Gerald D'Cunha

“Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress; Working hard for something we love is called passion.” - Simon Sinek M any parents have been approaching me for our upcoming PD course. They want their little-ones and young-ones to find motivation in life... work without being told, work hard and work long and ,above all, enjoy what they are doing and succeed in it. When you are hungry, you look for food… When you are thirsty, you look for water. Is not motivation as simple as that? Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? And, hungry and thirsty for what? I   did not know what I wanted to do in my life till I landed in First Year B.Com, that is, till I was 18. When I watched and deeply admired my own teacher, Prof. B.S. Raman, and desired and dreamt of becoming a fine teacher like him, motivation to achieve that dream came along… Nobody needed to tell me ‘Work hard and work long’… Nobody needed to tell me how to find my passion… T...

Pic.: Amrta Jeurkar I have been getting this Forward – a very relevant confession of Rahul Dravid – repeatedly for some time: “I was poor at Maths; so, I chose Commerce. In my second year of B’Com, I decided to do C.A. in case cricked did not work out. After opening the first text, I doubled my efforts in cricket!” The interesting thing about this message is, that it is mostly forwarded by students! This morning, when I received it, I saw the names of a couple of my students… and, immediately, my face lit up with a smile. These were the kids, who had been hearing the same message from me for close to two years. “There are only two ways to feel happy and successful in life,” I would, repeatedly remind them, “Do what you love. If you can’t, then, love what you do.” Well, you know, that I did not author those words. For thousands of years, wise-men have been reminding all of us about it… That, it is important to find what we love to do in life, an...