Ah that elusive thing ..this concentration . Why oh why dont i seem to have even an ounce of this miraclous elixiir. The most oft repeated cliche in books like "a hundred thousand ways to success" (God are their really so many ways ..i seem to have so much difficulty in finding even one..!!) is ,"concentration is vital for doing well in any given situation".And obviously it is true. But the problem really is, why in the world is it so rare and uncommon and a dodgy little virtue ? They say one can always develop it.Oh really ? and how ?? Ah there are so many techniques . Like ?? Well to mention one look, continuously at a pen( or whatever) for 10 minutes without thinking anything. WHAT ?? without thinking anything ? for 10 whole minutes..!! You kidding me ?? At any given time i have atleast two threads of thought in my head , and that too when i am doing something worthwhile(which is very rare i confess..). At other times my head is filled with all kinds of xyz thoughts.
This is most pronounced when i am actually trying not to think of anything else.Let me give the wary reader an example. Doing TSD (time speed distance..duh..!!) problems . (In brackets are my thoughts) Ram starts to walk towards his office at 6:30 (office hmm..cool wonder why it is called an office..oh comeon back to the question) and reaches 5 minutes late ( the crusades video i saw was so interesting man, wonder why Saladin didnt attack Richard at juffa ? ..aaargh back to the question) If he starts at 6:25 and doubles his speed (that fella jeremy brett is ideal for sherlock holmes not that our dear old dracky cudnt do it ..but accent will be a real problem..ah that wallpaper with Mr Simpson saying No Problemo was such a laugh ..hehe..ooh what was the question again ??) Ram starts to walk towards his ( God i am reading this again now..have to work on my concentration ..wonder why is it so elusive..)office at 6:30 and reaches 5 minutes late (concentarate.. concentrate.. concentrate...) if he starts at 6:25 (concentarate.. concentrate.. concentrate...) and douybles his speed ,(concentarate.. concentrate.. concentrate...) he reaches at 7:10 ( ah not able to conecntrate..tch tch ..furget it..lets go and write a blog) . Finally i close the book and am here blogging.
God save me..
4 comments:
Good to see you blogging...provides us insight into what makes the holy one tick!
if all this continues..u can rest assured "The Holy One" wud stop ticking pretty soon...sigh..
@amit
Ah this callous persona of yours..mocking a sad disheartened soul like me who gets nearly half your score in the ill-fated mocks.
As you reside in the upper seventies and we struggle to find a foothold even in the fifties u cant help but feel alone.
What makes you what you are Amit ? Care to give your lesser friends some insights ?
@amit
improvement becomes all the more difficult when you are at the top my friend.
Anyways,this killer instinct itself, i think,is your secret.I only hope more of us can emulate you..amen.
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