and not react to ‘high temperature’, because one would know that it is due to localized infection. On the other hand, one may respond quickly to even ‘normal temperature’ because other related symptoms are forewarning.

This is why you will find Enlight, the first career building model, useful to take charge of your life. You will find an introduction to this model, both on this website (www.mycareermylife.com) or as well as in the book ‘The five great myths of career building’, published by Macmillan.