Wake up hares! time to champion the Race of Life

To all the sleeping hares, it’s time to wake up and champion the Race of Life.

Hi hares, I know you are all super sharp and skilled, as I am one of you… It is time for us to show the world, while we can win the race just by walking.., show the world….., what happens when we run….., when we run faster…, when we realize who we are; when we become disciplined with our gifts….,

Do you want to know, why you are losing in the race of life, to someone less capable than you?

Late bloomers are Real achievers in life…. without superpowers and extra-ordinary abilities, but experience certain things in life accidentally and realize, they are hares, losing to tortoises throughout their life and begin an inquiry into many things, gain knowledge, and wisdom, find purpose, direction, and becomes unstoppable.

Let us see, why hares are sleeping, tortoises are winning, and why some people are just better.

See, there are ‘4’ kinds of people, in the world.

Blessed:

Who are extraordinary in some ability and are just better than others. These are early achievers and hit the spotlight before their 20s. All the Olympic Gold medalists and Business giants like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs & Mark Zuckerberg, etc.

Tortoises:

Known for their Wisdom & Consistency. They know they can’t outrun a hare. They focus on what they have and start focusing on their career, and money, and work towards them consistently and most of them are leading the race and are in decent positions in real life.

Hares:

Those who are skilled and they know it, which leads to negligence, over-confidence & lack of focus, as the world runs at the pace of tortoises and hares are generally better than most of the competition. We see teachers are teaching very slowly, we lose focus. We feel, we already know many things, and we lose focus. We see we are recognized by family and friends, we take it for granted. You won the race, without practice, you are over-confident. As time passes, you suddenly realize, you are like a hare, which got lost in many ways and working under the tortoises and get frustrated, realizing your tortoise boss is teaching you, how to sprint, because he won the Race.

• Hares are ones, who have the potential to become late bloomers, and let’s see how it can happen.

Everything is by accident:

• Earth was formed as an accident when a star named SUN exploded.
• Earth became congenial for life, as it accidentally landed at the right distance from the SUN after the explosion.
• Life started on Earth as an accident, when lightning struck the shallow waters.

• Similarly, hares need a lightning slap on their face to wake them up and start their Race.
• You need to be blessed to receive that slap, as it happens rarely and when it comes, you must not think, it’s a dream.
• It generally happens, when you hit your worst in your life, it may be the job loss, financial loss, loss of a dear family, life-threatening incidents, where you escaped death, when you feel helpless, when nature acts against you and finally time comes, when you find strength to question, why it is happening? Questioning is one thing, that we have forgotten in childhood. Our parents, teachers, society, and everyone plays their role, to suppress that wonderful gift and make us sheep, to believe in existing beliefs.
• Then you start the inquiry into many things, gain knowledge, and wisdom, find purpose, and direction, and become unstoppable.
• Don’t be the hares, still sleeping not knowing, that you are lagging far behind one of the slowest creatures on earth. All you need is that Artificial lightning.

Artificial Lightning:

• As natural lighting is accidental and we can’t choose one, we need artificial lighting to start our lives, to find the purpose and direction.

• Before realizing this, we must have slept for years and when we wake up, we will be undernourished mentally, and even physically derailed, hence we need a supporting hand to stand by our side.
• This can be anyone, generally wife/husband coming into our lives. Over time, we become strong and independent.

How can we get that Artificial lightning?

Motivation:

• Scientists proved, that without motivation, you can’t eat, sleep, or do anything. Experiments on mice show that they have not eaten anything and died, even while food is available in front of them, as their reward system has been artificially compromised by scientists. Here the reward system is dopamine and it varies for other things.

• As no one can continuously get motivation from outside, you have to get self-motivated. 
• The problem with getting self-motivated is our minds can’t assume, what we have not seen in our lives. 
• Ex: If you have never seen a robot, you can’t even prepare a toy robot. Similarly, to get motivated, you need to know, how others got motivated, what to do with motivation, what is the purpose of motivation and how it answers all your questions, and how it helps you, to become a better version.

Reading:

• There was a quote, “A child who reads, will be an adult who thinks”, basically we are children, until we start reading books and without reading books, you can’t think, other than what you are experiencing.

What should we Read?

• Read Auto-Biographies: It’s like experiencing multiple lives in one life. Scientists proved that, 95% of our daily routine is carried by our brains in Auto-mode. We get to decide on the rest of the 5%, where we use our experiences to make the decision, what if, you can make the decisions from the experience of other people, what if that other people are world leaders, tech giants? you are going to have the edge over your peers, you are going to sound great in your actions, which makes a great difference. Let me tell you, history always repeats, what you are experiencing is already experienced by many and solved greatly, so there is no need to reinvent the wheel.
• Read History, Science, Spiritual books, Success stories, and Business articles, listen to podcasts, go through YouTube videos, and anything that shows, how others have done, and how things work in this universe, then we know, where we stand and how to go there and how others reached there. 
• As Buffalo swallows whatever grass it can and stores in the rumen and gets it back in small lumps and chews it for digestion, we need to read as much as possible, when we have them and try to practice and think over it, discuss it with others, try to explain to others to get it digested.
• Now we have the E-Readers, which can store 1000’s of books.

When you know, where to go, you will figure out, how to go.

Read the books! Make them your firesticks! Feed the fire of Motivation! that’s it, you have created Artificial lightning, to become a better version of Yourself.

– Ramesh

Sheeps:

• These comprise the majority of the population, who work as a labor class, with a herd mentality, just following the leaders, existing beliefs, etc.
• One striking feature is, that they are not genetically skilled and need extraordinary instances combined with a support system to wake them up and put them on race.

“Just scream to the world! You are coming and are unstoppable“.

Links:

Infographic biographies of biggest achievers

Decent list of late bloomers

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