Title : Be Your Own Pilot
Author : Manish Kumar
Blurb : In this inspirational fiction, Manish Kumar talks about the unlimited power and potential lying dormant in every soul, waiting to be awakened. The moment we become aware of the power within, we stop being a victim of circumstances, get off the autopilot called fate and take control of our life.
‘Be your own Pilot’ is about the journey of a boy from a small town who realises his dream of becoming a pilot, learns the lessons of life on the way and goes on to inspire others to follow their dreams. His Flying Instructor implants wisdom into the flying lessons and teaches him to take the flight of faith. The book shows the way-how, by aligning personal desires to the benefit for mankind, it is possible to lead a deeply rich and satisfying life.
Using flying as a metaphor, Manish Kumar has penned this extremely enjoyable story. Peppered with the author’s insights, this books is sure to touch and inspire you to break the shackles of self-limiting beliefs and to take off in life.
Review : In the book, ‘Be Your own Pilot’, author tries to feed reader’s mind with healthy thoughts through his journey of being a Pilot, his dream, and the challenges he has accepted during this journey. Juxtaposing the journey of learning tactics of being a Pilot to that of life and various ups and downs one faces to learn during the journey of life, author in this book submits the crucial events of his life which made him learn some fruitful lessons and he shared the same with readers in hope that readers could learn lessons from their hard times.
I know it’s not that easy to write an inspirational book which could hold reader’s attention and feeds them something healthy and fruitful at the same time. Author, through his way of narration which is simple in nature makes the journey for readers easy. Covering the curvy events of his life, he spills the spell he has learnt during his rough days, the spell to never lose the battle. He has shared various ways to give a boost to life and how to shape it in a proper form.
There is something amiss in the book that stands as a hindrance to let readers connect to it properly at some places. That missing thing is the proper narration of the story, a flow is required in the story so that readers could also float in the same flow and relate to it properly. This could also be achieved through minimizing the details of the lessons he has learnt during his training, cutting it short and emphasizing on more what he has learned and what reader could learn from it.As I’m not much aware of the workings of Pilot, it was quite difficult to me to hooked to the book all the time.At times, the book really seems so promising and really does inspire me but at few places it couldn’t hold my attention.
The message this book conveys to me is Whatever you do and what so ever profession you are in, hurdles may come, as this is life, which is tuned to the rhythm of odds and even, your life’s story is to be scripted by you, whether to dance on odd or even beats.
Rating : 4/5
Reviewer : Shweta Kesari