INSEAD MBA Sample Essays from Past Clients: 1
INSEAD Motivation Essay 1: Give a candid description of yourself (who are you as a person), stressing the personal characteristics you feel to be your strengths and weaknesses and the main factors which have influenced your personal development, giving examples when necessary. (600 words max.)
One of the most defining factors of my personality is my unconventional career choice after completing my MBBS and residency. I decided to switch to the management side of healthcare.
As a second-generation doctor, I am deeply empathetic and driven by an ambition for healthcare equity. As a child, I often accompanied my father to his clinics. To my father, medicine is not just a profession — it’s a calling. I watched him treat patients, often waiving fees for those who couldn’t afford care. His belief that “healthcare is a right, not a privilege” became my north star.
Little did I know that these words of wisdom would someday help me take an unconventional risk and save someone’s life. One evening, a stable patient in the ward had a sudden cardiac arrest. With no emergency equipment around as a last resort, I used an old-school traditional method that my father had taught me. My colleague advised me not to take the attempt, as it ‘could’ kill the patient, but without it, the patient would have ‘surely’ died. I mastered the courage and decided to take the risk. Fortunately, the patient survived and this is who I was as a doctor, backing myself up with the confidence and courage to save my patients. These were my defining strengths.
However, I also lost patients during COVID-19 due to a critical lack of infrastructure and operational/systemic failures. It dawned on me that the impact on healthcare was not limited to the bedside – it lay in creating a robust system where quality and access work in tandem. That’s why I decided to leave my residency at the prestigious Banaras Hindu University and diverge from a traditional medical career.
When my father heard about my decision, he was disheartened and refused to acknowledge my choice. The taunts and negative feedback from family and friends were an add-on. The man who taught me all about the calling of a doctor, now saw me as a sellout to corporate interests. For the first time, I questioned my instincts. Was I abandoning his legacy? However, I stood by my decision and decided to take the risk.
For a long time, I let my dad’s disappointment in my career choice define my confidence, which started to reduce; there were months when I second-guessed everything, big or small, as if my worth hinges on getting it ‘right’ and doing right by my father and friends. I try to let go, but the fear of failing people and being seen as selfish for abandoning a doctor’s calling festered into a weakness and sometimes still haunts me.
Today, I have learned to balance both; I lead with my father’s compassion but toward my own vision and my calling. I certainly yearn for my father’s support again in all my endeavors. But I have realized that carving your path sometimes means outgrowing the people who shaped you. My father gave me the courage to care deeply; I’m using it to care differently.
INSEAD Motivation Essay 2: Describe the achievement of which you are most proud and explain why. In addition, describe a situation where you failed. How did these experiences impact your relationships with others? Comment on what you learned. (400 words max.)
In my first year as a doctor at a public hospital, I was posted in the ICU of the pediatric department. During a 24-hour rotation, the conditions of four newborn babies suddenly began to deteriorate in the middle of the night. They required immediate ventilator support, but we only had one ventilator available and 2 doctors to cover the mid-might shift (myself and another first-year doctor).
Initially, we panicked, but with time running short, we had to compose ourselves and needed to improvise quickly. We made a makeshift ventilator to support one of them. For the remaining two, we had to resort to manual ventilation — a physically demanding and precise task that required careful control to prevent lung rupture (fairly outside the expertise of intern doctors, to say the least, but we had no choice). This engaged both of us. We coordinated and tried our best all night long to ensure that all the babies survived. Unfortunately, by the time more experienced help could arrive, we lost the 2 babies on manual ventilation, and only 2 survived.
Experiencing this incident so early in my career was instrumental in my development as a doctor and a person. I went through a range of emotions all in 1 night, from panicking and then thinking outside the box to finally seeing a non-responsive baby in my arms. Witnessing critically ill babies struggle for survival was emotionally taxing, but I had to compartmentalize those emotions temporarily and not let them interfere with my ability to act effectively for the sake of other babies. It meant maintaining composure despite the overwhelming nature of the crisis. The situation was unpredictable — there were no guarantees that our improvised solutions would work or the number of babies that would survive despite our best efforts. I learned to embrace uncertainties and to remain committed to my primary objective — in this case, doing everything possible to save the babies.
This situation not only tested my medical capabilities as a doctor, next morning, I had to prepare myself to have one of the most difficult conversations of my life with the parents who lost their babies. While these conversations were difficult, they made me realize the importance of empathy — understanding their emotional state, and comforting them. It deepened my understanding of navigating such delicate conversations compassionately to ensure that others feel supported even in their darkest moments.
