MS Dhoni on life after retirement

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Planning to retire before 40? Dhoni talks about how life changes after retirement...

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00:00Once I FaceTime my daughter and she says, you know,

00:03can you come tomorrow? That is a trouble.

00:05I'm 42, running 43, which means I have to eat nicely.

00:09I can't just eat what I want to eat. You have to train.

00:11Because at the end of the day, nobody cares if you're 42, 45 or 50.

00:15At the same time, your friends keep on complaining.

00:18They'll be like, we gave you a lot of time.

00:20You know, now that you have retired from international cricket,

00:23you have to spend some time with us.

00:24You need to eat what we are eating and all of that.

00:31Before you retired, I'm sure there was a lot of expectations on you

00:36in terms of performing in cricket.

00:37And every day would have been really, really difficult

00:40in terms of dealing with the expectations.

00:42But now that you've retired…

00:43One second. Retired from international cricket only.

00:46Point to be noted.

00:48Hello, hello, hello.

00:49He's a CSK fan.

00:51So retired from international cricket only. Please continue.

00:54Retired from international cricket.

00:56Has life become easier in terms of the expectations and the pressure?

01:00Has life become easier in general?

01:02Well, you know, frankly, if you ask me,

01:05if you're a celebrity in India, if people look up to you,

01:08there's always a certain amount of responsibility,

01:11roles that you're supposed to fulfill.

01:13And that expectation is always there.

01:15Also, I'm only playing IPL,

01:17which means I'm actively playing cricket for two months in a year.

01:21In fact, it's slightly more difficult

01:23because I'm not playing throughout the year.

01:25So now my role and responsibility for CSK or towards cricket,

01:29I have to keep myself fit.

01:30So I have to plan the whole year where, you know,

01:33what I need to do, when I need to do.

01:35I'm 42, running 43, which means I have to eat nicely.

01:39I can't just eat what I want to eat.

01:41You have to train because at the end of the day,

01:43nobody cares if you're 42, 45 or 50.

01:46If you're competing with people at the top level,

01:49you have to be at the same benchmark.

01:51You know what they are setting.

01:52They may be 20, they may be 15, they may be 17.

01:54So if you're competing with them, you know, you have to be like them.

01:58So there's no excuses for that.

02:00So that's one of the reasons I find it slightly more difficult.

02:03You know, you have to be very motivated.

02:05At the same time, your friends keep on complaining.

02:08They'll be like, we gave you a lot of time.

02:10You know, now that you have retired from international cricket,

02:13you have to spend some time with us.

02:14You need to eat what we are eating and all of that.

02:17So you have to balance it out.

02:18So that expectation level, that pressure is still there.

02:21So most of us, when we look at a celebrity,

02:24we feel like, okay, their life is perfect.

02:26Everything is going well, happy life.

02:28So I want to ask you, is it, I mean,

02:31is there anything that's like bothering you in life?

02:33Any problems that you're facing?

02:35Like is life really perfect?

02:36I feel problems are the real essence of life.

02:39Imagine if you have a life where everything is so smooth

02:42that once you get up in the morning,

02:44you don't really have anything to look up to.

02:46Because everything is so smooth, you know, whether it's your business,

02:48whether it's something or the other.

02:50So for me, you know, when I was like COVID times and all,

02:53I had a lot of times.

02:54My worry was, you know, I have to make that bike.

02:57So once I've opened my bike and I don't know much about it,

03:00then I'm like, you know, what, what do I need to do?

03:02For me, that is trouble.

03:03You know, for me, once I FaceTime my daughter and she says,

03:07you know, can you come tomorrow?

03:09That is a trouble.

03:10You know, when my father, some five, seven years back,

03:14you know, he was like, you have played enough cricket.

03:17You leave it now.

03:18There are others who will play.

03:19So now, you know, there are different things that's problem for you.

03:24You know, it's just that problems are important part of life.

03:28Because if they don't keep testing us, you know, we won't really improve.

03:32For me, every day is important.

03:33I try to be the best version of myself.

03:36And that's what keeps me going.

03:38You know, and that was as something that has kept me going for a very long time.

03:42And I don't think I'll change that perspective because cricket will end.

03:46Whether next year becomes my last year or the year after that.

03:49But again, it will be a part of my life, you know, that will have a comma or a full stop.

03:55But the life continues.

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