An Idea can change your Life


An idea - contagious, influential, unique, and highly pervasive - has the ability to change the dimensions of human horizon. I am not trying to quote Inception, but something on that lines, for sure. All the big inventions and findings in the history originated from an idea that changed the course of mankind. Be it Newton with an apple or James Watt with steam or Maxwell with his inexplicable experiments, every great leap of faith can be narrowed down to a single momentous moment. But what perturbs me the most is the irony that these ideas came to a selected group of people. Is there any similarity between these groups or is it based on random attribution to people?

My inquisitive mind and restless soul wanted answer because it can actually change one's life by making oneself a part of those selected people. After doing shit load of muSearchTM I have gathered a lot of content to answer this question and live in peace for eternity. I stumbled upon the book “Outliers” which explained ‘The 10,000 rule’. Basic proposition of this is a simple yet implicative mantra which is often confused with a cliché - Hard work is directly proportional to success. Since hard work is also related to time, it can be concluded that time spent for a deed is the determining factor for its success’ probability. According to the author Malcom Gladwell, the required time approximately equals 10,000 hours. Steve Jobs had his homework of 10,000 hours before making the prototype for Mac. Same goes with Bill Gates, both used to code dedicatedly from 12-20 years of age, hence when the time came to prove their mettle, these packets of hard work in the pockets of the two made all the difference. I always wondered what came in the mind of the guy who created the game 2048. What would have made someone to think of ‘Pacman’? A simple and lucid yet addictive in its own way.

But wait, I would defy to concur that Mark Zuckerberg had his 10,000 hours of practice ready. He was a coder, but something like Facebook just happened out of the blue. It was a unique idea that was not thought by anyone. However this doesn’t means that there was something great or exceptional about the person; the idea was lingering in the society for quite a long, waiting for someone to think of it and get rich. And that’s what some people did. They were at the right place at the right time. No, I am not at all defaming Mark or questioning his intelligence. I am just stating that the “Idea” can, at times, come from a person whose chances of thinking the idea were minuscule but just because of the alignment of planets, someone clicked on these “Ideas”.

So how come I got peace? The answer is still vague. Is it hard work or coincidence? Well if I would have known the answer I would have given several ideas and you would be reading this in Forbes. What I learned from all the research is that we all should be carrying our course of life in the pursuit of happiness. Only when we enjoy what we do, think or act we can have ideas that are unique or influential. Bottom line – Be happy and get peace.

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