Utkarsh NarangFounder, IgnitedNeurons · Your best doers become your worst managers as you scale. I turn them into leaders so your best people don’t leave.

Why being yourself is actually the hardest thing #pressure

19 May 2026 · 1 min

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Utkarsh Narang and Speaker B discuss the contradiction of being told to think outside the box while staying within bounds. Speaker B's brother lets his three kids become who they are instead of molding them into a type, showing what authentic development looks like against society's demand to conform and be original at once.

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How the world keeps trying to mold us and shape us and try to have us be within the lines, don't be outside of the box, and then still they expect us to be out of the box. I've never understood this paradox. What's your take on this?
Well, my younger brother now has 3 kids under the age of 6. He has a 6-year-old, a 4-year-old, and a 2-year-old. And I'm heavily involved in their life and I love them dearly. And it's been really nice to see some children grow up with my DNA, who I see my mother in the middle child. His daughter, Dawn, is this beautiful little girl who reminds me very much of my mum. They're all themselves. You can't choose who they get to be, and I've really enjoyed my brother's philosophy with raising them, which is that his job isn't to try to make them into a certain type of person. His job is to just help them become who they are. That philosophy—