DOING IN LIFE ANYTHING BUT WORK
T he phrase ‘Gadha mazdoori’ has a ring around it! I use it several times in a day to tell my students, “ Dekh beta , if you think, that hard work alone brings success, the donkey would have been crowned as an Icon long time ago!” “Stop doing the donkey work,” I hammer them, “Do smart work.” And, whenever I find a young one self-pitying with the thought, “I work very hard,” I shake him hard and yell, “ Bachha , you work hardly!” But, no. The Bachha still loves to believe, that he works very, very hard! A couple of days ago, in one of my sessions, I reminded my bachhas about what Einstein had said: “Success is one percent perspiration and ninety-nine percent inspiration.” Not a soul tried to correct me! So, I hope, they went home with this ooltah theory of Einstein: that, to be successful, their work needed to be an inspired work, and not just hard work… I had, also, reminded them about what Abraham Lincoln had said referring to...