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In the past few years, especially with people from our generation and the following generations, there is burning desire to succeed, instantly.

Desire to succeed in itself is not bad, rather it is the most desirable quality of any person. But the desire of instant success is something which is bad. This is what sparks the mad rat race that kills the fun of succeeding. For attaining instant success, people go in for unethical practices and dangerous shortcuts. And when they reach their goal, they find that they are lacking the joy of success.

I have met people as friends, associates, subordinates, classmates, in short in almost all forms. What they ask me (when I am expected to guide them which in itself is task given to a wrong person) is answers as to what is their goal. And, here I am, who is still to fix my own goals. Isn't it like a blind showing the way to another. I have found a small solution to this. I pose many more questions to them and that too in a very uncharitable form. The ones who try to answer it are right on the path. Others, well, they need to look to other folks.

What I have observed off late is the reluctance of people to put in the effort to learn and go to the depths. This reluctance results in the blunting of the intelligence. And anyone who for his or her own satisfaction shows this diligence to dig deeper and wider, comes out to be an intelligent person. But few realize this and set on this path, a long and lonely path, which has numerous thorns on its way, but the vast ocean of knowledge at the other end.

Fortunately, I have met many people, who believed that, irrespective of your education, position and social status; need to do some amount of manual labour once in a while. After all partying is not the only way of loosening up. I have met a factory manager who used to tighten the machine bolts or repair the crane when it used to get stuck. This gesture of his always enabled him in getting quick and efficient work from his workers who never tried to act smart with him. And then I also have seen a IIT educated chief minister personally supervising the arrangements of a function, standing on the streets. These are leaders who have led from the front.

Now I see newly minted MBAs (though not all) who will spend 5 ' 10 minutes searching for a peon to take copies of a single paper when they could have done the work themselves. And then I sometimes really get disappointed with people who remember all the things that are less important while forgetting the basic skills like letter writing. For the matter I have a superior who told me that the first training that any MBA or a graduate who comes newly to work is the skill of filing papers. That is one skill many lack even after years of working in the office.

This is my way of taking out some frustration with the people around me who want to know what is their final destination as well as the path, without even allowing the others to know how strong are the legs which will take the questioner to his or her goal. Really its time we put such people on a path full of thorns before they get a revelation that the path to success cannot be told by others, it has to be found by you, yourselves.