Meeting Mr.Mind

After zombie like work weekdays, it was weekend. Time to fall really dead. Not just the work, commute also had competed in contributing to tiredness. Watched movie Lootera in the afternoon and slipped in for quick nap at 3PM. Woke up at 5PM.

Found no one was around and it was still half sleep, so just continued to lie in the bed. Tick-tock of the clock was clearly audible. Fists were still hurting due to RSI, side effect of their love affair with keys of the laptop and Foots were hurting because of their flirting with ABC (Accelerator, Brake, Clutch) of the car for more than two hours of commute every day.

After feeling the pain of the body focus shifted to feelings of mind. As I got down in to the depths of the mind suddenly met this Mr. Mind. He looked really pale. Not that he was very happy or bustling guy in the past but today he was really looking dull.  Pulled him to chat, asked him tell me what happened. He started off with usual crap of not letting him look weak. He acted strong and focused. He was afraid of being tagged as vulnerable, indulgent, lazy or non-disciplined. He had lost all his colors, truly looked black and white. He looked laser focused. He no longer looked human he looked like robot running some set of standard perfect programs. Just like the guys in the movie Matrix, completely invincible. 

It scared me to see him. He was ashamed of admitting that he was a human mind. He was busy covering it up with busyness of running some unknown race that had no end. He had achieved quite few significant things, he had set himself on to.  He was living a decent life. But yet he did not seem happy.  So I took a headshot question and asked him “Are you happy?” He looked confused. It was clear that he could not give a black and white answer.  He said, no external achievements or ever-increasing materialistic acquisitions so far have given me what I am looking for. The initial four lines of song saponse bhare naina  from movie Luck by chance started ringing in my ear. I understood that he had all the comforts but lacked the peace of mind. You can’t search it outside, if it had to be found it can only be found inside. So I played it Sapnose bhare naina, pay attention to first four lines.

After listening he opened up a bit.  Life in bigger cities sucks he said. He asked are we living to work or working to live?  So-called “Work hard, Party hard” is a myth.  The life style dumped in to our mind by media and society has corrupted the very definition of happiness. It has cut us out of our roots. All the places are commercialized. Focused and geared up to pull everyone in to a vicious cycle further. No, hold your thought right there, he said I understand Money is important but that money itself cannot be made the center of everything. To be frank money is cheap. Its your life that is invaluable. But yeah, Who cares? Everyone is programmed to laugh at it. You cannot escape it. In todays world everyone wants to pay any amount of money but they want all your life. It was his turn he played the song Gandha hai per dandha hai ye from the movie company.

I hugged him tight. Please don’t be afraid of being judged. Tell me what do you want. Lighten up. Don’t be so black and white. I want to see you in your true colors. I want you in the form you naturally are. I really don’t mind how you look. I will love you for what you are. You have always been there with me since my birth. I know you have been through a lot. No, I wont let this world destroy you and make a robot out of you. Whatever it takes, I will go any length to keep you a human.  He cried out loud. It was long silence and no words from either side. I understood words could not bridge. Silence was the only means of communication.

Finally he broke the silence. I want do things for their intrinsic value. Why money has to be benchmark of everything? Taking away the joy of doing things? Why does everything have to be so stressful? Why cannot it be fun? Why can’t we have completeness in life and have balance? The way we are heading towards is going to lead to human without all around growth. Imagine what happens if only one part of the body grows and others are not. Would it be beautiful?

I desperately asked, you were always passionate about what you did? Weren’t you? Yes he said and asked me back, you like mangoes don’t you? I said yes and asked back with smile don’t you know it? That’s not the point, focus he said. How many best of best mangoes can you eat at one go? I said may be four or five. He asked back, what happens if I asked you to eat five more after first five? I said, I can’t. He said, now you see the same mango that gave you happiness before can no longer continue to give the same. Its same fruit, same person but results are different.

He quoted Sanskrit saying “Aati Amrutham Aapi Visham”. Means if you drink in excess even Amruth also becomes poison.  

My daughter came in and woke me up.  She said, Pappa take me for bicycle ride. I said sure, let’s learn to balance it !

Australian Open 2012: Djokovic plays tennis as chess

There are experts to write about technicals of this series, I just wanted to share the strategic take aways of Djokovic's game. I have watched the Tennis for some time but have not realized what it meant to me till I watched this final game of Australian Open 2012 finals. This game was different. I realized why I liked the Tennis. It's because it's 1:1 game. Straight efforts to results relation.

