How Mansi Panchal’s Post Changed My Perspective as an Intern

 Interning under Mansi Panchal has been one of the most valuable experiences of my career so far. Of course, I’ve learned a lot about marketing, sales, content creation, and business, but sometimes, it’s not the technical lessons that leave the biggest mark. Sometimes, it’s one simple post that makes you rethink your entire approach. That happened to me recently when Mansi shared her perspective on LinkedIn.

In her post, she wrote about how companies often prefer hiring reliable people with average skills over geniuses who can’t show up when it matters. She explained that skills can be taught. You can always learn how to sell, pitch, negotiate, or build systems. But if someone doesn’t show up on time, can’t take ownership, and disappears when responsibility knocks, that’s not a skill issue; that’s a character issue. And no crash course can fix that.

Reading that as an intern, it hit me harder than I expected. I had been focusing so much on building my skills, learning new strategies, and improving my technical knowledge, thinking that these were the only things that would make me stand out. But Mansi’s words made me realize something deeper: my character and consistency matter just as much, if not more than my skill set.

From that day on, I started looking at my daily habits with a new lens. Was I being proactive? Was I meeting deadlines without reminders? Was I owning my mistakes instead of making excuses? I understood that being someone my team could rely on was just as important as knowing how to run an ad or write content.

Mansi often says, “Your consistency will get you in rooms your CV never could.” And I’ve seen her live by that every single day. Watching her hold herself and her team to that standard has been a real-life lesson that no textbook could have taught me. Thanks to that one post, I’m learning to build not just my skills, but my professional character, and I know that will take me much further in the long run.

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