Som Bathla Quotes

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.” ~ Zig Ziglar

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create

once your brain is filled with all these negative emotions, you don’t really have a space to think anything other than a vicious cycle of negative thinking only. All creative people are joyful and positive about life.

You don’t always need to run around and struggle finding your purpose. Sometime your life’s purpose is just under your nose.

Acquire knowledge. Acquire skills. They weigh nothing, and you can carry them with you all your life." ~ Ruskin Bond

Developing ideas is also like building muscles. If you want to build muscles, you work out with heavier weights and stretch your muscles.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” ~Gandhi

Belief is not merely a vital part of any major accomplishment; rather, belief is EVERYTHING before you take even the first step in any direction.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. ~ Mark Twain

If you don’t believe (or maybe you don’t’ want to believe) that you can climb the Mount Everest, you won’t take any action.

That’s what procrastination does. It gives you enough time to consider divergent ideas, to think in non-linear ways, and to make unexpected moves.

Here is the key. Procrastination is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it becomes a virtue for creativity.

Often, we already have the answers to our problems, but we don’t quiet ourselves enough to see the solutions bubbling just below the surface.

Stay relaxed and wait for your Eureka moment. It will come at a time and places generally when you least expect it to come.

But beware. When it comes to the question of why should you do it? No one else can help you out. It’s only you who can answer that question. And the only way is to keep asking yourself what to do.

While we are awake, our brain works in Beta brainwaves, which is not an ideal condition for ideas to come up. To generate creativity, you need a calmer and relaxed state of mind that comes with Alpha brainwaves.

Instruct - Instruct your subconscious mind to find the answer. Incubate - Now, leave the problem aside - don’t work on the problem, go and do something else. Maybe take a shower or go on vacations, etc. Eureka- the moment will jump out of air suddenly, and you will be supplied with the great idea that can transform your life.

The foundational step in discovering your why is to introspect your own thoughts, behavior, interests, to find out something which you personally find fulfilling and you can deliver value to the world out of that.

intrinsic motivation help to attain more happiness and enhance the quality of life and overall well-being.

It Is Never Too Early or Too Late To Begin A Life Of Purpose

It means that the most important work you will ever do is always ahead of you. It is never behind you.

discovering and living your why can improve the overall human well-being and put you on the fast-track to growth and fulfillment.

All Life is an experiment, the more experiments you make the better” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge.

you can’t activate your purpose, unless you put in the necessary efforts to it.

there is no other way of living a better life. Life has to be purposeful, and you have to find that purpose,

No one can tell you what is right for you except for yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another. The only true, honest and enriching authority is the internal authority of your own Supermind.

In the business world the executives have to make high stake decisions at a much faster pace. In such high-stake situations, the way you control and replace your thoughts on what is important for your goal,

Let’s understand “you” and “your mind” as separate with the help of one example. Understanding this difference is so fundamental for hacking your mind, but it is entirely missing in our everyday lives. Sir John Hargrave, an entrepreneur, comedian, and author of the book Mind Hacking: How to Change Your Life in 21 Days, compares your mind with a movie. Assume you are watching a movie—a very engaging one—and you are completely immersed in the movie. It might happen that for few moments you will feel as if you are part of the movie. Maybe you’ll find yourself crying watching some sad scene in the movie or maybe you get spooked by watching some gory scenes there. But in reality, it’s you who is watching the movie being displayed only on the screen.

Your brain makes physical changes based on the repetitive things you do and experiences you have. Now we can say the quote by Jim Rohn has some scientific backing too, when he said, “You are the average of the five people you spend most time with.

(1) the impulsive, automatic, and intuitive System 1; and (2) the thoughtful, deliberate, and calculative System 2.

Duration of the experiment does not count. It’s only the peak (best or worst moment) and the end of the experience that gets registered in our memory, which forms the basis for taking our all future decisions.

Confirmation bias is our general tendency to interpret the new evidence as a confirmation of our existing belief system. We are so glued to our old beliefs that instead of learning something new or different, we cherry-pick the information that confirms our existing belief system.

He suggested whenever you want to make some decision on any important aspect, you should have no less than 40% and no more than 70% of the information required for that decision. He states less than 40% of information means we are bound to make wrong decisions. But if we continue to search for more than 70% information, we will end up taking so much time that the decision itself will not deliver any meaningful results, because it’s already too late.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect.

