An eye for an eye...is Talent

Don't get bemused by the title of this post! It has nothing to do with revenge and similar sentiments. It's all about the talent...

Let's take a small example:
We know of Dronacharya who taught various military arts to the royals of Hastinapur - Pandavas and Kauravas. He asked Yudhishthira and others, what they saw when asked to shoot a bird's eye. While others "saw" tree, forest, Dronacharya himself, bird et al, it was Arjuna, who reported seeing only the eye of the bird. Needless to say, he was the only one successful in his attempt of shooting the bird's eye and went on to become one of the greatest archers world ever saw!

There are two things that instantly come to my mind on recalling this story:
1) Arjuna was dedicated and focussed towards the goal...thereby striking the bird's eye correctly. He, thus, went on to become a great warrior as a result of this particular trait of his.
Lesson: We must focus on the right things - of course, the problem that may arise is to find out what is right! The answer lies in the second point below.

2) Arjuna had a natural talent to hit the targets - his eye was great at that. And moreover, he followed his guru's instructions to the hilt, thereby striking the eye of the bird. Rest of the royal disciples too had an eye -which wasn't too great at complementing the arrow - but must have possessed few other skills. It's because one cannot afford to lose the focus on the surroundings while concentrating on the target in a battleground.

All of us have a good eye for few targets and not-so-good eye for others! If we go by the analogy in the above story, Talent, in this case, is nothing but having an eye for the (bird's) eye; hence the title of this post.

All of us are talented in some way or the other and possess an expert-eye, what's needed is the bird's eye. How? The answer lies in the analogy itself - it's the responsibility of a mentor - teacher -or a leader to guide and nurture the talent in the right direction.

We can only imagine what Amitabh Bachchan would have had done, if he were a cricket player OR Sachin Tendulkar, had he been an actor. It's their talent -their respective birds' eye...Now it's your chance to find out your talent, your eye and polish it to the full to see what you ought to see!


P.S.: Publishing without proof read, please mark any mistakes in comments if you find any..

[Edited after a proof read on Oct 06, 2010. Made few corrections.]

Back and how?

Time in hand is a luxury..in this fast moving world. A blog or two in a year was the maximum I could do despite wanting to do so. I guess, other people also face this situation - probably one of the reasons why micro-blogging (eg Twitter) picked up. You don't have to come up with a 100-200-500 or more words article to share your thoughts...a mere 140char was enough -though some feel its not :)

But it definitely serves the purpose...Moreover, it has helped me to write blogs more frequently..this one is the first of the lot.

What I plan to do is this:
1) A profile page to post my thoughts..preferably on Facebook -so that character limit is not there to bother about - though keeping character limit in mind for step 2. (See the profile badge on the right)
2) Link it to Twitter account for automated posting.
3) Take one of the multiple thoughts to write the idea behind the thought..perhaps that way I might pick blogging again.
4) This is not yet implemented: Post these updates via SMS and social n/w et al to friends.

The road looks promising..

P.S. People all over the globe will be celebrating Earth hour today (http://www.earthhour.in/home.aspx)...Try and do your bit as well!