Does winning matter ?

Was just thinking of the topic of the blog I have created 3 years ago.
For me the answer is yes and no.

Yes .. when I see the likes of the big consulting companies that look for excellence in your academics,work ex and extra curriculars as an indicator of your future performance.They are ruthless to punish you for any mediocre performance or lacuna in something.

No..when the likes of Australian army rejects people who have been throughout winners in life and never had a single failure.They argue that never seeing a failure, will not make a person strong enough to counter and take decisions when he has failed in his job in the army.He will not be able to give corrective actions and reactions.

Its important to fail in life and strive hard to reach excellence.
But what is more important is to  enjoy travelling  from failure to excellence.
As they say in 3 idiots , Strive for Excellence , Success will come to you any which way.

Imagination is more important than Knowledge

The caption was my Orkut fortune for the day.I could not comprehend if Imagination is related to creating any fortune or not.But when I checked Wikipedia, I found an interesting example on Imagination and Perception :-

From the work of Piaget it is known that perceptions depend on the world view of a person. The world view is the result of arranging perceptions into existing imagery by imagination. Piaget cites the example of a child saying that the moon is following her when she walks around the village at night. Like this perceptions are integrated into the world view to make sense. Imagination is needed to make sense of perceptions.

It clearly signifies that we form our perceptions based on imagination and hence when we are dealing with an object,imagination can take precedence over our existing knowledge of things.Perhaps this could be the reason of so many poets,writers and painters with more imaginative powers have been able to make sense of mundane and ordinary things surrounding us.

Its also well known that things normally happen twice,'Once in the mind and second time in reality'.So we create some images in the subconcious mind and then do those things consciously.Seems logical.

The greatest example in Imagination for me are the people who wrote the ancient texts in different religions.They have created such a document through scriptures and other texts that majority of us find it difficult to even question them and fight over them inspite of the strong scientific evolutions and marvels.

Infact ,research has also proved that some of the instances mentioned in those books seem to be true through rigorous experiments.For eg. astronomical calculations to prove that Mahabharata war did happen based on the eclipse timing and all.There is a simple explanation to this phenomenon :-

Apples used to fall since time immemorial.It was Newton who suddenly got this insight that all this is due to a force called 'Gravity' and explained its nature and behaviour.

So all these texts and body of knowledge could be mere imaginary creations but they form the very basis of the Knowledge that we all live upon.Perhaps Philosophy is nothing more than imagining a different or better world and Wisdom is something that we all gain through more imagination in our experiences.

A better imagination can overrule the existing knowledge as has happened in the case of  the crisis of 2008 where people created imaginary financial products,profits and what not for years together inspite of the knowledge that it was not sustainable.

A winner we love - Sachin Tendulkar

Posting after a long interval of 4 months.Haven't received some good gyaan of late.So from now on,I am going to discover the winner among the different people we meet,talk,see ,believe etc. in our daily lives.I hope that it will be inspirational to whoever reads it and carries forward their own set of stories.

To start this series, I will like to share some info about some one the whole of India has gone crazy after his record of 200 in ODI - 'Sachin Tendulkar'.People have started calling him 'GOD' and are now mad that he must get a Bharat Ratna.

I do not favour crazy cricket fans who behave like maniacs.They worship the new cricketer like a great person by showering gifts and awards on his success and will also be first to blacken the house of the cricketer the next day.

Sachin has his share of greatness of being the Superman to hit the 200 mark,maximum number of centuries in Test and ODI format of Cricket,serving the Indian Cricket for the last 20years with immense talent in different capacity and what not.

Sachin for one has had his share of controversies of not acting like 'GOD' when it mattered esp. World Cup,some matches with Pakistan and some crunch match situations where it mattered that he should play and win the game.

• So what is it that makes him a winner ?

He is a winner because he believes in giving his best in his craft.He is successful in many such situations and keeps improving on it.He has grown with my generation and people look up to him when they want an ideal so that they emulate the same in the area they work in and be successful.

We can't expect Sachin to be a run machine and avatar ,just because he has achieved some milestones, that had not been reached till now and should continue to do so and help the country win every cricket match.

• What do these milestones stand for ?

These milestones for me are more personal in nature and stand for the society so that tomorrow, when one goes to work in his desired career,he does that with perfection.Their will be errors,brickbats and what not in spite of your best efforts.But the winner will not fret over them and continue to work to achieve his aim.
Sometimes we all need some one to show that dedication and determination is a must to achieve the "Ends".Sachin is one such person who has achieved his personal ends and also helped the team by being 'a one man army' in many occasions. We all can do the same if we know our goals and give our efforts accordingly.