Wednesday, March 02, 2005

A motivational Talk by Shiv Khera,

As part of Techkriti, Shri Shiv Khera was invited to gave a motivational talk. He had a ton of great OneLiners and i liked them. "Ability without dependability, responsibility and flexibility is a liability". But then, is it true that people get motivated just by listening to some word jargon and quoted examples beyond (say) half-an-hour after the talk..I seriously doubt that!!

I believe that the actions we do come very naturally, as if some kind of reflex is at work. They cannot be mould by an algorithm in a talk/book. Its very hard to accept the stories that say "Reading this book or listening to some xyz changed my Life" Maybe these motivators can, for a short period of time, influence thought process and listening to such talks repeatedly help in some way. But then..is that even remotely close to Personality development? Is the character built on such talks/books sustainable? If thats the way things happen, This world would be full of Optimists, which is not the case. So by contra positivity my claim is true ;-)

But articles like this Structured Procrastination, that leave it for u to interpret and think about the wonderful concept, have a magical influence. It lasts long.

1 comment:

shantanu said...

personally i don't like khera that much...feel he's a sort of faker...
but what matters is what u gain...if one is able to gain smthing positive even out of a faker then thats wonderful...