Inspired no end after listening to motivational speakers and poring over self-help books, a New Delhi city resident, Gyan Gautham, became a motivational speaker himself. The 24-year-old Gautham got into the habit of listening to motivational speakers, as part of his comprehensive preparation for Civil Services Exams. Motivational speakers don’t say different things.

   They say the same things differently. “In order to motivate myself and to gain enough mental strength, I immersed myself completely in the inspirational books and related YouTube videos for 6 months,” Gautham revealed the genesis of his metamorphosis. Gautham literally memorized all motivational quotes and speeches he had read. And after 6 months, he realized that he knew everything what a speaker in any motivational video would say. Now, he was one of them. “I could predict what they were going to say or what would be the next paragraph in spirit, at times in....