Thursday, September 29, 2016
MEMO FROM NARA
Plunging
world economy, civil war in Syria, waves of
refugees into Europe, terrorist attack all over the world, and climate change
are some of the problems faced by the world today. Leaders of the nations meet
at various places discuss the situations and disperse. The follow-up is not
encouraging at all. Media highlight the everyday incidents caused by these
problems. In fact, it is not easy to tackle such problems, as they are as
complex as they are. Disagreement among national leaders is one of the reasons
to make the problems more complex. Every country thinks of its own interest
first. If it is beneficial, then it supports the point of view of other
countries, otherwise not. After the summit meets, no one knows how the problems
are dealt with. Diplomats and secretaries make umpteen visits to various
countries and make further attempts to implement the agreements made by the
political leaders. Sometimes they are successful but most of the time they are
not successful because of the internal problems of each country.
How to solve these problems? Delay it! By the
time new problems arise and new summit meets are planned. Thus the story
continues. It is a never ending process faced by the world. In between, apart
from the man-made problems nature-made problems like drought, flood,
earthquakes, landslides, forest fires etc. occur. Good lot of money and effort are
spent on these. Human lives lost in these calamities are lost forever.
Destructions were reconstructed by spending quite a lot of money. Thus
solutions are found for natural calamities.
In the final analysis there is no life
without problems. For some problems solutions are found, few have partial
solutions and very few problems have no solutions at all. So we have to live
with the world problems taking appropriate step to manage them.
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
It is one of the qualities
that you'll always find in highly successful people.
They have an unshakable
belief in themselves and their ability to be an extraordinary success in life.
And almost everyone has the capacity to do wonderful things with his or her
life.
Unfortunately, most people do not believe in themselves ... enough.
Every
one of us has some feelings of inferiority.
We think we're not as good as other
people and we think we're not good enough to acquire and enjoy the things we
want in life.
And some of us even think, "If the people around me really
knew how little I know, I'd be in big trouble."
You must learn to believe
in yourself.
You must develop your beliefs to such an extent that they serve
you and serve you well each and every day.
You see ... the men and women who
accomplish extraordinary things are just ordinary people who developed their belief
systems so well that they are able to overcome any obstacles that get in their
way and keeping on until they reach their goals.
OBSERVE...
Keep your eyes open.
There
are things happening, all around you, all the time.
The scene of events is
interesting, illuminating, full of news and meaning.
It’s a great show — an
impressive parade of things worth knowing.
Admission is free — keep your eyes
open. T
here are only two kinds of experience: the experience of ourselves and
the experience of others. Our own experience is slow, laboured, costly, and
often hard to bear.
The experience of others is a ready-made set of directions
on knowledge and life.
Their experience is free; we need suffer none of their
hardships; we may collect on all their good deeds.
All we have to do is observe!
TEACH, READ AND WRITE
TEACH
If you would have knowledge, knowledge sure and sound, teach. Teach your
children, teach your associates, teach your friends. In the very act of
teaching, you will learn far more than your best pupil.
Knowledge is relative; you possess it in degrees. You know more about
reading, writing, and arithmetic than your young child. But teach that child at
every opportunity; try to pass on to him all you know, and the very
attempt will produce a great deal more knowledge inside your own brain.
READ
From time immemorial it has been commonly understood that the best way
to acquire knowledge was to read. That is not true. Reading is only one way to
knowledge, and in the writer’s opinion, not the best way. But you can surely
learn from reading if you read in the proper manner.
What you read is important, but not all
important. How you read is the main consideration. For if you know how to
read, there’s a world of education even in the newspapers, the magazines,
on a single billboard or a stray advertising dodger. The secret of good reading
is this: read critically!
WRITE
To know it — write it! If you’re writing to explain, you’re
explaining it to yourself! If you’re writing to inspire, you’re
inspiring yourself! If you’re writing to record, you’re recording it on your
own memory. How often you have written something down in order to be sure you
would have a record of it, only to find that you never needed the written
record because you had learned it by heart!
The men of the best memories are those who make notes, who write
things down. They just don’t write to remember, they write to learn.
TO QUOTE
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you
can do and succeed at. – Stephen Hawking
The problem with the world is that the intelligent
people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence. –Charles
Bukowski
Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all
characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature
functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economics do is keep it
to minimum. – Alan Greenspan
Voters reap
what they sow! We are also compelled to reap what others sowed! because
democracy is all about numbers. – Kiran Bedi
PREACHING
Don't
preach. Most people already know what's right and wrong. Many of life’s
events are beyond your control, but how you react to them is within your
control.
- When things go wrong, look in the mirror and you'll generally find the responsible party.
- Worrying is stewing, not doing. Worry is the price you pay for something that has less than one chance in ten of happening.
- Wear a smile. It increases your face value and one size fits all.
- FEAR stands for False Evidence Appearing Real.
- Don't cry because it’s over; smile because it happened.
- The world is not fair. Accept it.
- Things will not always go your way. Deal with it.
- Everyone will not agree with you, get along with you, or treat you the way you would like. So what?
- Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
- Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
JUST TO LAUGH
A
car belonging to a pregnant patient was broken
into. The only thing that was stolen was a wine bottle in a brown paper bag. It
turns out, that’s where she was keeping her urine sample, which she’d brought
in to be tested.
“Here,”
says the
nurse, handing the patient a urine specimen container. “The bathroom‘s over there.” A few minutes
later, the patient comes out of the bathroom. “Thanks,” he says, returning the
empty container. “But there was a toilet in there, so I didn’t need this after
all.”
A
frantic man calls his doctor: “My wife is pregnant, and
her contractions are only 2 minutes apart!” “Is it her first child?” the doctor
asks. “No,!” the man shouts. “This is her husband!”
Learn to see the wonders of Nature!
Meet you next month –November, 2016
Professor A. Narayanan, Ph. D., FISPP
E-mail: arumugakannu@gmail.com
Ph : 0422 4393017 Mobile : 098422 42301
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