Motivation Drive

Larry Ellison or Lawrence Joseph Ellison is an American businessman, philanthropist, and entrepreneur who is also a co-founder and CTO of Oracle Corporation. As of October 2019, he is at the top of Forbes's wealthiest person list (at 6th position). His parents spent their lives in poverty and hence his childhood was very miserable. He co-founded Oracle and before becoming a huge success he and his organization faced so many challenges. Between 1985 and 1990, Oracle faced adversities like bankruptcy and tough competition but Ellison does not give up and consistently performed. Oracle's success shows the never say die attitude of Ellison and we must learn from him. Let us study the success tips of Mr. Ellison for all of us: 1. Always raise your expectations: He says that whenever you achieve something then raise the goalpost. Professional life is full of opportunities and goals can be made and re-established easily. 2. Money must not be your ultimate goal: He explained how...

There are several popular philosophies like Chanakya Neeti, Bhishma Neeti, Shukra Neeti and Parshurama Niti in India. Many people do not know about Vidur and his philosophy i.e., Vidur Neeti. Vidur explained his teachings in a very beautiful way in Vidur Niti. Vidur Niti can be found in Udyog Parv of Mahabharata. After the war between Pandavas and Kauravas, Dhritarashtra discussed wrong & right and the same is written under Vidur Niti. We had already explained five teachings in our last blog . Today we will explain other important teachings of Vidur: 1. A person who has enmity with powerful people and who forgets about his good friends is the greatest fool. There is also a saying that if you have enmity with someone then there are zero chances of your benefit but there are definite chances of the fact that he will harm you. We must always try to be friendly with everyone. Also many times we ignore our good friends and do not concentrate on their needs. At the end of the day, ou...

When we talk about the greatest philosophers of all time then we remember Chanakya, Socrates, etc but most people do not know anything about Vidur. Vidur was one of the famous philosophers of his time. He was a servant's son and hence he didn't become the king. But because of his intelligence, he became Prime Minister of Hastinapur. His teachings are called Vidur Neeti and his teachings are so much relevant even in today's times. Let us study some of his teachings in detail. 1) Talk less and listen more: Person with good listening skills is appreciated everywhere and the person who boasts about himself more is criticized everywhere. The same thing is being taught In every B school today. There is also an analogy that when we speak then we just repeat our knowledge but when we listen then we will get new knowledge. 2) Five things always give us happiness: i) Getting money, ii) Better health, iii) obedient child, iii) loving wife/husband, iv) knowledge. The person rema...

We all have goals in our life, and we used to work on those goals consistently. But while working on our goals we forget about ourselves. BMW is a dream of many people but very few people concentrate on true BMW to become successful enough to buy a BMW. So what does this BMW mean? It stands for Body, Mind, and Words and we must control these things in a positive way to achieve amazing results. Let us understand these things in detail: Body: It's very bad when the situation demands and we feel very tired. Successful people know that their physical well being is very important and hence if you will see successful people around, you can expect they are keeping their good physical well being. They do not want their illness or injury to impact their success path and hence they do certain very important things like a) They do regular exercise to ensure that they will never feel tired easily b) proper eating schedule: Successful people enure that they will consume fewer sugars and ...

Have you heard of a person who ate chappatis made on burning bodies in a cemetery? Yes, there exists a woman who lived in that condition and yet helped 1200+ orphan children to achieve their dreams. Her name is Sindhutai Sapkal, and she faced challenges throughout her life, and she faced those challenges in a great way. She got married at the age of 9 and her husband was 20 years older than her. Her in-laws were not good and they used to beat her and one day her husband beat her so much that she became unconscious. Her husband dragged her to the cowshed when she was unconscious and untied all cows. At that time Sindhutai was pregnant and gave birth to a child in the cowshed. In one of Sindhutai's interviews, she explained how she had broken the umbilical cord by hitting a stone nine times. She left her home immediately and reached a railway station. Sindhutai started singing so that the passenger will give her some money. She faced so many challenges that one day she decided t...

Have you ever heard of a person whose name got changed because of his dedication? Dhyan Singh used to play hockey during the day, and even in the light of moon hence his in-charge named him Dhyan Chand. "Chand" signifies that he used to play hockey even during night (in the light of the moon). He scored 3 goals in his first match, 35+ goals in Olympics and 1000+ goals in his international career. He practiced so dedicatedly that when he played matches no one was able to take hockey ball from him. Holland officials even checked his hockey stick by breaking it into two parts if it had a magnet in it. Japanese thought he used special gum in his hockey stick but the real secret was in his practice and dedication. Opponents even abuse Dhyan Chand during matches but he always won matches due to his dedication. His popularity can be gauged by the fact that his 4 arm statue was placed in Vienna signifying his talent of hockey. His birthday is celebrated as a National Sports Da...

If you go to the area of great poverty then you will find roads in bad condition, walls with graffiti, economy is in gutter, broken windows and higher crime rates. The motivation of residents is also not too high because they think nothing good can happen to them. But if we set things in order and show a visual display of discipline then things start improving. This shows that there is an underpinning relationship between behavior and environmental conditions. The theory of broken windows was introduced by sociologists George Kelling and James Wilson in the 1980s. This theory explains that when low-level crimes like breaking windows of cars/buildings are ignored then more serious crimes start happening. There is also a case study regarding this theory. Phillip Zimbardo a psychologist from Stanford University had done a social experiment in 1969. He placed one car in a very poor area and another in a very posh area. The car which was placed in a poor area was placed without a lice...