Here, it’s important to apply Hanlon’s razor, because this theory will help you to put your preconceived notions aside and assess the other side’s behavior with a clear and neutral mindset. Applying Hanlon’s razor in our day-to-day lives allows us to better develop relationships, become less judgmental, and improve rationality. Hanlon’s razor allows us to give people the benefit of the doubt and have more empathy.

It works like this: Whenever you are in the middle of important work and there is something coming to hijack your attention, apply the ABC formula described below: A: Be Aware of the options in front of you. B: Breathe deeply and consider your options. C: Choose thoughtfully after considering your main goals. If the new thing that popped up during your important work helps you to progress on the important work, accept it. If not, then choose to assign lower priority to the new thing, after your important work.

A man's mistakes are his portals of discovery. ” ~ James Joyce

There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become almost alive.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

Recently Elon Musk, the founder of Paypal, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors, imagined using spaceships to make traveling faster on Earth. We all know rockets were invented to carry spacecrafts into space, but Musk’s imagination was altogether on a different spectrum. He presented the idea about using a spaceship, which will start from destination A on Earth, travel into space, (where it will travel much faster since there is no gravity), and then land at destination B on Earth. If this idea works, it could cover the travel between any two locations in the world in less than one hour. You could travel from Shanghai to New York in under 40 minutes.How does that sound for a change? You can see Musk’s amazing video here at Travel Everywhere In Earth Within 30 Minutes.[12

There is no reason not to follow your dream. Deliberate practice can open the door to a world of possibilities that you may have been convinced were out of reach. Open that door.

I don't count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they're the only ones that count.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Creative people don’t allow negative thinking or belief system to enter into their brains.

They believe in the possibility of outcomes. They always look at “what is” and “what can be” instead of “what is not.

Under FUD’s influence there is no possibility that you can come out with new ideas. Creativity needs a space in your brain where your neurons can fire with other neurons carrying different ideas and thus, wire with each other to create different neural- pathways. But the emotions generated by these FUDs take up all the spaces, leaving no room for new ideas to emerge.

Techniques to Instill Creativity Beliefs

there are two powerful levers for changing beliefs:

A belief that we are capable of doing our part of the job, which means that we can independently control our actions. A belief that each of us has something inside of us that makes us talented and capable as any other person on the earth and there shouldn’t be anything that belittles us as compared to the world.

Thankfully, Lecky realized that this was easier said than done. He was mindful that replacing the beliefs that have housed in our heads for years, and in most cases, for decades is not an easy job.

therefore you have to come out with strong arguments to counter your negative beliefs, before you can replace them.

Don’t always stick to reading something that is related to your profession or industry only.

No, Lycos (1993) and Yahoo (1994) and few others were pre-existing. But again, Google applied some more improvements over the previous ones. For example, adding the feature of filtering out the relevancy and utility from the user’s perspective and adding some other features available, so it became a grand success.

It’s not always a brand new innovative idea that flourishes versus the people who make improvements over the previous innovations.

There was a case study done on 50 different products to compare the failure rate amongst the startups, who were the first movers, i.e., who created an entirely new product or market, and the improvers who introduced something different and better than the original movers. The study concluded that the first movers had an average failure rate of 47%, as compared to the improvers, whose failure rate was 8% only.

When you become a master of two worlds (say, engineering and business), you can bring them together in a way that will a) introduce hot ideas to each other, so they can have idea sex and make idea babies that no one has seen before, and b) create a competitive advantage because you can move between worlds, speak both languages, connect the tribes, mash the elements to spark fresh creative insight until you wake up with the epiphany that changes your life.

One of the best ways to fuse ideas is to do it by way of mind mapping, a technique invented by Tony Buzan, a brain expert, and author.

mind map is a diagram used to visually organize information. A mind map is hierarchical and shows relationships among pieces of the whole. It is created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank page (i.e., your key challenge), to which representations of ideas such as images, words, and parts of words are added as branches to the central idea.

Once you have multiple ideas appearing on paper in front of you, you start to build connection, and this will help you come out with a unique combination that you couldn’t have thought of, had you not been able to see all of them together at one place.

How to use SCAMPER Technique Step 1: You have to isolate your challenge into different parts or stages. Step 2: After that, apply each of the seven elements of the SCAMPER method to each of the stages of your project for asking questions and generating ideas.

