Anoop Kumar's Clarity

Note : There are soldiers, doctors, and teachers who are already heroes, role models and idols and therefore not included in the list. 

The kind of work that you do, and if you are good at it, irrespective of whether you would like to do it or not, will naturally attract more similar work. For example, if you are plumber who happens to do a bit of electrical work, and people find that you are good at electrical work, irrespective of whether you like to do electrical work or not, more electrical work will find you. Nothing wrong or right about it, it is what it is.  What you do will determine what you will do more.  

The pace at which the world, especially technology, is changing is a pace which my pace of learning is unable to match. It's changing rapidly, every day, something new is coming up, and there's the dilemma, if I spend a lot of time learning new things, when do I get to implement what I learn? If I keep implementing what I learnt when do I get to learn new stuff? The pace is just not matching. 

quite true, isn't it? :-)  

If you try to solve all problems at the same time you will end up not solving as many as you would have by focusing on solving one problem at a time. If you try to be everywhere, you will end up being nowhere. If you try to be everything, you will end up being nothing. If you try to fit into everyone's right way, you will end up being in no one's right way.   

Nowadays it has become trendy for people to say "less is more", for example when you create a presentation, you may hear someone giving you a feedback "less is more". Sorry, less is not more, less can never be more, less is less, we can say less is enough, less is sufficient, less is good enough, less should be OK, etc but less cannot be more, if less is more then what is less? So let's stop using these illogical statements, I don't know who comes up with these and then how people take it up without challenging it.   

In whatever you are seeing, don't see what you had imagined to see. Without any bias see whatever is there to see in whichever way it exists . Once you have seen the way it exists then analyze it in every possible angle, now if you want to look at it in a biased way, look at it from all possible biases. That's how clarity comes.    

Here's a proof based on own experience that if we genuinely want to do something, it will happen. One day during this lockdown, I started thinking what am I doing for the doctor community? This community is risking their lives to save others' life. Is there something that I can do? The very next day a common friend emailed that a Munich-based doctor, who is working on the COVID floor treating patients is interested in dashboarding COVID-19 data about Munich. Just a few days before that email arrived I had completed the world dashboard at country level and wanted to focus back on my other work. But, I didn't want to let go of this opportunity to support a doctor, I took it up. Used the world dashboard as the base template and totally customized the dashboard with a lot of inputs from the doctor and now the dashboard is live for the doctor and his community to use. The dashboard not only has Munich data but also covers whole of Germany at city and state level with interesti...

With age, my mess, will be my message. What looks like a mess now will become a message as you and I age.

Your hard work will determine whether you will be noteworthy or not worthy.

Do good things today and now, do bad things tomorrow and just repeat it everyday. And if you are wondering how to decide between good and bad check this post -  https://www.akclarity.com/2018/01/how-to-decide-good-or-bad.html

Everything you do, irrespective of whether it made money or not, will surely come handy one or the other day . So don't shy from doing things.  You never know, when what you did will come handy. Never stop doing.  For all posts related to entrepreneur :  https://www.akclarity.com/search/label/Entrepreneur

Almost everyone seems to be saying act confident, be confident, etc. I don't get it. Why should we act confident or be confident? To my logical side of mind, confidence is a consequence. It is a result. We become confident in something when we have better understanding of it, when we are good at it, when we have experienced it, etc. For example, after I had learnt to drive I gained the confidence to drive alone without a trainer. When I learn a language I gain the confidence to speak in that language. Telling someone to be confident or act confident is like telling him/her that he/she can start driving directly on the roads without learning or telling someone to go up on a stage and start speaking in a language that the person doesn't even know a single word. So, don't act or be confident, become confident.  To become confident learn, know, and gain experience. 

Medicine is me di sin, that means, it's a reminder that I am doing to me (myself) two sins. 1. When I didn't take care of my body to ensure that it is in good condition. 2. Harming it even more in the long run by popping a tablet for short-term benefits.  As someone said prevention is better than cure. Prevent yourself from getting sick. 

You don’t have to keep telling people what they should do to improve. If something works for you, and you improve, people will notice it and request you to share the tips.  Let me explain.  Whom do people go and ask tips for body building? They don’t go to a feeble person and ask for tips, they naturally go to a bodybuilder.  Just like that if you are successful in the path you have chosen, people will request you to share your tips. 

I hear quite a lot of people saying “believe in yourself”. I request please don't believe in yourself. You don’t have to stick to beliefs when you can know.  Let me explain with a few simple examples that you can relate When you go to buy a shoe do you believe your shoe size is 5,6,7, 8, .. or do you know it ? You either knew it based on your previous purchase or you would measure your size then and there and know your size and then buy the shoe, right?  If you didn’t know whether you could fly or not, would you jump off from top of a building believing that you can fly? Or would you rather prefer to know if you can fly or not by testing it from the ground first? If you didn’t know whether you could swim or not, would you jump into a sea believing you can swim or would you rather prefer to know if you can swim or not by jumping into a swimming pool first? You have attempted an interview for a job, would you believe that you were hired and show up at th...

Sun is also a star, yes, you know this. And that is exactly how I want to be and I guess this is how you want to be, we want to be the Sun among the stars, the one that is known for giving, the one that is acknowledged, the one that makes life on Earth possible.  Even though there are so many stars, we value the Sun the most. Among the stars, be the Sun. 

I have observed that quite a few people first make a decision and then go about collecting data points that will help them to justify the decision, and when they don't find facts to justify they cook up stories. I think this is totally a wrong way to make decisions. Instead the approach should be to first collect data points in an unbiased way and then based on the data points make a decision.     Data points first then decision

In this age of instant messaging with WhatsApp, Telegram and others, it is becoming increasingly difficult to have some time off from the mobile phone and to focus on something worthwhile. The messages are constantly coming in, whether it is from your friend, family or colleague or in groups like family group, friends group or office groups. I think in totality it takes more time to convey the same amount of information through instant messaging than through a call (audio or video call). In messaging you pick up the phone, unlock it, read the message, reply to the message, keep the phone away, get back to what you were doing before, and pop comes the notification of the next message, you pick up the phone, unlock it, read the message, reply to the message, keep the phone away, get back to what you were doing before and it continues. For work that requires some amount of concentration, you can imagine, the level of distraction this can cause.  So, what’s the solution? Ignore ...