Historically, we humans are fascinated when we are fooled, when someone sells us a dream.
We love illusions and love to hallucinate.
We can broadly segment homo-sapiens in two types.
1) Those that create the illusion
2) Those who believe the illusion
There are various ways in which these are sold; Mind you, "sold". We pay for it.
These days, the name of the game is innovation. In fact it's so in the face, yet we choose to look the other way.
There are training programs to teach such "packaging". We encourage our kith and kin to take up such lucrative career options.
Take a quick stock of 5 immediate things around you as you read this. Including the device on which you are reading this.
Please take ten minutes and list out the features they offer and how much do you really need & use?
Startled? Aren't you?
I met a couple with kids in a developed country. One of the spouses was apparently chasing a career to continue to stay in that country.
The other was working to make sure she can pay the baby-sitter to take care of her kids when she was away working. Duh?
In our career span of thirty-five odd years, instead of learning, enjoying and giving our best, we end up chasing a mirage called milestones.
Let's say our goal is to walk 10 miles. Instead of seeing two milestones at 5 miles each, we prefer seeing it every mile 10 times.
So, we feel like we've achieved 10 milestones whereas we've really walked the same 10 miles; Thereby creating an illusion of success.
But along with the illusion of success, we also create a false sense of urgency.
We must remember it's water that quenches thirst and not the glass.
The secret is to see through feeble illusion and focus on the true goal.
Instead of getting lost in glam and glitter along the path.
The antonym of Secret is Knowledge.
But the antonym of Knowledge is not secret, it's ignorance.
We love illusions and love to hallucinate.
We can broadly segment homo-sapiens in two types.
1) Those that create the illusion
2) Those who believe the illusion
There are various ways in which these are sold; Mind you, "sold". We pay for it.
These days, the name of the game is innovation. In fact it's so in the face, yet we choose to look the other way.
There are training programs to teach such "packaging". We encourage our kith and kin to take up such lucrative career options.
Take a quick stock of 5 immediate things around you as you read this. Including the device on which you are reading this.
Please take ten minutes and list out the features they offer and how much do you really need & use?
Startled? Aren't you?
I met a couple with kids in a developed country. One of the spouses was apparently chasing a career to continue to stay in that country.
The other was working to make sure she can pay the baby-sitter to take care of her kids when she was away working. Duh?
In our career span of thirty-five odd years, instead of learning, enjoying and giving our best, we end up chasing a mirage called milestones.
Let's say our goal is to walk 10 miles. Instead of seeing two milestones at 5 miles each, we prefer seeing it every mile 10 times.
So, we feel like we've achieved 10 milestones whereas we've really walked the same 10 miles; Thereby creating an illusion of success.
But along with the illusion of success, we also create a false sense of urgency.
We must remember it's water that quenches thirst and not the glass.
The secret is to see through feeble illusion and focus on the true goal.
Instead of getting lost in glam and glitter along the path.
The antonym of Secret is Knowledge.
But the antonym of Knowledge is not secret, it's ignorance.
Loved the line 'We must remember it's water that quenches thirst and not the glass'
ReplyDeleteThis is not strange but we are not ready to accept it. It started from our last generation and we are still contituning the same. The Schools which our kids study charges so much to inculcate this strange attitude. It starts from that young age and grows giant by the time they grow big . It can also be considered as one of the add on we get when we buy urbanisation.
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