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Never argue with one’s own understanding.

The whisper of intelligence is always there, whatever you do.

If you create a time lag between the whisper of intelligence and understanding in you and your action, then you are preventing the cerebral organ from growing into a new dimension.  When you argue with intelligence, when you postpone acting according to understanding then there is confusion, the brain gets confused.

The voice of understanding, the voice of intelligence has an insecurity about it. How do you know that it is the right thing?

So we tend to ignore it.  Instead we accept authority.  We conform.

But the brain cannot be orderly, competent, accurate and precise if you do not listen to it, if you have no respect.  We are so busy with the outside world, and its compulsions, that the world that is inside us does not command that respect and reverence, that care and concern from us.

So one has to be a disciple of one’s own understanding, look upon that understanding as the master.

Sometimes one may commit a mistake, it might be the whim of the ego and we might mistake the whim, the wish of the ego for the voice of silence and intelligence, but that we have to discover. Unless you commit mistakes, how do you learn to discriminate between the false and the true?  In learning there is bound to be a little insecurity, a possibility of committing mistakes.  Why should one be terribly afraid of committing mistakes?

So instead of accepting the authority of habits and conditioning, while one is moving one watches, and when there is a suggestion, a whisper from within, from one’s own intelligence, one does not neglect, ignore, or insult that.

To eliminate the time lag between understanding and action is the way to grow into spontaneity.

–Vimala Thakar

Norman Vincent Peale quoted “Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow!”
Thomas Alva Addison said after finding out bulb,” I have invented 1000 ways through bulb cannot be invented in the world.”
Brilliancy is not possible over night. Practice is everything. Everyday practicing. Everyday homework. Everyday investment in efforts leads us to accomplishment.
Very popular cricketer Sachin Tendulkar always goes to Shivaji Park for practice. A melodious singer Lata Mangeskar still today goes for rehearsal before final performance. Amir Khan a bollywood star went for exercise of 4 hours every day for the performance in the film “Gazhani”
Can we get world class success without homework? World class brilliancy can be created by everyday homework, practice and passionate efforts. Major accomplishment is supported by consistent efforts, devoted life and triggering talent.
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.” Indian freedom fighter said profoundly by Mohandas Gandhi.
Every day, efforts bring some improvement in the performance.
Input of goal achievement case of world class swimmer……………….
Practice as if you of the worst. Perform as if you are of the best.

Today morning, at 4-00 a.m.  I am reading Bhagwad Geeta . I am affected by Arjuna. At a same time, Krishna starts inspiring Arjuna when he does not believe in himself.  Arjuna is not believing in himself and unprepared to fight with situation.
Krishna stands profoundly and asked him to get, fight and win. Krishna shows ways, lives, relationship and power inside. Finally, asked him not to give up the situation. But use the potentiality at fullest.
Krishan knows people have stuff inside and perform at fullest if they believe in them.
Don’t you think leadership is believing in one self and inspiring others to believe in themselves which Krishna is doing?
We all are unique. We all have USP. Nearly 600 million people in the globe are special and original. Do not you think that it is an event and message to humanity? We find hardly same match. People have potentiality inside and realise them their strength at a time of frustration is the true essence of leadership.
We must bring out special from within and to take over the situation, instead of chatting on condition and blaming people or luck.
Leadership is all about bringing potentiality of the people not to blame them for poor performance. Firing, abusing, degrading and blaming never charge them to fly in the sky. Leader inspires the people even when they are not ready to believe in themselves. “Inspiration does not come from the quote itself, but rather the person behind it.”
True leadership lies in believing people when they are not prepare to believe in themselves.

M.S.Dhoni followed a deal worth $42 million for two years with Rhiti sports. He become  highest paid cricketer in the India.
This is a list of highest paid sports person of the world in the year 2010. Tiger wood (Golf) is highest paid sports person in the world with the amount of US $100 million in the year 2010. Followed by Kobe Brayant ( Basketball ) of $ 45 million and David Beckham ( Football) , Oscar Dela Hoya ( Boxing)  of $43 million,  Phil Mickelson ( Golf)  of $ 42 million .The list is followed by K.Raikkonen ( Motor sports), M.Scumacher ( motor sports0,Roger federer ( Tennis),  Ronaldo ( Football),  Shaquille O’neal ( Basketball) Michael Jordan ( Basketball) and Roanldino ( Brazil). The list does not stopped here. Sachin Tendulakr (Cricket), Flintoff (Cricket), Youvraj Singh and Ricky Ponting.( cricket).
How they are able to sale themselves at this rate and making difference in the world.
What has made them great brand?
Can we make our selves great brand?
YES! Certainly.
Personal branding is not at all marketing or self-promotion tactics, it is more fundamental .It is a clear understanding of what you are and what you stand for. People who can brand themselves will carry and image that get associated with not only their brand name, but also the organization.
India has two different examples. L & T I s branded as an organization. (Most of the people do not know who the CMD is?) And on the other side Anil Ambani is more popular as CMD of brand Reliance.
5 points direct you to create positive brand of your selves equally.
1/ List out qualities that make impact and distinguish you from others.
2/ We must visible difference and you are also visible with different projects .
3/ Eliminate “GOOD ENOUGH” thinking. Challenge yourself everyday for new accomplishments.
4/ Be available and communicate properly in your personal, social and professional circle.
5/  Keep raising the bar on your own performance and compete with yourself.
You must make impact that every where you go.

