Losing the Virginity - HAVE YOU !

I bet each one of us would definitely want to be a rich man, having all the comforts which money can give, but then i also bet that amongst us 99.9999999% of people are not ready to pay the price of the riches. Yes, there are no free lunches - everything has a price, even getting rich - and its an endevour where the faliure ratio is the highest. But then the trick is to start enjoying the road to the destination.... getting too much heavy...let me explain you...
You would all be knowing about Richard Branson..if not then here he is... he owned a music recording industry, sold it and went into airlines and now he is venturing into out of the earth flights.. , what are this degrees... well as fars as i know none... barely graduated... but has been Kinghted by queen of England. What is his trademark - as far as I understand, being ready to loose his Virginity... :) , and he has lost it many time... , what kind of virginity i am talking about - its not what you think .. its about doing things which are never done before - its about being courageous enough to try once and its about being ready to loose - everything to gain everything. Can we ever imagine our Tata, Birlas, Ambanis and now Raju's (sorry), Murthys being ready to loose their virginity again and again and again.. i have my own doubts..can we imagine them to even imagine something undobale and do it..... These days there is a new trend among our IT ioncs to write about "India" - as if Nehru and others have not written much...

Richard Branson.. when asked his first co workers, what shall we name our venture - and one of the girls in their group told him lets name it "Virgin" as no body is that here..and its a fact..(it was an hippy time in england and america..the entire silicon valley is born out of hippy culture). Virgin Music was sold to make way for Virgin Airlines. Richard Branson have globe tracked in a ballon, in boat and what not.. to promote his brand. How many of our industrialist we know, have done anything like that... I cannot recall any... if you can do let me know. And lastly i would like to end with a very opposite picutre of RB, compared to the abvoe:

Lossing my Virginity is a Autobigraphy by Richard Barnson... i recommend you read it once.. if you intend to do any thing substantial in you life..

Only the Paranoid survives

We all use computer and processors from Intel, but hardly any one of us know that the choice for intel to move into manufacturing of microprocessor was due to their complete market faliure on the area of memory chips. It was a forced decision as at that time microprocessor was not a market that had any potential. Intel was leader in manufacturing of memory - the technology which they pioneered, but japanese started making the products at a price and quality which intel was unable to comptete and it had to leave the memory market and itch for itself a new market - which today we call Microprocessor. Thus the moral of this story is that if intel had not been beaten on memory chip market - we would not have seen the Pentiums or Core 2 Duo.

I have just finished reading Andy Groove's Only the Paranoid Survives, its a great book, great because we come to see by reading the book that even the best of best makes mistakes and it is these mistakes that makes everyone. Andy Groove arguys that in the new business environment one needs to be Paranoid - one needs to constanly fear the unknown - and harness this fear to identify new markets and opportunities. And this is true not only for businessmen but also for employees.

IT IS ONLY BY HARNESSING FEAR THAT WE CAN OVERCOME IT.....

The AntiChrist

Have you ever challenged you faith, the things that you believed for year / decades? Have you ever put your faith and belief on test of arguments? The AntiChrist - which is a small book by Nietzsche - A German Philosopher challenges the very institution of Christianity. It is said that Hitler kept under his pillow the Book of Nietzsche and got inspired by it for what ever he did. Nietzsche never proposed it... it was Hitlers interpretation.
The Antichrist is a book in which Nietzsche in around 64 paragraphs try to say why he does not like Christianity - he compares it with Buddhisum and brings out their commanilities as well as differences. If you thought that Nietzsche in this book seems to be against Christ - Then you may be mistaken - as, as I understood - he is against the institution called Christianity - not Christ. Somewhere he has said - that "I know only one Christian and he died on the cross" - or something similar to that.. He also said somewhere that - "I cannot believe in god who cannot dance".
Nietzsche is difficult to read and understand, but if you like such books he is the Author for you.. at least you should try some of his works.....

If anybody wants to read it online follow the link : http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/fns/ac.htm

Everyone should have a Biography

Every one is unique - and their experience too - even if we give two people the same activities their perception would be different and thus its image on them and the resulting effect on their lives. We are so used to read book, but have we ever thought of writing one - if anyone suggest that then we shrug our shoulder and say that no, no i am not a writer - but i read somewhere that that J. Krishnamurti said "one should never read a book, unless one is read to write one". Have we ever thought at the end of our lives - how would we tranmist our understanding of life to the next generation, - anyone hardly does - Because inside we know that we hardly have any - we think we understand what is happening around us - but then it is not understanding its just signal from our senses analyzed by our small brain. If we had even the simplest of understanding of anything - we would be jumping to give it to someone..... because we would know that it is rare and has to be preserved and passed on.

Everyone would have a different understading of life and that is what makes life so colorful, imagine at the end of 10 years if everyone of us would write our biography and passed on to the next generation, it would be the biggest gift we can ever give..

The frog hopes you agree.... so are you starting to write one....