Monthly Archives: June 2009

Every year I see at least a dozen of students giving up on their CAT preparation. Some have genuine reasons but some of them just lose the motivation to go till the end. Such students either leave the idea of taking CAT at all or they leave the preparation in midway and take CAT just relying on their luck.  Some in the latter group stop believing in themselves, some of them get demotivated when they see others doing better around, and some of them just have a habit of  starting things but leaving the tasks incomplete. An attitude to give up the task midway is not confined to only CAT preparation, this attitude spreads across in every aspect of  life. Such people shift jobs quickly even when they have not exhausted themselves, they get bored of relationships quickly, they  keep seeking new opportunities  even when they have not explored all the opportunities at hand, they love to crib more and work less,  so on and so forth.

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As suggested by Arvind, I completed reading Brida by Paulo Coelho today. It is one of the most beautiful books I have read in the past few days but this is not one of the books that would be enjoyed by the masses. The book is for people who belive in magic, mysticism, spirituality, reincarnations, withcraft, and mystery. The book is about love and life. The book is also about finding your soulmate and discovering the deeper meaning of life. Brida is a good mix of courage and fear, realism and mysticism, experiences and failures, and lie and death. Personally, I loved the book and was left wanting to read more.

I wouldn’t tell you the story of  Brida, I would ask you to discover it yourself.  You would either love it or miss it completely.

Some of my favourite quotes from the book:

“The path of wisdom means not being afraid to make mistakes.”

“By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in your search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.”

“The path of the life is and always will be path of Mystery. Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.”

“Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated. Waterfalls, mountains and forests are all places where the spirits of the Earth tend to play and laugh and speak to us.”

“Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.”

Past one month has just been about work, work and more work. I think we took a challenge of taking too many things at a same time. We launched our CBT Club and started hiring for the first time. Two very big things. We realized the kind of faith and trust people have in us. So many people came and joined our CBT Club and so many people are willing to work with us. It was much beyond our expectations.

But among all hiring , launching and creating, I got tired.

I don’t remember since how many days have passed when I have slept without thinking of what more can we offer to students or what material I need to review/create next. I slept late and I woke up tired. The only time I was not working was when I was in a gym. Yesterday I told my trainer that I wanted to walk on a treadmill for at least half an hour because my mind was stuffed with things. I badly needed to vent it all out. He agreed. I walked trying to untangle my thoughts one by one. It helped a bit but I guess that wasn’t much.I came back home and as usual, sat down to work. Suddenly I was blank. My mind was mixed with RCs, resumes, paragraph completions, questions, reviews, business, TG, essays, deadlines, GMAT and what not. I couldn’t think of anything.Everything was black and claustrophobic. I wanted to puke it all out.

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Tagged By Alpa:

Rules of the game are :-

1.Each blogger writes about 8 random facts/habits about themselves.

2.People who are tagged, write a blog post about their own 8 random things, and post these rules.

3.Each blogger would tag 8 people in their post.

4.If the tagged people fail to do this in their next post, they would have to write ‘Dagny is the best’ 10 times in his/her blog post.

8 random things about me:

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