Actually, your mind has an unlimited potential that needs to be tapped by asking the right set of questions and the SCAMPER method does the very same thing by asking different set of questions in an intelligent manner. SCAMPER offers subtle cues or triggers that trigger your mind to come out with various alternatives.

How to implement SCAMPER in your personal or work life?

You never know when you get excited about a different thing in your life, and then those creative insights sparked through you will turn out to be a treasure.

How should you apply this technique to your life?

During your walking session, keep walking and think about the projects that you started earlier in life, but quitted sooner without giving your full shot to those projects.

An hour worth of walk is something that will sweat you out physically and stretch you mentally as well.

Now, you need to draw a mind map of different projects branching out from the center in a way that you could draw out various sub-branches as well. For example, your branches could be:

Become an Idea Machine- Set up Daily Idea Quota

In the world of creativity, the greater the number of ideas, the better your choice will be. Quantity of ideas will lead to quality of ideas.

Feed your head with a variety of information as a base before you can generate ideas.

Use Idea Fusion:

Slow Multi-tasking improves creativity. You should not switch between different tasks in your day to day work, but you should get yourself involved and working on different projects simultaneously.

Use SCAMPER Method. This method equips you with 7 different ways you could ask questions from yourself. SCAMPER is an acronym, and each letter gives you a specific way to ask a question to generate ideas. It means: S = Substitute something C =Combine it with something else A = Adapt something to it M = Modify or Magnify it P = Put it to some different use E = Eliminate something R = Reverse Engineer it.

Set a Daily quota for generating ideas:

Doubt Every Default or Assumption

He outrightly rejected those candidates who sprinkled salt in the soup without testing it.

Edison believed that anyone who wants to invent things should have the ability to doubt the default. In his view, if someone already assumed that the soup didn’t have salt in it, they didn’t question or test the assumption before taking further action.

Great innovators always ask questions and a variety of questions every time they encounter some problem or challenge. It’s the quality of question that determines the quality of life. Questions cause you to stretch, grow, and think beyond what’s real on the ground and activate your imagination.

When is the optimum time to do any particular thing, so that I generate maximum ROTI (return on time invested.)

How should I improve the quality of my personal life, relationship with others, and live in a more fulfilled way?

I’ve listed some sample questions to give you an idea. But what you should do now is to take a pen and paper and list down your most important projects, be it your personal life, work, relationship, family, adventure, spirituality, and ask these questions from yourself.

But the key is to keep asking yourself questions. Don’t accept the status quo or don’t let life keep moving as it has been. You can generate

Talk to Non-Experts For Great Ideas

And just 15 years later, Alexander Graham Bell registered a patent in his own name for inventing the telephone.

Based on their years of experience, they form a certain thinking pattern, and it becomes difficult for them to see through beyond that pattern.

Here is what you should do to implement this technique:

Talk to someone who is outside your field and listen to his ideas and thoughts about how to solve your problem.

For example, if you want to generate new ideas to improve your marketing and sales, then meet doctors, engineers, or lawyers, or other unrelated industry people, and understand what would be their process, and ask them what they would think as an observer about your process.

Surround yourself with idea-oriented people who are exploratory in nature.

Whenever you meet strangers in any setting, show curiosity in what they do and listen deeply about the way they think about their life and work in general. This may generate some new ideas in your mind.

How to use Procrastination to incubate Ideas

Incubation helps you put the challenge in perspective. When you leave a problem and come back to it again, you will have a fresh perspective of looking at it.

Doubt the Default- Question the Assumption:

The Power of Questions: The quality of your life depends on the quality of the questions you ask yourself. All great innovators like Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Elon Musk have the habit of asking powerful and imaginative questions.

Talk to Non-Experts to get creative ideas. While experts have a deep understanding of one subject, but at the same time, they have very limited knowledge about other broad areas.

So you should look out for non-expert people’s views on things when your objective is to generate innovative ideas.

Chilling out technique: This is more of a passive technique to generate innovative ideas.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Each of the brain functions discharged different functions- the left brain controls the right side of the body and vice-versa. The left is sequential, the right is simultaneous. The left brain looks at the text, and the right one focuses on the context. The left brain is analytical, while the right brain synthesizes the information.

Why Belief is Everything We have often heard that belief plays a vital role in achieving anything, but most people just know it on the surface level only- merely at the intellectual level, and they have not experienced the same at their deeper level of consciousness.