[Time-Management] 365 Thoughts for Self Improvement

 

6th May 2013

 

Duplication and Failure

 

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

 

Herman Melville

 

God created us as his masterpiece, and each of us is unique in our own way. There is no another `you' in the entire universe. There is no other person with your facial expression, thumb impression, character and trait. God wanted each one of to be unique let us implement His will.

 

In fact, this is applicable to any creation in the nature. You will not find two identical trees, two identical rivers, two identical mountains, etc.! Isn't strange? Duplication is not in the design of nature. Any duplication is artificial and bound to fail. People will accept only the original and reject the duplicate. Hence, the entire attempt to produce the duplicate is a waste of our efforts and resources.

 

Each of us has our own unique talent and the world is big enough to accommodate all our creativity and innovation. The opportunities available for displaying our talent are infinity.  It may be easy to duplicate someone. But we will fail to make an impression in the society. We should have our own benchmark and role models and we may want to emulate them. There is nothing wrong in that. But emulation is different from duplication. We may like to emulate the values and principles of Mahatma Gandhi. But duplicating his external behaviour alone will be ridiculous and will not produce the same result which he produced.

 

We may fail initially to be our own. However, let us fail and learn from our failure rather than duplicating someone and fail permanently.

 

N.C. Sridharan

 

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[Time-Management] 365 Thoughts for Self Improvement

 

3rd May 2013

 

Our Social Obligations Towards the Youth Today

 

Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone.

 

 Columbian Proverb

 

We are living in a society where the opportunities available to the present youth are very exciting and enviable. The scope of job, the career growth and the life style which today's youth can access is amazing. This life style and material comfort were out of the reach of any youth belonging to the middle and even for the upper middle class of yesterday.

 

However, there is a very critical question in front of the youth: Do you want to be value-driven or impulse-driven? Given the immaturity that goes with the age, the youth enslave themselves to their impulsive commands which results in lack of focus and wrong priorities. Unless and until they are guided and mentored properly, they are not going to make full use of the exciting opportunities that lie in front of them. We need to educate them.

 

We need to do this for two reasons: one, to help the youth to evolve as full-fledged personalities, and two, to ensure that the next-generation society is in safe hands. We have to spend at least ten percent of our time for this important society-building portfolio. Since this society has done so much to us, we have to give back to the society what we can in reciprocation and this is the best way we can do that.

 

Think about this point over this weekend and decide how you are going to discharge this social obligation and portfolio.

 

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