Book Review: Future Relevant Me 2.0 by Dr. Rajiv Dalmia

Future Relevant Me 2.0 by Dr. Rajiv Dalmia is a short engaging book on self-improvement and self-development. The USP of the book is that it combines experiences from the author’s life along with teachings taken from Hinduism, Sanathan Dharma, Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Bhagwad Gita.

Narrated in Socratic teacher-student way, this book is not only handy but also equips its readers with run-away secrets of leading a good and purposeful life. If you decode the title of the book, it clearly suggests that one should be engaged in skills and updates that prepare one for future because uncertainties and opportunities knock without forewarnings.

If you squeeze out the essence of the book, it is based on Success Mantra. The author has built a rudimentary scaffold of how to get success in various walks of life at all junctures such as student, friend, sibling, parents, employee, and so on. The special coverage on Startup/Entrepreneur is vital for startup ecosystem. “Top ten reasons why start-ups fail” – cannot be ignored. The tips and reasons explained in the pointers are resourceful.

The mythological dimension cannot be ignored that runs like banter in the book. Ramayana teaches what to do in life. Mahabharata teaches what not to do in life. Bhagwad Gita teaches how to do in life. The chapter on 4 Stages of Life is lucidly explained according to Hindu philosophy. It leverages the Asrama system that divides the human life phase into four parts i.e. Dharma, Artha, Kama, and Moksha. It’s vital for a human being to equally divide the years of his life to attain wealth, happiness, relationship and spirituality.

The book tries to provide solutions, tips, short strategies pertaining to success that possibly a human mind thinks of such as key to success, tips for being successful, how to achieve goals, more productivity, overcoming failures and more. Between all, there run short stories that re-instate the take of the concepts the book is talking about. It is a useful book that one can refer from time and again to build a better version of oneself in leading a good meaningful life.

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