Learn To...Mathematics
The best mathematics you can ever learn is to
calculate is the cost of your current decisions.
Language
The best language you can ever learn to speak,
read and to write, is the one that can aggregate how your thoughts and
feelings, pan out when it leaves you.
Science
The best science you can ever learn is the one that
keeps your curiosity, alive to invent things in places far beyond your
expectations.
History,
The best history, you can ever learn, is to
recall things that you went through without filters and convert them to
learning experiences not just for today in this moment and the future.
Remember, to erase, the past stories, and create new history.
Geography
The best geography, you can ever learn, is the
world that resides inside you without boundaries, and remove all the limiting
beliefs, that are cramping you from achieving you true potential.
Practice
"Practice does not make perfect. Only
perfect practice makes perfect." - Vince Lombardi
"Everything is practice." - Pele
"An ounce of practice is worth more than
tons of preaching."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Question
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish
question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." - Bruce Lee
"Question everything. Learn something.
Answer nothing." - Euripides
"By doubting we are led to question, by
questioning we arrive at the truth." - Peter Abelard
Skill
"It is possible to fly without motors, but
not without knowledge and skill." - Wilbur Wright
"When love and skill work together, expect a
masterpiece." - John Ruskin "Learning how to learn is life's most
important skill." - Tony Buzan
Change Your Thinking
Business is changing rapidly, more with disruptions
with technology which is going to shape the future.
Being what it is, it is time to rethink the
traditional pyramid too, with all working from the base and trying to get to
the top.
Invert the pyramid, put the point at the bottom
where you are now (imagine you are starting a new career, which is because of
disruptions), conceive the future for an expending opportunity horizon where
you can move laterally across the spectrum in search of an ever-widening set of
career opportunities. Reinvent yourself regularly. See the world as an
ever-increasing set of realities.
Henry Ford said it rightly, "Whether you
think you can or cannot, you are right."
Scripted especially for the members of this group in R3 -
Raman's Random
Ramblings
by
Raman
22/12/2018, 00:58 -
Practice the Pause.
It just takes a moment to change
your thought,
your perception,
your feeling,
your belief,
your intent and
your action,
which can change not just that moment, but, the day or an entire
life
which in turn can change the world, if only you can practice the
pause.
Pause! Pause! Pause!
Pause
before accusing
before judging
before sparking
before assuming
before criticizing.
Pause whenever you are about to react harshly,
then you'll avoid doing and saying things you'll regret later. You'll never
have to feel guilty ever.
Beyond the walls of belief, there lies a whole different world.
Pause, and Explore.
Extraordinary is..
Really speaking there’s nothing to be extraordinary.
Being extraordinary is hardly ever the extravagant
gesture, it is the ordinary thing remembered and done well, like..
Being human
Being present
Care taken
Handcrafted
Eye-contact
Face-to-face
Heart-to-heart
The intangibles
Genuine interest
A timely response
The feeling of belonging
Thinking of someone in person
Executing on the small details
A handwritten note of appreciation
Choosing the best ingredients even if they are
expensive
Treating people the way you would want to be
treated
These are some that crossed my mind.
You may add yours to the list to become extraordinary.
Succeed
"Failure will never overtake me if my
determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino
"In order to succeed, we must first believe
that we can." - Nikos Kazantzakis
"However difficult life may seem, there is
always something you can do and succeed at." - Stephen Hawking
Think
"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid
to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness." - Oprah Winfrey
"When you think positive, good things
happen." - Matt Kemp
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat
in the evening. Sleep in the night." - William Blake
Fear less
Strange but true our life is governed by fear. It
is instilled in us from the time we are children..
Eat you food, otherwise...
It's sleep time now, sleep, otherwise..
Study well, otherwise..
This factor called fear manifests in us so much that we begin to
generate our
own fears...
Fear of ridicule
Fear of failure
Fear of non-performance
Fear of being cheated
Fear of being alone
Fear of being judged
Fear of being hurt
The list of fear can go on endlessly and we
labour hard to get rid of those fears, all of which are imaginary.
What we forgot is the lessons and the values that
our parents gave us, and what we gained as knowledge that we got from school,
higher education, our teachers, our friends etc., which actually equips us to
take on life challenges and overcome every obstacle that comes in the path of
our goals. However, there are things that most miss out on :
01. Fix realistic goals
02. Have the determination to chase them down.
3. Maintain focus on the goals, without being distracted.
4. Think, Think, Think..
5. Fear nothing (the worst is the fear of dying, yes, so what that
will happen anyway and for all without exception, so why fear anything at all).
Self-Control
"By constant self-discipline and
self-control you can develop greatness of character." - Grenville Kleiser
"Emotional self-control is the result of
hard work, not an inherent skill." - Travis Bradberry
"Self-control means wanting to be effective
at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual
existence." - Franz Kafka
Perseverance
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after
you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." - Newt Gingrich
"Perseverance is failing
19 times and succeeding the 20th." - Julie Andrews "No one succeeds
without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance." -
Ramana Maharshi
Purpose
It's a relaxing winter morning, the sun warm
enough to give you some comfort of warming up. Newspaper reading done,
breakfast over, it may just be some idle time. Thought this would the apt time
to script my message. Here it goes.
You have to have a purpose in life is what everyone will say.
Yes, it is true. We all need it. How then do we know our
purpose.
Am attempting to simplify it.
PURPOSE
The First Pillar :
Doing that which you love.
To enable this you need a
PASSION for doing that which you like and that
should become your MISSION, only then you'll enjoy.
The Second Pillar
Doing that which the world wants from you.
To do this your MISSION will support you
immensely and all that you'll need is to bring your VOCATION, trained skills
upon which you have enough command.
The Third Pillar
Doing that which you can be paid for.
It is natural that you get employed for the skills
for which there's someone willing to engage you. So your VOCATION, helps you
gets into a PROFESSION.
The Fourth Pillar
Doing that which you are good at.
You gain experience being in a PROFESSION, and
little by little you begin to carve a nice. To get even better, you'll need to
fall back on your PASSION, which says Doing that which you love.
So PURPOSE =
doing..
That which you love + That which the world needs
+ That which you can be paid for + That which you are good at.
The Power of Actionable
Feedback.
How many times do you politely leave a restaurant
after a bad experience, vowing never to return back, without letting the
manager know what you think?
How often have you stopped buying from a brand you once trusted?
How valuable would your feedback be, if only
companies were in the habit of asking for it?
It is hard to ask questions that elicit useful feedback.
Fear about the responses we might get hold us
back because suggestions invariably and inevitably, make more work for us.
Feedback is a deliberately
cultivated art through observation, learning, practicing, making mistakes
subsequently Learning applying them right, review result and improvise if
necessary, else standardise.
The trick to making feedback actionable is to ask
specific questions of the right people at the right time.
Final thought.
We do not need everyone's opinion about everything
to improve ourselves, or our products, or our business or our services, but, it
is important to ask the people who matter questions about things you are
willing to change.
Kindness
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can
hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain
"One who knows how to show and to accept
kindness will be a friend better than any possession." - Sophocles
"There’s no such thing as a small act of
kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." - Scott Adams
Improve
"What you do today can improve all your
tomorrows." - Ralph Marston
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your
fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” - Ernest
Hemmingway
“Become addicted to constant and never-ending
self-improvement.” - Anthony J. D'Angelo
Succeed You Must.
One must admit that everyone wants to succeed in
whatever they do. But, just thinking will not help as most live with regrets:
- Worrying too much
- Hide feelings without expressing themselves even to the ones who
care.
- Caring too much about what others might think.
- Living in the past, forgetting the present ignoring the future.
- Not daring to risk
...this list can go on endlessly...
When we focus on problems we can be sure we will have
a lot of them. When we focus on possibilities we begin to find several
opportunities. When we focus on solutions, we do not just get many, but, we
could even innovate.
Succeed You Must, and How?
The arrow is pulled back to the best of the
archer's strength and released to hit the target. That's the only way, it can
be, as per rules of physics.
Similarly, we need to pull ourselves back,
leaving us with no other choice, but, succeed. We need to let the chances of
failure become so dire, so unthinkable that we will have no other choice but to
do whatever it takes to succeed.
Someone who lives after he/she was about to
drown, will tell, how he/she beat every odd to reach the shore safely. He/she
will vouch what it means to have no other choice but to save his/her life and
live.
So that's it, do everything you can because Succeed You Must.
Knowledge
"An investment in knowledge pays the best
interest." - Benjamin Franklin "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.
Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
- Kofi Annan
"True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance." - Henry David Thoreau
Experiments and Experiences
There are no wrong decisions.
The decisions are always right.
If everything goes right we
gain good experience. If everything goes wrong we will get a good story. ~
Simon Senek
A Fact and a Story
The forests were shrinking thick and fast, yet
the trees were surrendering themselves to the axe unconditionally, because it's
handle was made of wood, and the trees thought it was one of them, and didn't
suspect anything would go wrong.
Moral:
Make sure you don't start seeing yourself through
the eyes of those who don't value you. Know your worth if others don't. How sad
we get betrayed by our own thoughts.
Making mistakes is our nature.
Accepting our mistakes
reflects our culture.
Correcting our mistakes defines our stature.
Outstanding
"Outstanding people have one thing in
common: an absolute sense of mission."v - Zig Ziglar
"Human beings are infinitely worth studying,
especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts."
- Paul Johnson
"The higher your energy level, the more
efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the
more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results." - Tony
Robbins
Understand
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true
friendship is to understand and to be understood." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the
basis of man's desire to understand." - Neil Armstrong
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't
understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein
Keep Upgrading
Iron left unused for a while
rusts. Wood left unattended gets eaten by white ants. Edibles if not consumed a
gets decayed. Even if it is a brand new one it'll spoil and decay.
Don't you think the same applies to our life as well.
Unused God given talent and natural abilities
remaining unutilized, new things unexplored, available resources unexploited.
In addition we ignore the need for skills that we need for tomorrow that is
never learned. All that we have withers away and decays.
We forget that each of us are a masterpiece creation
which should unfold for the world to see. It is time for us to rewrite the
chapters of our story book of life. We need to upgrade our software regularly
and share stories - both of success and those learning’s which resulted by not
succeeding.
This doesn't need to be done for ego sake,
popularity sake or for encashment of any kind.
We need to understand we are a part of a big
jig-saw puzzle of the world that makes humanity great.
Every morning remind yourself that you are still
in the game and play your part to perfection, by being on the move, both
mentally and physically. Gain intellect, become wise. Don't ask how. Just do
it.
Ten years ago we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope and
Johnny Cash. Today is the time to start again. Don't ever have to say, "We
have no jobs, no hope no cash."
Succeed
"Failure will never overtake me if my
determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino
"In order to succeed, we must first believe
that we can." - Nikos Kazantzakis
"However difficult life may seem, there is
always something you can do and succeed at." - Stephen Hawking
Smile
"Share your smile with the world. It's a
symbol of friendship and peace." - Christie Brinkley
"Beauty is power; a smile is its
sword." - John Ray
"Nothing you wear is more important than
your smile."
- Connie Stevens
Who Likes …
Who Likes You Work?
Who loves what you do?
Who tells others proudly about what you do?
Who wants to meet you, to share thoughts with you and to be with
you?
Who buys your thoughts and what you say,
discussing things threadbare, agrees to disagree, to get the best of you?
Who makes you care?
Who is the reason for your being?
Who has the problem you can solve?
When you get the right answers to all these
questions, be assured, you'll be a step closer to being your best and you'll
also realize you a a lot closer to reaching your highest potential being human.
Trust
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to
none."
- William Shakespeare
"Trust yourself, you know more than you
think you do."
- Benjamin Spock
"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the
gate to eternity."
- Khalil Gibran
Winner
"You were born to win, but to be a winner,
you must plan to win, prepare to
win, and expect to win."
- Zig Ziglar
"Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner.
Stand for something. Always have
class, and be humble."
- John Madden
"A winner never stops trying."
- Tom Landry
You Are What You Feel Inside
You...
A TV anchor once asked Martina Navratilova,
"How do you manage to keep your focus and how do you keep yourself fit and
manage to play at the age of 43 years to be still at the peak of your
game?"
Her suave response was, "The ball doesn't know how old I
am?"
In his book, "Still
power" Sports Psychologist Garret Kramer says that, "The key factor
to perform and excel, either in sports or life, is the quality and the quantity
of you internal dialogue."
Performance = Potential - Interference (external and internal).
In other words what this equation suggests is
that you need to stop things that stop you from getting things you want.
Sports, Fitness, Business, Life are all games we
play on the 6" ground between your two ears.
Reality Check
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first
step." ~ Anon.
