Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Our life and Career- Driven by Instinct or Strategy?

Many a times this thought has hit my mind, whether we should lead our lives by strategy or instinct. I have always been left with comparison whether in Cricket Aussies are better or Srilankans (Indians play with neither of strategy nor an instinct.. which is a different part of the story all together !) Aussies play with a strategy while Srilankans with an instinct.Many times strategy wins and sometimes an instinct.

Strategy has all the ingredients like study, assessment, analysis, reviews, plan, execution, results ..etc., but some where it might lack the much needed emotion. You might play your game to that plan. You are actually designing your success story by creating a master plan and living up to that plan.

But instinct? It is a feeling, killer emotion on that day, at that time of the day. A minnows like BanglaDesh can buldoze stalwarts like Aussies on that day. Today Indian Cricket team might beat best of the best, but might succumb to Bangladesh tomorrow! Should we lead life like this? Can we afford to get carried away like this?

I believe , our lives and career need two different treatments. When you say life, live it with full enthu, full spirit. Career is a tool to lead a good life. You can say a best career is an advanced tool with state-of-the-art technologies! :).

With all these analysis, reviews and jargons, at the end I would like to conclude that, a succesful life needs a career with a well designed stragey,a plan, a determined approach and ofocurse a killer instinct to succeed.

And ofcourse a meaningful life needs that much needed enthu, taste and hope to enjoy every moment and get the best of life.

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