A paper is set by a human to test another human. How ironic is that, since no human is perfect, nothing can test your skills to the optimal level. So one has to believe in his/her skills and back himself/herself to the tee. Achievement is a summation of numerous small strides made towards the realisation of a goal. The way you define this goal, will indicate how much you achieve in this life. I am just about now realising this goal of mine, though still not able to clearly define it. I believe somewhere in the near future i will exactly realise what this is. To make things clearer, it is not a Kg class student,' I want to be an astronaut , kind of goal." If the particular goal can be achieved then it is a mere step to a greater goal. The satisfaction in achieveing something always lies in the process and not that much in the final result. Thus your goal should drive you for the rest of your life and it is the best way to live a happy , contended life. Too many of us are content to let the external forces dictate our existence and we merely get along with life. I too , as of now , am guilty of that.
In real life, it is very difficult to look at this macro perspective with the present always poking at you and the past haunting you. Often in situations when we are tested, our sub-conscious carries so much baggage of the past that we are never able to perform to our maximum potential. This is where the question of focus arises. With so many distractions that aound in the modern world, it is increasingly getting difficult for a person to focus. This i believe is a humungous problem that people are not realising. Short attention spans really curtail ones potential. The only solution to this lies in the realisation of ones goal in life.
All this is not as simple as it looks as one needs to identify the inherent motivation on which you can identify this goal. This inherent motivation is very elusive and also at the same time the most obvious.
I feel the above post is not conveying exactly what i feel, so i will abandon it as of now ... will edit it later if i can word it better
In real life, it is very difficult to look at this macro perspective with the present always poking at you and the past haunting you. Often in situations when we are tested, our sub-conscious carries so much baggage of the past that we are never able to perform to our maximum potential. This is where the question of focus arises. With so many distractions that aound in the modern world, it is increasingly getting difficult for a person to focus. This i believe is a humungous problem that people are not realising. Short attention spans really curtail ones potential. The only solution to this lies in the realisation of ones goal in life.
All this is not as simple as it looks as one needs to identify the inherent motivation on which you can identify this goal. This inherent motivation is very elusive and also at the same time the most obvious.
I feel the above post is not conveying exactly what i feel, so i will abandon it as of now ... will edit it later if i can word it better
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Maslow's Need Heirarchy theory cannot be applied here. If i do apply it here , then it means i should look for Roti , Kapada aur Makan and also acceptance in my peer group. But then this will result in severely limiting ourselves. I seriously hope even in multi-tasking people realise, it does not mean you have ten things running through your mind at a time. You may do ten ten tasks in 10 minutes. But it must be done in such a way so that you give a minute of total focus to the task at hand and do not let other thoughts enter your mind. But this is not happening and hence we have tonnes of bad managers.
Yes indiffernce is there, but it is something an individual in a society has to develop. He has no other choice. Here in India, in a single day, the media will cover at least 10 murders, rapes and other such horrific stories. We cannot be expected to react to each and every one of them. Earlier days the media wasnt omnipresent, hence whatever issues they raised resulted in a reaction from the public. but with so many issues floating around one cant help but be indifferent.
I was not alluding to indifference in the statement you italized ..
Yes i would say money is one of the biggest motivators and it is very true that it buys happiness indirectly. More so true in third world countries than anywhere else.
cheers
Maktub and Howard Roark! Thats all I gotta say....you know well enough what I mean....
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