64 cases de la vie : décoder le chaos avec la pensée de grand maître | Nikhil Dhir | TEDxGGI

Nikhil Dhir, directeur général de Paramount Chess, raconte comment il a transformé sa passion pour les échecs en entreprise. Il évoque son apprentissage des échecs avec sa mère, la création de son projet tout en travaillant dans une entreprise, et des épreuves comme le confinement lié à la COVID-19, un incendie d'usine et des inondations. Son message : les idées ne suffisent pas, seuls l'action, les sacrifices et la persévérance permettent de progresser. L'intervention, en hindi, a été organisée de manière indépendante lors d'un événement TEDx local.

• Création de Paramount Chess à partir d'une initiative lancée pendant les études d'ingénieur
• Risques financiers, confinement, incendie d'usine et inondations
• L'importance de l'action et de la persévérance

In this talk, Nikhil Dhir shares his journey of turning a passion for chess into a real business. From learning chess alongside his mother and facing personal loss to building a venture while working a corporate job, he reflects on the courage required to turn ideas into reality. Through stories of humble beginnings, difficult decisions, financial risks, the COVID-19 lockdown, a factory fire, and devastating floods, he highlights resilience, perseverance, and the importance of taking the next move even when life feels uncertain. His message is simple: ideas alone are not enough; real progress comes through action, sacrifice, and the determination to keep moving forward. Nikhil Dhir is the Managing Director of Paramount Chess, a chess-products business he built from an entrepreneurial initiative during his engineering years at Thapar University. A Mechanical Engineering graduate, he began by supplying and trading chess products before turning his passion for chess into a growing business. His journey was shaped by personal challenges and early entrepreneurial experiences that taught him patience, perseverance, customer understanding, and commitment. Through Paramount Chess, he combines his love for the game with business-building, demonstrating the value of taking initiative, learning through experience, and starting before everything is perfect. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx