Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan, fresh off a remarkable year with hits like Pathaan, Jawan, and Dunki, is currently in Dubai. In an interview, he shared how he copes with failure.
Khan, on the other hand, despises feeling defeated. “I hate feeling it and then I cry a lot in the bathroom. I don’t show it to anyone. You can sit around and feel sorry for yourself but you need to accept that the world is not against you and that everything is not messed up because of you.
He made this clear when he said, “You have to self-reflect that something went bad. You feel minutes of desperation, then you say to yourself, ‘Shut up, now get up and get on with it.'”
Khan put a broader perspective, drawing an analogy of himself to an ant-the ant being a very good-looking ant, but nevertheless an ant! Sometimes, he quipped, the wind takes you away. The wind is not working against you; it’s just doing what it does.
He continued, “Life does what it does. Blaming life for failure isn’t productive. It’s important to recognize that it might be because of something I did wrong, or maybe the business strategy and marketing didn’t pan out. The key is to recalibrate and come back stronger.”
Speaking on his personal routine, Khan spelled out his weird sleeping pattern thus, “I go to sleep at five in the morning. When Mark Wahlberg gets up, I go off to sleep. I wake up around nine or ten if I’m shooting.” He further clarified that he usually takes only one meal a day and stressed the need for a rigidly disciplined lifestyle.
