I am very impressed by Shane Warne's stints in IPL so far. He has been a tremendous leader, mentor. He brought success to Rajasthan Royals last year and this year also despite loss of some players like Shane Watson and Sohail Tanvir, Royals are doing OK. What impresses me the most is the way in which he has mentored a young player Kamran Khan. He picked him from nowhere and chiseled him to become a wonderful performer in IPL. Despite a lot of cultural and lingual difference he is able to communicate well with Kamran Khan. Kamran does not understand English much and Warne does not understand Hindi, yet their association has been amazing. You must notice the body language of Kamran Khan and Warne when Warne goes to him and advises him. He puts both his hands on Kamram's cheeks and then tells him to do what he wants him to do. Other than that he has also holded team Rajasthan Royals well together and team is performing well with in the limit of the talent they have.
If you see Warne on field, you would surely notice a lot of intensity in him. His body language shows it clearly. He looks like Maximus of Gladiator. Where does he get motivation from? One may say it comes from the magnanimity of the wealth that IPL throws on individual players. I partially agree with it. But I think only money can not generate the magnitude of intensity that Warne has. There is something else in my opinion and that something is his desire to take up a challenge and then to become successful in achieving the goal. He took a poorly rated team in IPL last year, took up responsibility of both coach and captain. He set up a supporting staff for himself and chalked out good plans and then worked hard, worked very hard. And finally there he is, playing as the captain of the team defending IPL in South Africa this season.
It is something similar to entrepreneurship where one takes up a challenge then works hard and success follows. I have personally felt that the best came out of me when I had taken sole responsibility of achieving a very difficult goal on my shoulders. The amount of satisfaction I got once I had achieved the goal was amazing. And it was real fun to take up the challenge. And I think I became better person in the process.
I think one simple approach to live a fulfilling life can be, take up challenges. Make plans to achieve success. Work with perfection to achieve those goals. If you achieve them, it is amazing and if you do not, try to learn from the experience. Make better plans next time and execute them even better. But another thing that I would point out here is that in the process you will also have fun. The tougher challenge you take, the adventurous your journey can be to achieve it and higher would be the amount of fun that you have. And this is probably what motivates Warne in the IPL.
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Hmmm....it all makes sense when you achieve the goal you targetted. What do you do when you gave it your full and in the end, you failed? I know, one should not lose heart and probably give another shot, or work harder n stuff. But, do you think it's right to keep pursuing a particular goal despite repeated failures? Till when should one pursue something that constantly fails him? Shouldn't one have a deadline for everything, because in the end, it doesn't really matter whether you achieved it or not. Life anyways continues. Not to forget, that God has something better in store for you! Right?
Why do you say it does not matter in the end?
Also in my opinion it is individual's choice to decide if he wants to persist with the goal or wants to take failures as a sign of moving to something else. Both choices are good enough in my opinion. Sometimes it may happen that one continues to try to achieve a goal for so long and when he achieves it, he feels that it was not what he wanted. because situations might have changed a lot from the time when he had first started for the goal.
but on the other hand if one moves to other things every quickly, he may actually loose an opportunity to achieve what he could have in his next attempt. Therefore answer is depndent on both individual person and individual situation. Both decisions are good and it is more about taking a decision and then making it right.
well said mohit..ladka great thinker hai!!
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