To different people, the prescription for success is different. Recently the most workable formula for success stumbled on is as follows:
(Success = Luck + Hard Work + Intelligence)
Where:
Luck = 50%
Hard Work = 25%
Intelligence = 25%
To be successful one needs to have at least 75% of the ingredients, with the full load of 50% of Luck. This means that some people may work hard and may have no intelligence and still become successful. On the other hand, some people may have the intelligence but may not work hard and still become successful. There is also the combination of some people may work hard and may have the intelligence totaling to 25% and may get success. But it cannot be denied that luck plays the most dominant part and contributes 50% to a man’s success.
Otherwise how the heck do you figure out when to be in the right place and at the right time?
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For ages, the society went on. In times to come it will go on. The society keeps on breeding like rabbits. Perhaps that is what we are here for – to breed.
Increasingly I am beginning not to like society. I am trying to live an absolutely quite life. I would not like anyone visiting me because I visit no one. I would not like anyone taking interest in me, since I have no interest in others.
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Is it possible to distinguish ONLY evil people or ONLY good people? Is it feasible to separate those evil people who indulge in inhuman feats? Perhaps not, since good and evil both resides in a person’s heart. Would you be willing to demolish a part of your own heart?
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Friday, December 17, 2010
Are we independent thinkers?
It is a perplexing and implausible world. People do not have what they want. Although what they want are all around them, yet everyone seems to have all the wrong things. It is incomprehensible to me. Maybe it is explicable to you?
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Most of us have stopped being independent thinkers. We seem to have surrendered our judgment. Our views, ideas, opinions seem to stem from newspapers, TVs, social networking on the net and idle talks.
We have even stopped to be independent of all the gizmos that seem to pop out every now and then. The technological tools seem to be working for people rather than people needing these technological tools to work with.
And as far as our consumer society is concerned, there seems to be two kinds of slaves. One class is addicted to consumerism whilst the second class lives in envy, struggling to get addicted.
Meanwhile our medical industry is organized not to serve the human health, but only itself. The medical world provides for itself as an institution. The idea is to make more people sick than to restore health.
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The governments of the world are indeed smart. They don’t take away everything from the people. They tax you heavily and the tax money is invariably used incongruously. (For ages and centuries, we have not been able to wipe out poverty and starvation) The Governments are prudent enough to realize that when they strip a man of everything, he is no longer in their power. He is free again. So they feed you some and also keep you hungry. This way you are under their power to be manipulated anyway they want
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Most of us have stopped being independent thinkers. We seem to have surrendered our judgment. Our views, ideas, opinions seem to stem from newspapers, TVs, social networking on the net and idle talks.
We have even stopped to be independent of all the gizmos that seem to pop out every now and then. The technological tools seem to be working for people rather than people needing these technological tools to work with.
And as far as our consumer society is concerned, there seems to be two kinds of slaves. One class is addicted to consumerism whilst the second class lives in envy, struggling to get addicted.
Meanwhile our medical industry is organized not to serve the human health, but only itself. The medical world provides for itself as an institution. The idea is to make more people sick than to restore health.
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The governments of the world are indeed smart. They don’t take away everything from the people. They tax you heavily and the tax money is invariably used incongruously. (For ages and centuries, we have not been able to wipe out poverty and starvation) The Governments are prudent enough to realize that when they strip a man of everything, he is no longer in their power. He is free again. So they feed you some and also keep you hungry. This way you are under their power to be manipulated anyway they want
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Death by hunger
Many moons back, when I was young, I remember my father acquainting me with what I presumed was a bizarre phenomenon: people died because of hunger. I never quite understood then. How can a person be hungry and die because he did not have any food to eat? It was somewhat shocking too. That was my first introduction to hunger death.
Many moons still have passed by, a lot of water has flowed under many a non constructed bridge and now I have a young son. I am sure he would not understand if I acquaint him with this still prevailing situation of death caused by hunger. To me, it is still shocking that we live in a country, in and at a time and in a place where people have no food to eat and where people die because of starvation!
We are otherwise proud to have a growing group of billionaires.
It is a curse to be born poor and to live life below the poverty level. More so if you are born in India. The authorities simply refuse to accept deaths due to a lack of food. There is a food ration system. People have ration cards, but no food. I have never quite understood why the rich should have ration cards. Perhaps the ration card has different uses for the two classes of people. For the rich, the ration card is a must if you want to get hold of a passport, buy properties, establish your proof of domicile or get a driving license, etc. For the poor, the ration card is a must if he wants to get food to ward off death.