Quick read through wikipedia on biography shows both Nadal and Djokovic have had very early start. I have realized by now that chances of success rise exponentially if you have early start in life. It may be these players or Steve Wozniak of Apple all these guys had started very early. Part of the credit goes to their parents for creating such opportunity. I hope new parents pay attention to this point. A kid may or may not utilize the opportunity but it should not be denied. Its all the worth the efforts of parents to gift one such jump start to their kids.

 

I watched both Semi finals and final matches. There are two main components. Mental and Physical. I have always thought physical tiredness can be quick. One can degrade physically faster but not mentally. One can continue to be mentally fit. 

Emotions drain energy. Lower energy affects the sharpness. I dont think all the four semifinalists lacked the skills to play good tennis game. They were all well matched with each other. Agreed each has one had some special unique move for himself. What they differed was how much emotionally they gave out themselves during match.

Semifinals:

Nadal Vs Federer is well known mental battle I guess. Nadal has probably mentally got the Federer. You can sense what is going on in the mind of Federer by just looking at his face. He was giving out his fears. This is not good. Nadal displayed positive aggression. He put some extra ordinary athletics to win some points meant more than one point he made. Winning such tough points makes opponent weaker. Winning few impossible points is not just about a point but it makes a statement to opponent. 

This is good.  Nadal is quick and makes his presence felt across the court and point to note is he also makes sure it shows up as his strength by his display of aggression and expression.

Djokovic vs Murray again Murray was so expressive. I thought he was displaying aggression. Aggression display is better than display of fear. But again hope it was not meant as cover for fear. Assuming it was display of true aggression still the energy leaks by such display. It showed up later and Murray looses straight 3 sets. 

Epic Final : Almost 6 Hours. Hats off to both of you, guys.

Nadal Vs Djokovic, Among this pair as well Nadal was more expressive, He tended to give away himself more. Nadal has this true passion and purity. He plays at peak all the time. He tries the best of his physical skills and there by score the point. He is highly athletic and well versed with all the conventional tricks of tennis. You can't beat him at that. 

If you noticed Djokovic he never leaked energy. In fact he at times displays weak body language by even limping at times. Very important aspect is I doubt he was in state as to limp. In very next minute he was ready to run across the court. What does it mean? My take is Mind game. I know you may not agree. But I have more, Just before serve observe him he will always bounce the ball for little extra. There are two advantages of doing this. One any periodic movements help focus. How? Remember one of the old method of hypnotism is swinging pendulam. Have  you observed what do we do to put baby's to sleep for ages. Okay if you have not seen one, by swinging. Second advantage it also helps in breaking the concentration of opponent.

 

Djokovic does not play the physical best all the time. He conserves his energy and applies in burst when he sees a chance which he can convert it to point. If you looked at the statistics of distance covered on the court during match it might be surprising Djokovic covered more distance than Nadal. This means he was moving more without being obviously visible as moving.  Contrast with Nadal, he moved quick and made it show that he was moving quick.

Djokovic played tennis like chess player and concurred pure tennis player Nadal.  I am not down playing any one. Both played really great game and it was very inspiring to watch them. Its not easy to hold on for 6 Hours of play. It was extra ordinary and incredible. Both showed extreme resilience, passion and determination to win and towards playing great game.

Both gave all they had. Made me reflect when I did the same last? There was long silence.... 

Birth of Innovation

Well, I dont know If I am authorized to talk about it. I have invented nothing that mattered a lot so far. The only reason I allow myself to write this is because of the problems I have solved.  Some of them have been tough nuts. My strong belief is that this process holds a clue that can lead to innovation and I wanted to define it out to myself to extent I have understood it.  

I was browsing about what is it that leads to big inventions,  much of material I found did not give me clear idea towards process of its birth. I think every one first needs to invent process of invention that works for him/her. Here is what I felt from my very limited experiences. 

Innovation's birth place is mind. In order for it to take birth,  a virtual world of the problem space you are dealing with has to be re-created in the mind. This is not over night process. As they say "God is in detail". Details have of problem space has to be keenly observed and absorbed. Step by step, atom by atom, electron by electron. Without any prejudice and with highest sensitivity and accuracy. Over time the virtual world continues to grow in size and details.

