Chaos Pavanred's Blog ….. Exponential Error

Everyone is capable of Everything

When I look up I see a million, when I look down I see another million, these are the odds of being a normal person. Well, may be no one has to be ordinary to experience this; perhaps every individual experiences this, even if he is on the extremes of the scale.

Now should I look up? For I could find the prospective dream path for the life ahead or should I look down, the competitive edge might give me a confidence boost and self belief, two essential ingredients for success.

I strongly believe that anyone can do any job in this world and can do it well. Any one can be lawyer, engineer, doctor, journalist, quizzer, sportsmen etc. They just need to have a driving force, a sense of responsibility, a personal want to fulfill needs, and then anyone will do anything and can do it well. For instance, let’s say a poor guy has a family to support and finds it hard to make ends meet, this guy might have always wanted to be a painter and he still does paint as a profession, but just to earn the money that sustains him, he has also picked up a part time job of a cartoonist. The driving force here is that he needs the money and if he doesn't do a good job, he might loose the job, so it's like this – he was never destined nor interested in being a cartoonist but he becomes a good one. This is just to illustrate that anyone can do any job, if necessary.

Now, I will take up success as a destination, simply because I cannot define success as it's subjective to the pursuer’s opinion and the field concerned. Let's say the person picks up a profession X, and the success as the person defines it is to reach a destination, like for a race driver the destination might be a race win or perhaps the championship which comes by hard work, meticulous practice and precision. Now this person we consider has a destination to reach in the field of X and undoubtedly hard work must be an obvious input. I still say that any person can achieve this feat, but it just would take extra effort to achieve the same destination. I mean, lets consider a driver who was always passionate about racing, had sharp reflexes and every ingredient to be a good race driver, he perhaps would need 10 laps to master a circuit and perform good, but on the other hand any normal guy can still perform the same way but would need a lot of extra effort to do it, like perhaps work outs to become physically race fit, improving reflexes by practicing simulations, practicing for about 100 laps to perform at par with the other candidate. So, my point is that it is possible to do it but it just takes a lot more effort and time.

This brings me to the point where a person has to identify what his field is or what is the thing that he can do best, this is the self realization. For instance, if i had to be an artist, then the only reason it is because I already have an edge over the others with me. So, if a person is destined to be a poet or a writer then it is because the person already has those qualities that are intrinsic that the others would take a lot of time to learn. May be a writer would draw inspiration to write about sorrow just by looking at an fly stuck in a spider's web, on the other hand perhaps a normal guy would have to live through a catastrophe and may be attain the same mental state as the writer after a whole lot of personal loss. So, it’s just the same destination to be reached but just that this person will have to travel a lot less to reach there.

I can't become a physicist now because if I start learning basics of physics now then perhaps I would take another 20 years to be well versed, at par with other physicists. Rather, I should look at fields that I am good at, and I am interested in.

This is where the power of the sub-conscious human brain comes into play. The mind is this wonderful phenomenon which involuntarily makes the correct and substantial decisions for us and lets of the other decisions to be made consciously by us. A strong mind doesn't have likes and dislikes, it just has choices. For example, if a person is working in a factory, say he handles a component in the manufacturing assembly line. If this person is buried deep in debt then he would have no complaints about his job but might as well look for an additional one to pay off his debt, but if he had no such immediate responsibility and if it was working out a little easy for him then is when the he would perhaps say my job is monotonous, I am not satisfied with my job. In the first case, the mind decided unconsciously for the person, quitting the present job was not even an option, but presented to his conscious self, the options of picking up another job or not, which were logical options available to solve his problems. In the second case, the mind decides that the persons life is comfortable enough to provide a choice to the mans conscious to decide if the job is monotonous or not. Perhaps we can say, emotions are just the circumstantial logical choices that are provided by the sub-conscious mind to the conscious, i.e. in simpler words, you cry only when you can afford to. You don't see a poor daily wage laborer's 14 year old son crying because his father did not buy him a PSP for his birthday.

Point, simple – You can do anything, all you need is a little bit of self belief and of course identify what you are good at so that you can use that edge over others to drive you ahead towards your goal faster.