Author: alearningaday

Orville and Wilbur Wright..

said there were two ways you could learn how to ride a horse –

one is by jumping on the horse and falling and learning..and doing so again..
the other is by standing on the field and analyzing how it is done..
they had reached a point of time when they realized that the existing researched data on aviation at their time was wrong but how could that be? It was written by the most prolific scientists and agreed by many others.. how could they – 2 kids who hadn’t even had much formal education to speak of even doubt the credibility of that kind of research?
they decided to keep jumping, falling and learning.. and thanks to them – we have a Airbus A380 today..

When Benjamin Franklin helped write various..

political documents once America received independence, the only reason people used to double check what he wrote was because they were scared he would slip in a joke..

the great man’s greatest asset was his wit and his ability to laugh at himself..
lets not forget that he crammed being a legendary scientist, diplomat, inventor, politician, printer, artist etc in 86 years of life… 
:)

Discipline is the name of the game..

This one goes out to all of us who take lots of pride in being fantastic last minute people..

I, for one, have always been very happy(proud even..) for having accomplished most of what I have done in the very last minute.. However, there was this one time when I was standing in front of a mountain of a target and typically, I procastinated.. and guess what.. it didn’t happen! Somehow, the magic didn’t seem to work.. and that failure seeped into everything else. Suddenly nothing worked when I did things in the last minute..

I have never considered myself disciplined but hey.. that is the name of the game. When employed, its about waking up in the morning every day and going to work and performing..and then coming back home and performing and doing that again and again..and again..

Hard reality..

Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline – exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?” – David Oglivy