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0:00 Jai Hind everybody I am Major General Shami Sabharwal I welcome you to Centurion Defence Academy today we will talk about hobbies and interest for the purpose of interview see what your hobby and interest is is one thing but in the interview we will talk about what to write in hobby and interest and what not to write because that is very important because that is a very important aspect of your personality okay so let's begin first of all talk about what is hobby and what is interest see the one common thing between these two is that interest is that which makes
0:46 you feel good it is the start point you must feel nice doing an activity now comes first we take interest see interest is the basic which we call what is in the base you may enjoy watching a drama you may enjoy watching a game on top of that you may feel good by watching a match you may also feel good by listening to a ghazal This is absolutely the base form of interest. If you see in this, you have neither exercised your mind nor have you exercised your body. Now let's go a little step
1:33 further. If you do any activity in which either the mind or the body, one of the two is getting exercised. Recently you play badminton, but once in 10 days in a week, what is that? It can only come in the category of interest. Yes brother, you liked it. So now what would be your hobby? A hobby is that in which first of all, either the body or the mind, or at least one thing, should definitely be exercised. Put a little more effort on your part. The trigger starts with interest only.
2:19 Recently you were in school in your childhood, you were made to participate in a drama. If you participated for the first time, you might have gone with fear or hesitation. But after you participated, you might have liked it. People might have also appreciated that yaar, you have played a very good role. Now interest develops within you, you evolve more in it. When you evolve a little, your evolution increases. Not that it becomes your interest and when the interest crosses a level, like water spits out and after that steam starts forming again, then you reach the present stage, so in all cases from
3:08 interest we reach to hobby, many times we do not reach directly, now we see what are the common hobbies and where do we make mistakes in between, so some of the common hobbies like reading, let's start with reading, first see, if a child comes to me and says that Sir I am a fan of reading, good, you can read anything, so first at least one liking for reading has to come, if you are reading regularly at some stage, you will have to read books of higher level, but in the beginning you can read anything and then one
3:55 thing is that whenever you read any book, be it any fiction book, be it suspense, thriller or anything, it definitely gives you one lesson or the other, so when ever you read a book, what is a lesson in that book, at that you must know it because when in an interview If you go there, he will ask you what did you learn from it. If you did not pay attention to it, then it comes now. There are some books in between which can trap you. For example, a girl came to me and said, Sir, I am a fan of reading. I said, what did you read? He said, Sir, I like to read spiritual books. I said, what did you read? He said, Sir, I read Ramayana, I read Mahabharata.
4:41 And now I am reading Geeta. You are reading Geeta, friend. I have read Geeta four times. I understood something and I did not understand something. And you are reading Geeta at a very young age. Thank you to you. I said, okay, you have just started reading Geeta. You have read the entire Ramayana and Mahabharata. He said, yes sir. I said, can I ask a question, sir, please ask. I said, come on, tell me who was Jai Hazrat in Mahabharata. She looked at me as if I did not know what I was asking. Sir, I said, yes, I said, let me give him a hint. I said, who was that warrior from the Kaurava side? When Abhimanyu went inside the Chakra, the other four Pandavas, because Arjun was far away from the battlefield, he was
5:27 not allowed to go inside for the whole day. I did not understand anything, then I gave another hint, who was that warrior for whom Arjun had said that if I do not kill him before the next day's battle, then I will enter the fire myself and give up my life. Look, if you feel that you will go and talk about a book like Mahabharata and try to show that I have done a lot, please understand that a novel can be written on every character in Mahabharata, Mahabharata is not restricted to 100 Kauravas and five Pandavas, so if you go there and say about such a book and show that you are very intelligent, then you will laugh, so be
6:14 careful one of you while reading that what are you saying in it, let's go to the next painting, drawing, sketching, good habits, good hobbies, okay now if he will ask you, then you should be able to answer that Sir, I do painting, which color paint, which paint, what is sketching or drawing, and along with this, how much time do you take, see, sketching is easier, it takes less time and in painting What is it? You have to apply multiple coats of colour, you have to sit in more than one setting, these are some of the questions for which you should have the answers ready. Plus, what do you sketch or paint, then you should be very clear
