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It’s All in the Mind, Stupid!!

Jan 29
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Winning or loosing a battle in life has a lot to with the mind. Not everyday will be a red-lettered day, but the maturity to keep the ball moving comes from a determined mind. Mental toughness is a virtue worth pursuing.

Great men have the ability to stay tough in difficult times. This, when read in an another way will sound like this: Greatness comes with the ability to stay mentally tough in difficult times. And that is the beauty of success. It comes to anyone with this virtue.

Indians have a tendency to over estimate this virtue. We call them god-men, saint-men, etc. I am not taking a shot at atheism, but only insisting that the first difference between such men and us, is in the area between our ears. Westerners have a more rational approach to the functioning of the mind, this, more than anything else makes us envy them, despite our own achievements.

A case in point would be that of master batsman, Sachin Tendulkar. To Indians, he is God. But to cricketers from other countries, he is just another cricketer, but someone who comes at them really hard. It’s a matter of perspective. And we, Indians would like to be on the side where we sit back and admire rather than emulate.

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The Most Definitive Power List, oh yeah!, globally

Jan 14
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It seems to be the print media’s latest tool to getting people to buy an issue. “50 Most Powerful people in India” by an India Today, or “Top 100 Powerful People of the World” by a Time magazine, have become an annual occurrence. Such articles, make for good reading. But are they factually right? I mean how do they judge people across various fields. How do you compare a Tiger Woods with the Secretary-General of the U.N.

Reading the “Methodology” segments of such articles, further confirms my skepticism. How do you weigh the various parameters. Isn’t it simply a magazine’s perspective if the money a person has, is weighed more than the number of employees working under him? If magazines claim that they are publishing the most definitive ranking, wouldn’t all the magazines have the same list?

Whats worse is that since these ratings are really popular, they are always susceptible to power-hungry politicians who want their name figured higher on the list.

How does one really know which list is correct? Perhaps it depends on your perspective. And that’s were ratings hope to catch your imagination. As a person if you have no idea how to weigh your perspectives, this rating mechanism is for you.

The biggest irony behind all this is that, no matter how high a Shah Rukh Khan figures on Time Magazine’s List, he still gets frisked at New York Airport like a commoner. The question lingers. simply, whats the use?

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