"Why We Shout In Anger"

A Hindu saint who was visiting river Ganges to take bath found a group of family members on the banks, shouting in anger at each other. He turned to his disciples smiled 'n asked.


'Why do people shout in anger shout at each other?'


Disciples thought for a while, one of them said, 'Because we lose our calm, we shout.'


'But, why should you shout when the other person is just next to you? You can as well tell him what you have to say in a soft manner.' asked the saint


Disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the other disciples.
Finally the saint explained, .


'When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other to cover that great distance.


What happens when two people fall in love? They don't shout at each other but talk softly, Because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is either nonexistent or very small...'


The saint continued, 'When they love each other even more, what happens? They do not speak, only whisper 'n they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they even need not whisper, they only look at each other 'n that's all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.'


He looked at his disciples 'n said.


'So when you argue do not let your hearts get distant, Do not say words that distance each other more, Or else there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return.' !!!

First Lessons for Interns

On his first day in office, as President Abraham Lincoln entered to give his inaugural address, one man stood up. He was a rich aristocrat. He said, “Mr. Lincoln, you should not forget that your father used to make shoes for my family.”

 And the whole Senate laughed; they thought they had made a fool of Lincoln. But certain people are made of a totally different mettle. Lincoln looked at the man directly in the eye and said, “Sir, I know that my father used to make shoes for your family, and there will be many others here, because he made shoes the way nobody else can. He was a creator. His shoes were not just shoes; he poured his whole soul into them.

  I want to ask you, have you any complaint? Because I know how to make shoes myself. If you have any complaint I can make you another pair of shoes. But as far as I know, nobody has ever complained about my father’s shoes. He was a genius, a great creator and I am proud of my father”.

The whole Senate was struck dumb. They could not understand what kind of man Abraham Lincoln was. He was proud because his father did his job so well that not even a single complaint had ever been heard.

Remember: “No one can hurt us without our consent.”

   

“It is not what happens to us that hurts us. It is our response that hurts us.”

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Steve Jobs 2005 address

Steve Jobs touched the lives of millions across the world with his sheer genius. Gates may be better known and may have earned millions more, but Jobs shall remain the quintessential dreamer and achiever

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honoured to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.

That's it. No big deal. Just three stories..

The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me - I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

The 60 things I have learnt from my Life

Everyone gets drilled with certain lessons in life. Sometimes it takes repeated demonstrations of a given law of life to really get it into your skull, and other times one powerful experience drives the point home once forever. Here are 60 things I’ve discovered about life, the world, and its inhabitants by this point in my short time on earth.


1. You can’t change other people, and it’s rude to try.


2. It is a hundred times more difficult to burn calories than to refrain from consuming them in the first place.


3. If you’re talking to someone you don’t know well, you may be talking to someone who knows way more about whatever you’re talking about than you do.


4. The cheapest and most expensive models are usually both bad deals.


5. Everyone likes somebody who gets to the point quickly.


6. Bad moods will come and go your whole life, and trying to force them away makes them run deeper and last longer.


7. Children are remarkably honest creatures until we teach them not to be.




8. Yelling always makes things worse.


9. Whenever you’re worried about what others will think of you, you’re really just worried about what you’ll think of you.


10. Every problem you have is your responsibility, regardless of who caused it.


11. You never have to deal with more than one moment at a time.


12. If you never doubt your beliefs, then you’re wrong a lot.


13. Managing one’s wants is the most powerful skill a person can learn.


14. Every passing face on the street represents a story every bit as compelling and complicated as yours.


15. Whenever you hate something, it hates you back: people, situations and inanimate objects alike.


16. People embellish everything, as a rule.


17. Anger reveals weakness of character, violence even moreso.


18. Humans cannot destroy the planet, but we can destroy its capacity to keep us alive.  And we are.


19. When people are uncomfortable with the present moment, they fidget with their hands or their minds.  Watch and see.


20. Those who complain the most, accomplish the least.


21. Nobody knows more than a minuscule fraction of what’s going on in the world. It’s just way too big for any one person to know it well.


22. A person who is unafraid to present a candid version of herself to the world is as rare as diamonds.


23. The most common addiction in the world is the draw of comfort. It wrecks dreams and breaks people.


24. If what you’re doing feels perfectly safe, there is probably a better course of action.


25. The greatest innovation in the history of humankind is language.


26. Blame is the favorite pastime of those who dislike responsibility.


27. Everyone you meet is better than you at something.


28. Proof is nothing but a collection of opinions that match your own.


29. Knowledge is belief, nothing more.


30. Indulging your desires is not self-love.


31. What makes human beings different from animals is that animals can be themselves with ease.


32. Getting truly organized can vastly improve anyone’s life.


33. Almost every cliché contains a truth so profound that people have been compelled to repeat it until it makes you roll your eyes. But the wisdom is still in there.


34. People cause suffering when they are suffering themselves. Alleviating their suffering will help them not hurt others.


35. If you aren’t happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship.


36. Even if it costs no money, nothing is free if it takes time.


37. Emotions exist to make us strongly biased towards or against something. This hinders as often as it helps.


38. Addiction is a much greater problem in society than it’s made out to be. It’s present in every person in various forms, but usually we call it something else.


39. “Gut feeling” is not just a euphemism. Tension in the abdomen speaks volumes about how you truly feel about something, beyond all arguments and rationales.


40. Posture and dress change profoundly how you feel about yourself and how others feel about you, like it or not.


41. Justice is a human invention which is in reality rarely achievable, but many will not hesitate to destroy lives demanding it.


42. Casual swearing makes people sound dumb.


43. Words are immensely powerful. One cruel remark can wound someone for life.


44. It’s easy to make someone’s day just by being uncommonly pleasant to them.


45. Most of what children learn from their parents isn’t taught on purpose.


46. It is worth re-trying foods that you didn’t like at first.


47. Problems, when they arise, are rarely as painful as the experience of fearing them.


48. Nothing — ever — happens exactly like you pictured it.


49. When you break promises to yourself, you feel terrible. When you make a habit of it, you begin to hate yourself.


50. A good nine out of ten bad things I’ve worried about never happened. A good nine out of ten bad things that did happen never occurred to me to worry about.


51. You can’t hide a bad mood from people who know you well, but you can always be polite.


52. There is no point finishing a book you aren’t enjoying. Life is too short for that. Swallow your pride and put it down for good, unfinished.


53. There is no correlation between the price of a brand of batteries and how long they last.


54. The fewer possessions you have, the more they do for you.


55. When you’re sick of your own life, that’s a good time to pick up a book.


56. Wishing things were different is a great way to torture yourself.


57. The ability to be happy is nothing other than the ability to come to terms with how things change.


58. When you fall down, you wonder what else you can do while you're down there


59. It's frustrating when you know all the answers but nobody bothers to ask you the questions


And Finally,


60) Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.

Ideas from an Indian

We all know that Petrol costs goes up day by day probably intra-day in future. Everybody is struggling to get petrol due to its higher cost. This petrol price hike hits other factors of production of the county to the greater extent. Rise in the petrol price will cause the country in every nook and corner. Considering the various factors and being affected by the petrol price hike, now one question arises who consumes more, why don’t the government levy special tax on excess consumption by certain categories of people in India?. I agree, there must be exceptions to this tax in such a way that it should not affect the normal people those who are below the poverty line. Hence it could be levied on personal excess consumption identified through special mechanism which could be developed in this regard.


This could lead the said category people to cut down their excess consumption from luxury to normal necessary requirements. The tax levied on this way could be used to compensate the petrol price hike in the county consequently there shall not be any further rise for longer period of time. This tax shall not be the income to the government; it must be used only to control the price hike of petrol in the country. Special purpose vehicle could be formed by the government and that can do all the required things.

People may wonder how it is possible to tax this petrol excess consumption; it is quite different but not difficult. Everybody has permanent account number issued by Income-tax department which could be considered as identification of the personal with vehicle RC book where in the name of the registered owner will be traced or from the database of the Vehicle registration department details of the vehicle owner to be identified with special software as and when the sales man enters the vehicle number in the software for billing.

The agencies which are selling petrol shall be controlled by special rule made in this purpose.

Now what is mean by excess consumption? This question is the subject matter that the people of India have to decide?

The price hike has following impact:

Petrol Price hike à Price hike for Factors of Production -à Price hike in Products à Inflation of Rupee à Life change for human being à forcefully man has to create new methods to get more money to survive -à  Leads to abnormal physical and mental changes in human beings in the Country à Could lead to overriding law, rules etc.

The above impact for one time hike, let us imagine there are continuous hike in the price. Only god can save us! But continuous increase in the factors of production is not at all good for the health of the nation!

Now what we can do........................................................................................?

Aal izz well !!

There was a man who worked for the railroad. One day as he went into the freezer compartment to do his

routine work, the door accidentally closed and he found himself trapped in the compartment.

He shouted for help but no one heard him since it was past midnight. He tried to break down the door but he

could not. As he lay in the freezer compartment, he began to feel colder, and colder. Then he began to feel

weaker, and weaker, and he wrote on the wall of the compartment, “I am feeling colder, and colder; and I am

getting weaker, and weaker. I am dying, and this may be my last words”.

In the morning when the other workers opened up the compartment they found him dead. The sad twist to

the above story is that the freezing apparatus in the compartment had broke down a few days earlier.

The poor worker did not know about the damaged freezing apparatus and in his mind the freezing apparatus

was working perfectly. He felt cold, got weaker and literally willed himself to die.

SUCCESS PRINCIPLES

Our sub-conscious mind can be cheated. The sub-conscious mind can only accept and act on information

passed to it by the conscious mind. It has no capacity to reject or decline any instructions or

information passed to it by the conscious mind. In the case of the poor worker, he consciously thought that he

was getting colder, weaker and dying and the sub-conscious mind accepted the above instructions and

affected his physical body. That was how he willed

himself to die.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE

"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment

will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at

a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen."

Some bits of humour in Financial Management

A beggar to another beggar: I had a grand dinner at Taj yesterday.


How? The other beggar asked.

First begger : Some one gave me a Rs 100/- note yesterday.
I went to Taj and ordered dinner worth Rs 1,000/-,
and enjoyed the dinner. When the bill came, I said,
I had no money.
The Taj manager called the police man, and handed me
over to him.
I gave the Rs 100/- note to the police fellow, and
he set me free.

A wonderful example of financial
management indeed..!!!