Virat Kohli opened up about the mistakes he made during his tenure as India skipper and shared what he learnt about leadership from MS Dhoni.
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00:00I have no shame in accepting that I have made many mistakes
00:04when I was a captain.
00:05You cannot make everyone happy all the time.
00:07It's not saying that I'm going to run like this.
00:30I have no shame in accepting that I have made many mistakes
00:32when I was a captain.
00:34But the one thing I know for sure
00:37that I never did anything for my own selfish motives.
00:42I can take guarantee of that from day one.
00:44I have no shame in accepting that I have made many mistakes
00:48when I was a captain.
00:49You cannot make everyone happy all the time.
00:52It's not saying that I'm going to run like this.
00:54It's not saying that I'm going to run like this.
00:56It's not saying that I'm going to run like this.
00:57That I can take guarantee of that from day one to the last day.
01:02That I didn't do anything for myself.
01:05I had only one goal, how to take the team forward.
01:08In that, whether you took the right decision or not,
01:10I can totally accept it.
01:11You make mistakes, like you make errors when you play, you get out.
01:14That's a failure.
01:15Failures will keep happening.
01:17But intent was never in the wrong place.
01:20So, I can absolutely take guarantee of that.
01:22And as long as it's in the right place,
01:26you will make mistakes, but you will learn from them.
01:28As I said, you will not then start shying away from making mistakes.
01:33So, my intention was always right.
01:36Like I told you, you have to tweak the way people do it.
01:39Decisions have been wrong many times.
01:41And those things teach you a lot.
01:46And then you start taking it as the whole journey.
01:49And what went well, what didn't go right.
01:51And then you learn from all situations.
01:53So, that's exactly what happened.
01:55Leadership is a knack, but then you also see someone.
01:58You sometimes look up to someone.
02:00What was leadership for you?
02:01See, leadership, I learned from many people.
02:04I learned a lot from MS because I played majority of my career under him.
02:08The initial years.
02:09But in general, I feel leadership is
02:12firstly, to be able to take responsibility for yourself.
02:15Right? If you can't take responsibility for yourself,
02:18or for your own space,
02:20or for your own well-being,
02:22hygiene, whatever it is,
02:25you cannot take responsibility for any other person.
02:27I had this tendency in me to follow my heart
02:30and to go for things, naturally.
02:32Was the reason why I could urge everyone else around me to go for it
02:35and tell them, it's fine.
02:37Trust me, it'll be okay.
02:38Because I've experienced it.
02:40You know, it's not like I'm reading it off a book and saying,
02:42come on, we have to play with positive intent.
02:44I felt it, I've been there.
02:45I've succeeded, I've failed.
02:47I've learned from failures.
02:48But that has not stopped me from trying again.
02:51So, it is...
02:54When you get rid of the insecurities you have as an individual,
02:59you'll be able to become
03:00firstly, your own leader in your own space.
03:03And then be able to take responsibility for the others as well.
03:06So that if things go wrong,
03:07because the one thing that stops us from realizing how good we can be
03:10is failure, is insecurity, right?
03:12What if it goes wrong?
03:13What if it goes out?
03:15What if it doesn't pass?
03:16What if we don't get a job?
03:18What if we don't get a CV?
03:19What if we don't know what's going to happen?
03:20What if it doesn't go through?
03:22It's the reason why
03:24you never really fully commit to it.
03:26So, at a level where you realize,
03:28okay, I've tried this, I've seen ups and downs with it.
03:31Now I can tell these people, go for it.
03:34I'm here.
03:35If it goes wrong, I'll take care of it.
03:36But don't stop trying.
03:38There's no such instance...
03:39Because it's not necessary that someone I look up to as a leader
03:43might have a way of life
03:44which is inspiring but can be different for me.
03:46It could take me time to buy into your theory.
03:48100%.
03:49One thing I learned from MS and other people that I've seen lead also,
03:53you cannot make everyone happy all the time.
03:55This is the absolute truth.
03:57And why that happens is because certain individuals
04:00will not buy into the intensity of what you're saying immediately.
04:03So, they try to find their own comfortable ways
04:06which you have to ignore.
04:07Because the vision is priority.
04:10It's not saying that I'm going to run it.
04:12No, I've been given the responsibility.
04:15This is the plan.
04:17Because I think this plan will take us to the top.
04:21This is our path.
04:22If you tell someone to run,
04:24you can tell someone to get up and run.
04:26If you tell someone not to run,
04:29there will be problems like this.
04:31There's no point in it. We'll waste so much time.
04:34We're not making the most of our time.
04:35You eventually want to enjoy yourself.
04:37All these small things matter.
04:38So, get that guy around in a different way.
04:40But the goal is the same.
04:42He has to run, he has to run.
04:43But you can't say that you won't do it.
04:46Because to get there,
04:49a second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth person
04:53is ready to work ten times harder than you.