About Me
My Story
I’m Pragyesh Taparia. I’m an engineer, speaker, and coach.
I am thoroughly flawed, cracked, and mired with as many internal blocks and challenges as the rest of us. I’m a recovering perfectionist, I have a Ph.D. in procrastination, and I sabotage myself on a daily basis.
But, I am completely fascinated with figuring out this game of life, how the human mind works, why we hold ourselves back and teaching other people what I learn along the way.
My main obsession is helping young minds get rid of their fears, conflicts, limiting beliefs, and sabotaging patterns so they can live life with passion, presence, and purpose.
In other words, I can help you learn to use your mind, emotions, and feelings in a way that will help you find your purpose and passion to pursue your dream.
But I never planned on doing what I do right now...
In fact, I just wanted to do a job & make money. Obviously, that’s not how it worked out. If you’re interested at all, saddle up and let me tell you the short version of my story…
As a kid, I just didn’t know what to do with my life but as I was a decent student in class 9th and 10th, I took math and started preparing for IIT JEE.
They were the most stressful 3 years of my life because I didn’t know what I was doing, I was just following the path my family asked me to.
Also apart from the academics, many emotional barriers were hitting me in the face. A failed friendship in which I could not understand her behavior, which made me question my integrity and character.
After this friendship was over, I was kind of feeling broken for a year or two. I stopped talking to everyone around me as I was too upset about her and I could not figure out why all this had happened.
Then next year(class 11th) made another friend, couldn’t last 2 months. Again next year(class 12th) made another friend and this time it lasted 3 months.
All of this emotional pressure along with the academic pressure of performing well in JEE and getting into a good IIT crushed my mind and body(not literally BUT I felt it all).
College started with more emotional pressure...
The high school phase ended and I got admission in BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus. It was supposed to go well as my family had suggested, but my clouded idea about my own emotions made everything a mess. I ruined more friendships and became more tensed each day…
My tension clubbed with confusion and blurred idea of life made me so frustrated and angry that I started having mood swings. I started to become the person who people avoided in clubs and departments.
The main issue was I was clueless about how to control my mind and emotions and this lead me to make unfiltered responses and impatient decisions which made my next 2 years even worse. I lost more people, more friendships and the list goes on and on.
And that was the moment, I was sure that I am in huge trouble...
I lost people mainly because of me alienating them from my life . I was constantly in a dilemma as to how much should I share , how much should I open up , I was surrounded by the fear of being judged , I always thought I m good enough , that I was incapable of friendship , that I should filter my words and emotions but had no idea how to do that . Whom should I talk to , whom should share my feelings with . All this was a constant claudication in my head and I started to think my life sucks .
Thus I resorted to the easiest way out – I started drinking alcohol…..To fulfill the void inside me I used to watch TV-series and movies continuously for days without eating or sleeping . I just thought , may be not thinking about my problems will lead me to happiness…
All of this converted into a vicious cycle and my academics started to get brutally affected by this .So, I finally to decided to drop a semester to stay at home and think of what did I actually wanted to do with my life…
I wanted to find a solution and go on the right path , I wanted to figure myself out…not sure of anything I took a break and embarked my journey to study the human mind and emotions , trying and implementing things which I read . I met new people , I learned , I gained guidance in fields of both career and spirituality.
Those next 15 days changed my life...
For the first time in my life, I invested my time and money in understanding human emotions, human mind, to find the purpose of my life for which I was sent by the Gods above…
And guess what?? It worked! just in those few days all my internal beliefs changed, my perspective of looking towards things and people around me changed, I felt so much lighter and free, ready to take up new challenges and live a purposeful life.
My teachers, Spiritual gurus, some family members, proceeded to guide me through the most powerful and liberating visualization of my entire existence.
They helped me identify and eliminate the biggest, most painful internal obstacle I had, a nagging belief that I wasn’t enough.
When I went back, my parents noticed a difference. My friends started asking me what happened. I couldn’t stop smiling & telling them how silly & lost I was walking on the wrong path and blaming everyone & myself for it, assuming life is bad.
Things begin to change...
I witnessed many changes in a very short course of three to four months at that time. I could feel that I was following the right path this time, and it was so much relaxing, calm, and efficient in terms of my physical, mental, and spiritual health.
I was pumped up with positive energy. My relations with my friends and family members grew stronger and I felt like I hacked my mind and emotions in the way that everything which was happening was helping me grow and move forward in life fulfilling all my dreams.
Everything became clear in my mind and with no confusion left, my thoughts and emotions were no longer controlling my actions. I understood the purpose of my life. Identified my passion and started pursuing the same.
I realized that nothing was wrong with me, it was just the path I was walking on before, was not the right one…
Relationships became deep and stronger...
I came close to both my family and friends and my relations with them grew stronger…now it was fun and relaxing for me to talk to them, share my feelings and problems became easy.
As I learned what exactly made any relation last forever….What is Love?…What to expect-not expect in any relation…The foundation of any relation…I did the right things and walked on the right path this time…
I connected back to all my friends which were lost back then and everything was back to its right place:)
Obviously, I did many mistakes in this transformation but this time I was backed up with all my teachers, gurus, family and friends and that sky-rocketed my growth and deepened all my relations;)
Then I saw many other people struggling with same problems...
And I decided to make it my life’s mission to help young minds get rid of their fears, conflicts, limiting beliefs, and sabotaging patterns so they can live life with passion, presence, and purpose.
In other words, I can help you learn to use your mind, emotions, and feeling in a way that will help you find your purpose and passion and pursue your dream.
So that's me...
Engineer, speaker and coach. Broken, scarred, and scared. Powerful, determined, and courageous. And still working on myself every day. As my good friend says, “I’m perfectly flawed”.
Thank you for reading. I don’t know if you shed any tears along the way, but I sure as cried my eyes out writing all of this.
No matter what you’ve been through in life, know that you are valuable. You are loved. And you have a message to share. Share it.
BE who you can be. DO what you can do. LIVE a good life.
Forgive yourself and everyone for everything. Put down your burdens and walk lightly.
When times get tough, love harder.
PS: Meet you on the other side;)
Let’s be High on Life
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