I want to close my day today with a story that Sir Ken Robinson, world renowned creativity expert, is fond of telling. It goes as – An elementary school teacher was giving a drawing class to a group of six-year-old children. At the back of the classroom sat a little girl who normally didn’t pay much attention in school. In the drawing class she did. For more than 20 minutes, the girl sat with her arms curled around her paper, totally absorbed in what she was doing. The teacher found this fascinating. Eventually, she asked the girl what she was drawing. Without looking up the girl said, “I am drawing a picture of God.” Surprised the teacher said, “But nobody knows what God looks like.”
The girl said, “They will in a minute.”
This story is a great reminder to all of us that young children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up. Isn’t it true. We are all born with tremendous unique talent but we lose touch with them as we spend more time in the world. Our education system too stifles creativity and is too narrow in assessing capabilities and intelligence. It hardly helps us identify our strengths so that we build on them.
Do not let people fool you into believing that you can’t do anything big, that you are worthless coz people see the world not as it is but as they themselves are. So only worthless people can tell you that you are worthless. You are capable of achieving any goal if you are passionate about the same. Think for some time…well! when was the last time you really thought.
If you are reading this post make a pledge to think for at least 10 minutes daily. Try to build greater self awareness and team it up with self regulation and motivation. See what wonders you can achieve. We all are born geniuses in our own ways like the girl in the story. You can do anything if you decide to do. Measure yourself against your goals. Compete with yourself and see how you grow faster than possibly you can imagine. Many a times we don’t know what we are capable of until we push our own selves. For next fifteen days just think differently. For next fifteen days analyse why you react to situations and people the way you do. for next fifteen days see yourself more than you see others and their actions. For next fifteen days believe in yourself and act more to get things done. For the next fifteen days observe if you really work 10 hours a day honestly and don’t get demotivated with failures.
And please answer this, HOW INTELLIGENT ARE YOU, ON A SCALE OF 1 TO 10, 10 BEING THE TOP?
Cheers to a great life ahead…