This problem space needs to be built very intensely in your mind. Benchmark of such intensity is, one should be able forget the external world completely when one enter's this virtual world. It should become like trans state of mind, like in deep meditation. 

This is nothing different from settling down in another planet. Duration for which one can stay in another planet depends on the supplies stored. Duration of staying in this state of trans in virtual world depends on the details one has absorbed. Higher and finer details ones holds greater the duration of stay. Greater the duration of stay greater the possibility of solving the problem or inventing something new. On the other hand during early stage of this process not all details are absorbed so there will be frequent entry and exits out of this state. Exit's to absorb the missing details from real world. If you are aware of how Computer Cache's work you would understand this better. There is no real auto pilot mode. You need to make an conscious effort to make this sub-conscious mind to the do the work. It has to be intense, focused and pro-longed effort.

Another Benchmark of such clarity is you should be able to get in to context of problem space in split second. It needs to be continuously refined to make it clear. Immediate practical application is being able to write better programs. Check this out Holding Program in One's head.

I have found a close alignment to way's of Tesla. No I am not claiming to be him but all I am saying is this stuff I have experienced in some discrete forms is closent I have come to defining it. Snippet from "The Power of your Subconscious Mind", About Tesla: When an new idea came in to his mind, he would build it up in his imagination, knowing that his subconscious mind would reconstruct and reveal to his conscious mind all the parts needed for its manufacture in its concrete form." Mainly the information absorbed needs to be consciously organized in mind for sub-conscious mind to work of it. I know its not a easy process and relentless work but worth the effort.

Archimedes's eureka moments are as result of living in such world. Its not a accident, its hard work and deep meditation on the problem.

Barrier for innovation has raised in today's world. There is already so much that has been invented and as humans we need to build on the top of what has been already done. Now the point is in order to do that effectively in a chosen field what has been already known has to be on the top of head. It has to be well organized in mind. This needs to be done in order to not to repeat the inventions. When what is known is known in best possible ways we can invent what is not known. 

For programmers like us who all the time deal with the computer programs, we are really living in a virtual world. Tesla's process application needs little bit more effort since virtual world imagined here does not exist physically et all. What I am adding to what has already captured by many is you can't innovate if you can't live with the problem as naturally you live at home. Innovation space needs to become part of life. One should be able to correlate it to life and live intimately with it. This intimacy is what finally leads to birth of innovation.

Rangoli holds key to Apple's Woz vs Jobs puzzle

Apple Fever that caught me on during July 2011 continued to grow.  It became serious enough that I had to be admitted to Apple stores. I had buy MacBook Pro and iPAD2 to get it diagnosed. Then I had to take regular dose of reading IWOZ by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson(special instruction: browse about various stuffs that came along in those books). I followed all that sincerely.
All in vain. No cure yet.  But the good news is that this fever is part of my life now.

Okay let me quickly come to real stuff as to why I started this entry. I am sure this question would have passed by every one who knows even "A for Apple" of Apple, about Woz Vs Jobs(here after refereed to as WvsJ) as to Who was really great? Was Woz under valued?

If you are indian you would what Rangoli is. Its traditional decorative folk art of India. It has deep spiritual significance as well. If you are wondering how did suddenly Rangoli got in to this epic WvsJ, just hold that thought and first watch this video(just about a minute) to know/refresh what is Rangoli . I would have loved to have apple logo drawn using Rangoli.  But out of luck, my wife is out of town on maternity. I will make one when she is back and replace this video pointed.

Simple video? Isn't it. Video opens with the the set of dots. Second part is connecting those dots to make the pattern that appeals to us.

Pop quiz: Can you now connect the dots between Rangoli, Woz and Jobs? I hope you guessed it right. No extra points for guessing if you know about Apple and these guys.  If not continue to read the answer to this puzzle.

Those dots can be treated as work of the inventors. Yes people like Woz start placing those dots. Only difference in real world is these dots would be placed randomly. Here we just see them on a single plane and in order. But real world its infinite planes and random order. In different planes different inventors are placing these amazing dots.

Now people like Jobs kick in and start connecting these dots to discover these amzing and great patterns. The ones that we all enjoy.  These patterns kind of existed right from the point dots were put but not visible.  Until some one shows it to us we cannot see it. So connecting dots is really not an invention rather its discovery.

