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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

When ordinary becomes extraordinary

What is extraordinary? Something which is strange and usually it is excellent. So extraordinary is acheived only occassionally. When someone keeps doing extraordinary consistently, there may be two views - one, that the person acheiving extraordinary has challenged himself to improve everytime and two, the persons watching the acheivement has never really grown, for extraordinary is spelt by people around.

So, Is there anything extraordinary at all? Or can we have extraordinary attached to specific activities? Say, scoring a test hundred, winning an oscar or grammy, being awarded padma awards. I do not think that extraordinary can always be associated with accomplishment of certain activities.

Extraordinary is a step towards ordinary. Only then there is scope for improvement and there is vision for moving upwards. Extraordinary should become ordinary in the next iteration, to acheive extraordinary consistently. Also there is no single thing that can be consistently extraordinary. So no one can say that Sachin is an extraordinary batsman or talent.

Causes for extraordinary
Cause 1 - That internal fire which never lets a person settle with whatever has been acheived. When one is internally motivated, excellency is the only goal and that excellency gets better everytime.

Cause 2 - When you say a person is extraordinary talent, does that mean that God has given something strange and excellent to that particular person? It is not extraordinary talent, it is just extraordinary parenting and response. Both should sync, if there is no response, such parenting would be military regime or when the child is such responsive, there are no one to breed the kid, there is no fruit that would be tasteful for either of them.

Cause 3 - Also sometimes, people become extraordinary when they work in a team - in such case, if ascertained individually, the accomplishment may be ordinary for few and extraordinary for many, and it usually works that team work results in extraordinary acheivements.

Cause 4 - Most people turn extraordinary, particularly male, when they are in love. Nevertheless, love also inspires female to accomplish extraordinary. But, the sustainance, according to me, is here a question - because, these days, goals are being set only for the interim. There is not the continuous motivation these days and when there is continuous accomplishment there emanates eternal love, which is hardly seen these days.

Cause 5 - This is reverse psychology. Either people whom you love inspires or those whom you hate to the core and desparate to prove a point. This works. But again as in love, hatred also inspires to a limited extent and there can never be perpetual hatred to continue as in love.

So, this a never-ending phenomena of extraordinary becoming ordinary and nothing becomes extraordinary - - it is only ordinary persons acheiving extraordinary things.

1 comment:

  1. Very well drafted. But for your contention that there are hardly any eternal love these days - I for one strongly object. Every body has it in them. The only thing that matters is how quickly does one discovers it.

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