Gerald D'Cunha

Pic.: Malabika Ganguly “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” - Stephen King W ork, no matter how hard and long it is, has never broken anybody’s back. The resistance to work, which essentially comes from lack of love for the work, has. If I do not love the work I am doing, I will be doing it reluctantly, with my grumbling heart... Back is broken only when heart grumbles... Nobody has died due to hard work... Never, ever. But with a hard, complaining heart, plenty have died, and they are dying still! I don’t watch TV serials. But, whenever KBC comes, I do. Why? Besides the fact that I am a huge fan of Amitabh Bachchan, I watch it for this reason, too: He makes you feel that work can be a great pleasure even at an age when many retire, sit at home and keep complaining about their knee-joints, backache, poor eyesight and hard hearing... Age is only in your...

Dr. Napoleon Hill, in his famous book – ‘The Law of Success’, emphasizes on one important law of personal growth: ‘Going the extra-mile’. I was about 21 or 22 when I got hold of this book. By then, I had been heavily influenced by Dr. Hill’s most coveted classic – ‘Think & Grow Rich’. The Law of Success, thus, did not have much to contribute to my growth’, even though for millions, worldwide, this voluminous bestseller was ‘the Bible’. To me, it was ‘Think & Grow Rich’. It still is! However, even at that young age, the law of ‘Going the extra-mile’ appealed me, instantaneously. I could feel the quiet power concealed in this law. And, I knew, it was the easiest of all other Success laws to follow… As, to go the extra-mile meant: going beyond the call of duty! All that I had to do was: do the work with my full heart… with all the passion in the world… Do it with love, do with joy… and do it for more hours than expected, do more than what was pai...