What to do ? 20 साल के सफ़र में गिरा, उठा, फिर चला… Journey Contd.. | Not out* Abhinay Sharma

Summary

Abhinay Sharma reflects on nearly two decades of teaching, describing a career that moved from small tuition classes in Delhi to offline coaching, online platforms, and large student audiences. He recounts changing paths—including briefly taking a government job, returning to teaching, and working with Unacademy and Careerwill—and says he made his choices deliberately rather than out of compulsion.

He describes leaving Careerwill after a long collaboration and some disagreements, while emphasizing that students should not be left in the lurch: existing batches are to be completed respectfully. At the time of recording, he has not settled on his next step. He is considering where and how to teach next, and how to bring his scattered learning materials together. His teaching plans include strengthening maths basics and foundations, and potentially covering SSC, railways, state exams, and CAT.

He also discusses supporting students when exam results or processes seem unfair, including taking issues to court. He says experience from his own legal disputes helped him understand how to handle later cases. His broader message is that careers can have multiple chapters: setbacks and changes do not necessarily mean abandoning a goal or a relationship.

Key Wellness, Self-Care, and Productivity Takeaways

These are presented as Sharma’s personal outlook and practices:

• Choose work intentionally. He says he has tried not to make major career decisions under pressure or simply from obligation.
• Treat uncertainty as a transition, not automatically as a crisis. Although he does not yet know what he will do next, he describes feeling positive and seeing possibilities ahead.
• Learn from setbacks. He says difficult experiences—including career changes and legal disputes—can build skills that prove useful later.
• Communicate directly when possible. Reflecting on business disagreements, he says messages passed through intermediaries can create misunderstandings, and that timely, direct discussion might resolve issues sooner.
• Keep a sense of purpose. Teaching and helping students reach jobs remain central motivations for him; he says students’ progress gives him particular satisfaction.
• Stand by students when they face problems. He describes supporting students over exam-result discrepancies and says helping them seek justice is part of his responsibility, not just teaching.
• Keep learning and adapt. He has shifted between offline teaching, apps, recorded courses, and YouTube as circumstances changed. He also wants to reorganize his material so students can find it more easily.
• Make foundational learning accessible. He plans to teach basic maths and build students’ foundations, alongside advanced and exam-focused methods.
• Avoid postponing all enjoyment until later. He says he values living in the present and enjoying travel, hobbies, and good food when possible. This is his personal philosophy, not financial advice.
• Keep ambition in perspective. He cautions against endlessly chasing “bigger” achievements, describing himself as willing to start over rather than pursue growth for its own sake.

Presenter and Sources

• Presenter: Abhinay Sharma
• People and organizations mentioned in his account: Pratik Maheshwari, Physics Wallah (PW), Unacademy, Careerwill, Classplus, and Textbook. These are references in the video, not additional presenters.