In the much talked about lecture from Steve Jobs at Stanford, he mentions about living each day as if it were your last. I mostly tend to agree with what he says, and appreciate his abilities at the pinnacle of human possibilities. When he refers to the last day, he talks about doing everything you can and everything you want on this day, which happens every day. What an approach to continual rapid growth throughout your life!
I would like to take the readers' thoughts to what we all went through on our first day - for sure! A child prior to birth doesn't even eat or breathe, which are the basic necessities of post-birth life. The superlatively generous mother provides it all for free at no efforts whatsoever. And then they are born.
The world welcomes each child with challenges of survival - starting with asking the lungs to work on something they never knew, with an available learning curve (ramp-up period) of a few seconds. And we all have won the battle. We learnt to breathe within such a short time available. We then taught ourselves right away how to feed ourselves, using all the muscles of the mouth, throat, and what not in such stupefying harmony.
All the rest thereafter was strange - the room, the people, the objects. We started grasping everything and relating things, and we all did it successfully. What made us going were the ability and the enthusiasm to learn.
It's the attitude of struggle and curiosity packed in immense optimism, which allowed us all to win perhaps the most important battle of life - the battle of "Life". Remember, not everyone succeeds, we just happen to see those who succeeded, because it is the battle of "Life".
What bowls me over is the immaculate execution of meridian approach I would have had to achieve what I did on my first day, winning over everything that came my way. If, everyday, we can rejuvenate the same optimism and the same attitude we had on the first day of our life, we would most certainly succeed once again each day.
With all respect to the Stanford speech, what is really important is what keeps you motivated - fear of death, or optimism of birth! Choose your way, and succeed in what you want to do, all the best.