INSEAD Motivation Essay 3: Describe all types of extra-professional activities in which you have been or are still involved for a significant amount of time (clubs, sports, music, arts, politics, etc). How are you enriched by these activities? (300 words max.)
Outside of work, I am really passionate about Table Tennis. I learned to play table tennis by watching my senior school team play. Over the years, I took formal training in the sport and went on to play for my school team. I continued to play during my medical school days and secured the second position at the university-level competition comprising all medical colleges across the state. While learning this sport taught me that growth does not always occur through formal structures, the fast-paced nature of the game improved my focus and reflexes and taught me to maintain the same even when the situation is not in my favor. These skills have been invaluable in helping me handle critical and ambiguous phases both professionally and personally.
Another initiative where I dedicate a significant portion of my time is career guidance for high school students.
Choosing an academic path aligned with my ambitions was a pivotal moment that taught me the power of intentionality over societal conformity. Today, I mentor high school and college students, encouraging them to discover careers that align with their unique strengths and passions rather than societal expectations of being an engineer or a doctor. What began as casual advice has now evolved into a mission: I even sat down with parents, using simple economic principles to reframe their perspectives. For instance, I often compare career choices to long-term investments and how they should look at careers using accounting and economic profit lenses. Though I have never formalized or monetized this mentorship, that’s intentional. I consider it my way of giving back—sharing the knowledge I have gained to light the path for others.
INSEAD MBA Sample Essays from Past Clients - 2
INSEAD Motivation Essay 1: Give a candid description of yourself (who are you as a person), stressing the personal characteristics you feel to be your strengths and weaknesses and the main factors which have influenced your personal development, giving examples when necessary. (600 words max.)
At age 9, I became self-dependent when my parents admitted me to a famous boarding school for better emphasis on studies. I still have the photographic memory of the day when they dropped me & I was gazing relentlessly at their receding car with teary eyes, badly hoping for their return. No matter how heartbroken I was, but that was the most transformational day of my life.
The diversity at boarding school in terms of culture, religion, language, & personalities exposed me to a broad range of experiences. Lack of parents’ availability made me connect & learn from surroundings. Within a few years, this diverse ecosystem transformed me from a crying child to a confident, and adaptive, teenager.
Later on visits to our intricately-crafted ancestral house; listening to the passionate narration of my grandmother’s stories about relics of lost heritage, built my natural inclination towards arts and craftsmanship. Later, this curiosity about craft practices landed me in one-of-a-kind institute of craft & design sector.
My passion for learning about Indian arts and crafts took me to the interiors of 16 states in India. These travels broadened my perspective towards limitations & constraints of different artisan communities. In these rural places, I observed stark violations of women’s social & economic rights. One such time when I worked in a remote village in Rajasthan’s desert with a Women Artisan group, even necessary hygiene & sanitary facilities were missing. I witnessed their arduous struggle only to earn a sustainable livelihood for basic needs. This experience motivated me to achieve larger impactful goals in lives to support such women.
These diverse experiences, gave me strengths to pursue my passion and paved my way to a fulfilling professional career until a blatant discrimination at the workplace, made me unexpectedly quit my job. Though I planned for long to kick-start a venture to support women artisans, the job-quit rushed the launch of my handcrafted products based Start-up. I raised INR 2 Million in seed-money from known private investors to run the business. However, I was not prepared to handle a business. I was confident and passionate but I didn’t have the required strengths or experience. The business struggled and due to my inability to generate sufficient cash flows the Start-up failed within 6 months. This impulsive action to start a business costed all my life-savings when I paid back the investor from my own pocket to save my relationships with them.
But this failure familiarized me with the bitter weakness of mine and hard realities of entrepreneurship and leadership. I realized, I take impulsive decisions, shy away from hard discussions and try to obsessively control every aspect of my work scope. Since then I have consciously worked on my weakness and focused on my professional career. Today I lead a team of 20 people and manage international clients. Now I look forward to further enhancing my skills and working on my weaknesses as a business person via an MBA and there is no better institute than INSEAD to help me in this endeavour.
INSEAD Motivation Essay 2: Describe the achievement of which you are most proud and explain why. In addition, describe a situation where you failed. How did these experiences impact your relationships with others? Comment on what you learned. (400 words max.)
