THE MISSIONARY ZEAL
Pic.: Malabika Ganguly I f I can figure out from where my own motivation – to keep doing what I do in my life – comes, probably, it would be easy for me to figure out from where others get their motivation to do what they do. I keep finding it difficult, many a times, to make my students understand the need to work hard, long, and, work on their own. I was talking to a small batch of my eleventh-standard students, this morning. “Have you figured out what you want to do after twelfth?” I asked them. That was their immediate goal, I knew. Almost all of them were lukewarm in their response… “Maybe this… or, maybe that.” Yes, not sure… “If you cannot connect the work you are doing now (Accountancy, in this case), to your goal, then, how can you find motivation to do this work… work hard and long, and, above all, work on your own, without being told or coaxed?” “You have to love it, dear,” I told them, “You need to have a strong reason to invest ...