7:00 on that time. Don't start thinking about what I had made and what I had not made. Next, dancing again, dancing is a very good activity. In between, your mind also relaxes and the physical body also gets an exercise, so this can come into the hobby. And now what is it that, look, if I dance every day, suppose for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening, then it is not that for the last six months, there is not a single song that has not been repeated. You invariably must have some favourite songs on which you will dance. You cannot dance on Pankaj Udhas' ghazal. You should know at least three or four songs on
7:46 which you can say that Sir, mostly I dance on these songs. And if you cannot even tell that, then what is the use of writing? It means either you dance or you do not dance. You don't do it or you are not concerned, just music is playing, you are doing something, I am not doing it, nose tongue offer I am not going to be impressed, photography again, very nice hobby, now again it depends on what type of photography you do, of nature, of wildlife, what do you do, look, wildlife photography is not easy, for that also you have to work hard day and night, many times you have to spend hours sitting on a scaffolding, so before you take on this, I will ask
8:34 you which camera do you use, what power, should that characteristic be clear to you and if that characteristic is not clear, then before writing, see whether brother I will be able to tell you this characteristic or not, then acquire a little knowledge about them, if you have not acquired it yet, then look at cooking, cooking is a double edge weapon, a boy says to me, sir my hobby is cooking, I asked, friend very good, when do you do cooking, now listen to the answer, what does he say, sir, when my mother has gone out or my mother is unwell, then I I do cooking, I said, now is cooking your hobby and is cooking your compulsion, I
9:22 said even in my case, if there is no one at home, then I have to go and get water myself, so I will have to drink it myself and if there is someone, then I will ring the bell, someone will come, son, bring water, I cannot say that cooking has become my hobby, it is a compulsion, so please understand the difference between the two, if it is a compulsion, then it should not come here, if it is a hobby, then you should have an interest, that yes, you are regularly cooking something, there should be some favourite dish, it should come from within the heart that today I have to cook food, mother is not there, now I will have to cook, later there is no option, next travelling, exploring new places trekking, see at your age, travelling, exploring new places
10:08 trekking gets a little dicey because you can't say exploring new places or trekking, my batchmates are of 60 plus, there is a whole group from Pune, there are 10-12 offices, every 15 days we plan a trek around Pune There are husband wife all these 15-20 people who go, they leave in the morning an officer is responsible for everything that you have to plan this time's trek, they take their own food and they organize it, now is husband they like it, they enjoy it but you are at home that sir where did I go, I went to Lucknow, why sir, I had to go to
10:54 Centurion Defence Academy for coaching so that's why I went to Lucknow, now the question is you stayed in Lucknow for 21 days or two months, I did n't see anything in Lucknow sir, I did n't get time to write, did you explore any new place, just because you came from Muzaffarnagar to Lucknow, then travelling becomes your hobby, it doesn't happen like this, by any means stick, this cannot become your hobby and anyway these hobbies, at your age because mostly it involves evolution of time and money, you cannot do it so easily, you can put it an interest, if you have gone somewhere a little or if you have done trekking then Make him interested that sir I like it but my
11:42 constraint is I don't have the time and the resources but when I have it I will actively pursue it next playing chess playing chess is a very good hobby if you play sincerely now look in this if your one game of chess is not going on even for 20 minutes then there is something wrong a kid comes to me I asked how much do you play half n r half n r so I got impressed that yes brother if you play chess for half an hour then it will be a mind exercise I said how many games sir it becomes five to six games I said five to six games in half an hour he said yes sir there is a timer of five minutes within five minutes how many of his pawns die how many of mine die on that basis the loss is decided
12:28 now what is this this is not an exercise of mind it is just that killing the pawns quickly is an exercise of one's mind that one you take the game to a logical conclusion whether you play online or offline play games less but At least the duration should be about 20-25 minutes so it will take that yes, you have meaningfully exercised your mind, you have decided about the future moves that yes, if I don’t do this then my queen, I am that and king, I am under threat, that is what is actually running, yoga, good hobbies, but now if I ask someone how much running, how much did you run,
