Change-Evolve-Sustain

It is not so uncommon that that these days, with the kind of exposure that everyone are being exposed to, accepting that gravity is a great teacher never goes for a toss. People accept to it, but do we stay grounded? That’s a huge question. We all readily accept the adage when we look at others floating, as a matter of fact, the adage also looks greener on the other side.

Staying grounded teaches you to look at failures without a bias, it lets you start the introspection from yourself, the intrinsic route before looking at the extrinsic causes. Even in case it’s an extrinsic cause, it might probably be your error to have  not handled it properly. Ultimately, like this country, your life is also a democratic one- you for yourself, by you, of you; but in one of my earlier blogs Emergence of life, I had written that the purpose of life is for others and to the maximum extent possible we need to help others. That’s true, I still stand by it, what I meant here was about how you need to look after yourself and not wait for another person to look after you.

The other day, in one of my classes, my lecturer used a fantastic simile of life with swimming- we learn to swim in the well or probably in the pond, but when we try to use that swimming in the real world it’s in the ocean with all wild whales and piranhas swimming along, trying to go ahead of you in which sense will even most probably never hesitate to eat you up. That is when I thought about something called Change- evolve –sustain! I will use the same simile of swimming and explain.

What is that we are supposed to do while we try to swim- 

Ground rule 1: NEVER GULP – it’s all bad waters.

Ground rule 2: Keep your neck up, and the MAIN- never go with the flow- you might never know when it would lead to a waterfall!

Try to reach a bank and probably, you can choose your bank and take it up from there.

This in my terms, is the simplest connection that I could come up pertaining to what I thought was pertaining to the CHANGE-EVOLVE-SUSTAIN, and it never goes wrong for any field which you choose to be in!

Churn out new ideas in your life, at certain times, the best ideas are so simple that we do not have the guts to it- for ex, the other day I read a research result which had a hypothesis does engineers believe the result which they get on their calculator in the first go? And expectedly 71% answered no! And, again churning out new ideas is not about planning ahead of time, there is no such thing as planning ahead of time- you can only be planning in time, or probably on time. But, never ahead.

Sticking to our topic of CHANGE-EVOLVE-SUSTAIN, this churning of new ideas is a continuous process, and what is more important here to evolve out successful is to ensure very keenly that you do not fall to the method of madness which is utter chaos. Methods can be there, but ensure it doesn’t kill your spontaneity, because when you feel like falling to the madness think of the swimming simile of going with the flow! If you are still brave enough to take the route of waterfall and survive, I’ll be more than happy to invite you over for dinner.

LEARNING is a continuous process, like how we learn how to walk, how to start speaking our mother tongue, do you remember the time you started speaking your mother tongue? That’s evolving with time, and ultimately learning cannot be bereft of your senses and which is why I feel falling into to the method of madness is a crime.

Now, to sustain after changing and evolving- have the tolerance, and keep chasing the ghosts and never let it chase you! (I meant your fears and doubts), never look for light at the end of the tunnel- Go over it! Climb up the mountains and you will have a clear view of what is happening rather than focusing only on your path, which is probably why I feel it is crazy when professors ask the students to sit in the first bench… why in their terms that students in the last bench can never listen- I hardly understand.

NEVER compromise. There are a lot of living examples and standing proofs for that, who have never compromised on their values, ideas, and still could be successful and made a lot of money, look up to them and don’t look down upon them.