Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Dump TV, Pick up books... What crap???

Dear Brother, You seem to be having a good time watching the 20-20 cricket world cup. And you must be enjoying every bit of the fun. But do you think that the time you spend watching cricket is going to help you in any way? Or for that matter the wrestling matches whose results you can predict yourself, thanks to your indepth knowledge about them. But is this knowledge going to help you in any way?

What is shown in TV is not the real world. Do u want people to notice you on TV or u want to be an audience your entire life. Don’t you aspire to appear on NDTV or AAJTAK for that matter. Imagine interviewers running behind you seeking your opinion while the entire world watches you on TV. This will not only make you and me proud but you also make our parents proud. My brother, let me make this clear the path for appearing on TV is not through watching more TV.
TV kills creativity, makes you very passive, it is only aimed more at entertainment and less at gaining knowledge.

These are the building years of your life and the things what you do at this stage will eventually shape your values and thus your future.

If you want to become a Bill Gates or a Dhirubhai Ambani, you need to get inspired from their real life stories. And how do you do that? Read about them. Read about how they made it big. The point I am trying to convey here is that you need to make books your best friends. Start inculcating the habit of reading and make it a pleasurable habit. Reading is not just about reading your course books, which might sound boring to you. There is a whole new world to be explored.

A book teaches you self -discipline. It helps u focus on a particular task. Not everything in life can be learned through self experience. Learn from the experiences of others. Read their books.


Do you have any plans of what u wish to do in your life ahead? How do u want to be identified in the society? What do u wish to become? A doctor, an engineer? A pilot? Remember one thing, these courses help you identify a stream/field in life. But to excel in that field, to beat the best, to be one step ahead of the race, you need to have extra skills in you. You need to manage yourself and your life in the best possible way with the limited resources available. And a Management Course teaches you that. Who leads the biggest companies in India? And what do these big honchos have in common? An MBA degree.

So my dear brother, focus your energies on this goal, to get into the best management institutes of this country. And effective reading is a powerful tool in achieving this goal. Use your time judiciously as time once passed, cannot be recovered back.

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