Have not posted anything on the blog since long. Reasons include my laziness, my same routine life which inhibited me from getting new experiences to blog about and yes lots of time spent on twitter. Most of my time online is now spent on twitter. It is one of the most interesting medium of social network. Lets see what replaces twitter in the battle of social network.
Since some days, I've been wondering about the reasons as to why the high achievers of so many schools, the toppers of so many schools, colleges, the ones who have shown a lot of potential during their education, after completion of their education fail to make a big mark. I have seen a lot of individuals who had shown immense skills of persuasion, leadership and adaptability during school days. Yet, after their education, much of that flair is not visible. I believe that the most important reason for such a behaviour is settling down in their lives. After their education is complete, most of these high achievers join a large corporates or join their family business (wherever applicable). After joining large corporates, these individuals are made to work on select problem of the corporate much like so many other people. Most f these individuals are relegated to a typical 9 to 6 job which involves the same routine of commuting to the place of work, working for the stipulated time and then going back to their residences. These individuals, generally, come across the same set of people everyday who are almost similar to them in therms of thought processes. As such there is not much scope for new ideas to come forth. In other words, settling down in life causes these high achievers to lead a life similar to others and eventually these individuals who were earlier high acheivers now become average or above average individuals. Yes, the perform well at their jobs, earn reputation of being good, but in my opinion they are still average individuals who once had potential to be extra ordinary. The most important factor for this is coming across the same set of individuals everyday and not getting new experiences in life. To come out of this monotony, the individual has to meet different set of people everytime discovering how problems can be solved in different ways. An individual should try and meet as many people as possible, interact with them and get different points of views and help come up with new ideas which might help the individual to rise out of the ordinary. The network that the individual would have built in the process shall prove to be of immense importance in the future as well.
The above quite applies to me. I have been leading a very routine life since the past year or so and have not met a new person (or even an old colleague) since quite sometime. I have decided to meet different people in the coming time, update this space more often, get different point of views and try and build network to fall back upon in the future.
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Since some days, I've been wondering about the reasons as to why the high achievers of so many schools, the toppers of so many schools, colleges, the ones who have shown a lot of potential during their education, after completion of their education fail to make a big mark. I have seen a lot of individuals who had shown immense skills of persuasion, leadership and adaptability during school days. Yet, after their education, much of that flair is not visible. I believe that the most important reason for such a behaviour is settling down in their lives. After their education is complete, most of these high achievers join a large corporates or join their family business (wherever applicable). After joining large corporates, these individuals are made to work on select problem of the corporate much like so many other people. Most f these individuals are relegated to a typical 9 to 6 job which involves the same routine of commuting to the place of work, working for the stipulated time and then going back to their residences. These individuals, generally, come across the same set of people everyday who are almost similar to them in therms of thought processes. As such there is not much scope for new ideas to come forth. In other words, settling down in life causes these high achievers to lead a life similar to others and eventually these individuals who were earlier high acheivers now become average or above average individuals. Yes, the perform well at their jobs, earn reputation of being good, but in my opinion they are still average individuals who once had potential to be extra ordinary. The most important factor for this is coming across the same set of individuals everyday and not getting new experiences in life. To come out of this monotony, the individual has to meet different set of people everytime discovering how problems can be solved in different ways. An individual should try and meet as many people as possible, interact with them and get different points of views and help come up with new ideas which might help the individual to rise out of the ordinary. The network that the individual would have built in the process shall prove to be of immense importance in the future as well.
The above quite applies to me. I have been leading a very routine life since the past year or so and have not met a new person (or even an old colleague) since quite sometime. I have decided to meet different people in the coming time, update this space more often, get different point of views and try and build network to fall back upon in the future.
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