Five things that work for you at all times!

‘I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious’ – Einstein

Trust the greatest physicist of all times – Albert Einstein. Whatever you intend to do, at once, you tend to do. For you students, curiosity is like the 3rd eye and 6th sense.  Look at those masterly works of art, literature, science, and fiction:  they did not happen all too suddenly or just in one go. Work works only when you ‘work’ for it in a space of curiosity, consistency, and at times ‘ruthlessness’. If you want to be ‘there‘, at the end you must make it, may what come! Edison kept working for that candescent bulb 9996 times! When a few people tried to chide him about his ‘success’, Edison only smiled and then added, ‘I have not failed. I have succeeded in finding out how the bulb cannot be invented these many ways!


That is the spirit of an inventor, scientist, writer, or anybody for that matter.  As students of engineering, your mission is never complete on any given day or place.  As great Lincoln once said,  ‘To the win is to keep on keeping on’. Remember the following five things in your way to excellence in life and career.

·   Be a front seater:  Do not choose the last row in any meeting or gathering. Arrive early and push yourself to take a seat in the first three rows if not the first one. Develop this practice first in your classroom and later in life in all places of work. It may not mean anything now. Just try a few times and see the difference. I will explain what could happen to be in front rows in another blog of mine.

·     Make eye contact: Look at that someone who matters to you upfront and into his/her eyes. It shows how much you care for what you have to talk to or listen to. Just try this right today and see how it would matter to you ‘both’. Being in the classroom, just do this. In doing so you are actually focusing better than ever before.

·    Walk faster by 10% than ever before: Just for today walk faster; you will see how things are now happening differently. When you walk fast, can anyone stop you for a chat, gossip, or things of lesser value? If you are that lazy kind of ‘walker’, do this right now.

·      Speak up:  Make it a point that no one would ever ask you to talk loudly or clear. If that be so, you are right the first time. Make it every time. Your expression should be loud, clear, and unmistakable. That is the only way to be in the reckoning.

·     Smile:  There may be several reasons for you to not smile, yet do smile. We smile not because we are happy, we are happy because we smile. No one in this world ever regretted that he/she smiled!

Many of the best engineering colleges in Bangalore like NMIT, keep training students on a host of soft skill areas including a topic like this. Engineering students do need these inputs more than ever before.

By Dr. N J Shetty, Ph.D., M.Com, MBA, MA(Psy), PG. DHRM, PG. DMM, LL B, CAIIB, D. TD,   Pragya.
Professor,  Nitte School of Management,   Certified NLP Practitioner,   Certified Life Coach,    Certified OD Coach

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