YASHASVI BHAVA!
“If
you’re going through hell, keep going.”
-- Winston Churchill
I have
never used any of the products of Apple Inc My young son has... He still does.
But, one thing we both have done – and still do is: we both immensely admire
late Steve Jobs, the brilliant man behind the coveted Apple Inc. and its equally-coveted
products – iPhones, iPads, iPods iMacs, iBooks and everything Steve Jobs has
left behind…
One of the priceless
things Steve Jobs has left behind – and, to me, it’s far, far more valuable
than his technological creations – is his speech at the Stanford Universality’s
graduation-day ceremony (on June 12, 2005). It’s stayed there, as his priceless
legacy, by that clarion call – ‘Stay Hungry Stay Foolish’…
Steve Jobs ends
his speech with this phrase and tells the young graduates as to where and how
he found it… Please listen to his full speech…
Some years
later, our own Rashmi Bansal made this phrase even more famous by her inspirational
book – ‘Stay Hungry Stay Foolish’. In her book, she tells us the inspiring success-stories
of 25 brilliant IIM- A grads, who left their lucrative jobs to follow their ‘off-beat’
passions. I highly recommend this book
to you (Published by CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad).
Now,
the story of every great achiever in life is, indeed, a story of constant
struggles and frustration. I am talking about the first generation of achievers…
like Jamshetji Tata, Dhirubhai Ambani, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Sachin
Tendulkar, M.S. Dhoni, Harivansh Rai and his son Amitabh Bachchan, to name the
very-accomplished ones. But, the list has lakhs and lakhs, whose stories are no
less inspiring… Yes, all of them had to ‘stay hungry and stay foolish’ to make
it to where they landed in their lives. All over the world, and all through the
ages, the first generation of achievers had no other road to reach there…
except through staying hungry and staying foolish!
You and I may
not have accomplished as much as a Steve Jobs or an M.S. Dhoni have. But, I am
sure, we, too, have stayed hungry and stayed foolish to reach where we have in
our lives. It’s not necessary, that we need to be in the limelight the way they
have been. But, it is necessary
to tread the path they have…
My younger
brother, Rony, wanted to be an accomplished singer in our local Konkani world…
He did. But, as his elder brother, I can vouch for him: he had to stay hungry
and stay foolish, too!
Just a while
ago, Rony sent to me an inspiring write-up on the latest cricket sensation
(under-19 hero) Yashasvi Jaiswal, Today, this rising star has scored an
unbeaten 105 to steer our team to a stupendous victory against Pakistan in World
Cup Semi Final in South Africa…
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