The ability of machines and AI to compute and execute with extreme precision and efficiency is making traditional manufacturing and engineering obsolete. Everything our traditional education, and
in effect traditional careers are gearing ustowards, are being made redundant by advanced technologies.
In the next 10-15 years the world and jobs as we know it won’t exist the way they do now. So what will exist? What will PEOPLE do?
I think, while Intelligence based (IQ) jobs and careers are being made redundant Emotional based (EQ) and Social-based (SQ) jobs and careers will gain major importance in the future of careers. The
ability of AI and tech to replicate these complex social and emotional abilities that humans possess will take a lot longer.
So, what jobs do these EQ and SQ-based professions encompass? At the top of my head, Sales. The ability to close a deal is a combination of understanding people, feelings, emotions, situations, empathy, and compassion and using these emotional inputs, navigating a convincing
pitch/negotiation is going to be a critical skill of people and emotions.
Other careers like Storytelling, Oration, Music, Art, Psychology, Direction, and Design. Anything that uses creativity and improvisation as a foundational skill set. Skills that are a subset of something imperfect. Not replicable by the cold hand of logic. These are the skills I would place my bet on for the future of jobs and careers. And how do we best inculcate these skills in our children? How do you
teach social skills and emotional understanding?
By experience. By encouraging environments that prompt continuous exposure to the application of these skills. In my limited experience, I have found
sports and competitive games to deliver the maximum instances of these learnings in a limited time frame. The best part of it was, I never even knew I was learning. I was just Playing! My son is all of 4 years old. My education environment choices
are – free play, imagination, music, dance and SPORT. To create an environment that makes him fall in love with the process of learning and discovering itself. To make him emotionally, morally and socially stronger. For everything else he has
Google.

Pavit Singh
CEO – HotFut Sports

From the pride of victory to the humility of defeat, from the communication breakdown under pressure, to finding collaboration and rhythm through team work. From nemesis to friendships. Every single game is pushing a social, physiological and behavioural development in the participant.
These are skills, traditional academia focused education fails to provide. These are life skills needed in the everyday existence in a world of people and communities. The quality of human capital produced by our current education system is deplorable. The lack of civic sense, apathy to the larger society, whether it be through littering or an enraging lack of traffic sense. All are sure shot signs of a deplete quality of human capital.
We are a young nation. In-fact we are the largest, youngest nation with a soon to be average age of 28 years (by 2025). The sheer potential of this emerging young indian workforce is frightening to the rest of the world.
Our prime minister recognizes this power, and the urgent call to arms to mould his
future army of young workers, engineers, doctors, farmers, entrepreneurs and athletes to becoming the best version of themselves.
He has recognized the potential of sport in building the ethical, social and behavioral character of our people. He wants to build the quality of human capital in this young indian workforce. Through sport. Like our pm we at hotfut have the same vision. We want to help build the nation, by building up the people in it.
Our simple message. Get in the game> is a war cry, to get people to move of their sedentary lifestyles as passive consumers of sports to active participants. To making the young people of our nation physically, socially, psychologically and
behaviorally – better.
Pavit singh
ceo – hotfut sports

A STORY OF RESILIENCE AND AGILITY 17th September 2021, Economic Times Leaders of Tomorrow Conclave. The announcements for the category of services are announced. Hearing the candidates nominated, me and my colleagues see our grip on that award loosening with
every competitor’s credentials being announced. We’re at a third of the turnover and in some cases a tenth as compared to the other nominees. Our profitability numbers dwarf in comparison tosome of the giants in our category. (Best MSME Services) The moment arrives, the winners,announced by one of the most prominent thought leaders in our country, the Chie Economic Advisor to the Government of India, Mr. Sanjeev Sanyal. To everyone’s surprise, ours the most, the name announced is HotFut Sports. We were dumbstruck, and the only question I had
for Mr Sanyal on stage was, WHY? His answer – We are looking for the leaders of TOMORROW. Not the cash cows of today.
What makes the future leader? A future full of uncertainty and ever-changin technological disruptions. A Future where existing business and industry standards are decimated overnight by, for example, AI and machine learning, automation and robotics. To his mind, the answer was defined by two words – Resilience andAgility.
Resilience – in the face of uncertainty, of rising competition both from within the industry and from across industries. A company whose foundations are strong enough to weather the storm and roughpatches, to find a way to survive when everything around them seems to be
going against them. And Agility. – The ability to be flexible as an organization. To adapt to industry changes, tech trends or whatever major disruption heads your way. To be able to pivot, entire business models, that too multiple times if need be.
To find a way to align or compete with the disruption on hand and be flexible enough to make sweeping changes to the way you conduct your affairs to align to the new norms. So apparently, we had an abundance of both resilience and agility. But how did we get there?
In all honesty, mostly by accident. But reflecting on these accidents gives us great insight into how to be prepared to
be a company for the future. Upon reflection, we identified that we had 5 years of terrible luck combined perilously, with short-sighted, hasty decisions on investments made for our expansion. Market conditions had changed with low entry barriers in our business moving us down the ladder from pioneers with an innovative product, to one of 350 new companies that established on our model within 3 years. We ventured into allied business and expanded both horizontally and geographically,  without possessing the management prowess or execution bandwidth to do so. This was followed by a 2-year COVID that decimated our industry specifically. All these factors led to a
plunging bottom line and a P&L that was in the red for 4 straight years and plunging. Resilience -We got out, by taking some really harsh decisions. As owners, we had to sacrifice any and all salaries or perks for ourselves.

