Sucess is not directly propotional to Talent

Hey,

Talent ( or in generally ability to do some specific thing ) does not really take you forward in life .So there is no direct correlation between talent and the rate and distance you move forward in life .

But though no direct correlation there is a relation between them .

So there has to be some parameter in between which depends on talent . And success would depend on that parameter .

That parameter is choices .

A person gets choices which are dependent on how talented he is .

For e.g. say a person is good at studies and get 90% in 10^th . He gets choices that he can take Science, commerce or arts and can also choose out of a number of good colleges.

But say if he got 40 % he might have to take only arts .

Choices got cut down.

Now suppose he makes a wrong choice and takes up say science which he was not interested with the same talent as he would get bored he might not get far.

After you start work with you specific talent to make the next choice then again the cycle continues in the same way.

Stating it as a mathematically formula ( I am a little biased towards maths J )

Choices α Talent

Success α Correct Choices made

So more the talent more choices you get and more the correct choices you make the successful you will get.

Similarly making a wrong choice would hammer your growth provided your talent is the same.

Hence choices becoming an amplifying or retarding factor in between your talent and success.

Hence a person with less talent can achieve more by amplifying it by making correct choices .

And a very talented person can retard his growth by making wrong choices.

So talent just provides more choice and correct choices provides success .

But also more talent helps you to hold more wrong choices also .

Teacher And Mentor

I personally liked the all my teachers in college a lot. With all due respect though whoever is been in engineering college (or for that matter I believe in any college) knows that the teachers are not totally competent in the subjects they are teaching.

When I was teaching in my third year I was teaching better than the teachers teaching in college .

I am not boasting. To support my argument here are the reasons

· My students told me that

· They paid money to learn from me.

· They recommended me to their juniors and siblings.

The major difference in the approach of teaching was that I was not teaching them , but mentoring them.

What I mean is that I was not teaching them what ideally should be taught but what I did practically for myself in that subject.

Like in the exam if you forget how to pass pointers to function you define them globally .

Which I ideally should not recommend but practically if you can make the program work in the exam even this way you pass . So an important trick to know .

What I want to stress is that mentors give better advice than teachers.

The difference between mentors and teachers is that mentors have done it ( preferably successfully) before and teacher is someone who knows about it but might not have done it before.

Mentors have done it themselves so they know minute details of things which helps them to convey practical details which work in that situation.

So next time someone tells you something know whether he is mentoring you or just teaching you.

Have a great day.

Murphy’s three laws

Hey I was reading Murphy’s three laws. I thought these would be interesting to you also as they are very general and we feel them always but having them stated as laws crystallizes them in our mind. They are all self explanatory but I would state e.g. of them.

Do add on with e.g. from your life also J

Law1 -Nothing is as easy as it seems

We had taken up a contract project as freelance developers in third year . It was a glass cutting optimization software ;). We thought we were damn cool and after listening the requirements we thought we could figure it out easily. We spent considerable amount of time on it and Bang we coded it, and went to show it

Now that customer says nope this is not like what he wanted. He said do this, I want this and this also would be nice . We almost told them F*** offJ.

Learnt we knew only to code and nothing not other parts of SDLC ;)

But I also believe that nothing is as hard as it seems

( Though one of my friend would be shouting right now he is an extremist and sees thing only in black and white J J)

Law 2-Everything will take longer than you think it will

The first thing coming to my mind is B.E. project. I am an over optimistic guy when its comes to scheduling of work (I have gone much better now). We had a super optimistic schedule for our B.E. project. And all (Me my project partners had agreed in flash of a second J ) .

The first release which was scheduled to finish in one month took three months ;).

But we completed the project and passed B.E. successfully. Yeah J

Law 3-Anything that can go wrong will go wrong

This is one of a recent one .This law fits for all the performances I do .There a dance competition I had taken part which was a couple dance completion. Flat I have an argument with my dance partner ;) and we are about to quit before performing.

We go and perform in that my pant does not have loops so cant wear a belt and my pant is loose . Yup obviously during the performance it starts falling down . Oooops .

Crowd laughing. To add to the fun of the crowd we had a prop as a car .

I land up holding the car the wrong side , so its like I am driving the from outside the car ;) . Crowd has a laugh of their time.

Yup when things go wrong they do go wrong J

Richness or poverty is a state of mind

Richness or poverty is a state of mind rather than connected to actual amount of money.

As a kid when we have Rs.100 in our hand we feel so rich that all chocolates we wanted or we could eat in a week can be bought right now .

