Gerald D'Cunha

  “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery   M y student, Shardul (17), had worn a T-shirt, today. I was drawn to the words written on its front: “Feel the fear; and, do it anyway” I was familiar with these words; hence, I asked the young man, “Shardul, did you know whose words are those?” “No Sir,” Shardul replied, sincerely. It is the title of a very inspiring book by Suzan Jaffers: “Feel the Fear; And Do It Anyway.” I told Shardul and his friends, that the book had tremendous impact on my mind when I read it in the nineties. I, particularly, mentioned about the five truths the author highlights about Fear in this book.   FIVE TRUTHS ABOUT FEAR Truth #1: The fear will never go away as long as I continue to grow. Truth #2: The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it. Truth #3: The only way to feel...

“If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride them.” This morning, a young boy was telling me that he wanted to start his own company! “Why not?” I thought, “He certainly can.” When I first landed in Mumbai, about thirty-three years ago, I too was dreaming like this boy did. “I want to start something on my own,” I was telling myself and my close ones around.  Luckily, I had picked-up a book on the roadside. “Whatever a man’s mind conceives and believes, it can achieve!” A young, raw boy like me needed this ‘booster pumping’ from Napoleon Hill’s timeless classic – ‘Think & Grow Rich’. I haven’t become ‘financially very rich’… But, certainly, I have achieved whatever my mind had ‘conceived’ and ‘believed in’. So, whenever a young, raw boy or girl declares his dream – call it his desire to build his castles in the air, if you like – I don’t laugh. I really don’t.  If a simple, unpolished boy, like me, cou...