Gerald D'Cunha

  “The dream in your heart may be bigger than  the environment in which you find yourself.” Darren Hardy   I came to know about Darren Hardy’s book – ‘The Compound Effect’ – while searching for an appropriate quote for today’s blog. You see, my world has been revolving around the young college kids… for nearly five decades that is. Yes, I started teaching while I was in my first-year B. Com… and, once I made that conscious choice to become a good teacher and a good writer, the rest happened around that robust choice… I stayed committed and consistent throughout. There were bleak times when I did worry about my future… “Did I make the right choice?”… Yes, this question has come to hit me hard countless times, making my heart shiver. But, then, that solitary choice which I made while still in college – yes, at the end of the day, it has helped me stay faithful to my commitment, stay consistent… and, come this far. So, when I came across a good review on Darren Ha...

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” R. W. Emerson in his essay, ‘Self-reliance’.   I was introduced to Ralf Waldo Emerson’s inspiring essays through Napoleon Hill’s books. In his famous classic, ‘The Law of Success’, Napoleon Hill has separate chapters on topics such as ‘Initiative’, ‘Enthusiasm’, ‘Leadership’ etc. What hit me the most, at the young age of 21, when I was reading this book over and over again (alongside his ‘Think and Grow Rich’) was the idea called ‘Initiative’. I learnt, that it’s the personal quality of an individual to do tasks without being told… doing them without looking at the watch… doing them for not money alone… It’s going the extra-mile to do them and, above all, do them with a great deal of self-reliance. As I said, at an age of 21, when one gets to grasp the importance of these personal qualities, one, also, realizes how it helps to build his personal leadership. I learnt, early, that through these qualities, I was in ...