There is flood, drought, man made calamities, poor crop cycles and other natural disasters which force the poor people to eat rats and roots. When the government does not seem to acknowledge deaths caused by hunger, how can it be expected to eradicate this menace? Diseases and unhygienic living conditions lead to death, but the most disgusting thing is death due to malnutrition.
We have been doing everything except providing a man the most basic commodity for him to survive - food.
Meanwhile tons of food go wasted and rot in the FCI warehouses.
Many moons still have passed by, a lot of water has flowed under many a non constructed bridge and now I have a young son. I am sure he would not understand if I acquaint him with this still prevailing situation of death caused by hunger. To me, it is still shocking that we live in a country, in and at a time and in a place where people have no food to eat and where people die because of starvation!
We are otherwise proud to have a growing group of billionaires.
It is a curse to be born poor and to live life below the poverty level. More so if you are born in India. The authorities simply refuse to accept deaths due to a lack of food. There is a food ration system. People have ration cards, but no food. I have never quite understood why the rich should have ration cards. Perhaps the ration card has different uses for the two classes of people. For the rich, the ration card is a must if you want to get hold of a passport, buy properties, establish your proof of domicile or get a driving license, etc. For the poor, the ration card is a must if he wants to get food to ward off death.
There is flood, drought, man made calamities, poor crop cycles and other natural disasters which force the poor people to eat rats and roots. When the government does not seem to acknowledge deaths caused by hunger, how can it be expected to eradicate this menace? Diseases and unhygienic living conditions lead to death, but the most disgusting thing is death due to malnutrition.
We have been doing everything except providing a man the most basic commodity for him to survive - food.
Meanwhile tons of food go wasted and rot in the FCI warehouses.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Ingredients of happiness
Saw Belle De Jour directed by Luis Bunuel. The film stars Catherine Deneuve (I remember her terrific acting in Roman Polanski’s Repulsion) as a young, beautiful and impassive wife of a medical student. She finds out the address of a brothel in Paris from a middle age person, who seemed to have a lot of money and a lot of time. Every afternoon, she goes there between two to five, where a series of men with unconventional taste are comfortably looked after.
An old maxim – “to judge a human is not only foolishness, but also dangerous” snugly fits in this movie. It shows how unsoiled, educated, intelligent, well to do, gorgeous and well groomed people can indulge in appalling performances. It can be fact.…… It can be fantasy. Perhaps it is more of fact rather than fantasy, since a glimpse in the past revealed that the human mind wanders to territories unimaginable.
Being impressed by Luis Buneul’s work has compelled me to hunt down and collect the rest of his works.
ΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘ
The ingredients of happiness are ignorance, stupidity and self-centeredness.
ΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘ
I do not know why we place so much of significance to the views of critics. The inability to create, metamorphosis’s a creature to a critic. Critics are creatures who never created anything. When the creature couldn’t become an artist, he/she became a critic.
ΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘ
Saw someone struggling to get out of this world. Death was near. God and Satan were fighting for his soul during the last hour. The soul was subjugated. The living assumed it was not Satan. The only qualm was - which of one the two was Satan?
ΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘ
Some reservations exist whether we human beings are rational animals or just animals. Otherwise it becomes hard to explain why we human beings succumb to authorities, submit to laws, believe in obedience and do not believe in freedom.
ΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘ
An old maxim – “to judge a human is not only foolishness, but also dangerous” snugly fits in this movie. It shows how unsoiled, educated, intelligent, well to do, gorgeous and well groomed people can indulge in appalling performances. It can be fact.…… It can be fantasy. Perhaps it is more of fact rather than fantasy, since a glimpse in the past revealed that the human mind wanders to territories unimaginable.
Being impressed by Luis Buneul’s work has compelled me to hunt down and collect the rest of his works.
ΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘ
The ingredients of happiness are ignorance, stupidity and self-centeredness.
ΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘ
I do not know why we place so much of significance to the views of critics. The inability to create, metamorphosis’s a creature to a critic. Critics are creatures who never created anything. When the creature couldn’t become an artist, he/she became a critic.
ΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘ
Saw someone struggling to get out of this world. Death was near. God and Satan were fighting for his soul during the last hour. The soul was subjugated. The living assumed it was not Satan. The only qualm was - which of one the two was Satan?
ΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘ
Some reservations exist whether we human beings are rational animals or just animals. Otherwise it becomes hard to explain why we human beings succumb to authorities, submit to laws, believe in obedience and do not believe in freedom.
ΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘΘ
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