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.
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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.
00:30Was there anything that you maybe realised
00:33looking back that,
00:34I could have done this better?
00:35Maybe as a leader, I could have done this better?
00:38Purely in hindsight?
00:39100 percent.
00:40So I have no shame in accepting that I have made many mistakes
00:44when I was a captain.
00:47But the one thing I know for sure
00:49that I never did anything for my own selfish motives.
00:54That I can take guarantee of that from day one.
00:57That I didn't do anything for my own selfish motives.
01:01I had only one goal.
01:02How to take the team forward.
01:03In that, whether you took the right decision or not,
01:05I can totally accept it.
01:07You make mistakes.
01:07Like you make errors when you play, you get out.
01:10That's a failure.
01:11Failures will keep happening.
01:13But intent was never in the wrong place.
01:15So I can absolutely take guarantee of that.
01:18And as long as that is in the right place,
01:21you will make mistakes.
01:22And that's the only thing I know for sure.
01:24You will make mistakes, but you will learn from them.
01:27As I said, you will not then start shying away from making mistakes.
01:31So, my intention was always right.
01:34Like I told you, you have to tweak the way people do things.
01:37Decisions can go wrong many times.
01:39And those things teach you a lot.
01:44And then you start taking it as the whole journey.
01:47And what went well, what didn't go right.
01:49And then you learn from all situations.
01:51So, that's exactly what I did.
01:53Leadership is a knack.
01:55But then you also see someone.
01:56You sometimes look up to someone.
01:58What was leadership for you?
01:59See, leadership, I learnt from many people.
02:02I learnt a lot from MS.
02:03Because I played majority of my career under him.
02:06The initial years.
02:07But in general, I feel leadership is
02:11firstly to be able to take responsibility for yourself.
02:14Right? If you can't take responsibility for yourself
02:16or for your own space
02:18or for your own well-being, hygiene,
02:21well-being, hygiene, 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
02:35to go for it and 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 learnt 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?
03:12If you fail, if you fail,
03:15if you don't pass, if you don't get a job,
03:18if you don't get a CV,
03:19you 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, okay,
03:28I'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
03:44that's 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, I 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.