1st April 2011
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Chinese proverb
We come across various opportunities in life. We go through experiences. We meet people. We also meet with opportunities as well as threats. These are perceived through our five senses of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and the skin. This is a mere mechanical perception. Anyone can do this. In fact, even a mechanical devise can notice things. A camera can notice an object. It can have a sophisticated computer and may be programmed to accurately focus on the same. But a camera cannot look beyond the physical object. It cannot evaluate, judge, analyse and do what an intelligent mind can do.
I am using two words here – intelligent and mind.
We should be intelligent enough to look beyond a thing and see a world of opportunities in the various things we come across in our life. An apple falling from a tree is an event. Anyone can see this. But only Newton noticed something beyond an incident. That's why he is a genius. A bird flying is an incident. But the Wright brothers saw beyond the bird and the flying. That's why they are genius.
The difference between a genius and an ordinary person depends on how the mind is used. Our mind is an amazing thing. We can create wonders if we know how to use the same. Our mind is just another resource. A resource is as useful as it is used.
When his restaurant was closed down Colonel Sanders noticed and opportunity and found a large market beyond his small restaurant to market his chicken recipe and that's how he founded a large organization. This is also the story of Akio Morita, Matsushita and Honda. Getting thrown out of a railway compartment was not merely a humiliating experience for Mahatma Gandhi. If he were not a genius, he would have ignored the incident or would have brood over his humiliation just like any other ordinary human being.
But he is a genius.
Think and act like a genius and look beyond what is happening in front of you!
N C Sridharan
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