Monday, May 31, 2010

Don’t take life too seriously

Chetan Bhagat at SYMBI :

“Don’t just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced successful life. I used the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are in good order. There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your break up. There in no fun in driving the car if your back hearts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tension. Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls their is no point coming first. same is with life. Where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life else you may achieve the success but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive will start to die. One thing about nurturing the spark… don’t take life seriously. Life is not meant to be taken seriously as we are really temporary here. we are like a prepaid card with limited validity. If we are lucky we may last another 50 yrs; and 50 years is just 2500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked of? Its ok bunk a few classes, scoring low in couple of papers. goof up a few interviews, take leave from work, fall in love, little fights with your spouse. We are people not programmed devices.”

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Let others have the glory

There is something magical that happens to the human spirit, a sense of calm that comes over you, when you cease needing all the attention directed toward yourself and instead allow others to have the glory.
Our need for excessive attention is that ego-centered part of us that says, “Look at me. I’m special. My story is more interesting than yours.” It’s that voice inside of us that may not come right out and say it, but that wants to believe that “my accomplishments are slightly more important than yours.”
The ego is that part of us that wants to be seen, heard, respected and considered special, often at the expense of someone else. It’s the part of us that interrupts someone else’s story, or impatiently waits his turn to speak so that he can bring the conversation and attention back to himself. To varying degrees, most of us engage in this habit, much to our own detriment. 
When you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting other have it.

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