I am peacefully enjoying Michael Jordan's basket ball play highlights.
Suddenly a virus hits my mind. What drives one to become extreme expert at
something?
I know this world would give me abstract answers that are tough to roll out in real life. Yet unable to tolerate the virus I dare to ask the question.
Among all those I closed on simplest one. May be you guessed it as well, its one word answer Passion. Passion is most popular answer as well.
Even before I could catch breath out of high performance game that I was watching or celebrate victory of fist answer next virus hits me How do you become passionate?
Here comes next popular one Find what you love to do and enjoy.
Now I am getting mildly sick. I ask real question How do I find out what you love?
Right back comes blow, Look for the things that you can do effortlessly.
Paused for a moment to realize for a small group of people it might be easy to find out. Those who are naturally gifted to extent that it stands out. Like great voice of Lata.
But that's just 1 % of population what about 99% of us where its not standing out?
Deep silence….I could hear cricket's concert outside.
Turned my head to window to enjoy the concert and I see a cat very carefully moving over the compound wall of my house. I continued the cat watch. Cat moved carefully in style. Well it was looking for its hunt. I could sense that every part of cat was 100 % focused on this one task. I envied its concentration and continued the watch. It continued on its move. It jumped from longer back side compound wall to shorter adjacent compound wall. It smartly made use of its nails to take one step hold on longer compound wall as if walking vertically before landing on the shorter one to minimize the impact. To get a better view I moved out and cat did not like it and it quickly moved on.
Nothing new, well I have seen many exotic hunt sequences on the National geographic and Animal planet channels. But I guess live has its own charm. Just glimpse of one of these great hunts of cheetah hunting to save itself and it's cubs.
This expertise shown by animals made me think further about it. I think certainly nature has gifted every living beings ability to become expert of the area on which its life depends. Its so simple. Animals will go great distance and even some do good bit of innovation to make their living. They adopt and evolve. They cannot take not possible or No for answer. They will do anything and everything to get what they need. Need and wants are two different things.
We humans fail to understand this fact. Simple way to be expert at something is being able to have a skill by which you can earn your living. Master this skill to make your living consciously. In the civilized society this capability may get hidden behind the team work. This is fine to an extent. But its not acceptable when one is ignorant of it or even worse lazy or smart at fooling system. In all these cases people are hurting themselves. They are denying themselves the greatness that they are gifted by nature. I don't understand why this simple truth its wrapped in so many layers.
Earn your living well. One should work like as if one's life depends on it. Think of it as hunt that cheetah is attempting in video. It cannot miss it. Both cheetah and its cubs will starve to death if it misses. Make yourself accountable to every single rupee taken out of system to your efforts. No, not your boss but to yourself. Earn it well and you are on your route to glory. On this route you are bound to find the thing you love. The one that is made for you. This is basis of economy as well. We need to produce equivalent of wealth we are earning.
I was cured of virus by realizing Be raw, Bare yourself and Earn it well.
