I already made a lot of wrong decisions in life. I thought
that quick success was possible. And that it could be done by riding on those
attractive, new and fast-paced ways marketed by the so-called ‘experts’. These
experts would tell you to just follow what they do. No need to ask. Just copy
their formula and technique and you’re in for a zooming ride to success. It
could be true as it happened to some. Maybe with sheer luck. But not everyone
is lucky. Not me. But I’m blessed. And one blessing I have is an open mind to
learn from the mistakes that I committed. And it makes all the wrong decisions
I made bearable and meaningful.
Young energetic pseudo-experts who proclaim the modern and
the new as the best, quickest and most exciting way to reach the top are the
usual scenes we see in almost every field today. And push further by bringing down and trashing
the old ways. Many ignorant and
unsuspecting victims are easily mesmerized and enchanted by the “wit and
charisma” of these messengers of the new age. Dinosaurs are out and the
cyber-age is in, they say.
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| Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla (Image:Wikipedia.org) |
And the choice looks so easy. It’s cool to be a fan of the “rockstars”
of their trades. Who likes to be left out sitting on a corner listening to the
lectures of a boring old conservative folk?
But taking it from those who already reached the top of their
game, they tell us otherwise. It’s the expertise of the old tricks, the basics
and the fundamentals which brought them up to the peak and to excellence. Understanding
the thing that they do and why they were doing it is what catapulted their
careers to great heights. There were no shortcuts for most of them.
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“I don’t care what you’re doing or what you’re trying to accomplish; you can’t skip fundamentals if you want to be the best.”- Michael Jordan(Image: hoopthoughts.blogspot.com) |
Modern is not at all bad. Being knowledgeable about new
techniques is also great. But by doing it without tad recognition of its foundation,
basics and history is a blind walk away from what is true and proper.
