Name: A step of audacity, to return you to yourself | Dedeepya Abhagani | TEDxVVITU
Uploaded: 2026-03-05T21:49:51.000Z
Duration: 13 min 29 s
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I'm Dedipia, known as describble on social media.

So a lot of, you know, a lot of you guys who follow me ask me what describble actually means and why exactly that name.

Whenever I lack confidence or I lack clarity, I take out a rough paper, I scribble on that, and

See, today the topic is blueprint of becoming.

And the first blueprint we ever receive is, you know, from the family, from the environment we are in, the circumstances we live in.

A successful blueprint I think comes with one major thing.

Not family, definitely not relatives, very definitely not you being super nice to everybody.

It's through you taking one step ahead and that one step of audacity.

That's all it took me a little backstory to my life.

I come from a very humble background, from a joint family setup, orthodox.

My father is a government officer who works with IAS officers.

And he was always fascinated, you know, about how that position brings glory to someone, the respect and all.

And my father always wanted me to be a civil servant so much that the moment I was born, it's not my name that was decided, it was the title that was already there on my shoulder.

I was like, okay, that you know, whatever you want.

As I said, I'm from a middle class family, but

to maintain that entire joint family as a middle class, this man was living a poor life.

I know a lot of times there was no time where he was not in debt.

Things are not as smooth as we say in the stories.

We all had those sinking ships in our life.

So I was diagnosed with clinical depression and anxiety in my third year of btec and I was on medication, knowing everything.

All that I understood that would help me was money at that point.

So once I was done with my graduation, I wanted to do a job.

My father said, no, you have to prepare for UPSC no matter what.

Once you start, once you know the taste of money, you are not going to study.

I started preparing for my UPSC immediately.

I didn't want to depend on my parents money because they poured in so much.

You know, you all know how much money your parents pour into this Education system, that's hell lot of money.

Okay for a month for one tuition I used to charge.

I started with 2,500 or 3,000 and it slowly went to some 4,5000.

I used to take tuitions, then study, go to my classes.

And there came a time where my dad is three years away from his retirement.

I surely know we don't have a lot of seawings.

And I am the elder daughter with a sister.

You know, there is this taboo in the society and even in my family.

Since my living memory, the major thing I remember, the way people used to be grateful for my father for everything that they have that he has done to them was because boy, you don't have a son.

And the first thing I was given to understand was death of my parents.

I used to feel very bad about being a girl at a certain time of my life, which I'm not anymore.

But I just wanted to prove that girls can take care of their pets.

They can definitely do, which I'm doing right now.

Should I continue UPSC or should I get into something that will help me start earning?

Because both, I can't put my two feet on those two ships.

They are going in different ways opposite.

I've been a storyteller since my childhood.

My grandparents help me because of the thanks to the joint family setup.

I was brought up that way where I heard a lot of stories with reasoning.

Now the stories don't go like, you know, this is God and this is your belief system.

My grandmother explained me Devi Bhagavatam with Big Bang theory.

Now you understand the kind of storytelling I was brought up in.

The immediate skill I had content writing because I write stories.

Then I thought, okay, let me get into a job.

Because I was in a very normal clothes and I was a little inferior.

I said, you know, I don't have experience.

Could you please, you know, give me a job, I need it.

Then I thought, okay, I already have a job.

Let me see what I can do with the rest of it.

I just went ahead in proper clothes, you know, the communication skills.

Because I've seen a few videos on YouTube that this is how you present yourself.

And the minimum offer that I started with was 25,000.

Now I understood that how important it is to keep your audacity in front and go for what you want.

I put my UPSC aside and then slowly, you know, I made.

I had a lot of friends in creator economy because I'm a content writer.

Now they wanted me to make business content, which I am not fond of.

Then I said no, I think I have to say stories about emotions and emotional well being.

My well wishes straight out said, you know what, that's a flop business.