13:15 2 km, I said just 2 km, yes sir, actually in the middle, then we sit down and start a discussion among ourselves, like this, you say that you cannot run, if your running is such, then run at least 5 km, on Sundays you are running 8-10 km, at least you are doing it four to five times a week, by all means you can write it, but if you are doing this kind of running in which you are not even completing 3 km in an hour, and in which there is less running, walking and more talking, then I am afraid you cannot write it as my husband will not give you positive, he will give you negative, okay Let's go next, next thing I can play football,
14:01 basketball, any of the sports can be a hobby because I have seen many children that they are very good at it and you are playing football five days a week, it is written in the K column in the courts, but here in the hobby column, because you had forcibly put your tired hobby, so I said, friend, you play football so regularly, why don't you put football here in hobby, K sir, I have written that in sports, I b If you are playing football for one and a half hours every day, do you enjoy it, right? Yes sir, I said when Virender Sawant or Virat Kohli were of your age, if someone asked them what their hobby was, what would they say, lame cricket, because they are spending more than half of their time
14:48 in the cricket ground, if you are spending one and a half or two hours playing a particular game, then obviously it merits to be considered as a hobby, you can put it in the sports column as well as in the hobby column, put it in both the places because that is what you are actively doing. Doing look, whether you are playing cricket or football, even football, if you look at it or running around, but you also, your mind is working very fast, brother, I have to check that, you have to take the ball, if both the activities are happening, then it merits being a hobby, you can write it, okay now, next what should not be included, now comes the fact that there are some things that you should
15:33 not include in hobby interest, like watching movies, watching movies, you are wasting two and a half to three hours in the cinema hall at your age, where every minute is so precious, what do you think, will it give you some brownie points, it won't give you any brownie points, don't write even if you watch two movies a week, but don't write it here, next is diary writing, look, diary writing is a double edge weapon, if you want to write it, write it, but when you write this there in your PI Q form, then the Int Officer will ask what you wrote yesterday, what will you tell him, if you had a fight with someone, you got angry or you committed some mistake, then you write
16:19 that brother, I committed this mistake Now I have to improve it, now you will tell the officer that I made this mistake yesterday, what does it mean that you cut your own neck and gave it to the offer on a platter that I have made these mistakes in the last one week, you will be impressed, only you will get to know the mistakes which we do not want to tell, we also write it, there is no need to go and tell the officer, there is no need to write it in the PI form, next is listening to music, you can put listening to music in interest, it will be fine but it does not have any importance beyond that, it is not going to give you any brownie points
17:06 because neither your body nor mind is working in it, video games again addiction does not help, this should not be put, it is not giving you anything positive, anything is not giving you can give positive and negative, we will not put it in hobby interest, okay last can some activity that you have never done include in interest, the activity which you have not done till now, you want to include it in interest, So that is what happened, I ask you what do you like to eat, I like Gulab Jamun,
17:53 how many do you eat at a time, I have n't eaten it yet but whenever I pass by a sweet shop, I see hot Gulab Jamun and feel like eating it and I think I will eat it one day, now brother if you cannot save 10 rupees for eating Gulab Jamun, from where did the interest come, from where did the liking come, a voice comes from within that friend I like this thing, you should have tried it at least once, if you ate Gulab Jamun even once, did you like it and then say that sir I cannot afford it because there is a shortage of funds, I will eat Gulab Jamun only when I have more money, then it is understandable that you have not eaten it, you don't even know how good it will be or not, so don't write anything which you have
18:38 not tried even once till now, anything which you have done at least once and then twa this and thrice, only then will it be worth it that yes friend you have interest, you have tried it once. Kya Bhadra, you liked the tracking but you have NDA written exam ahead, you don't have time, you said that Sir I liked the tracking and now I will pass it actively, if you understand it clearly then please be careful one, you fill in the PI Q form, what should be your hobby and what should be your interest, I hope I made myself very clear, the best Jai Hind, God bless you, [Music]