In Aug’16, a leading luxury home-furnishing brand, Restoration Hardware (RH) wanted OrientCraft to develop a unique and out-of-box collection for their flagship division, RH-Mains. Our management desperately wanted to win this business as RH-Mains was undoubtedly the biggest account in the industry, and all competitors were vying for it.
After thorough brainstorming, I identified an exceptional craft of “Bhujodi weaving”, in the hinterland of rural India to design this collection. I located a remote village in Gujarat to work with the artisans directly and deliver a range, which matched RH’s aesthetics, hand-feel & quality measures. On presentation-day, when RH’s team saw the prodigious craftsmanship, they were captivated by the intricacies of the whole collection & placed a high-value order with OrientCraft.
Later, when RH’s sales skyrocketed; the awareness about the Bhujodi craft-story got international acclaim. This endeavour resulted in a complete transformation of Bhujodi weaver’s village economy and their lives. Till date this initiative holds a special meaning and a sense of achievement not because of business revenue it brought but because of the positive economic impact on a rural community and their livelihoods.
On the other hand, I believe till date my biggest failure was when I failed to protect the livelihood and rights of Sufiya (my team member), who came from a poor & riot affected Muslim family of Kashmir. One day, in Feb’19, the company’s owner noticed Sufiya in her traditional Islamic attire with Hijab. He immediately instructed HR to fire her, suggesting that he doesn’t want anyone who promotes the Islamic agenda in his company.
As her manager, I resisted strongly to prevent discrimination based on religious belief, but my efforts weren’t enough to protect Sufiya’s job. When i was out on a client assignment, Sufia was fired in my absence. The sudden firing left Sufiya broke financially & emotionally. Saddened by the incident and discrimination faced, Sufiya’s family prohibited her from working again & decided to marry instead.
Within a moment, the owner’s words changed Sufiya’s fate. This incident gave me many sleepless nights, as despite being a woman leader of the team myself, I was not able to protect the rights or discrimination againt another woman. I resigned within 2 weeks and learnt that deliberate discrimination can still prevail at workplaces. Even people at the top-most levels can have narrow mindsets and I took a personal pledged not to tolerate any forms of discrimination in my work space.
INSEAD Motivation Essay 3: Describe all types of extra-professional activities in which you have been or are still involved for a significant amount of time (clubs, sports, music, arts, politics, etc). How are you enriched by these activities? (300 words max.)
Coming from an arts & craft background, I indulge in activities that enhance my creativity and enrich the experiences of life. I play an Indian classical music instrument, Sitar, which helps me stay stress-free and provides a pathway to express my feelings in a subtle but creative manner.
Another activity I have consistently pursued since college is theatre & street-plays. I have performed alongside a few famous Indian theatre celebrities like Shabana Azmi & Irfan Khan. This activity has enhanced my cognitive & expressive abilities. The experience of performing live on-stage in front of large audiences taught me the importance of being prepared, increased my self-confidence tremendously and transformed me into a more collaborative person.
Apart from performing theatre myself, I also volunteer for an NGO, Robinhood Army, through which I conduct art & theatre workshops (1-2 workshops/month) for underprivileged kids. I teach them painting & origami techniques for better creative visualization. I also involve them in role-plays & mono-acting sessions to improve their self-confidence. I volunteer for this activity as I believe art is an expression of mind & heart, which helps these kids build a positive outlook towards life and to let-go of their real-life hardships & struggles. These sessions help me to stay grounded, build empathy & remain aware of real-world problems.
Also, I have extensively participated in various outdoor sports activities in the last 15+ years. I played hockey during school days, learnt & practised horse-riding, participated in multiple 100m, 200m & 400m running events in school, & ran seven half marathons to support various social causes. Such outdoor activities have helped me build stamina & develop strong will power. Moreover, the physical nature of these activities taught me an essential life-lesson that no matter how difficult a task appears in the beginning, perseverance helps achieve the goal.
INSEAD MBA Sample Essays from Past Clients: 3
INSEAD Motivation Essay 1: Give a candid description of yourself (who are you as a person), stressing the personal characteristics you feel to be your strengths and weaknesses and the main factors which have influenced your personal development, giving examples when necessary. (600 words max.)
Mountains are my one true love. They have helped me come to terms with who I am, making me face my biggest fears and helping me acknowledge latent strengths.
