MORPHING

 Adam Grant writes in THINK AGAIN

"We celebrate great entrepreneurs and leaders for being strong-minded and clear-sighted. They are supposed to be paragons of conviction, at once, decisive and certain. Yet evidence reveals that when business executives compete in tournaments to price products, the best strategists are actually slow and unsure. Like careful scientists, they take their time so they have the flexibility to change their minds.

Just as you don't have to be a professional scientist to reason like one, being a professional scientist doesn't guarantee that someone will use the tools of their training. Scientists morph into preachers when they present their pet theories as gospel. They treat thoughtful critiques as sacrilege. They veer into political terrain when they allow their views to be swayed by popularity rather than accuracy. They enter prosecutor mode when they're hell-bent on debunking and discrediting rather than discovering. After upending physics with his theory of relativity, Einstein opposed the quantum revolution: "To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.'

Sometimes even great scientists need to think more like scientists."
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There is true similarity here with many churches - not all of them - in India.

Though trained well in the scriptures, the preachers present their pet theories as gospel overriding what is really in the gospel. They treat thoughtful critiques as sacrilege. They veer into political terrain when they aliow their views to be swayed by popularity as well as selfishness or selfcentredness rather than what the gospel presents or advocates. They enter the prosecutor mode when they are hell-bent on debunking and discrediting those who hold on to what the gospel really means. 

Believe it or not, many churches in India - not all of them - are in a mess today.

Faith has morphed into politics and money power. Faith is listless. wealth gained through means fair and foul holds supremacy. Faith is cosmetic today.

A tectonic shift in the equation alone could banish the rut and retrieve those churches on the cusp from total disaster and perpetual ruin.

CMC VELLORE THE NO NONSENSE REFUGE

Jeevan C George loved playing badminton. One day while playing the game spiritedly he had accidentally sprained the ankle.  He found it difficult to tread along. He went for treatment. It was stabilised. But he was advised to stop the foray into badminton and to go for surgery to correct  the disability.

He is young. He found the pull back in life harrowing. Though he consulted several specialists, the line of treatment suggested was similar. 

I asked him to visit CMC Vellore if all the avenues were exhausted. Why I suggested CMC was because they are  mostly the no nonsense kind.

My cousin's son after visiting several hospitals and going through three or four streams of treatment, admissions and coughing out a sizeable sum had finally consulted CMC at my prodding. 

The first question they asked after putting him through a series of tests was, 'why did you let your son consume so much medicine.'

Finally they advised him to go for an inhaler and no other medicine was prescribed.

The boy was having a difficult time with a persistent cough that had refused to depart.

He had to quit several jobs due to the severity of the ailment.

After CMC his cough left him. 

An engineering graduate, he is now employed abroad. He leads a perfectly healthy life.

THE BEST LEARNING

 

"The best learning happens out in the middle"

Zubin Bharucha, cricket coach. He has worked with  Sanju Samson, Kerala Cricketer since Sanju was 17.

If we apply what the coach  said to our own lives it is one hundred percent true.

We learn best when we do any job, when we are on our own job and when we immerse ourselves into the vexing issues that dawn upon us while on the job.

Indeed, the best learning happens out in the middle.

You will be on your own. You have no escape. You have to go deep into it single handedly and come out with solutions to ensure your own survival.

 

HE DREW THE CROSS WITH HIS HANDS

Sanju Samson drew the cross with his hands expressing  gratitude to the almighty after India's victory in the T 20 Cricket match against West Indies

It was similar to Jemima Rodriguez praising Jesus for strengthening her to play the vital role  in the Semifinal

A reception had been held in honour of the Women's Cricket team for winning the championship.

The best player in the finals had a tattoo of  Lord Hanuman. 

She was asked  how Lord Hanuman had helped her in the pursuit towards victory.

She replied Lord Hanuman was the force behind her stupendous success

All said and done, Hinduism is the most tolerant religion in the world. In all these 5000 years they have not initiated any pogrom. 

Partition of India was not their idea. It was sowed by the British. And the unsuspecting people had  walked into it.

If the majority were intolerant, no one other than them would have been here.

The respect they offer Christians, the Christians at times do not exhibit towards  fellow Christians.

Who is intolerant? Introspect.

Of course there are Graham Steins and a host of others. 

But that does not stain the tolerant multitude.

Please think why Jesus was here. He came to save sinners. Not Christians.

It is not fair to think that  those who are not baptised are all sinners.

Are the baptised free from SIN?

Please read Keys of the Kingdom by AJCronin.  

Now for Samson. He was never kept out. He was given opportunities to perform.

He relentlessly prayed. 

He believed. 

The God he trusted, led him on.

He peformed.

My good friend wrote on SANJU SAMSON

Gems are from such creations because they are not structured artificially

Edits always refine the uncut diamonds to perfection.

If you have not mined the ideas first, the dimonds will never be there.

My good friend wrote on SANJU SAMSON
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After watching the crucial encounter in the ICC World Cup encounter with West Indies last night where Sanju Samson took us to victory,I was reflecting on similar incidents recently

It was Ns.Jemima Rodrigues who single handedly was responsible to lead us to victory during the semi final of ICC Women's 20 /20 which India won ,wherein she publically testified the hand of Jesus,her saviour 

In the recent critical ICC under 19 World Cup,we witnessed a similar one man performance from  Aaron George,which enabled the Nation to win the trophy 

Yesterday ,single  handed, Sanju took us to victory.He knelt down after the final victory stroke,prayed looking up  with crucifix denoted  in his body .He too publicly thanked Almighty God for the grace received 

May be,these are just coincidence.But the testimony of all the players are worth the adulation .

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Casual and mometary scribbling 
Language etc. not taken care

The Response

Gems are from such creations because they are not structured artificially

Edits always refine the uncut diamonds to perfection.

If you have not mined the ideas first, the dimonds will never be there.

HOW TO BUILD WEALTH

 

Wealth is built 

via persistence, 

not prediction

NAZIA FAHADH on SANJU SAMSON

 Sanju Samson woke up today 

and 

decided to make every Indian

 his fan

Nazia Fahadh