23rd December 2010
`The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities'
Guy Finley
We want to understand others. But, do we ever ask the question: do I know myself fully? We operate within our own knowledge about ourselves. It's something like a cattle being tied to a peg through a rope. The cattle can go only as far as the rope can allow. Similarly, our performance is limited by our own `known' capacity. But the real opportunity lies in the land of the unknown.
There are infinite possibilities in the world if we are willing to break our limitations and look beyond what we have so far accomplished. In fact this is what we did when we were children. We were very curious to know and do various things. We were not afraid to fail. Nor did we evaluate ourselves by what we did. We fell down, but we did not conclude that we cannot walk.
If you look at the present inventions and technologies, you will wonder where these ideas were hiding all these years! A hundred years ago who would have dreamt of a person talking to another person across the world through a wireless mode? A fifty years ago did we not accept that cancer is a killer disease?
If our leaders and scientists had accepted their limitations as something insurmountable, what will be the quality of our present life?
Get excited about the limitless possibilities and your own hidden potential and do not limit yourself by your understanding of your own limitations!
N C Sridharan
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