Virat Kohli reflects on his captaincy journey

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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.  📹: PUMA

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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.

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