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Sports Teach You What School Never Can ft. Ritukar Vijay

6 March 2026336 viewsTHE INNOVATORS & DISRUPTORS PODCAST

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🧠 Your mindset is built long before your career begins. In this candid conversation, Ritukar Vijay reflects on how sports shaped the way he approaches technology and innovation. Early lessons from sports: 🔹 Solving tough problems under pressure 🔹 Believing difficult things are possible 🔹 Learning to handle failure without quitting That mindset stayed. From a fascination with RC cars and “moving things”… to asking bigger questions — what else can we build? Even Hollywood sci-fi played a role. For many 90s kids, movies like Terminator didn’t just entertain — they expanded the imagination of what robots could become. Before deep tech, before startups, before robotics — there’s curiosity. There’s resilience. There’s the belief that hard things are figure-out-able. Careers evolve. Mi

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