You May be Fast, But Are You Fast Enough?
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young
- Edward Young
Curious to know why Dinosaurs became an extinct
species?
I read somewhere that the reflex mechanism in
Dinosaurs was very slow. I read that if a Dinosaur is bitten by a snake in the
leg, it will take three to four months by the time the information reaches the
brain! We all know that the brain should send commands to secrete hormones and
chemicals to fight against poison and bacterial infection.
This is what happens, if we are not fast enough to
take corrective actions to improve our life. Supposing you come to know that
recession is around the corner and you have to take steps to insulate you from
the consequences of recession, the speed with which you act will decide your
survival.
Even if you have the rarest of the rare skills, you
should know when the skill will become redundant. Take the simple skill like
stenography. There was a time, when every manager in an organization will be
given a stenographer to help him to type the various correspondences and there
was a very big demand for qualified stenographers. But today, every executive
types his own notes. So the knowledge of stenography has become redundant
in today’s context.
You have to change very fast. You have to audit your skill inventory. Life is nothing but a race against time.
(From my book '365 Exciting Ways to Live')
NC Sridharan
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