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Agastya and the Vindhya Mountains: A Lesson in Influence and Leadership

Introduction Long ago, the Vindhya mountains began growing taller and taller every day. They became so huge that they even threatened to overshadow the mighty Himalayas and block the sun’s path across the sky. The cosmic gods grew worried. If the mountains kept growing, they could disrupt the balance of the entire universe. But the gods couldn’t stop them. The Vindhyas refused to listen to anyone. They wouldn’t bow to authority or accept any requests; they simply kept rising, proud and powerful. Now, the one person the Vindhyas deeply respected was their guru, the sage Agastya. He was their teacher and held in high reverence. So, the gods turned to Agastya and asked for his help. Agastya visited the mountains. The moment the Vindhyas saw him, they humbly bowed down to greet him, full of admiration. Agastya smiled and said, “I’m so pleased with your respect and devotion.” The mountains replied, “We are honored by your presence. Please tell us how we can serve you.” Agastya said, “There’...
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Warren Buffett: Top 10 Rules For Success Part 2

Warren Buffett and Barack Obama
There was a story regarding a little sparrow in the jungle. She used to listen to the good thoughts of a spiritual teacher living in the jungle. One day there was a very big fire in the jungle and everyone was running from the jungle. 
Big and small animals were running away to save their lives. Suddenly they observed that little sparrow was flying far away from the jungle to take little water in her beak and trying to extinguish the fire of the jungle with that water. She had continued this for a while. Other animals started asking why she was doing so? does she become mad? She answered that whenever people will read the history of the jungle then I don't want to come in a list of animals who were just standing by or ran away. I want to come in a list of animals who tried their best to extinguish the fire. Similarly, we used to just stand and see how our career is getting doomed and do not take any concrete action. Warren Buffett is the kind of person who had tried his best and achieved extraordinary success. In the last article, we had read the first three rules of success. Now we will understand other Warren Buffett's rules of success.
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4. Read, Read, Read: Warren Buffet used to read for 4 to 5 hours daily. Reading widens our perspective towards life and we start seeing our life from different angles. It's also found that people used to make better decisions when they read more books. Even Elon Musk learned how to build rockets by reading.
5. Have a Margin of Safety: This concept can be understood by the fact that when a truck was designed for 10,000 KG then it's maximum carrying capacity can be even 20000 KG. Every product is designed with a Margin of safety but we never plan our professional career with it. Here we must remember that we must build multiple skills to have a better margin of safety.
6. Have a Competitive Advantage: Warren Buffet never invests in companies with little competitive advantage. Many times competition can just copy you and surpasses you. We must also in our professional lives focus on building a competitive advantage over our colleagues otherwise there will be no difference in us and others.
7. Schedule for Your Personality: We all have certain time periods in a day when we perform at our peak and at other times we may be just like others. We must also plan our daily tasks in such a way that the most difficult task must be performed when we are at our peak and then we will see that our productivity will increase exponentially.
8. Always Be Competing: Many times we become lethargic after achieving short success but that must never happen to us. If you have observed then you can find that board toppers were not college toppers and college toppers are not top performers of the companies. In some way, short success makes us complacent but we must envision our long term goal and then we will succeed in our lives.
Mentor
9. Model of Success: We must find our mentor first and then target anything. Everybody in this world requires a trainer or mentor. A mentor always helps us to focus more on our goals. Even big personalities like Sachin Tendulkar, Vishwanathan Anand, Usain Bolt, and several others have mentors. So start finding your mentor.
10. Give Unconditional Love: Warren Buffett got unconditional love from his father and he is pouring his unconditional love towards humanity by doing extraordinary philanthropic activities. We must also give unconditional love to our family, nation and this world. This will bring in positivity in our lives and we will achieve extraordinary things in our life.
These life-changing rules will definitely help you to achieve more.
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