“Comfort zone is a very nice place but nothing grows there”
Have personally experienced it over last 3 years. Was very happy in a great job, excelling professionally & happy in personal life. I was in what we called “Comfort Zone”
Then out of compulsion, started at my own with great optimism. But nothing went as planned. Clients backed out, partners withdrew support, Friends doubted whether I was good enough. All my fears & self doubt started to creep in. Frustrating & self loathing.
I was in “Fear Zone”
At that time a client told me “no matter what show up every day for 1000days, irrespective of your yesterday’s failures”
At times, building something of your own is so frustrating, coz you are all alone, you have to do everything by yourself, but there is some fun in that agony
As I am about to complete 1000 days of my struggle & grind as an accidental entrepreneur, I find that I have transitioned to “Learning Zone”.
I am nowhere near to be called a success but I am happy that one event forced me into entrepreneurship & the learning continues.
Have always believed in this quote by Sir Edmund Hillary on Failures and trying again -
“I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can’t grow, but as a human, I can”
On the day of “Buddha Poornima”, the day when Buddha attained enlightenment, a brief tale of enlightenment which just occurred.
This story is about Abhi Shah, who was a “millionaire for a night”
A short thread 🧵
“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.”
- Gordon A. Eadie
What would most of us do, if we found a bag filled with 1million dollars on a deserted road? Many of us would take it.
But not Abhi Shah, because he stood tall for his virtues.
Abhi and his family own a convenience store in Soutwick. Most such stores in US sell lottery tickets as well. Very recently, a regular customer came to their store, bought a 30$ ticket, and after scratching it, mistakenly thought that it had the incorrect number. And she threw it
The only thing which works is Capitalism & Economic Growth.
In practice, socialism didn’t work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries
And that is bound to happen coz, in Capitalism, the risk is disproportionately born by one who is bringing the capital, and we should celebrate
America’s abundance was created not by public sacrifices to ‘the common good,’ but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.
#RJAstute
“Music is one of the longest standing self prescribed therapy in history.”
Let’s have a strong dose this evening. @CobblePriya
Starting with This super song
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that prisoner was you.
Often we think that by forgiving we are setting someone else free from their regrets or guilt, but no we are freeing ourselves of that burden.
A wonderful point from @warikoo’s newsletter today.
There is a beautiful story about Nelson Mandela.
He was imprisoned for 27 years, often tortured and humiliated by the jailers at the prison.
He was released and eventually went on to become the President of South Africa.
For his swearing-in ceremony, he ensured that he invited all the jailers of the same prison he was in.
Others asked him, perplexed, "Why would you want to invite them? These are the same people who tortured you, humiliated you, laughed at you, while you were in prison."
So I received some feedback in DM that Kites or “Patang” पतंग find no mention in Indian texts and while “Patang” पतंग is probably a word introduced by Mughals, kites were invented by Chinese.