Your way of viewing and understanding the
world itself is wrong. All the available teachings are also geared towards
seeing the world with a wrong perspective. Usually, all your education teaches
you how to conquer the world and how to achieve success; but everyone forgets
that to achieve any kind of success externally, it is necessary to first
conquer what lies within. And, this is the reason why most successful people
are either uneducated or less-educated – be it Thomas Edison or the Wright
Brothers; be it Walt Disney or anyone else.
Why is it so? It is so because they set out
on the journey of their lives by conquering themselves first. And it was only
when Walt conquered himself that he did not give up on his intent to do
something big in the field of cartoon and animation in spite of numerous
failures. Despite all the adverse situations he could remain firmly determined
on his purpose because he had conquered himself. Otherwise, after failing a few
times he too could have changed his field like us. And today nobody would have
even known who he was.
Similarly, look at Edison who persistently
spent 27 days and nights at a stretch in a laboratory when he was inventing the
filament for the bulb. Neither was he aware of the world around him nor was he
in contact with his family. Neither did he chit-chat with his friends nor did
he worry about the routine. Now, someone who has conquered himself to such an
extent can easily conduct more than a thousand experiments! Why would he need a
degree for this purpose? And by studying five books in the entire year we have
been going from 10th to the 11th grade. Now, in such a situation do we have the
capability of even understanding an experiment, let alone conduct one?
Therefore, I insist that you focus on conquering yourself instead of working on
hundreds of other things; as the one who conquers himself, automatically
conquers the world!
-Deep Trivedi
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