STRENGTH IS WITHIN US - The Beginning

The Strength is Within Us - Article By Ashutosh Labroo

The famous Bruce Lee once said “If you follow the classical patterns, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow - you are not understanding yourself.” There’s magic in these words, to me it’s the essence of being one with one-self.

What follows below, is not a philosophical write up on some spiritual ways of living or even anything near that.

My attempt is to evolve for my own sake a thought which will try to answer the essential questions in my mind on what stops average people from becoming excellent in their own way.

Since time immemorial we have had times where because of something not moving the way we wanted it to, we believed in it not being worthwhile.

I have myself struggled with million of such moments where I had personal battles but mostly with my own convictions to do or not do a thing because of acute pressures.

People who have been immensely successful in the way they did things have for me one common thread to catch and that is “They believed in doing a thing for themselves and not for the world around”.

Don’t mistake the statement for the act of not doing things for the world, as my story is actually about two such people who created a world in their own ways and made it a much better place to live in.

I strongly believe that millions of Einsteins, Galelios, Marconis, Aryabhattas died unknown in the last 1000 years because of them not realizing what was their calling and they believed in always being led rather than leading “essentially themselves”.

The essence of success is not knowing what the world in general wants you to do but what you feel has to be done because you don’t feel the other way round, and this will get supported further below with a few examples, I would share below.

I have in the past seen innumerably talented & knowledgeable people giving into what they believe they have to do to “fit in”. That is another story that, for the next part of their lives they would essentially miss what they always wanted so much to be and to be able to do.

My take is not on any of our current Business Leaders or any of our Business Gurus, rather I want to talk of two of my own inspirations, who perhaps are the best examples of how a man can ably lead a life successfully with his own thoughts and strong values, even when the world felt otherwise. _________________________________________________________________________________