If somebody tells you that you are stupid, it's actually they who are stupid....

This is such an important concept to build early on. Divya tells Adi sometimes “Buddhu.....” playfully. And it is these playful things that get programmed unknowingly forever in our brain computers. And any Tom, Dick and Harry tells us anything about us and we end up starting to believe those things.

When Divya told Adi again this time “Buddhu..” he didn’t like it and came to me. I told him “Does she know what’s inside your brain...can she see it? If she can’t how does she know you are not intelligent? And if she’s telling without really knowing, isn’t it her that’s Buddhu and not you?” And suddenly there was a broad smile on his face. And we both concluded for the rest of his life “Anybody who calls you buddhu is themselves buddhu because they are telling that to you despite not knowing who and what you are....”. 

I think it’s a great foundation to build. Nobody can dare to hurt his self image going forward.