Exhausted and overwhelmed, Harry Narang was about to give up when his grandmother shared with him 6 simple words that turned his life around.
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00:00 June the 30th, 2012, when I landed in Vancouver and in Canada for the first time.
00:08 And Vancouver welcomed me with rain.
00:14 So here I was in this beautiful city of 600,000 people without a single friend or a relative.
00:22 I didn't know anybody here.
00:23 I'm Indian, so it's ironic that I did not have anybody here.
00:27 But it's true.
00:28 I didn't know a single person in this country.
00:31 So one year into Canada, I had to look for a summer internship.
00:35 And I had to go through tons and tons of job applications to find a three-month internship
00:44 in a factory.
00:45 Two hours one way, three buses and a train to get there and then coming back.
00:51 Life was good.
00:54 However, life went on, and December of 2013, I was ready to graduate.
01:01 I was turning in the assignments.
01:03 I was completing my reports, preparing for exams.
01:05 I was busy.
01:06 I was tired.
01:07 I was stressed out.
01:08 I was frustrated, but I was pumped up.
01:09 Ask me, say, "Why were you pumped up?"
01:12 I'm glad you asked.
01:14 I was pumped up because as soon as I finished my MBA, I was going to go back to India to
01:21 see my family.
01:22 A couple of days after I reached India, I was having a conversation with my grandmother.
01:29 And she asked me, "How are things in Canada?"
01:34 And I said, "I'm not sure.
01:37 Things are going to be difficult."
01:38 Because that was the evidence I had.
01:39 I had a hard time looking for an internship.
01:41 And there were people who graduated in December 2012 who were still looking for jobs in December
01:47 2013.
01:48 So one year, they were unemployed.
01:50 So I knew about those people.
01:51 And there were quite a few of them.
01:52 And some of them were even smarter than me.
01:56 So I knew all of that.
01:58 I said, "It's going to be difficult.
02:00 And I'm not even sure.
02:01 Maybe I should come back to India or figure something else out."
02:07 And she said something to me which I have never forgotten.
02:12 She said, "Son, everything new is hard at first.
02:21 Everything new is hard at first.
02:25 You're in a new culture, new country, amongst new people.
02:31 It's bound to be difficult.
02:34 But it doesn't mean it will stay difficult.
02:37 If you stick to it long enough, it will get easy.
02:44 If you stick, it will click."
02:48 She said that in Hindi.
02:49 So I added my rhyme to it.
02:54 "If you stick, it will click."
02:59 Being able to live through the challenging phases allowed me to create the options that
03:04 I have been able to create today, to do what I do today, to live what I call my dream.
03:11 And it was only possible because of that message, because I could have otherwise given up.
03:17 As you try to get into these strategies, it is going to be difficult because everything
03:21 new is difficult at first.
03:23 And being able to stick through the difficult phases, it's going to get easy.
03:28 Because as my grandmother said, "If you stick, it will click."
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