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Dr. Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, a Patna-born child prodigy, becomes the youngest professor at Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay at the age of 22. He is set to join as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics from next week.

He had completed his high school at the age of nine, earned his BSc degree at 10 and M.Sc at the age of 12. At the age of 21, Tulsi completed his doctorate in Quantum Computing from Indian Institute of Science.

The young professor, who has never studied in a classroom, plans to ask his students how they would want to be taught. “I have never taught in a class. But I believe I can come down to the level of a student and help them understand the subject,” he said. When asked about his future plans, he said “I want to pursue my research and at IIT-B, I will have the leisure to continue my research and one day set up a lab focused on quantum computation in our country.”

Dr. Tulsi had to turn down offers from Waterloo University in Canada and the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER), Bhopal to come and teach at IIT-B.

In 2003, the prestigious Time magazine named him among the world’s seven most gifted youngsters, though he went into a shell after an international delegation called him a fake prodigy in 2001.

Today, I am reading book “comparative study of Mohandas Gandhi and Mohan (Krishna).Both found under the pain in the last stage of their life. Both the great leaders of Indian wisdom and ethos are covered by painful events. Found them in pain while dealing with life.
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. “Profound words asserted by Mother Teresa.
We must burn pain and use as a fuel in journey. Pain is inevitable. Pain free life is an illusion. We can break our shell by understanding it. We should sympathies our selves with pain as we have sympathies with joy and pleasure. Yes, it can be too hard but no road is a smooth road for the passengers of success.
The more pain creates more powerful results. A woman become mother after suffering of heavy pain during pregnancy. The best creature takes s place on the planet after inevitable pain.
We can learn more form pain but unfortunately we have framed our mind, not to learn anything from pain. Pain can develop wisdom and make us wiser to live.
In today’s corporate world, pressure is a part of daily routine. One has to develop his mind up to met new challenges. One has to train himself to cope up with huge pressure at work place. Remember, iron becomes gold after burning in to fire.
Pain may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It makes us more mature and shape, inner soundness.
Discipline of tolerating pain will avoid disappointment in future. Pain is a servant and can offer million dollar opportunity.

A decade ago, I set out to investigate luck. I wanted to examine the impact on people’s lives of chance opportunities, lucky breaks and being in the right place at the right time. After many experiments, now I can understand why some people are luckier than others and that it is possible to become luckier.

To launch my study, I placed advertisements in national newspapers and magazines, asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me. Over the years, 400 extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research from all walks of life: the youngest is an 18-year-old student, the oldest an 84-year-old retired accountant.

Thinking of something good that happened the day before boost happiness

Jessica, a 42-year-old forensic scientist, is typical of the lucky group. As she explained: “I have my dream job, two wonderful children and a great guy whom I love very much. It’s amazing; when I look back at my life, I realise I have been lucky in just about every area.”

In contrast, Carolyn, a 34-year-old care assistant, is typical of the unlucky group. She is accident-prone. In one week, she twisted her ankle in a pothole, injured her back in another fall and reversed her car into a tree during a driving lesson. She was also unlucky in love and felt she was always in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Over the years, I interviewed these volunteers, asked them to complete diaries, questionnaires and intelligence tests, and invited them to participate in experiments. The findings have revealed that although unlucky people have almost no insight into the real causes of their good and bad luck, their thoughts and behaviour are responsible for much of their fortune.

Take the case of chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not. I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities.

I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. On average, the unlucky people took about two minutes to count the photographs, whereas the lucky people took just seconds. Why? Because the second page of the newspaper contained the message: “Stop counting. There are 43 photographs in this newspaper.” This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than 2in high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it.

For fun, I placed a second large message halfway through the newspaper: “Stop counting. Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win £250.” Again, the unlucky people missed the opportunity because they were still too busy looking for photographs.

Personality tests revealed that unlucky people are generally much more tense than lucky people, and research has shown that anxiety disrupts people’s ability to notice the unexpected. In one experiment, people were asked to watch a moving dot in the centre of a computer screen. Without warning, large dots would occasionally be flashed at the edges of the screen. Nearly all participants noticed these large dots.

