Advise
Elders are good in advising so this page contains all the experience that my dad wants to pass on to me...Its easy to advise then to practise but any way as a dad he will do it.
1. Don’t consider yourself too smart and others too dumb
Easiest people to fool are the people who think themselves too smart. Always be humble and whenever you get an email telling you that you have won a big lottery .. stop and think ...world is not a fool and to be successful and rich its not that easy.
2. Once you finish up doing something there will be hundreds of people advising you how you could have done it better..
I Guess thats how human nature is. Everyone feels good by making others feel that they are better and smarter.
3. Success doesn't need any explanation and failure doesn't have any explanation.
4. Work hard till you have understood the soul of that thing.
Its complicated what i mean but let me explain you. At first when you try to ride a bicycle its so difficult to keep balance. But slowly when you practise you understand the soul of how to ride it. Once you learn then its easy. Same is true for typing initially you have to fiddle for keys then once you understand the soul you don't even need to look at the keyboard.
5. Never aim for materials. Aim for being the best in whatever you do and material happiness will follow.
In one interview shahrukh khan one of the greatest indian actor said he never aimed for Mercedes Benz or a BMW or having lot of money. He said he wanted to become the best actor, he knew if he can do that rest will follow.
6. Happiness is not materials for sure
When i was small i used to go to school on a bicycle at that time i thought if i would get my own motor cycle then i will really be happy. I grew up got my hero honda motor cycle then while riding i saw people in car enjoying the air conditioner in the hot sun hummm so i wanted a car. Came to US got a car and now i see people driving mercedes and BMW's... its endless material happiness is short lived. When ever i get a new thing i am happy for few days then after few days the charm is gone.....
6. Money is more than a transfer of value. It's a statement of belief.
7. Hardly worth the effort In most fields, there's an awful lot of work put into the last ten percent of quality.
Getting your golf score from 77 to 70 is far more difficult than getting it from 120 to 113 or even from 84 to 77.
Answering the phone on the first ring costs twice as much as letting it go into the queue.
Making pastries the way they do at a fancy restaurant is a lot more work than making brownies at home.
Laying out the design of a page or a flyer so it looks like a pro did it takes about ten times as much work as merely using the template Microsoft builds in for free, and the message is almost the same...
Except it's not. Of course not. The message is not the same.
The last ten percent is the signal we look for, the way we communicate care and expertise and professionalism. If all you're doing is the standard amount, all you're going to get is the standard compensation. The hard part is the last ten percent, sure, or even the last one percent, but it's the hard part because everyone is busy doing the easy part already.
The secret is to seek out the work that most people believe isn't worth the effort. That's what you get paid for.
Seth Goldin