In life we do so many things. Some things we wish
we had never done, some we wish to replay a million to.es in our mind. It's all
these that makes us what we are today and where we stand. And today we think to
shape our thoughts and details to put us where we want to be tomorrow and the
day after that. We are constantly thinking and evolving, so is the belief. If
we were to reverse any of them in the past, there's no guarantee we will be the
person we are now.
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable
of doing, others judge us by what we have done."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
So, just live making moves making mistakes,
learning from them, garner experience, carve memories, but, never second guess,
even for a second, who you are, where are you and more importantly where it is
going. It will go where it should with you driving it.
The mind gets heated, continue
your marching ahead. Things that actually counts is not what we can do but what
we actually do. Men move mountains beginning to move stones.
"If you can fly, run. If you can't run walk.
If you can't walk crawl, but, whatever you do keep moving." - Dr. Martin
Luther King.
Celebrate You
It's this time of the year that everyone reviews
what happened in the last few months. Am not going to ask you to do anything
more than "CELEBRATE YOU"
C - Connect with your accomplishments,
achievements and successes. List out all of it.
E - Everything! List all things that made you
proud (big or all), from all areas of life - Professional, Personal, Social.
L - Learn from experiences, (remember that there
are mistakes, it's all learning’s), so include them in your achievements list.
E - Enjoy your achievements, accomplishments and
successes. Review the list. to recall, relive, enjoy, absorb and appreciate,
how far you've come.
B - Boost your celebration. It's fun to be with
others. Who all can you include in your celebration?
R - Reward yourself. Buy yourself a useful or a beautiful
gift to symbolise your achievements, accomplishments and successes.
A - Activities can also be rewards. What activity
could be most rewarding to you? What could put a smile on your face?
T - The 4 W's. Plan your celebration! Decide -
What, When, Where and Who you'll celebrate with? And just go ahead!
E - Express gratitude. Spread the celebration!
Tell people who helped you along the way, that, you appreciate them and why?
Y - You are awesome! Round yourself about this
knowing it is your inner strength, hard work, focus and energy that made all
these things happen for you.
O - Observe who you are. Review your
achievements, accomplishments, successes list to
see what are the common themes?
U - Upcoming opportunities and challenges. Know
that you are capable of both achieving opportunities and overcoming challenges
in the future too.
CELEBRATE YOU and have fun.
Be Happy, Be Content
A Story:
An elderly sage was walking through a city and
found a lot of joyous people and felt happy. And as he was walking he saw a
small gold coin on the path. He picked it up, looked at it and kept it in his
hand, thinking he would give it to the next needy one he finds. He went street
after street, covering the entire city, but found none that he could give the
golden coin.
In the evening on the outskirts of the city, as
he was about to lie down on the slab in front of the granary, he heard the nose
of horse hoofs and some men. He got up to see and saw it was the King's troop.
The King too saw the elderly sage and asked him to Bless him and his troops as
they were marching to wage a war and conquer the neighbouring country.
The sage looked at the sky, closed his eyes as if
in prayers and immediately handed over the gold coin to the King.
The King took it in his hand and was surprised
and angry. Surprised because of the offering and angry as to how dare the sage
give him a small piece of gold coin.
He asked the sage, "What do you mean by
giving me this gold coin, when you know I am the king and I am already so
wealthy."
The sage aplogized and narrated the story of how he
found the small piece of gold coin and his intent of giving it to a needy
person.
"Your highness, throughout the day walking
through all the streets of your kingdom I didn't meet a single needy. Every one
was happy joyous and looked contented with what they had in your beautiful
kingdom. Despite everything you have with you and going for a war to conquer
your neighbour to annexe more wealth, I felt you to be the most needy, hence I
gave you the gold coin." The wise King got the message and felt ashamed.
He immediately called a halt to his troops and asked his men to return to the
palace, saying, "We have enough!"
Moral : When we have enough we need to be content
with what we have. Looking for more may get us what we want, but, that might be
at the cost of someone else too by making them miserable.
You are You, Always Be You
It's natural that
the Eagle soars so high,
the spirit of the Butterfly is to flit
the Bee has a buzz about it
and the Rock stays put, solid at all times.
We are like the Eagle, the Butterfly, the Bee or
the Rock and many other natural things of the world, at some time or the other.
We are the pace-setter at times and the
peace-sitter at times. Life may just amble in routines, in chaotic times we
live in, given the speed at which the earth rotates. This norm isn't for You.
