How do you use your brain cycles?

rodp:

As you might have noticed, most of the successful people in the world don’t have an IQ of 200. Then you’ve read tons of blogs, articles and books on the subject of succeeding, all of them preaching that dedication, rather than intellect, is what it takes to be successful. I don’t have a major problem with this theory, but I do know a lot of dedicated people who are not insanely successful.

The most important thing to consider, whilst figuring out why aren’t you successful already, is this: When you do use your brain cycles, how do you use them?

I don’t think most people aren’t dedicated. They are, but to the things that might not lead them to anything new or original. What are you thinking about most of the time? Sports? Boring old job? Partner? Some of these things are surely socially accepted ways of using your brain. However, if you’re not thinking about new ideas too much… well, don’t be surprised if you never get any.

We’re all cannons - it’s just that most of us are shooting flies all day long.

This post, of course, is a self-critique.

Unsurance

My scepticism towards insurance is not entirely misplaced, in fact Urbandictionary has a word defined for it.

Unsurance:

Coverage by contract whereby the party which has undertaken to guarantee protection or coverage against loss by a specified peril reneges said coverage when protection or action becomes necessary.

E.g:

I had to take little Throckmorton to a specialist for his asthma, but the visit was not covered by our health unsurance policy.

The Last Man

India has given in to pressure again, our Dr. Manmohan Singh has  gone ahead and diluted the stance taken post 26/11 of not engaging in dialogue with Pakistan till it took concrete, credible action against terrorism emanating from Pakistani soil against India.

Terrorists are roaming free and all evidence provided by India is in the Pakistani dust bins. And now our prime minister has gone miles to hug them when they haven’t shown signs of moving one inch. Pakistani government had to do nothing to achieve this, all it had to do was may be just ask twice, that’s it.

Does it take billions of votes to elect a government like this? I think the last Man in Indian politics was Indira Gandhi.

Insurance Illusions

When you buy an insurance policy and pay your premiums regularly don’t think that the insurance companies will knock at your door to serve you at the hour of need. Though that’s the picture the executives paint when selling you a policy. Your insurance policy is really not the reassuring words that appear big bold and colourful on the first page of the broacher, your insurance is in the cryptic fine print. Remember, insurance is something you have to fight and claim. It is not a service delivered, though it is true that you are paying money for the big word assurances given to you.

My friend’s wife was injured in a road accident last year (she is yet to regain her normal walk), was admitted in a hospital and they had to deal with a serious fracture at the ankle, requiring a surgery. After the surgery was done and when my friend wanted to claim insurance, the company said she was eligible for claim only if the leg was completely broken and coming to hospital expenses, only the expenses incurred after 72 hours of hospitalization could be claimed.

My uncle had to be hospitalized for a week. They diagnosed him as suffering from a viral fever with acute arthritis and they also came to know he was diabetic, he dint have diabetes before. My uncle has a medical insurance policy and he wanted to claim, they said he is not eligible because he was diabetic.

My friend cancelled all the policies after the experience he had. I want to seriously review the policies that I am paying for, I’d rather give this money to charities than pay to these insurance companies.

There will typically be overlap, disagreement, and confusion before there is synergy, cooperation, and collaboration.

- Morgan Kaufman

Morgan Kaufman said this w.r.t coming together of view-points in a web of knowledge. I thought this statement holds good more generally too.

-Rawjeev