Discoveries are important as well. The possibilities of connecting these dots are way too many. That's where it requires a great taste and immense focus to create clean, uncluttered and yet very appealing and functional patterns. That's where Jobs excelled. Focus is essence. You will always discover many more patterns enroute but discoverer needs to stay focused on his vision. Vision needs to be clear in his mind. Otherwise its easy to get  lost in this maze.

There is even Jobs famous quote "Say no to 1000 things". Says it all. He also had binary decision making. It's either insanely great or shit. Yes this is needed when you are dealing with such enormous possibilities. You need to trust your intuition and make a right pick. You need a strong connection to gut all the time.

Now one may argue, well Woz also initially connected dots by creating the terminal using the TV. Yes in a bigger scheme of things when you zoom out work of inventors they are also connecting few near by dots along with ones they are placing. But they mostly limit themselves to single plane and focus more on placing dots than connecting dots.

This is purely my view. Contrary to belief that Jobs was selfish guy, I would think of him as truely
non selfish in a way he did Apple products. He adopted(/Stole) many technologies developed by others. This is something not possible for true inventors. They cannot adopt kids of others. They need to have their own. They hardly even prefer to look at other's kids. However good they may be. They dont work great as a team players. They are loners. You can see that in the creations of Woz. He rather worked alone and his message in his book to budding engineers is to "Work alone".

Connecting dots is different game. It needs a great taste. Ability to pick the best dots that fall in-line with vision for great product. More so it needs one to have bigger heart to adopt best from every where. Ability to sell vision  to great people or find great people who are in-line. In my view this is  one of most selfless act one can do. Ability to recognize and channelize talent is big Talent by itself.

As Jobs grew he started catching hold of people who can put some dots according to his vision of how he wanted to connect them. He not only connected technologies but connected right set of peoples as well to put together the great teams. He discovered great people and great work. Its certainly not easy to hold and manage this tremendous energy. Its nothing less than any nuclear energy. If I say in fact its greater than that, I dont think it would be exaggeration. Jobs really knew how to deal with it.

So finally my verdict, I hope you are convinced by now that we need both of these guys. We need both Inventors and Discoverers. Discoverers tend to get some extra credit for their vision and selfless act that discovery demands. A Inventor  on other hand gets compensated by the enjoyment in every bit of his invention because its his own kid. A Discoverer at times may not enjoy some of his adopted kids but that's just part of learning to discover. Its greater risk and Selfless act, so even rewards are higher as well. Yes this world is fair. I think their family background also kind of led to this way. Jobs was adopted and while Woz grew up in a close knit family. Both have got what they deserved.

This world is fair in it's own weird ways, I salute it's creator !

How to become extreme expert ?

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.   

ಅಳುವುದೊ ನಗುವುದೊ ನೀವೇ ಹೇಳಿ ?

೨೨ ಮೇ ೨೦೧೧ ರವಿವಾರ "ನಂಗೆ ಇಷ್ಟಾನೋ" ವಿಶ್ವೇಶ್ವರ ಭಟ್ಟರ ಅಂಕಣದಲ್ಲಿ "Brilliant ಉತ್ತರ ಬರೆದರೂ ಹೀಗಾ ?" ಎಂಬ ಶೀರ್ಷಿಕೆ ಅಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕೇಳಿದ ಕೆಲ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ ಹಾಗೂ ಉತ್ತರ ಹೀಗಿದೆ.

ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ : ಟಿಪ್ಪು ಸುಲ್ತಾನ ಯಾವ ಕಾಳಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಡಿದ ?
ಉತ್ತರ: ಕೊನೆ ಕಾಳಗದಲ್ಲಿ

ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ : ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯ ಘೋಷಣೆಗೆ ಸಹಿ ಹಾಕಿದ್ದು ಎಲ್ಲಿ ?
ಉತ್ತರ:  ಕಾಗದ ಕೊನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ

ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಏನೋ ಭಟ್ಟರು ಎತ್ತಿ ತೋರಿಸಿ ಹಾಸ್ಯ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಕೆಲ ಸಂಕೀರ್ಣ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಹೀಗೆ ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ಕಾಣುವ ಆದರೆ ಅನ್ವಯವಾಗದ ಉತ್ತರಗಳನ್ನು ಬೇರ್ಪಡಿಸುವದು ಸರಳವಾಗಿರುವದಿಲ್ಲ. ಇದನ್ನೇ ಬಂಡವಾಳ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡು ನಿಜ ಜೀವನದಲ್ಲಿ ಕೆಲವರು ಈ ತರಹ ಉತ್ತರ ಸರಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದರೂ ಸಂದರ್ಭಕ್ಕೆ, ಸನ್ನಿವೇಶಕ್ಕೆಅನ್ವಯವಾಗದ ಉತ್ತರಗಳನ್ನು ಕೊಟ್ಟು ಅನೇಕರಿಂದ ಸೈ ಅಥವಾ Brilliant ಅಂತ ಕೂಡ ಅನ್ನಿಸಿಕೊನ್ದುಬಿಡ್ತಾರೆ. ಈ ತರಹ ಉತ್ತರ ಕೊಡುವರನ್ನು ಮುಗ್ಧ ಎನ್ನಬೇಕೋ ಅಥವಾ ಜಾಣ ಕುರುಡು ಎನ್ನಬೇಕೋ ತಿಳಿಯುದಿಲ್ಲ. ತಮಗೂ ಈ ಅನುಭವ ಆಗೇ ಇರುತ್ತೆ ಅಂದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದೇನೆ.

ಈಗ ನೀವೇ ಹೇಳಿ : ಅಳುವುದೊ ನಗುವುದೊ ?

ಸೋಲಿನ ಸೌಂದರ್ಯ

ಸೋಲೆಂಬ ಪದದಿಂದಲೇ ನೂರಾರು ಮೈಲಿ ದೂರ ಓಡಿ ಹೋಗಲು ತುದಿಗಲಾಲಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಂತವರು ನಾವು. ಅಂತಹದರಲ್ಲಿ ಅದರ ಸೌಂದರ್ಯವನ್ನು ಕಾಣಲು ಎಲ್ಲಿದೆ ನಮಗೆ ಸಮಯ ಹಾಗೂ ತಾಳ್ಮೆ.

ನಮಗೇನಿದ್ದರು ಗೆಲುವು ಬೇಕು. ಗೆಲುವನ್ನು ಅಪ್ಪಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಸದಾ ಕಾತರರಾಗಿವರು ನಾವು. ಎಸ್ಟೋ ಸಾರಿ ಅಂತೂ ಅತ್ಯಂತ ಕುರೂಪಿಯದರೂ ಕೂಡ ನಮಗೆ ಗೆಲವೇ ಆತ್ಮೀಯವಾಗುತ್ತೆ. ಗೆಲುವಿನ ಸ್ನೇಹಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಯಾವುದೇ ತ್ಯಾಗಕ್ಕೂ ಸದಾ ಸಿದ್ಧರು ನಾವು. ಕೆಲವು ಬಾರಿಯಂತು ಮನಃ ಸಾಕ್ಷಿಯನ್ನು ಬಲಿ ಕೊಟ್ಟಾದರೂ, ಸರಿ ಗೆಲುವಿನ ಸಾಮೀಪ್ಯ ಸಂಪಾದಿಸಲು ಹವಣಿಸುತ್ತೇವೆ.

ಗೆಲುವಿನ ಆಕರ್ಷಣೆ ಇಂದು ನಿನ್ನೆಯದಲ್ಲ ಬಿಡಿ. ರಾಜ ಮಹಾರಾಜರ ಕಾಲದಿಂದಲೂ ನಡೆದು ಬಂದಿದೆ.ಇಂದಿಗೂ ಕಾಲ, ಗಾಳಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಮಳೆಯ ಹೊಡೆತ ತಡೆದು ಕೊಂಡು ನಿಂತಿರುವ ಅನೇಕ ಸ್ಮಾರಕಗಳು ಗೆಲುವಿನ ನೆನಪಿಗಾಗಿ ಹೊರತು ಸೋಲಿನ ನೆನಪಿಗಾಗಿ ಅಲ್ಲ. ನಾನಿಲ್ಲಿ ಗೆಲುವು ಕೆಟ್ಟದ್ದು ಎಂದು ಹೇಳ ಹೊರಟಿಲ್ಲ. ಅತಿ ಹೆಚ್ಚಾದ ಗೆಲುವಿನ ವೈಭವಿಕರಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಸೋಲನ್ನು ಹೀನಾಯವಾಗಿ ಕಾಣುವುದು ಬೇಡ.

