Friday, March 29, 2013

Couple of thoughts

1) If I am through learning, then am through.

Reason : Am learning a lot , through people, through books, through articles, through everything else around me. Its fascinating to know about new things, but the day that enthusiasm will die within me to learn new stuff, I will be done with everything else .

2) Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid. - Einstein

The fish is best at swimming, it knew it couldn't climb  a tree. It still went ahead and tried and got judged on that. Fish got it right almost there.

Fish failed and it let the judgement make her believe it was a stupid! It really was stupid. How can we make someone else's judgment affect us so bad that we stop believing in ourselves and our abilities? Why does it matter so much.. what others think of me should ideally be none of my business.. but in this bad bad world.. it just doesn't work that way. People judge you every minute, everyday on everything. For you to be declared the best in the field, someone else who is already considered the best needs to judge you and tell you .. you are the best! When you try to tell the world, you really are good at something, you will be considered pompous!

Tomorrow I will be judged on my knowledge I gained over last couple of months, with just 45 questions. It sure is going to affect me if I do not get through, but I don't want to end up being the fish which thinks its stupid all its life simply based on tomorrow's judgement. Is this doable? Am I ready for it? Am in a total smudged state of mind and hence this post to get some clarity and do some introspection. God bless me, I do not want to fail.

Back to learning.