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Exhausted and overwhelmed, Harry Narang was about to give up when his grandmother shared with him 6 simple words that turned his life around.

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00:00 June the 30th, 2012, when I landed in Vancouver and in Canada for the first time.

00:08 And Vancouver welcomed me with rain.

00:14 So here I was in this beautiful city of 600,000 people without a single friend or a relative.

00:22 I didn't know anybody here.

00:23 I'm Indian, so it's ironic that I did not have anybody here.

00:27 But it's true.

00:28 I didn't know a single person in this country.

00:31 So one year into Canada, I had to look for a summer internship.

00:35 And I had to go through tons and tons of job applications to find a three-month internship

00:44 in a factory.

00:45 Two hours one way, three buses and a train to get there and then coming back.

00:51 Life was good.

00:54 However, life went on, and December of 2013, I was ready to graduate.

01:01 I was turning in the assignments.

01:03 I was completing my reports, preparing for exams.

01:05 I was busy.

01:06 I was tired.

01:07 I was stressed out.

01:08 I was frustrated, but I was pumped up.

01:09 Ask me, say, "Why were you pumped up?"

01:12 I'm glad you asked.

01:14 I was pumped up because as soon as I finished my MBA, I was going to go back to India to

01:21 see my family.

01:22 A couple of days after I reached India, I was having a conversation with my grandmother.

01:29 And she asked me, "How are things in Canada?"

01:34 And I said, "I'm not sure.

01:37 Things are going to be difficult."

01:38 Because that was the evidence I had.

01:39 I had a hard time looking for an internship.

01:41 And there were people who graduated in December 2012 who were still looking for jobs in December

01:47 2013.

01:48 So one year, they were unemployed.

01:50 So I knew about those people.

01:51 And there were quite a few of them.

01:52 And some of them were even smarter than me.

01:56 So I knew all of that.

01:58 I said, "It's going to be difficult.

02:00 And I'm not even sure.

02:01 Maybe I should come back to India or figure something else out."

02:07 And she said something to me which I have never forgotten.

02:12 She said, "Son, everything new is hard at first.

02:21 Everything new is hard at first.

02:25 You're in a new culture, new country, amongst new people.

02:31 It's bound to be difficult.

02:34 But it doesn't mean it will stay difficult.

02:37 If you stick to it long enough, it will get easy.

02:44 If you stick, it will click."

02:48 She said that in Hindi.

02:49 So I added my rhyme to it.

02:54 "If you stick, it will click."

02:59 Being able to live through the challenging phases allowed me to create the options that

03:04 I have been able to create today, to do what I do today, to live what I call my dream.

03:11 And it was only possible because of that message, because I could have otherwise given up.

03:17 As you try to get into these strategies, it is going to be difficult because everything

03:21 new is difficult at first.

03:23 And being able to stick through the difficult phases, it's going to get easy.

03:28 Because as my grandmother said, "If you stick, it will click."

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