I have found that to reach every summit be it on a mountain or in life, I pursue my goal with an unflinching focus on the next step. As a student, having overcome a paralyzing fear of failure, I learnt early on that grit is as important as ability. Today, I rarely get overawed by the magnitude of the challenge because I keep my attention fixed on the immediate goal.
Whether it was crossing the Rupin Pass at a height of 15500 ft and an incline of 60 degrees or successfully handling a complex project such as BP’s Shah Deniz where the slightest error could have had disastrous consequences, my unwavering focus has always been my forte.
Another strength that has served me well is my ability to solve critical problems while maintaining my composure. When I was trekking solo across the Gadsar Pass I was caught in a sudden snowstorm at 13500 feet. I couldn’t stay outside in the cold risking hypothermia but I couldn’t move blindly either. So I trusted my ears and ran down towards the river in the hope that I would find someone camping near it. An hour later, I noticed someone warming his hands by a fire. My ability to stay calm in a crisis literally saved my life that day but it has also been my saviour in a number of different albeit less critical situations be it leading unpredictable projects, tackling technology failures or working through an unsavoury team dynamic.
Mountains have helped me come face to face with my weaknesses and shown me the path to overcome them. Growing up in a family in which money always fell short of aspirations, economic security subconsciously became a major factor in my decisions. Living in the mountains made me realize that money is similar to the resources in a trekking bag. It is good to have them but the more you carry, the heavier the bag gets and the more onerous the summit climb becomes. I figured out that the true summit can only be excellence, not security. It is in pursuit of this excellence that I jumped at the chance to move to an international work location and that I quit a lucrative job to build a social enterprise.
I have also realized that my idealistic approach to life sometimes comes in the way of adopting a more pragmatic middle path. While trekking on the frozen Zanskar River in Ladakh, the team consensus was that everyone should wear crampons as the entire trek would be on ice. Though I acceded to the team’s opinion, I believed this would dilute the unique challenge of the trek. It was only later I realised that had I held out, I might have risked injuries to those who were equally enthusiastic but perhaps less adept at trekking. Since then, when faced with confrontation, I make a conscious effort to set aside my own beliefs for a little while and walk in the shoes of the other person, be it at work or in my personal life.
I cannot imagine a better way of developing holistically than spending a year at INSEAD. The diversity of culture and backgrounds at INSEAD will help me understand different perspectives much better and reconcile conflicting interests, including my own. Living and working closely with people who exemplify excellence will only strengthen my resolve to pursue it in every sphere of life.
INSEAD Motivation Essay 2: Describe the achievement of which you are most proud and explain why. In addition, describe a situation where you failed. How did these experiences impact your relationships with others? Comment on what you learned. (400 words max.)
To paraphrase Tolstoy, all success is similar, but each failure shapes life in its own unique way. One such failure which left an indelible mark on my personality occurred after high school when I failed to qualify Indian Institute of Technology Entrance Examination. I decided to take the exam for a second time because I felt that it was my inability to tackle pressure that had led to my failure and not a lack of aptitude or diligence.
Over time, I realised that my success would mean nothing if it was driven by my fear of failure. Upon qualifying the exam, I wanted to feel the ecstasy of accomplishment not the relief of having avoided failure.
This time around I decided to focus on analyzing and solving the questions rather than worrying about the ultimate consequence. I ended up qualifying the examination. The failure helped more in shaping my personality than if I had succeeded the first time. The unstinting support of my family in that one otherwise lonely year improved the very fundamentals of my relationship with them. This experience enabled me to develop a sense of equanimity that has since become an enduring strength.
In 2012, Halliburton started a low cost project to drill 100 wells on 5 rigs. The estimated revenue from operations was relatively low at about $6M annually but the growth potential of the operation was huge. While most of my peers were intimidated by the high risk nature of the project, I was able to focus more on the learning opportunities it presented. I stepped up and asked to be made the Focal point LWD Field Engineer which gave me control of the entire operation. The pressure involved was immense as even slightly sub optimal results would cause a huge dent in revenues. At the end of the year, the Non productive time (NPT) was less than 0.5% which was a Halliburton Asia Pacific record. Despite my limited years of experience I was now seen by my peers and superiors as a natural leader and this in turn gave me the confidence to take even bigger steps in my career. Till today, it is the achievement I am proudest of because it became possible only because I overcame my fear of failure all those years ago, instead of allowing it to overcome me.
