Atomic energy is potent. It can be used as the most creative source or it can become the most destructive source. Similarly, knowledge, power, position, popularity and prosperity are potent forces. They can create like nothing can, or destroy like nothing will. It all depends on how it is directed. And how it is directed depends on the direction of your intelligence.
It is not your intelligence, but it is the direction of your intelligence that determines the pace of your progress. People who succeed do not necessarily have a higher intelligence, but have a better direction to their intelligence.
Ask right now, “Why is this a bad day?” and your intelligence will manage to give you enough reasons. Ask the same intelligence again, “Why is this a good day?” and it will manage to pop answers to this too. You can be your own devil's advocate, thinking for and thinking against the same aspect of life. It is just a question of the direction your thinking provides to your intelligence. Think troubles and your intelligence will give you a stock of your troubles. Think solutions and your intelligence becomes a solution provider.
First make the prejudiced pre-decision, “This person is wrong.” After that, start thinking where he is wrong, and your intelligence will substantiate your decision that the person is wrong in enough and more ways. The contrary too is true. Sometimes you are so prejudiced towards a person that you believe, “He can never be wrong. He is always right.” Now, your intelligence will supply you with enough details to validate your belief. So, right and wrong, is mostly a pre-judgement, and your intelligence only works in the direction of validating that judgement.
Get the direction of your intelligence right by getting your thinking right. And, get your thinking right, by thinking more and more in SO, instead of BUT.
I want to exercise, but… I want to start my own business, but… I really want to give quality time to my family, but… I definitely want to quit smoking, but… 'But' is negation. You are expressing a desire and in the same breath, with a 'But', you are explaining why you are not able to, or cannot do it. This thought pattern will take you nowhere.
I want to exercise, so… I want to start my own business, so… I want quality time with my family, so… I have decided to quit smoking, so… 'So' is progression. You are expressing a desire and with the same heartbeat, with a 'So', you are directing your intelligence to find ways to make it happen.
It is startling even to think how much you can accomplish, if you stop thinking 'Why it cannot be done', and instead start thinking 'How it can be done', even if it means that you don't have the answers yet. It is far better to wait without an answer in the right direction than to find an answer in the wrong direction.
To get your life right you have to get the direction of your intelligence right.
Loving you,
T.T. Rangarajan
(Excited to be alive...)
(Excited to be alive...)
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