DON’T BE YOUR ONW FOE
Shack it off and become unstoppable!
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Why some people are successful and some are not?
Do you always wonder why people with mediocre work get to the top of the ladder?
Despite being smarter than the crowd, you have not yet tasted success in life?
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence.” — Charles Bukowski.
It happens to most of the intelligent people.
They have the sparks of ideas and never share them.
But we need to understand the fact that, the world is in dire need of new perspectives.
It shapes the society.
Humanity garners its values and seeks new paths to make progress.
People with intellect need to come out of the closet and start to speak.
I have seen a scientist who has done major research in his field and is stuck in underemployment.
I know artists who have made it to the best galleries in Paris but have failed to find a wall in a collector\’s house.
I want to address this contradiction.
Why intelligence and talent is not translated into success?
Waiting for a saviour
Most of the experts in their own field are experts only in one field.
The world has changed.
Everybody is now responsible for marketing themselves, with or without the help of an agency.
If you don’t have a blog, YouTube channel or whatever medium you are comfortable with, the one who has it will take your job.
It is the grim reality of today\’s world.
If something is in your head, and never gets out in words, images and videos, it will remain in your head forever.
If there is no exchange of thoughts, there is no exchange of resources either.
This is the modern barter.
Information is a commodity, and no one else will be able to create what you know.
Delaying the actions
It is a curse to the intelligence.
Intelligent people like to submerge themselves in the sea of thoughts.
It is a fantastic experience and a window of opportunity to be playful with the existence.
Concomitantly, At some point, you stop incubating and start exposing.
Idea when shared becomes information.
The information which is applied becomes knowledge.
Knowledge in the continuum is Wisdom.
So when is the best time to share your ideas with the world?
It now! Right Now!!
Perfection
Zest for perfection can be attributed to the habit of delaying.
There is nothing perfect in this world.
When things grow organically, they grow asymmetrically.
There is no such thing as identical in this world.
Perfection is a myth.
The world is perfectly imperfect.
Intellect processes knowledge and has a perspective which speaks to the basis of life.
They go to the Bare bones of a subject to understand and simplify things.
This is a wonderful quality when it comes to the acquisition of knowledge.
You have known what you have known, that can be perfectly framed in the mind.
But when it comes to imparting what you know, there is no perfection required.
In fact, the best way to make something understandable is to allow the person to reach the conclusions on his own.
Don’t live under the burden of their own knowledge.
Let the information flow that way it finds its way out.
It is the inherent nature of information to flow, you are just a medium.
Don’t control it.
Waiting for inspiration to strike
Apple doesn’t fall every day.
You know what I mean.
In my personal experience, you don’t need inspiration and motivation to get things done.
There will be certain moments when you will have an insatiable urge to create something beautiful.
But most of the time you wake up, sit at the desk and start working.
Engage for a while and the thoughts that need to express using you as a medium will bring you to the flow.
This is a sustainable approach.
It helps you to ship your work consistently.
Idols
You are you and nobody else.
Too much learning can put you into the trap of doing things that are done in a certain way by the successful people you know, read or idealised.
It instils the notion of doing things that are done in a certain way in the past.
Past can show us where we are coming from, but it cannot dictate where we are going.
The very present movement decides where we are heading.
Living with borrowed aspirations is dangerous.
Idols are great but learn about their process of stating the things uniquely.
What makes Kafka — Kafka and what makes van Gogh — van Gogh?
It is the need to explore beauty around and personally articulate.
Their work is their personality.