The 50%Man

Description of 'The 50% Man' What does a 50% mark sheet have to do with more than a forty-year career across several countries, survived a heart attack, road traffic accident, terrific version of a global pandemic and a massive brain surgery, and a life transformed at sixty-six by Artificial Intelligence? Everything. Rejimon Mattathil was never the brightest student in the room. His marks rarely crossed 50 percent. In a Kerala where employers looked only at grades, he was invisible — quietly average, and certain that greatness was reserved for someone else. Yet that same man would go on to build a career spanning India, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, and Bahrain — mastering the craft of risk and insurance across several countries' regulatory environments, training hundreds of professionals, managing corporate portfolios worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and discovering, at sixty-six, that Artificial Intelligence had given his four decades of hard-won expertise the most powerful instrument it had ever encountered. This is not a book about insurance. It is a book about what happens when an ordinary person refuses to stop learning. Along the way, Rejimon lost a secure government career and rebuilt twice. He survived a massive heart attack, a serious road accident, a global pandemic and major brain surgery. He started businesses, closed them, and started again. Through every storm, a single quiet principle carried him forward: This time will pass. THE 50% MAN is written for — — Students who have been told their marks decide their future — Professionals navigating career disruption, redundancy, or starting over — Gulf and overseas returnees rebuilding their lives and careers back home — Senior professionals wondering whether AI has arrived too late for them — Every human being who has ever been called ordinary — and believed it Inside these pages, you will discover why your starting point has nothing to do with your destination. You will understand how AI is reshaping every profession — and how to use it before it uses you. And you will see, through one man's lived experience across forty years and six countries, that reinvention have no age limit. The book closes with a message for every generation: "Learn AI before AI learns you. Because if a man whose mark sheets once said 50% can enter the Intelligence Age with confidence and curiosity — what you can achieve, with the tools already in your hands, is beyond anything either of us can yet imagine." Candid, courageous, and quietly life-changing — THE 50% MAN is a book about risk, insurance, and Artificial Intelligence. About Kerala in 1983 and the world in 2026. About six countries, six reinventions, and the one quality that never becomes obsolete. The refusal to stop learning. Pick it up. Begin anywhere. And remember, before you put it down, that greatness rarely begins with perfection. It begins with curiosity.