Try not to take things that others say about you
personally, because what they say is a reflection of them, and not YOU.
It's time to get rid of the dogmas and work
to create our own norms, too create our own path,
that make the rest of our life, by changing our outlook, thinking and
mentality.
Take appropriate steps to realize the YOU in YOU
and become the real YOU know YOU are and want to be.
Journey of Transformation
In a world of transactions this might sound like Latin or Greek.
Transformation journey is often lost between two
sets of assumedly intelligent, voices within.
(I don't want to sound harsh calling them fools.
One keeps asserting that "this is old and
therefore it is good! The other keeps reiterating, "this is new, therefore
better.
Transformation journey's succeed when someone
wise is on hand to guide. Trying to enlighten assumedly intelligent is like
trying to soften bamboo by pouring milk over it. Pour as much as you like to
your hearts content, the bamboo will never soften, never bend either.
The journey is lost between an old thought and the new thought.
The old wanting to retain everything merely because it is old.
The other wanting to usher in things merely because it is new.
The disruptions and chaos that we prevail in is because of the
old vs new.
I leave you with an intriguing thought though....
Imagine the plight of a poor new born baby in a bath-tub.
Doesn't know whether it
will remain or be thrown out?
I U V X Y are interesting
alphabets.
Let's explore.
A ... of course is the start
B ... there and C
C ... seeing they say is believing,
and our
D ... dee...ds are always counted.
Let's move on.. and go to
I the most self centred alphabet and word, that is filled with
ego and pride.
To know what we really are we need to have Self-Awareness.
Next comes
U and this is YOU. I assume U
are self-aware, but, if I need to know U then I be Emotionally Intelligent to
know you through your (I's)eyes the way you (C) yourself.
I need to surrender to
U and with that the bond becomes
V (We).
We become a TEAM.
S (YES) now we straight away (T) tee off to
X which is every mathematician’s delight but
(Y) do we need to worry about all these.
If we can remove the I and it's blood brothers Me
and Mine meaning shunning our ego then all U's and V's become pure Humans.
This wasn't meant to be a tongue twister.
The soul is about
Self Awareness, Understanding, Emotional
Intelligence, Togetherness, by removing Ego totally from the equation.
Love and care for the others as much as you do
yourself. That's joy and happiness assured for all seasons - more so in the
Festive Season.
You are You, Always Be You
It's natural that
the Eagle soars so high,
the spirit of the Butterfly is to flit
the Bee has a buzz about it
and the Rock stays put, solid at all times.
We are like the Eagle, the Butterfly, the Bee or
the Rock and many other natural things of the world, at some time or the other.
We are the pace-setter at times and the
peace-sitter at times. Life may just amble in routines, in chaotic times we
live in, given the speed at which the earth rotates. This norm isn't for You.
Try not to take things that others say about you
personally, because what they say is a reflection of them, and not YOU.
It's time to get rid of the dogmas and work
to create our own norms, too create our own path,
that make the rest of our life, by changing our outlook, thinking and
mentality.
Take appropriate steps to realize the YOU in YOU
and become the real YOU know YOU are and want to be.
Journey of Transformation
In a world of transactions this might sound like
Latin or Greek. Transformation journey is often lost between two sets of
assumedly intelligent, voices within.(I don't want to sound harsh calling them
fools).
One keeps asserting that "this is old and
therefore it is good! The other keeps reiterating, "this is new, therefore
better.
Transformation journey's succeed when someone
wise is on hand to guide. Trying to enlighten assumedly intelligent is like
trying to soften bamboo by pouring milk over it. Pour as much as you like to
your hearts content, the bamboo will never soften, never bend either.
The journey is lost between an old thought and the new thought.
The old wanting to retain everything merely because it is old.
The other wanting to usher in things merely because it is new.
The disruptions and chaos that we prevail in is because of the
old vs new.
Imagine the plight of a poor new born baby in a bath-tub.
Doesn't know whether it
will remain or be thrown out?
What does
Efficiency, Improvement, Change, look like really?"
Till not so long ago say from the 90's till
recently, if you wanted a passport, you'd have to go near the passport office,
and meet one of the agents who would do all the documentation submit it in the
passport office.
They brought changes computerising process and
eliminated agents, yet, the system never came to settle down.
