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Stay Hungry Stay Foolish

Long time back a sculptor used to live in a village. He was a very talented person and used to earn a good amount of money for his living. After some time he was blessed with a son. At a very small age, his son also started making sculptures. His son also used to make good sculptures and after looking at his work, the sculptor used to become very happy. Father used to give feedback to his son for constructive improvements for his work. Son also used to take feedback from his father in a positive way and used to try his best next time. Subsequently, his son started making better sculptures after implementing his father's inputs. Now his sculptures were selling at higher rates as compared to his father's sculptures. But still, his father used to find improvements in his sculptors and one day son started scolding his father. Son told his father that now he has achieved perfection and there is no need for your feedback. He also told him that please improve your own work and try ...

Soichiro Honda: Powerful motivational story

There's a famous Japanese saying “Nana korobi, ya oki” which means “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” This proverb fits Hundred percent to Mr. Soichiro Honda. Many times we become myopic and start weeping for our failure but we must remember the story of Honda who displayed "never say die attitude" by tackling so many failures without stopping. Since childhood Honda was enthusiastic about automobiles, he used to help his father in the Bicycle repair workshop. He started an apprenticeship in a workshop at the age of 15. Soon he gained interest in designing piston rings for a car. He left his job and started his own company after selling all of his valuables and his wife's jewelry. He now started dreaming of working with Toyota Motor Corp. He showed his design of piston rings to Toyota management but all of the designs got rejected by the management and many people started laughing at him. But he tried again and prepared 3 lakh designs for piston rings and showed ...

Mindful minutes and you

If we will observe closely then we will find below-mentioned facts are very true: " Time is slow when we wait" " Time is fast when we are late" " Time is very deadly when we are sad" " Time is short when we are happy" " Time is endless when we are in deep pain" " Time is long when we feel bored" We correlate our situation with the current time but actually, our situation depends on our feelings and psychological conditions. Below mentioned techniques can be used to manage our time well and achieve our goals in a time-bounded manner. 1) Distraction elimination: We all know that the number of distractions is increasing day by day. We are surrounded by distractions and it depends upon us to focus on our goal or to just waste our time with social media and other distractions. Direction and distraction are inversely proportional. If we eliminate distraction then our direction got cleared but if we didn't focus on our...

Success sutras of Nelson Mandela

Do you know there was a time when basic services were provided on the basis of skin color? White people used to get better facilities as compared to black people. This problem was there in most of the countries but it was worst in South Africa where 70% of people were blacks and most of the services were performed by Africans but still they used to get the worst facilities. The racial difference was there since time immemorial but it got worse when the National Party in 1948 decided to create separate places for Blacks and Whites. But due to the persistent efforts of Mr. Nelson Mandela, this differentiation ended. However, that was not easy as Mandela spent 27 years of his life in prison due to this movement. Let us know more about Mr. Mandela. He was a son of a tribal leader and his original name was Rolihlahla Mandela and later became the first Black president of South Africa. He also won Bharata Ratna and Nobel peace prize. He was a great orator and a true Gandhian. So what wa...

A Great Success technique

If we talk about a country which has a population of mere 10 crores, Tsunami is very common, approximately 1500 earthquakes used to come every year and in the 2nd World war, two atomic bombs were dropped in this country. If we will ask you what are the chances of this country's growth? You might doubt the future of this country. Some of you might have guessed this country's name right. Yes, we are talking about Japan. Now we will discuss that particular secret technique by which they have grown so much from the ashes. That technique is called "KAIZEN Technique". Let's understand the meaning of Kaizen and see how we can apply this technique in our lives to become successful students, professionals, businessman or whatever we want. Kaizen technique says that to achieve any goal we must split the task into very small pieces so that smaller tasks can be done easily. It seems a very simple technique and not so revolutionary but its really amazing. Many industries...

4 Success habits of Billionaires

One of the most celebrated person on earth, the man who thinks about building a colony on Mars. Yes, we are talking about Elon Musk who is a founder of revolutionary companies like Tesla and SpaceX. What is that habit which made him so successful? He disclosed this habit several times but still, people don't follow this method. He uses the concept of "Time Block". So what is the meaning of Time Block? It means that breaking our day into hours, minutes and increasing productivity in those blocks. Achieving goals in small parts and measuring the day in small parts. Musk used to break his day in 5 minutes also. To track his minutes he uses Buzzers and even hourglass. What you'll say about the success of a person who breaks his day into 5-minute blocks. But what we do, we used to waste hour time on social media, nonsense chit chats, etc. Parkinson's Law states that " Work expands to fill the time allotted for it".We must understand that until we use time...

Mysteries behind Holi and important Life lessons

In Hindi, we say " Bura Na Mano Holi Hai" while celebrating Holi. This means please do not feel sad because it's Holi". It's an Indian version of La Tomatina with the only difference that Indians use colors instead of crushed tomatoes. Obviously, Holi is a time to become exuberant but we must also learn some life lessons from Holi. This a time when caste, creed, and color doesn't divide people. People from different walks of life enjoy Holi together and this is a time when enemies become friends. There are also many mysterious stories behind the Holi festival which have some greatest lessons for us. Let us try to understand and inculcate those lessons in our lives. Lesson 1: Never Boast of your resources: Hiranyakashyap was a king in ancient India who was just like a demon. He wants to take revenge for his brother's death from Lord Vishnu. Once Hiranyakashyap performed a prayer for several years. In the end, he was granted a boon and because of w...