He refers to an instance to explain this dichotomy - betwixt mindset and minding facts.
One of his friends used to be very enthusiastic and energetic. Strangely when he last saw him, the friend was very dull. The author took him for a cup of tea and asked why this sudden change. As if waiting to pour down, the friend went on and narrated, "The boss who used to be very affectionate to me suddenly starts finding fault with my work and shouts at me."
The author quietly listened to him. The friend went further, "all this sudden change is due to a new Consultant that the company has engaged recently. And I plan to tender my resignation papers"
Just as they were sipping their cup of tea, in the next table a customer gave his order with high decibels. The waiter was not so far that he could not hear the customer's order.
The author wondered, "The waiter is close by. Then what's the need for the customer to use high decibels?"
The friend replied, "May be the waiter is short of hearing. Hence the customer had to use high decibels to convey his order."
The author keenly observed and noticed that the customer had plugged an earphone in his ears and was listening to some songs while giving the order. The customer's mind was so obsessed with listening to the songs through the earphone that he thought that the bearer could not listen if he spoke softly. Therefore he used the high decibels to place his order.
The friend got the lesson instantly. He learnt to analyze why there was sudden change in the boss's interaction with him, learnt to sift the facts.
After a few days when the author and the friend met for a cup of tea again, the author noticed that the friend turned to his normal self with full of energy. He asked the friend, "what happened, what did you do with the resignation papers?"
The friend pointed to a corner in that cafeteria. In the corner was.........................yes, your guess is right, a big trashcan.
Another instance, once the great leader and former CM of Madras Presidency, Shri Rajaji was travelling in a train. The passenger sitting near the window in the opposite seat suddenly slipped his expensive wrist watch while the train was running at super speed. The passenger who lost the watch and his fellow passengers were worried and making a hue and cry. All this while, Rajaji remained unperturbed. Even when a few passengers commented on his remaining silent when the fellow passenger was deeply worried over loss of his watch. After a while the train stopped at the next Station. Then quietly, Rajaji said, "From this station, go back on track, your watch fell at the place where n th number of lamp post was there." While all were making hue and cry, he kept quiet and started counting the number of lamp posts on the way.
Lesson: No point in making a hue and cry. Keep Observing and try to see what best you can do.
The author refers to many such stories with practical lessons.
He quotes at right places many legends.
Here is who's who of those legendaries:
Swami Vivekananda
Maha Kavi Bharathi,
Mahatma Gandhi
Albert Einstein
Thomas A Edison
Somerset Maugham
And the book is very motivating one to all young aspiring minds.
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