The lesson that working as a builder taught me above all others, one that’s not in the textbooks but should be, is this: There’s pure joy when you take a risk to pursue your dream and find work that you deeply connect with.

Now, as a college professor, I see my students struggling with a desire to have more than a career. They want to have a “calling,” but many are dissatisfied and frustrated, following a path set by others while afraid to set their own. I have counseled many of my students to follow their passion as I did. But it’s not an easy thing to do.

I learned in building that in the end, for my career to be my calling, it will not be what I designed, but instead the collective of what I experienced. It will not be aimed toward a fixed end of stability and certainty, but a continuous pursuit of growth and awareness. That growth will not be for others to critique and review but for me to judge and deem satisfactory. Now I know that my very first decision to become a carpenter in Nantucket was only the first step in a journey, I didn’t know I was taking. And that’s what makes it so wonderful. For all its seeming irrationality, it was my announcement to myself and to others that my life was my own.

When I started this journey, I just wanted to be a carpenter. But I surpassed my wildest dreams and became a builder, a distinction I didn’t even know existed when I started. And this realization leads me to one overriding and inescapable truth, that a life well lived must be a creative endeavor. Whatever form that creativity takes — whether it’s carpentry, building, teaching, raising a family, or writing a book — the challenge of looking within ourselves to find that creative element makes us who we are. But chances are, if we are genuinely open to the possibilities of a calling, we will find that satisfaction will come from someplace far different from where we expected to find it.

I cherish my experiences as a builder — and the astonished looks on people’s faces when I tell them that I chose this path over graduate school. I still maintain my set of tools and make constant repairs on my house (many not needed). And I recall the certainty of satisfaction I felt with a job well done. I felt a clarity in construction that doesn’t come as easily in academia.

This is not to say that academia is not a noble profession or that I should not be devoting my life to it now. It is to say that satisfaction in life comes from knowing who you are, what you want to do and sticking to your idea of what quality is; how a job well done is measured. Matthew Crawford has been writing lately about the need for society to reexamine the taken-for-granted assumption that everyone should go to college and get a white collar desk job; that the trades “suffer from low prestige” and that a choice to go into them “is viewed as eccentric, if not self-destructive.”

While I agree that the trades are an honorable profession (and presently quite a lucrative one, as anyone who has done a renovation on their home can attest). But the deeper point to me is the challenge to take the time to think about what you really want in life before laying out the time and money on higher education. And once you have a sense of yourself, stick to your own measure of who you are.

The pressures of conformity in graduate school can be quite strong; most vividly at graduation time when students compare starting salaries. And those pressures start much earlier for many. I see young students today building their resumes from the 7th or 8th grade. The danger in teaching this practice so early is the concurrent lesson that the measure of your worth comes from outside, from the evaluation of others as they survey your resume.

When students ask me where they should go with their careers to make the most money or to have the most impact, I am quick to tell them: “Wrong questions, try again.” The key questions are ones that only they can answer (with some prodding from me): “What were you meant to do with your life? What do you want to do? Where do you most fit?” The final lesson for my students from my years building houses is to pick their path and be open to the possibilities that emerge as they embark upon it. I truly believe that opportunities will be revealed to you.

As Henry David Thoreau said most eloquently, “I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

Andrew J. Hoffman is at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and is the author of Builder’s Apprentice Huron River Press, 2010. This is the fifth installment in a series of posts on five years spent running a construction company. The first post was Firing Someone: What They Don’t Teach You in B-School. The second post was, Talking Across Cultures (With or Without Profanity). The third post was, Trusting Your Gut: What They Don’t Teach You in B-School. The fourth post was, How Comraderie Works: What I Didn’t Learn in B-School.