S uc ce ss s u t r a
Kapil Arambam shares with you the three mantra to triumph in life
W
hat do you think you need to succeed in
life? Hard work? Intellect or ability? Luck?
Perhaps we need all of these to make a name
for ourselves in the family and society at large — and most
significantly, to discover the essence of our life and existence.
This piece will examine these three factors as the means to
success as opposed to sifting it through as the end to speculate
on its substance. Precisely, there will be no utterance on Bill
Gates or Anil Ambani but how the path to success is seen, by
virtue of the three factors, from a personal experience.
There are several adjectives to describe a hard-working
person, albeit their nuances make a difference. A peep into any
workplace gives us terse, and often witty perspectives on how
this quality is valuable or unproductive. Some would pray for
stronger backs than for lighter burdens, but again, “If hard
work were really a virtue,” according to others, “then asses
would be saints.” From these opposing views arise the varying
shades, which dictate whether your effort will reward you or
makes you swear secretly to your boss and openly to your
family members plus friends for your wasted efforts.
So it's a bit of a tincture of working hard and 'using' the
mind, literally, in your daily life. And this is where intellect
or ability — two words that are used interchangeably to
mean intelligence — comes into play. The blend of these
factors has developed a term 'smart work' for your career
instead of hard work. Self-help books are abundant, and so
are the management gurus offering you ways from how you
can concentrate in your studies to improve your emotional
intelligence. How do you do it? Jack Canfield, Dale Carnegie,
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Norman Vincent Peale and Daniel Goleman are some of the
popular names that you can refer to for your literature. But how
you do this is quite subjective; and unexpectedly, several self-help
books are taking the flak for their tedium and sheer volumes in
the market. The bottom line is: you have to chart your own way to
progress.
And now is the time for the next big thing. Luck. It depends on
how you see it:
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets
opportunity.” - Seneca
“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work,
the more I have of it.” - Thomas Jefferson
“Luck is what you have left over after you give 100
percent.” - Langston Coleman
“Luck is the idol of the idle.” - a proverb
Grossly unscientific or blessed with good luck, it is quite open
to question as 'luck' goes under the scanner of philosophy — which
divides it according to a proscriptive sense and a descriptive sense.
But how do you differentiate yourself from Narayan Murthy's son
or Lakshmi Mittal's daughter? Of course, you can sympathise with
the above quotes if you feel dispirited and likewise see yourself
when you combine it with the two factors we have noted earlier.
No doubt, you will be living the life of a star — that's a law of the
nature — even if you were not born under a lucky star.
So, it's fusion. So elementary, Mr Watson. But you have to act
now. ∆
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8/9/10 8:17:49 PM