ನಾನಿಲ್ಲಿ ಬೇಕಂತಲೇ ಸೋಲಿ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳುತಿಲ್ಲ. ಸೋಲಿನ ಭಯದಿಂದ ಜೀವನದಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾವುದಕ್ಕೂ ಹಿಂಜರಿಯದಿರಿ. ಈ ಪ್ರಪಂಚದಲ್ಲಿ ಹುಟ್ಟಿ ಬಂದ ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಂದು ಜೀವವೂ ತನ್ನದೇ ಆದ ಒಂದು ಏಕೈಕ ಉದ್ದೇಶವನ್ನು ಹೊತ್ತು ಬರುತ್ತದೆ. ಆ ಉದ್ದೇಶದ ಸಾಧನೆಯೇ ನೈಜ ಗೆಲವು. ಆ ಉದ್ದೇಶ ಏನೆಂದು ಹೇಗೆ ತಿಳಿಯವುದು ? ಹೊಸ ಮಾರ್ಗಗಳನ್ನು ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಿಸಿದಾಗ ಹಾಗೂ ಸಹಜ ಕೌಶಲ್ಯವನ್ನು ಅರಳಲು ಬಿಟ್ಟಾಗ. ಇಂತಹ ದಾರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸೋಲಿನ ಸಂಭವನೀಯತೆ ಕೂಡ ಹೆಚ್ಚು.

ಸೋಲಿನ ಭಯಕ್ಕೆ ಮನುಷ್ಯನ ಸಾಮರ್ಥ್ಯವನ್ನು ಹೆಚ್ಚಿಸುವ ಒಂದು ವಿಚಿತ್ರ ಗುಣವಿದೆ. ಇದು ಮನುಷ್ಯನ ದೇಹದ ಹಾಗೂ ಮನಸ್ಸಿನ ಸಹಜವಾದ ಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯೆ. ಇದು ಯಶಸ್ಸನ್ನು ತಂದು ಕೊಟ್ಟರು ಇದು ತಾತ್ಕಾಲಿಕವಾದುದು. ಭಯದ ನೆರಳಿನಲ್ಲಿ ದೊರೆತ ಯಶಸ್ಸು ಬಹು ಬೇಗ ದಣಿವನ್ನು ಕೂಡ ತಂದು ಕೊಡುತ್ತದೆ. ಈ ದಣಿವು ದೇಹ ಹಾಗೂ ಮನಸ್ಸನ್ನು ಮಂಕಾಗಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಇಂತಹ ಯಶಸ್ಸು ಫ್ಯೂಸ್ ಆಗುವ ಮೊದಲು ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಬೆಳಕನ್ನು ಕೊಟ್ಟು ಉರಿದು ಹೋಗುವ ವಿದ್ಯುತ್ ಬಲ್ಬಿನಂತೆ.

ಸೋಲಿನ ಭಯ ಬೇಡ. ನೈಜ ಗೆಲುವು ಶ್ರೀ ಕೃಷ್ಣ ಗೀತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇಳಿದಂತೆ ಕರ್ಮ ಮಾಡುವದರಲ್ಲಿ ಇದೆ ಹೊರತು ಅದರಿಂದಾಗುವ ಸೋಲು-ಗೆಲುವಿನ ಪರಿಣಾಮದಲ್ಲಲ್ಲ.  ಆಂತರಿಕ ಕರೆಗೆ ಓಗೊಟ್ಟು, ಎದೆಯೊಡ್ಡಿ, ಧೈರ್ಯದಿಂದ ಮುನ್ನುಗ್ಗಿ ಪ್ರಾಮಾಣಿಕವಾಗಿ ಮಾಡಿದ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನದ ನಂತರವೂ ಬಂದ ಸೋಲುಗಳನ್ನು ಒಬ್ಬ ಸೈನಿಕ ಯುದ್ಧದಲ್ಲಿ ದೊರೆತ ಪದಕಗಳಂತೆ ಹೆಮ್ಮೆಯಿಂದ ಸ್ವೀಕರಿಸಿ. 

ನಿಮ್ಮ ಸಾಮರ್ಥ್ಯದ ಅತ್ಯುನ್ನತ ನೈಜ ಗೆಲುವು ನಿಮ್ಮದಾಗಲಿ. ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಬೇಕಾಗುವ ಪ್ರೇರಣೆ ಉಡುಪಿಯ ಶ್ರೀ ಕೃಷ್ಣ ನಮ್ಮೆಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಕೊಡಲಿ.