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#31 : #Focus on What you have

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  Focus on What you have Focus on What you have, not what you don’t have. I want to illustrate this with a story. Karoly Takacs was the 1 st Shooter to win Two Olympic gold Medals in the Rapid-fire pistol Event. He was an army man and always wanted to participate in Olympics, he was denied in the 1936 Summer Olympics as he was a Sergeant and only commissioned officers only could compete. Later this prohibition was lifted and was scheduled to participate in the 1940 Tokyo Summer Olympic game. Everyone vouched that he would bring the medal to the country. Unfortunately, during Army training in 1938, his right hand was badly injured with a faulty grenade exploded on his arm. Takacs spent a month in the hospital, devastated not just for the loss of his right hand but also the opportunity to win Gold at the highest level of the sport. But he was determined to compete it, he started to practice with his left hand and in a year, he won the 1939 National event and was on the way to...

#30: #Soildiers and Scouts

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  Soldiers and Scouts              Couple of months ago I was  interacting with few kids at my apartment , when they  came home after giving their exams, I asked them how was their exams? One told Uncle , not so good we got lot of stuff out of syllabus, which was not thought in school, why can’t they just give what is in syllabus?          Other student on the other hand said, I also got things out of Syllabus, but I referred reference books which I got , I explored other books, so I could answer the questions. So, my paper was good. If you analyse two approaches, one person wants exactly what is thought, haven’t explored anything extra, and doesn’t want also, while another one was exploring things outside his boundaries, he was not confined to what is offered to him, and he doesn’t mind exploring other stuff.                Phycologists term these as two...