THE 'WILL TO DO'... WHAT WE 'WANT TO DO'
Pic.: Chetna Shetty “A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions… They thrive because someone expended effort on them.” Liberty Hyde Bailey A while ago, I was talking to a group of five young-men. They wanted me to help them develop their self-confidence; particularly, they wanted me to help them overcome their self-doubts and anxieties with regard to speaking in English before an audience. All of them were working young-men. Along with work, they were doing their post-graduation, too. They had studied through English mediums schools. But… They did not speak English… They did not read English… They did not write English… They did not listen to English speakers… “Your low-self-confidence is not due to your poor English,” I told the young-men, “it is due to the poor self-image you hold.” The young-men, perhaps, had not heard of it anytime before, from anyon...