transcendent

Thing about life is - most of us we keep on learning from life, which I think is quite a fruitless activity. I have been trying to make some sense about the people who are great enough to shape thousands of lives. After quite sensible amount of observing, reading and thinking I think the only ones who make it to the greatness are busy with shaping the life rather than learning from it. Name it, name it and you will be able to substantiate. Name it. From Raje Shivaji Maharaj to Anil Ambani or from Achillies to Bill Gates. Each one of them has been busy shaping the life, for themselves and millions of others. They believed in something so blindly that everything else had to kneel to their efforts.

There are categories of us… the ones who ‘believe they can’t’, the ones who ‘think they can’, the ones who ‘want to learn how to’ and rarely the ones who ‘know they are’! People who keep learning and think they can achieve things get dam good, but they fail to understand that ‘good’ is enemy of ‘great’. Self belief does make all the difference. This concept has been very well explained by the Matrix trilogy. When Morpheus says “Don't think you are, know you are”, everything starts falling in place. And at one point when neo believes that he is the one, he becomes undefeatable. One might say that the real life unlike metrix, is not a computer simulated dream world. However if we really observe the unbeatable heroes, ‘they don’t think they are (great at something), they KNOW they are (great at something)’. Since long before they become real life heroes.

The question is: ‘how do they do it?’ How do they build up the kingdom so strong and big? Once they believe that they are wise at something, how do they build up the empire? I owe a ton to the writer of book ‘good to great’ for explaining this. They ones who believe they are achievers handle life as a giant mach wheel. They are all the time busy in moving the mach wheel in single direction. Rigorously, every effort is made to add on acceleration. And the day comes when there is no turning back, but the glory.

The moment we believe that we are great at xyz, unleashes everything. We make huge unconscious efforts to get things done and achieving things that reflect greatness at xyz. The fact is xyz can be anything from making friends to earning money… all we need is a blind faith in what we believe. Does it require a real brain work to get the blind self belief?

(Inspired by: Good to great, i am the legend, troy, matrix & restlessness)