INSEAD Motivation Essay 3: Tell us about an experience where you were significantly impacted by cultural diversity, in a positive or negative way. (300 words max.)
Last year, I went on a 5 weeks’ backpacking trip across what is arguably the most neglected part of India, the north eastern states. 70% of the population in these seven states is tribal, with resemblance to mainland Indian, Mongolian, Tibetan and Austro-Asiatic cultures. The trip allowed me to experience the culture of these indigenous tribes from close quarters.
I saw large families living inside a one room house with no lavatory. Homes where the nearest bazaar was a 6 hour mountain hike away. Beautiful women of the Apatani tribe who were made to tattoo their faces to escape the wrath of oppressors who had molested them for years.
I also noticed that centuries of deprivation had not defeated these people but had taught them to channel their anger towards building self sufficient lifestyles. If villages which have the highest rainfall in the world had no iron to build bridges, the villagers built bridges with the roots of trees. If there were no pesticides to protect their paddy crops, they learnt to do pisciculture which not only protected their crops but also provided an additional source of food and income.
Despite the sheer strain of eking out a living, most villagers let me into their homes, their lives and their beautiful mountains without once wondering if they would reap any financial benefit from it.
This experience ended up challenging my entire perspective on top down development approaches. I now understand that the quality of lives can only be improved if there is a better understanding of how good people’s lives already are. I therefore decided to take a break from my job and work in the breathtakingly complex development space in India to help those who are different from me, and enrich myself immeasurably in the process.
INSEAD Motivation Essay 4: Describe all types of extra-professional activities in which you have been or are still involved for a significant amount of time (clubs, sports, music, arts, politics, etc). How are you enriched by these activities? (300 words max.)
As a Mechanical Engineer, building a car from scratch was a long cherished dream. In college, I co-founded the MECHISMU group in which I led a team of 15 members to design and fabricate an All-Terrain Vehicle to participate in BAJA SAE India competition. As the captain, I had to not only raise sponsorships but also ensure that there was a synergy between available resources and performance optimization.
Leading a team in which everyone (including me) was a novice and going through several technical, financial and administrative hurdles to achieve something truly path-breaking taught me the nuances of both leadership and teamwork. The icing on the cake was that we reached second place in the competition. In the subsequent years, I have continued to mentor future teams, providing technical expertise and heading the team selection.
Another love that has enriched me over the years is debating. Picking up a subject and then bringing it down to arguments, rehashing those arguments repeatedly, the thrill of discovering some aspect of the issue you had missed completely, have helped mould my thoughts with crystal clarity. Although I no longer debate competitively, informal discussions continue to keep the debater within me alive.
One of my earliest childhood memories is running to the Badminton court before any of the adults noticed my fractured hand! I went on to play State level Badminton for Uttar Pradesh, India. In college, as the badminton captain, seeing the dismal condition of the sport, I ensured that two new indoor courts were built and that tournaments became a regular fixture. My love for sports constantly pushes me to bring that level of passion into my everyday life. That said one true sporting dream I have is to watch Liverpool play at Anfield. I’m getting goose bumps just writing about it!
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INSEAD MBA Sample Essays from Past Clients: 4
INSEAD Motivation Essay 1: Give a candid description of yourself (who are you as a person) stressing the personal characteristics you feel to be your strengths and weaknesses and the main factors which have influenced your personal development, giving examples when necessary. (600 words max.)
Looking back, it is amazing how marriage and fatherhood changed me entirely. I was 19 when I found out that my girlfriend was pregnant and I decided to marry her against the wishes of my family. That time I was still serving National Service (Conscription) and had not even started my undergraduate degree. My family was not supportive of the decision to get married so young and be a father. Coming from a middle-class family, public perception was a major challenge apart from a lack of financial resources and internal family conflicts. During my first few years as a father, I was still aimless, living every day as it is and not giving much thought to my family’s future.
Through the circumstances of being a young parent and hardships of life, reality hit me hard. Seeing how other parents are able to provide a better life to their wives and children, I knew that I had to step up. That grew into a kind of motivation, drive, and ambition to want to achieve success. This mentality that marriage and fatherhood have brought to me is certainly a dictionary definition of Wen Kang and my greatest strength. This motivation pushed me to not only get an undergraduate degree but also graduate as the top of my class. From there on I received back to back promotions in my career and became the youngest Assistant Vice President in the second-largest bank of Southeast Asia.
