Last week I wrote on being at a crossroad. Generally, we are all making some or the other decision. I specially like entrepreneurs who need to be constantly analyzing situations their business and survival + growth. Life becomes very interesting, challenging and driven by passion. One has to balance between Guts, Analysis and if possible one can work on instinct with the help of awareness. Follow my one tweet recently.
I am no expert, yet feel there has to be a balance in life. Balance between extremes. Whether its about love or hate, passion or dispassion, emotions and logic or Socialism and Capitalism. The balance (which we professionals) generally is restricted to something such as Work-Life balance. Balance goes beyond that limited definition. Yet for the time being assume balance as work-life balance. I want share a news few months back.
Founder of Hexaware, Mr Atul Nishar sold off his stakes in the company and the news was that he wanted to go for a 10 day Vipassana meditation. Read the news here – After selling Hexaware, Atul Nishar longs for ‘nothingness’. I am no one to comment on a very successful businessmen yet in the news one point made me think.
QUOTE – “I have been constantly working for more than last 30 years and never took a break. This is a great opportunity for me to take a pause and feel nothingness,” says Nishar… UNQUOTE
I was thinking that there are two options – 1. learn from this statement and start bringing balance in life now or 2. struggle tirelessly and – may be and may be – one day we’d be next Mr Nishar to experience “Nothingness”. Question is, why wait? concurrently why go on any extreme? Grow as businessman/professional and spiritually together?
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2 Comments
rummuser · February 16, 2014 at 1:41 am
It is a particularly materialistic way of looking at life’s conundrums in ‘either or’ terms instead of ‘and’ terms. Why not indeed? I did and am very happy for it.
KRD Pravin · February 16, 2014 at 1:14 pm
That is the problem its not about Either Or it is about AND… I used to work on TRIZ – Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. In TRIZ we try to resolve contradictions where we try to apply principles so that we can make AND between contradiction rather than either/or. You can check my blogs on TRIZ – http://business2buddha.com//?s=TRIZ&search=Go
That is what is your quality uncleji…. there is no doubt you have done this. I need to learn this from you.