The bad news first. People with chronic stress in their lives had a 43% increased risk of dying. But, that was ONLY true for people who believed that stress was harmful to them. In fact, and here’s the
amazing part, there was an extremely low probability of death amongst the category that viewed stress as not harmful. Even lower than those who claimed to have experienced moderately low-stress levels in their lives.
The study concluded that during the period of this study, 182,000 Americans died from believing that stress was bad for them! That makes believing stress is bad for you the 15th largest cause of death
in the united states. That’s more than causes such as HIV, Skin Cancer and homicide! What’s understood from this study is that changing your mind about stress can change your body’s response to stress. Think about it. What exactly happens to
your body when you are under stress?
Your heart pumps blood faster. To meet the possibility of facing the challenge that lies ahead, sending packets of extra energy to all parts of your body. Your breathing hastens, to give more oxygen to your system.
In a typical stress response section view, the heart rate spikes and the blood vessels constrict. This is probably why stress is so strongly related to cardiovascular diseases. However, for people who
view stress in a positive manner, the heart ate still spikes, however, the blood vessels remain calm and dilated.
The picture to your left has been compared to other emotional experiences and profiles closest to moments of JOY and courage.
Just viewing it correctly matters. If you see it right, your body will make stress work for you. View it more along the lines of “this is my body helping me rise to the challenge ahead” and your stress response becomes healthier. 

A study was carried out of 1000 people in the united kingdom. This time the same question was asked– “how much stress the individual felt/ how stressed the individual was?”. But the added caveat was also how much time they’ve spent helping/ caring for other people. And then again, they went back to see how many people died. The bad news again – Every major stress experience amounted to a 30% increase in the death risk probability. However, it was observed that even the stressed people who spent time caring for others had absolutely ZERO stress-related deaths. Caring created resilience. How you think and act can transform your experience of stress. If You view stress as helpful, you create a biology of courage. What I love about this is the idea that stress gives us access to our hearts, that

compassionate heart that gives you joy and meaning in others. And your physical heart makes you prepared for action. Viewing stress this way is making a profound statement. It’s saying that you
can handle life’s challenges, and recognise that you don’t have to face them alone. I for one have always viewed stress/resistance that life threw as the reason that made me stronger. My take was always viewed against the light of character development. However viewing it in the light of a biological response designed to make us more human, make
us more caring to our fellow man /woman whilst physically making us stronger is a far more entrancing idea. One that bode well with the rest of my theories.
As a business owner and entrepreneur, we live on the edge and engage with everything we’ve got. Stress is ubiquitous in our lives. Viewing stress this way has not only changed my life and the lives of
those around me but synergised with my philosophy on life and the effects are evident. I now own and control my IBS and as for the return of my hairline, it has confounded the best of medical professionals. I hope that this article serves as an
intervention in your life and changes your body’s reaction to stress from that of fear and anxiousness to one of Joy and Courage as it has done mine.

Dopamine’s biggest attribute however isn’t to give pleasure, but to give pleasure when we encounter things that are new and unexpected and exciting. The bigger the surprise, the more dopamine our brain releases. The greatest high is when we encounter an outcome that’s better than what we expected. That feeling of new love? That RUSH? that’s not love that’s you High on dopamine. And when the novelty of the new love wears out, so
does the dopamine. Dopamine makes you fall in love – and out of it! At least the passion version of love.
Scientists have been working on a theory that proposes that our brain divided all information into two categories, near and far. Everything that is close to us, the things we can touch, see and feel at any moment, falls into the ‘near category’.
Anything that’s out of our reach, figuratively or literally falls into the far category. Dopamine is designed by evolution to excite you about everything that falls into the ‘Far’ category and motivates you to pursue them It encourages humans to take that little (or a lot) more risk, to push the boundary to achieve/desire more. This
all sounds great, so what’s the hitch? 
Our solution lies in what author Daniel Z Lieberman calls the H&N chemicals. The here and Now chemicals. You may have heard about some of them, substances like serotonin, endorphins, oxytocin, and

endocannabinoids. They are all about enjoying the things in the present moment. They are active when you’re working out, dancing, having sex, eating
good food, or watching a beautiful sunset. Ever hear of the runners high? That’s a H&N cocktail at its best. Brain circuits that produce H&N’s tend to
compete with and even suppress the production of dopamine. When you find yourself in a stable long-term relationship, your brain produces less dopamine and more chemicals like oxytocin. Conversely, when you’re CRAZY in love, your serotonin levels drop below usual. Exercise, working out, playing a sport, and being active, are the BIGGEST form of regular and balance production of H&N chemicals and Dopamine. It is the most natural form of creating a dopamine control circuit. True happiness lies in finding this balance.
As an organization, and as a philosophy, e believe in being active, physically and mentally, and living life off the back of H&N chemicals over dopamine. As a business,  we know that dopamine-based forms of
entertainment, are temporary in nature. The customer will keep wanting, bigger, better, and more! That’s why we stay away from entertainment-based engagements, like arcades, movies, etc.
We rely on our customers getting a high every time they run, play or work out on ‘Here and Now’ chemicals, rooting them to the present moment and bringing them the sense of euphoria that they control and cannot be manipulated. One of the
core tenants of business revolves around this philosophy and hence the tag lines in our clubs – POWER to the PEOPLE!