The experiment was then repeated with a second group of people, who were offered a large financial reward for accurately watching the centre dot, creating more anxiety. They became focused on the centre dot and more than a third of them missed the large dots when they appeared on the screen. The harder they looked, the less they saw.

And so it is with luck - unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and as a result miss other types of jobs. Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for.

My research revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.

I wondered whether these four principles could be used to increase the amount of good luck that people encounter in their lives. To find out, I created a “luck school” - a simple experiment that examined whether people’s luck can be enhanced by getting them to think and behave like a lucky person.

I asked a group of lucky and unlucky volunteers to spend a month carrying out exercises designed to help them think and behave like a lucky person. These exercises helped them spot chance opportunities, listen to their intuition, expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck.

One month later, the volunteers returned and described what had happened. The results were dramatic: 80 per cent of people were now happier, more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of all, luckier. While lucky people became luckier, the unlucky had become lucky. Take Carolyn, whom I introduced at the start of this article. After graduating from “luck school”, she has passed her driving test after three years of trying, was no longer accident-prone and became more confident.

In the wake of these studies, I think there are three easy techniques that can help to maximise good fortune:

* Unlucky people often fail to follow their intuition when making a choice, whereas lucky people tend to respect hunches. Lucky people are interested in how they both think and feel about the various options, rather than simply looking at the rational side of the situation. I think this helps them because gut feelings act as an alarm bell - a reason to consider a decision carefully.

* Unlucky people tend to be creatures of routine. They tend to take the same route to and from work and talk to the same types of people at parties. In contrast, many lucky people try to introduce variety into their lives. For example, one person described how he thought of a colour before arriving at a party and then introduced himself to people wearing that colour. This kind of behaviour boosts the likelihood of chance opportunities by introducing variety.

* Lucky people tend to see the positive side of their ill fortune. They imagine how things could have been worse. In one interview, a lucky volunteer arrived with his leg in a plaster cast and described how he had fallen down a flight of stairs. I asked him whether he still felt lucky and he cheerfully explained that he felt luckier than before. As he pointed out, he could have broken his neck.

Knowledge of Oneness is above sectarianism,

patriotism and castism. There is selfishness

in sectarianism, attachments in patriotism

and bandages in castism.

“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.” Asserted by Oscar Wilde.
There is much more inside than what we see and realise. Untapped talent is inside us; however, it won’t come out over night. Henry Parry Liddon asserted very well “What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are: and what are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.”
Talent is inside and real value to talent can be honour by bringing it out. Leader sharpens the skill ,polish attitude and enhance knowledge constantly to prove their talent.

We have talent inside and if we do not bring it out side, we become slaves. We should see ourselves these bring talent to our light. It is made of use, never hide talent. Do not dole it. Do not hold it. Spend it lavishly like millionaire spends his wealth. What is the fun in to put sun-dial in to shade? I do not want to die…until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.” Profoundly asserted by Kathe Kollwitz.

Mediocrity declares hidden talent. Do not you think we all are responsible for talent given to all of us?
I believe everyone is genius and possessing enormous talent. Talent helps us in recognizing genius what is missing is to lead talent to unknown roads in dark. We all need courage to bring out talent to prove our real worth .Last night, In FIFA world cup, Newzeland equals the match by last minute header goal of  ………………………….. He tapped his talent and changes the result of the game. The y were able to score down the match with Italy (last time champion).Remember, the rule of the game is courage to tap the talent in dark. Real great talent is finding in execution. Management Guru Ram Nathan says “Execution, Execution and Execution.”
The most exciting moment of life is execution of talent. It is not to have wonderful talent but it is to be deliver to this world at fullest.
We must be confident enough to bring out talent. Our core question is not possession of talent but use of talent. To die with us use and untapped talent Is a most pathetic situation of the life.
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in you. “That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.” Asserted by Sophia Loren.