However, nothing comes without a cost. That transition has been so effective and so drastic that I lost sight of the original intention, which was to give a better standard of living for my family. After repeated arguments with my wife, I came to truly realize that the standard of living is not just solely in its material sense but rather, it is about spending quality time with family. I realized that I was blinded by constantly chasing for financial success that I stopped spending quality time with my family and kids. This realization came to me a lot more strongly after I moved my career from Singapore to Cambodia. I might have earned a lot more salary and got better professional exposure but I had effectively reduced the time I spent with my family, leading to arguments and deterioration in my relationships with my wife. I feel that I still do, at many times, sacrifice family time for my work and that is my greatest Achilles heels which I am trying to improve upon so that I can be a better father and husband.
Looking at the bright side and looking back, I can see how I grow to become a more mature father and husband, and realized more philosophies in life after each decision I made. These experiences have shaped me into who I am today, being able to look beyond just a few dimensions and weigh things that are truly more important.
INSEAD Motivation Essay 2: Describe a situation taken from your personal or professional life where you failed. Discuss what you learned. (400 words maximum)
The proudest moment of my life is when I graduated top of my cohort and school, along with the honors and limelight. I have been conferred the valedictorian of my school, featured in both national newspapers and magazines. I was asked to be interviewed on national TV shows and invited to a dinner function with the then President of Singapore, Dr. Tony Tan. I still remember standing on the auditorium’s podium and giving my valedictory speech to the cohort of more than a thousand people. The success did not come easy. During my undergraduate days, I struggled with family relations, finances, studies, and some of the harshest public perception of young parents. The moment of success was both bitter and sweet because so many tears, hard work, and hardships were behind it.
Despite standing proud of what I have achieved, I regretted not managing my relationships with my mother and siblings better when I got married. It was a delicate and sensitive period. In the neighborhood of gossip mongers, my mother and siblings were somewhat ashamed of my early parenthood. As a result, they were not welcoming and supportive of my wife. Furthermore, living under the same roof has proved too difficult for perhaps many mothers and daughters-in-law. I had to choose to stand by my wife but quarrels, acts of dominance, and the daily hostilities severely eroded my relationships with my mother and siblings. Eventually, I stopped talking to them, and even until today, after almost a decade, we barely communicate. As much as I still feel much disappointments towards them, I realize I could have done a better job back then in managing communications and facilitating mutual understanding. I did not, at any point, ever try my best to break down these complicated relationships to meeting the basic expectations of both sides.
I learned that everyone despite sharing a common Singaporean-Chinese culture has different stories, motivations, teachings, and reactions, and that it is important to give in or stand firm in different circumstances and at appropriate quantities. Managing relationships’ intricacies is more than just who is right, who is wrong and there is more to life and people than just rationality. These are lessons and learnings which I now carry with myself and can bring to my cohort at INSEAD to share with my peers on how to balance individual professional success with family and personal relationships.
INSEAD Motivation Essay 3: Describe all types of extra-professional activities in which you have been or are still involved for a significant amount of time (clubs, sports, music, arts, politics, etc). How are you enriched by these activities? (approximately 300 words)
I have been a competitive athlete since a young age. I represented my primary school in badminton and my team achieved the national second by winning over more than two hundred primary school teams. I then went on to become the team’s captain in my secondary school. As the top player in the school, I have always been a singles player. Single players compete primarily on techniques, athleticism, and mental endurance while double players compete on reflexes and mutual synergy.
As I have always wanted the camaraderie of a team sport, I joined the dragon boating team at the university. My team won second place in the yearly prestigious Prime Minister’s Cup during two of my three years in the team. During my first year with OCBC Bank, I was even “headhunted” by the HR and had helped to clinch their first corporate category gold medal. In dragon boating, I see a drastically different side. While mental fitness is necessary for all competitive sports, synchronization, and teamwork are far more crucial in team sports.
Even though I stopped regularly playing badminton or competing in dragon boat races because of family commitments, I have shifted my focus to marathons and biathlon, and to date, I have participated in four marathons and biathlon. My ultimate fitness goal is to complete a full marathon in Antarctica and since last year I had started my prep and dietary research.
I am proud to be a sportsman. These three sports have taught me some of the most important attributes that follow through in my life – having the mental resilience and harnessing the power of teamwork, and these are applicable and beneficial to every aspect of my life.
