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| UNIQUENESS comes out with immense pain, misery and striving !!! |
Some thoughts provoked by spontaneous session at MICA by Vineet Nayar, Founder http://samparkfoundation.org/
We follow others, we are inspired
from experiences of the world and we learn from outside world to shape our
lives, to make our lives better. We have some dreams in our lives, but many
times we are not able to put those into words. We don’t say and roar aloud
about what we want to achieve. When we think about the goals to reach and
problems to counter, we look up to others to see how they have done that rather
than how we like to do the same. Are we leading our lives or we are just
following the others.
What are your ambitions, what are
your dreams, what are your goals, what are your plans? It is all about you. It
all comes out of how you want to live your life. Therefore, to achieve that
will also inspire from life you live. So, try to understand yourself. Don’t chase
others for expert-experienced advice. Great visionary people have unique
ability to move away from conformism and lead their life towards IMPOSSIBLE tasks
which other thought none could achieve. If you are inspired, convinced by that
idea and ready to lead your life for that idea; then go for it.
Venture, adventure, embrace the
risk and live through it. Don’t be afraid of failures. After all, nurturing of
successful journey is watered by outstanding failures and extreme frustration,
pain and misery. Thus we have to train our mind to prepare ourselves for this moment
when our efforts will be successful irrespective of the number of failures
coming in the way. Someone asked how to get away with the murder and other
person responded “by first committing the murder!”(pun intended…)
This journey is possible only when
we pursue the idea and not the perspective of the advice or borrowed wisdom. If
we fail, fall for it. We will rise again. In between these two events we have
to give our full attention to understand the problem at hand. Define it. Frame it
to understand its logical limits and possibilities. Then we will be in a
position to start a conversation about it. Unless we interact, it will not be
possible to define, decode and describe the problem at hand. Many times we do
this conversation with ourselves. Many times with the people we love, we look
up to for guidance and people in front of whom we rely to express ourselves.
As far as understanding self is
concerned, we have to shift from analysis to conversation with self. Spontaneity
in behavior, open mindedness to commit mistakes and be ready to experiment,
asking tough questions, hard work to work on specific issues and being a result
oriented are crucial to have leadership in any field. Great leadership is about
oratory, about conviction, about ability to inspire others, about organizational
skills, about handling interpersonal relationships but more than that it is
about finding a lively purpose to work for our goal. This lively purpose can be
anything starting from appreciation from people we respect, love or it can be
any crazy joy we found serendipitously while engaged in pursuit of our goal.
Sometimes we are too much unsure
about ourselves and sometimes too much sure. Within that lies the spectrum of
possibilities of our struggle. The kind of urgency, energy and enthusiasm
required must be intense, deeper and higher than we can imagine. We need
passion and obsession and not pretension to be expert in many areas resulting
in personality who does not delve deep into one of the aspects of the problem
and issue at hand so as to contribute meaningful in creation of sustainable
assets or mitigating the crisis.
We are we and we shape our skills,
strategy and road map according to our vision based on self-confidence, proactive
initiative and endless enthusiasm. While focusing on problem holistically, we
should always make a habit to focus on granules of issue we are handling about.
Dealing with granules while envisioning about whole issue helps us enormously. At
the same time, we have to nurture ourselves to learn collectively. It is only
through community interaction and dialogue; we become humble, patient and
emerge ourselves in an accountable position so as to share the skills needed to
solve the problem. We have to learn from each other. More than that, we have to
keep our eyes and ears open so that we get feedback from deepest level of
community and we get most lateral cutting edge perspectives to foster our
imagination and understanding of the situation and problem.
There is a constant conflict
between dream of IMPOSSIBLE and what people ADVICE us to be, to do and not do
something. And we have to overcome this tussle about which idea overcomes us
and which idea transforms us. Then we should ask ourselves, “Do I want the
present moment to be my friend or my enemy? The present moment is inseparable
from life so you are really deciding what kind of relationship you want to have
with life. Once you have decided you want the present moment to be your friend,
it is up to you to make the first move. And we should never be in doubt, skeptical
mood, in fear, in torment and in suspended pendulum about what to do. Just act.
Become friendly towards that moment and welcome it no matter in what disguise
it comes, and soon you will see the results. Life becomes friendly towards you
and people become helpful and circumstances cooperative.”
Thus one decision to act
spontaneously changes your entire reality but that decision you have to take
again and again—until it becomes natural to live in such a way and even natural
to achieve impossible to change our lives and beyond that transform our lives!!!
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