This document discusses breaking down barriers to success such as negative programming, guilt, and doubt. It provides examples of prominent figures like Abraham Lincoln and Mohd. Asif Iqbal who overcame significant obstacles and failures to ultimately achieve great success. The document encourages readers to reflect on their own fears and uses the metaphor of fire eating to represent overcoming barriers.

1. Breaking the Barriers!

2. Barriers to Success
• Negative Programming
• Guilt
• Doubt
• Fear

3. Belief Formation Process
Experiences
Impressions
Opinions
Conclusions
Belief
Conviction

4. Think about this
• 80% population has only 20%
wealth and 20% population has
80% of wealth
• All things are created twice -
Once in our mind, later in the
physical world

5. THIS WAS A MAN WHO
• failed in business at the age of 21 ;
• was defeated in a legislative race at age 22;
• failed again in business at age 24;
• overcame the death of his sweetheart at age 26;
• had a nervous breakdown at age 27;
• lost a congressional race at age 34;
• lost a senatorial race at age 45;
• failed in an effort to become vice-president at age 47;
• lost a senatorial race at age 49; and
• was elected president of the United States at age 52.
This man was Abraham Lincoln

10. Mohd. Asif Iqbal Suman Rath

11. A visually challenged HR professional whose achievements surpass those of many
of us
• Senior Consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Worked with Nandan Nilenkani on UID project
• Met the former President of India (Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam)
to discuss technology initiative which would benefit
blind/ visually impaired community.
• Won the State role model award in the disability
community by governor of West Bengal on December 3,
2007
• National award constituted by President of India for
outstanding disabled employee on December 3, 2008
• First blind commerce graduate from St Xavier’s College
Calcutta and first MBA(HR) from Symbiosis Center for
Management & HRD (SCMHRD, Pune)
Mohd. Asif Iqbal

12. A visually challenged HR professional whose achievements surpass those of many
of us
• Consultant People and
Change Practice at PwC
• Alumnus of TISS
• He will soon be at Harvard
Suman Rath

13. Food for Thought
Every experience you have is designed to make you
stronger.
If you believe even in that which you cannot see, your
reward will be greater than what you can imagine

14. Their experiences have several lessons for us,
as individuals who strive to achieve a lot in our
career.
It also provides incontrovertible proof of
what people are capable of, and how we under-rate
others' potential.

16. Exercise: Make a list of all your fears & phobias
Using Fire Eating as a Metaphor to break your barriers

17. Metaphor

18. Breaking the barriers by the team eating Fire!