In college Rs. 1000 for some mini project you did for someone made you feel so rich that you feel you will buy the world J.

The first pay check where you cross Rs. 10,000 . Wow . I don’t even know how to count that much ;)

Now you have one lakh . You don’t even know how many zero so you always write in words rather than figure ;).

You go and check out a car . Rs.4 Lakhs . Hmm you feel not rich enough .

A year or two save money .

Savings reach Rs. 3.5 lakhs . Yepiee car now . Wait a house is more imp.

House cost are Rs. 25 lakhs .

Only if I was richer .

10,000 made you feel king of the world , 3.5 lakhs makes you wish you were richer J

Richness or poverty is a state of mind rather than connected to actual amount of money.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

We call that people are lucky. They get things at the right time.

Or they are there in the right place at the right time.

If you see that there are a lot of people in the same place at the same time

with these so called lucky people. But they don’t cease the opportunity as well as these do.

Why?

Because it’s not being at the right time at the right place.

But being the right person at the right time at the right place.

Being the right person takes preparation. It may take a long time to get prepared.

And the more you prepare more and more places become right places and more and more times become right times.

And that’s why it said the harder I work the luckier I get.

Life like Share market

The share market goes down because of some trend.

As soon as it goes down if you have shares inexperience and amateur start selling as they go in loss.

Professional traders start buying.

They know what’s gone down will come up and it’s a good deal now.

They have the confidence and sense and experience to buy against the crowd and hold it till it goes up.

Things go wrong and down with people.

As soon as it goes down if you have shares inexperience and amateur start reducing their efforts (selling) as they go in loss.

Professional people (traders) start working more(buying).

They know what’s gone down will come up and it’s a good deal now.

They have the confidence and sense and experience to work more(buy )against the crowd and hold it till it goes up.

Have a great day J

We are like the farther in Tarre Zammen Par

Hey ,

Day before I saw Tarre Zammen Par for the second time.

It a beautiful movie and everyone must watch.

It about how parents fail to exactly understand a child ( His qualities and lacking things ) and pressurize him to compete with the crowd ( The rat race )

On similar notes when we grow up it does not change much.

The only thing changes is the parents don’t pressurize us,

We split up in two different roles (The pressurizing parent and the suppressed and

Misunderstood child).

We set goals for ourselves not because we want to achieve them because others around us are achieving them.

And we think we also need to otherwise we are not capable enough.

But as the movie says every child is special so are we .

Special and different from others.

If one has found that specialty in oneself great, if not keep looking till you find.

We should not judge ourselves based on others expectations of us or others achievements.

We should judge ourselves based on our expectation and our previous achievements .

Have a great day

Knowledge, Skill and Attitude

Hey,

I use to always jumble between meanings of knowledge, skill and attitude till

I heard some very apt definitions of each.

Knowledge is the information of how to do a thing.

Skill is the ability to do a thing.

Attitude is the willingness or unwillingness to do a thing.

Like I might know how should tackle the ball in football, but might not have the ability to do it.

I might have a lot of strength to become a wrester (ability) but not the knowledge

of how to use the strength to become a wrestler .

I might have the knowledge how to code and the ability to code also but might not want

(Attitude) to do it.

All three are required to do a job well.

Have a great day J

Difference in Coding at student and professional life

In college we used to code. We still code today.

But there is a huge difference in the process behind it .

This I believe requires a different view to the work we do.

In college the focus or the emphasis is on the work ( say Coding ) has to be done by you .

Now and now onwards (mostly) the focus is that the work has to be done.

What I mean is in college the assignments have to be done by you .

Exams are given by you and marks have to be scored by you .

But now the work just has to be done, not necessarily by you .

You might be responsible for a piece of work. That is the work is completed or no is you responsibility but not necessarily done by you.

It can be done by you , by you sub – ordinate , by your colleague, by your senior or by your friend .

Infact you are more appreciated if you are capable of getting work out of other people than doing it well yourself.

In college you can survive working in isolation. What I mean I can do my work like finish my assignments, my studies, give my exams. I don’t have to depend on others

to finish my work and do well.

But now I can’t work in isolation. I have to depend on other people to finish their work so that I can start mine if there is dependency.

So I can do everything correct but end up on the wrong side if someone else did do his work in the correct manner. And same could happen to other.

We get a glimpse of these things when we do a project at college level with other people .

But there we atleast have an option of people who we will work with.

Now we might not even have that.

