Category: Everything else

Pursue your dreams!:

The book(Alchemist) is about a boy who has a dream, which is his personal legend – his big purpose of living on earth and it is the story of him following his personal legend and going on a journey of adventure and learning. While the learnings are many, I hope we never forget that we all have our own dreams(esp from when we were kids) and as we grow older, a fear of failure begins to convince us that this is impossible.. but nothing is unachievable.. especially if we want it more than anything else in this world! :)

Be in the moment:

We all go through lives with different beliefs. Some believe it is Makhtub(written), others don’t. Some spend a lot of time planning ahead, some don’t.. but basically, it’s most important we remember from time to time to just be in the moment. Life’s most beautiful spectacle is now.. and it’s important we enjoy and learn – whatever the situation.. whether by not submitting our answer book for example or not.. :)

Extraordinary opportunities:

Outliers are just ordinary people who grasped extra ordinary opportunties and used them to work very very hard. Basically, all success stories have a story of extraordinary opportunities behind them like Bill Gates, whose school had a main frame when most universities across the US didn’t, like the fact that Jobs, Gates, Khosla and numerous other IT dons were born in the same year and hence were at the right age, like sports men who generally fall into date of births from 2-3 months in a year depending on when the yearly selections take place(this is interesting.. will elucidate some other time)

So, in a way, what I got is that we could work as hard as possible and may never be as successful as the above and that’s still ok, as long as we aim to become an expert in what we do and make sure we put in our 10,000 hour shift somewhere…