Hidden gems-3 Expertise

                                Hidden gems -3       Expertise


       It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
   
       Work and learning are the two ingredients of life. Learning is a natural food for the mind. And work, the natural food for limbs of the body, involves the application of both the body and the mind.

Nobody is born an expert. But everyone of us have some talent hidden in us.
" It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of." -swift.
If we keep on doing things, we will strike our talent and goal.
Whatever we study or do we should love doing it. If we study a subject, we should never limit it with only one book. The more materials , we collect from other sources, all the more the subject and work will be exciting. Then nothing will be a burden. No more stress.
'The more we do, the more we can do ,
   the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.' - Hazlitt
 On the other hand, there will be a feeling of unique joy. Furthermore, the thirst and excitement will lead to expertise in that particular field. Interest and thirst will lead to curiosity. When you are curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. Curiosity enhances imagination, creativity and innovation, imparting uniqueness to the learner.
Constantly learn new things. The brain's ability to absorb increases as we learn more and more. Develop your skills and learn new ones, more knowledge equals more motivation. Consistency slowly makes for perfection. Management of time, consistency , work ethics, focus on the goal are key factors for success. Mistakes are common. A person who never made a mistake might have never tried anything new. We must love what we do in order to get the excitement. If we work with whatever tools we have, better tools will be found as we go along.
When we love the process more than the outcome, the end positive results will come naturally and easily and we will feel more motivated to do more and more.
Everyday becomes an opportunity for us to do better than what we did the previous day.
To put it aptly in the words of Steve Jobs -
'If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The Vision will push you.'

A farmer had two sons. He sent them to cut down two trees and finish the work by evening.
Both of them started cutting the trees. The first son would cut for sometime , go out somewhere for sometime and then resume work. He was doing the work in this fashion and finished cutting down the entire tree by evening. The second son never took rest but went on cutting the tree continuously , yet he could not complete the given task by the stipulated time . The younger brother was perplexed and asked his elder brother, " I went on doing the work continuosly and could not finish it on time where as you kept on going out for short , short intervals, yet finished the work even before time. It is so strange !"

The first son replied, " Nothing strange in this, my dear brother ! I went out in between not for rest or food but to sharpen my Saw so that I could come and cut the tree more vigorously with the sharpened Saw. That is why I could finish the work easily without much effort ."

This echoes the words of Abraham Lincon : " Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe."