Friday, August 19, 2011

My Take 2: Follow your Heart

At some point or other, everyone has a confusion to choose between what we truly feel inside and what everyone outside is expecting from us. At that point choosing what your heart says may be difficult, but is a sure path to happiness and success.

I always felt this in my life; I am an undergraduate major in engineering, but I did not choose to work in core engineering process because of my inclination towards business. For now, I choose a platform that supports business operations and at the same time requires engineering skills. I am really happy that I made this decision.

If you choose to work what you love to do, then life and work becomes fun. Steve Jobs, Apple founder, which is the biggest US Company as of today, attributes his success to following his heart. He was a collage drop out, took classes in calligraphy because of his genuine interest. This helped him later to design Mac computers into beautiful typographic machines.

I am sure everyone has heard it from someone or other that one should follow his/her heart, and it may sound cliché. But this statement is lot more powerful than we realize. There are a million examples to prove the same. Buddha, founder of Buddhism was a king by birth, but he followed his heart into monastic life and became inspiration for millions of humans around the earth.

Following the natural instinct has always worked, right from Gautama Buddha to Steve Jobs. For successful and happy life, all we need to do is follow our heart with little courage and discipline.

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