Keys to releasing our potential-II

Keys to releasing our potential-II

FPJ BureauUpdated: Friday, May 31, 2019, 05:24 PM IST
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WISE people say: “Reduce the tendency to assess, evaluate and interpret the world. Replace and substitute this futile activity with action, joy and love. We can’t measure life in school terms giving grades like A, B, C. Gradually, a tendency develops to avoid doing things except to score “A” grade. In that process, we miss out everything.  Whatever are the circumstances, we can make the situation a field of learning or an avenue to gather experience.

Many people sit around and complain to themselves how dull everyone is. A creative person likes every place since his attitude is “This is where I am right now. I might as well like it instead of disliking it and being victimized by my upset.” We should stop evaluating happiness on the basis of one single situation or one destination. Instead, we should see life as a journey with intermediate stations and stoppages. We can’t and should not evaluate life in terms of achievements, whatever we achieve now, we have to plan the next achievement and that can be done only, if we know the skills and talents we have!

The four Ps of success and satisfaction are passion, potential, purpose and perseverance. For example, in the case of Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer prize-winner, it was sheer love for writing that brought her fame. She derives joy by sitting alone in a room and imagining characters, plots, stories and their layout. The single winning factor for anyone and everyone is Dil Se i.e. the heart, the passion and the channel to use it. Adolf Hitler was once asked to speak as a proxy for a political leader. He spoke extempore and stunned the audience with his logic, clarity and oratory. The audience thought that he alone could save Germany. The rest is history. That is the power of potential!

Rudyard Kipling said: “If you don’t get what you want, it is a sign either that you did not seriously want it or that you tried to bargain over the price.” Pay the price and take what you want!

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