Later then it was announced by the MoEA (Ministry
of External Affairs), announced new measures to cut waiting time. This was
great news for all including me, for one because I had to always rejig and
juggle around with so many other activities to make this one. The need came for
renewing my passport, I arrived for my appointment and handed over my appointment
reference to the helpdesk. The assistant acknowledged my arrival on time and
asked me to take a seat, among scores of others who were waiting too.
Unbelievably the office was not working just on time, but, ahead of a schedule
too. Someone took me inside asked for my application, old passport, passport
size photographs, address proof etc., which I handed over. Again someone else
came and too me to another hall and asked to wait saying the Passport Officer
is due to arrive. By the time we met the passport officer it took us another 3
hours.
On the outside it looked things changed, but, honestly, no much
had changed.
I began to say to myself :
01. It is easy to design a system that looks efficient on paper.
2. It is easy go reply to an email with a generic reply without
even responding to the issue.
3. It is easy to show up at a meeting without being present while
you're there.
4. It is easy to treat symptoms than it is to get to the heart of
the problem. Getting to the heart of the problem and caring enough to fix is
way harder. But, ticking boxes or peering over the cracks doesn't meet our
customers desire to feel seen and heard. And it doesn't fulfil our need to do
meaningful work either.
That's why the energy we devote to getting better
at the hard part is worth it. How do we define and measure, "Efficiency,
Improvement and Changes" will shape the world.
Really speaking this doesn't need any policy or
process, it just calls for an "attitude," an "intent," and
a "desire," to do it and all of us have that power, except that it
may be in a "coma."
Resolve
As we are nearing the end of another year being
signed off into history, I just want you to resolve some issues which hangs on
almost all of us.
A. 99% isn't good enough.
If you can imagine what 1% would mean. On any
given day Indian Railways runs about 12,620 trains daily. And assume it runs on
a 99% accident free record daily, then there would be at least 126 accidents
reported every day. This means, be relentlessly dissatisfied. This surely
doesn't mean being unhappy.
Compete against yourself challenging your own status quo.
Celebrate successes and gains, do not be complacent.
B. Be Strategic
Let's take "Time Management," for an example.
We need to learn to utilize our time and effort
strategically and balance many a thing to extract the maximum out of every
second we have for ourselves each day. Remember time is the most precious thing
in life, which we can't buy back however rich we are.
The art to develop and practice is how can we multiply it.
C. Sacrifice
"Oh yea - what's new?" You may ask.
True nothing is new really - but it is also true
you need to give something to get something.
Getting to the "top" will take a he'll
of a lot out of you. Be sure you learn to make sacrifices of something you were
used to. You need to do this consciously and most importantly never repent.
D. Be Ready To Be Ridiculed.
The might sound like the most ridiculous thing
you've ever heard, but, you would encounter many of those who would ridicule
your uncanny nature that separates you from them, they will leave no stone
unturned to pull you down. These could be friends, relatives, peers or whoever
else, but, what's important for you is to achieve what you've set for yourself.
Do not let their cacophony overpower your will
power. Such people are not worth your time to be spent on.
It is not the best and the smartest who always
get to the top. It is just that they are masters of what has been listed above.
I dare say, you too can, but, you need to work for that.
Do not just dream, act too.
Story of a Shark
During a research experiment a marine biologist placed
a shark into a large holding tank and then released several small bait fish
into the tank.
As you would expect, the shark quickly swam
around the tank, attacked and ate the smaller fish.
The marine biologist then inserted a strong piece
of clear fiberglass into the tank, creating two separate partitions.
She then put the shark on one side of the
fiberglass and a new set of bait fish on the other. Again, the shark quickly
attacked.
This time, however, the shark slammed into the
fiberglass divider and bounced off.
Undeterred, the shark kept repeating this
behaviour every few minutes to no avail.
Meanwhile, the bait fish swam around unharmed in the second
partition.
Eventually, about an hour into the experiment, the shark gave
up.
This experiment was repeated several dozen times over the next
few weeks.
Each time, the shark got less aggressive and made
fewer attempts to attack the bait fish, until eventually the shark got tired of
hitting the fiberglass divider and simply stopped attacking altogether.
The marine biologist then removed the fiberglass
divider, but the shark didn’t attack.
The shark was trained to believe a barrier
existed between it and the bait fish, so the bait fish swam wherever they
wished, free from harm. ~~~
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