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What is inside
Life rarely follows a predictable path. Careers change, relationships fail, plans collapse, people face rejection, and even carefully pursued dreams can take unexpected turns. In Losing Big Winning Bigger, Sujay Santra explores how individuals can respond to these realities without allowing failure to define their future.
Drawing on real-life experiences and insights from his entrepreneurial journey, Sujay examines the changing relationship between success and failure. The book challenges the idea that setbacks represent an endpoint and instead encourages readers to understand what difficult experiences can reveal about resilience, decision-making, and personal growth.
The book addresses pressures that are especially relevant in a competitive and increasingly digital world. It explores bullying, social comparison, uncertainty, professional challenges, compromised dreams, and the realities behind entrepreneurship.
Readers will also find perspectives on developing persuasion skills, using knowledge effectively, managing time, and dealing with situations that do not unfold as expected. Rather than presenting success as a straight line, the book reflects on the constant movement between achievement and disappointment and the lessons that can emerge from both.At its core, Losing Big Winning Bigger encourages readers to develop a more balanced relationship with failure and uncertainty while continuing to learn, adapt, and move forward.
The book is written for young professionals, millennials, aspiring entrepreneurs, students, and anyone navigating periods of uncertainty or disappointment.
It is particularly relevant to readers struggling with competition, workplace challenges, bullying, failed plans, or fear about the future, and to those seeking practical perspectives for approaching life’s setbacks with greater resilience and clarity.
Excerpt
From “Chased By The Dogs”
Tucked in the sweet embrace of a fading night, I was walking back home. Dark, bereft of any life around, and still, the cold had a kind of warmth around it. I looked at the sky, a delicate crescent of moon peeped at me from that lacy grey-edged cloud, and those stars shone as if grains of sugar were spilt on a black marble. Roads were windswept, so much so that I could hear a mild breeze lugging on to me. Delhi still seemed to be lounging in the world of dreams. And here I was, at the brink of dawn, walking back from my office, from Qutab Enclave to Jiya Sarai.
The whole ambience seemed animated as my footsteps knocked at my ears. I could hear my breathing and could feel the blood rushing through my veins too. It wasn't anything new. There have been countless nights when I had to jump over the boundary wall of IIT Delhi to take a shortcut to my house. Everything was as if encoded in my mind. I had nothing to worry. My feet would automatically turn towards the wall, and I would climb and jump on the other side. That's it. It was as simple as it sounded.
I wondered about one programming task that I had been working during the day and climbed on the wall. However, before I could jump to the other side, I was startled by a pack of dogs. Their ears pinned back, baring teeth and growling; those sharp canines glistened amidst the darkness. Standing on the ledge of the wall, I could feel fear stabbing at my spine. What should I do? Should I rush back to my office? No! I took out my belt and jumped in front of those dogs.
Though it comes with the façade of fear, uncertainty in life does sow the seeds of hope. I could have never imagined getting ringed by a pack of drooling dogs, that too in the middle of the night in a windswept street. I never knew that I had the guts to face that sudden and unexpected event in life. However, as days passed by, I fathomed the very significance of life's uncertainty. Only because it is uncertain, anything, absolutely anything is possible.
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About the author
Founder & CEO, Ikure Techsoft · Kolkata, India
“Ranjitha’s persistence and the support from Raam Anand, Aditi, and the Stardom team gave me the confidence to wear the author’s hat and turn my real-life insights into a book”
Sujay Santra is the Founder and CEO of iKure Techsoft, an award-winning social enterprise focused on strengthening primary healthcare. An Ashoka Fellow, he is also a global speaker and public health innovator.
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