Finished reading this book "It happened in India". It covers the professional life of Mr. Kishore Biyani, the big bazaar tycoon. He gave one of my psycho thoughts a name - The Timepass Theory. Somehow I have believed in this alternate interpretation of life for quite some time, knowing very well that one has to be some kind of a lunatic jerk to have such thoughts. Hearing it from someone else that too in his biography came as some kind of relief. Enough to make me post about it.
I interpret life very differently and I have this belief that we all come to this world to kill time. Therefore, we pick up some activity that we like doing and call it our profession. I call this the Time Pass theory.
I work to build a business, an organization. But what I am essentially doing is trying to spend the time I have in this lifetime. Every morning, I get busy getting ready to leave for work or some meeting. I am doing it not because I have to do it. I am doing it because I will not have much else to do through the day.
Through this work-life of ours, we tend to create our own world. We make our own definitions of success and failure, of victories and defeats. And we use these not only to judge our own selves, but also to judge others, without ever realizing that all we are doing is basically digging holes and filling them up. Yet I have seen so many people take their life too seriously, not realizing that what they are essentially doing in this world is time pass.
(Kishore Biyani is the CEO, Future Group and author of
It Happened in India)
How the hell did he motivate himself to achieve those monumental feats with such negative thinking?
5 comments:
i think he really hated making use of time. So, he kept himself busy by timepassing at work. maybe, he would not go home to do something meaningful. Instead, he would stay at work and slog time away.
Thats the surprising part. With such negative thinking he did things which were unthinkable for even the tatas and birlas of that era. This thinking in a way gave him license him to take unprecedented risks and made it easier for him to follow his heart.
Few of his decisions looked so bizarre on paper that all his uncles, the stock market, everyone deserted him. And yet he took them very often. An absolute one of his kind entrepreneur. Maybe its easier with his line of thinking. Before taking decisions he could have thought "What could be the worst outcome of this. All this is anyways timepass. So let it pass my way"
Negative thinking and success... how about luck playin a role??
Really??
Don't people have this horrible tendency of making things look so easy after achieving a lot. Undermining your own effort to look cool! 'Oh well, i hardly prepared'
'That, i was never too serious about it'
'You know, i was a real tomboy as a kid' - hottest of models
Haven't we seen a zillion of these guys.
Just a thought..
Dear Friends, Its infact a great thought the "Time Pass Theory".
Its not a negative thought but give you a balanced outlook for living a graceful and honourable life. Most of us are so involved in our daily professions that we start ignoring our other preferences of life.
Profession is only a way to earn living, yes it may be our passion of life but for most of them its a bread earning process. Amazingly our friends and foes are due to our profession, frustration and happiness is due to our profession.
Can you beleive ! we are so dependend for our happiness and satisfaction on our profession which is so unreliable and un- dependable.
Our family, our knowledge, our mental peace and "self" should be more important and more reliable source happiness.
Hats off to Kishore Biyani, after being so successful in his profession he realize that "if he will be able to spend time with his family whenever he want is his real success.
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