New skills..

Well…at this young age, (emphasis again on the “Young age”), I acquired a new skill….learning to drive on the Indian roads!!Wow!! It quite amazed a number of people and I could often hear the gasps!! (sometimes so big, that….even Jim Carrey (Mask) would not have been able to match those expressions…!!) So far the past 6 months, Chennai roads & NH 45 has had a new risk to handle - me on the roads!! Touch wood…it has been going smooth, but for some very minor (if I may use the word) thrills!!Some good guidance from good friends / relative as well as extended research on tips from the net..made this possible. some milestones on this that made me personally happy...one shareable one is - 16.5 kms/ L in the city; 22 Kms/L on the highways. Hmmm…not bad, right

Over the past few years, I had been trying to add new skills / hobbies to keep my mind sharper.One such good hobby was to solve Sudoku’s – it just started as a time pass, then a hobby and then finally an obsession!! Anywhere I found a Sudoku, I would try to solve it – even if it was my neighbors newspaper or a friends/ relatives house that we were visiting. Finally it came to a point where the Better Half had to step in and say “STOP, no more Sudoku’s”. But being in the
stage of obsession, obviously I could not leave it the next day (yeah…you can ask any smoker on how easy it is to quit that habit - No offence to anyone)…so what did I do…would try solving Sudoku’s at any “secret”/ available opportunity…home toilet seats for example. Luckily gave this habit and made it a passion now..that was fun!!!

An interesting hobby that I got into was learning “Card tricks” – some basic tricks from the net, that I like to do in front of my daughter / her cousins. Always fun to do and often coming up with variations of tricks has been fascinating..hmm…maybe one day, surely there will be a Public performance for a small audience (of kids of course)!!

How sharp is your knife..
Let us start with the Woodcutter story (before you let your imagination go wild…NO, not the Simran one!!) – but the other one. Well here is a crisp version. 2 woodcutters (One old and one young) had a competition on who would cut the maximum no. of trees in a forest in 3 days time. The young one was well built and he had at the end of Day-1, cut 1.5 times the number of trees than the older man. Often he would pride himself that he could go non-stop the whole day!! Then by end of Day-2, the old man had almost caught up; End of Day-3, the old man had comfortably overtaken the younger stronger man…Logic says not possible…the younger person is stronger and can go on continuously!!! So what happened!!! Well the older man took periodic rest, recharged himself and also more importantly ensured that he sharpened his Axe, so that the edge is not blunt, but sharp and he is able to cut smoothly..
Message : We are often content with the skills we have and think that we can continue to be successful with this!! Hmm…maybe or maybe not or up to a particular level yes, after that ? so continue to horne your existing skills, learn new tricks / hobbies / traits…and I am sure in the Long run this would really help Professionally and personally!!

PS: this blog is slightly different…I have tried to write it in a logical way…the logic should also work if you start reading from the bottom para and go upwards!!
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