These are the changes in the way we look at work which are required after college .

Have a great day J

23 the age.

23 the age.

It’s a funny age .

The age where we want to be 3 again.

Not worry about anything .

Be innocent and cute.

23 the age.

It’s a funny age .

The age where we want to be 43 .

We want to be as mature.

Make right decision.

Do sensible talks .

23 the age.

It’s a funny age .

We want to be full of energy and enthu.

We want to win the world .

At 23 we had a life behind us.

At 23 we have a life ahead of us

Chak de the teaches us quite a lot

Chak de the teaches us quite a lot

The first and the most obvious thing you get is

• In a team first you need to give priority the team Goals( or objective ) , then your team members and then you .
• Kabir khan waits 7 years to get a chance back to prove himself right .

When they ask him what he was doing these year he says he was preparing for this. This shows that belief combined with persistence is the ulimate input to do the unthinkable

• It takes character ( as kabir khan says niyat ) to make a team not talent .
• The world is with you when you succeed but you are all alone if you fail.

This is there through out .With Kabir Khan , with the striker Priti Sabarwal,

With the Captain.

• Your life might get screwed without your fault .

Everyone knows its human to miss a goal but Kabir khan life is screwed as he just misses a goal .

• Its more important than how talented you are that you make a team storger than what it is . ( The ex captain is talented but because of her politics she weakens the team )
• It is difficult situations in which mostly bonds are made in people .

The team first time gets together in the fight with the boys .

• Character is more important than talent .

That’s why Kabir khan does not care who the players are , but the character that they come on time , play as a team is more important than hockey playing talent

Data Information Knowledge Intelligence

Hey,

We being engineers ( Computer or IT ) we have heard the terms data , information , knowledge , intelligence . What are they and how they differ .

During my MIS paper heard the terms again . That time remembered this .

Say taking a simple example

Suppose we have a Picture of a rose in BMP format .

Those being in raw bits stored on some disk is data.

Knowing you have the bits with you ,you know you have data with you .

Knowing those bits are a BMP file and what software to use to see it is information.

Seeing the picture and knowing is it beautiful is knowledge .

Giving a flower or atleast the picture when you Girl Friend is angry is intelligence ;)

Getting something is getting data . That’s the first step.

Knowing how to read the data means is information.

Understanding the information is knowledge .

Using knowledge to do something is intelligence .

Understanding the difference is common sense J

Is Success or Failure important

Hey,

I read two statements

Success or failure is not important , trying is .

Either you do or you don’t there is nothing as try.

There are so contradicting.

The first one sounds more optimistic and theoretically is perfect.

But finally what matters are results.

If you have the results it does not matter how hard you tried to get them or

you got it easily .

If you don’t have the results mostly people don’t care how hard you tried.

As results can be measured tries cannot .

Now you would say those who try get results.

True .

But the biggest pain is trying hard and failing. Isn’t it .

It kills your confidence. Belief in yourself dies.

You start to question your abilities.

Or

The biggest pain is failing because you did not try .

You could have achieved only you had given it a shot .

But you did not.

Which path to take ?

Have a great day .

Can We lie to ourselves

Hey ,

This was one of the things I wanted to write from months actually now.

Even when we lie we know the truth .

This is a lie .

Because there are times when we lie to ourselves also .

Can we lie to ourselves?

I think we can and most of us do also.

There are times when we fail at something then we try to find all the reasons

which were not in our control which happened and blamed our failure on that .

For e.g in Engg exams – the questions came out of portion .

That chapter was never asked , this was the first time .

That teacher does not like me so I get bad term work .

So on……..

We all must have done this .

Why do we do it is failure makes us uneasy .

When we shift the responsibility of the failure from our self to something or somebody else we are no longer responsible for the failure.

This is one place.

We can or do lie to ourselves in many other places also.

It takes strength and character to accept responsibility of failures.

Don’t get me wrong here there are many failures which are not really under our control ,

And we should not be harsh on ourselves by blaming ourselves for that .

What I am saying is we have to be true to our self .

When its our mistake don’t blame it onto other people or things .

When its not our mistake don’t be harsh to yourself .

The problem actually is most of the people fall in one of the category

either too harsh on themselves or blaming others for every bad thing around .

So we should not lie at least not to ourselves . J

Have a great day .

Being Matured

Hey ,

Being Matured is
Not only knowing speaking the right things

But knowing when not to speak at all .

Not only knowing doing the right things

But knowing when to do nothing at all .