Taken from life …….
- The day you wish no one would remember might just turn out to be the best day of your life! The story of deactivating Facebook accounts on birthdays.
- Just one second, one piece of good news can change the course of your life. A strange moment can make you forget all past suffering. Allah never keeps anyone dishonored forever. You must wait humbly for the day of your dreams and believe from your heart that the day will come.
- Just one mistake can give you a tremendous push forward. Being able to make such a mistake is also a matter of fortune. Making mistakes early in life is the best thing.
- Having Intellectual Humility is crucial. Why Google doesn’t care about hiring top college graduates? Those who aren’t accustomed to making mistakes can’t go very far.
- Accept it—the mistake is yours. Forgive everyone except yourself.
- Stop trying to be perfect. If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll remain as you’ve always been. There’s nothing perfect in this world.
- Whether you’re an Oxford, MIT, Stanford, or Harvard graduate—nobody really cares. At the end of the day, only your impressive behavior, manners, and conversation stay in people’s minds. Nothing else.
- Most people love success but secretly despise successful individuals. Not everyone will like you. You don’t need everyone to navigate this world either. You need some enemies in your life. If you don’t have any, create some. Experience says, birds of the same feather feel jealous of each other. Those who follow you around have already accepted that you’re ahead.
- Doing a job well is more important than doing it quickly. People remember how well the work was done, only that. Don’t complicate simple tasks, and don’t underestimate difficult ones.
- “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” Saying someone’s face is ugly doesn’t make my own face any more beautiful.
- You can become big in two ways. One: by growing yourself. Two: by diminishing others. The second way is easier, but risky. Why?
- It’s better to be a wise person’s follower than a fool’s friend on Facebook. Keep learning with a humble attitude. You can’t learn without humility. It’s much better to lose once fighting a lion than to win a hundred times fighting a donkey.
- The power of not making others listen is much greater than making them listen. If you want to make someone listen, do it through your actions, not your words. Your day will come too. Until then, let people talk.
- Do three things. One: write down what you want to do. Two: write down how you’ll do it. Three: keep what you’ve written in front of your eyes. When will you start doing this? Tonight when you get home!!
- Love your emotions. Your hand might be less beautiful than others’. But just as you’re incomplete without it, you’re incomplete without your emotions. People live with their emotions.
- Focus on the rabbit you want to get. If needed, change the tactics, but don’t change the rabbit. If what you want seems difficult, change the method of your approach, not the goal. Half of what you think is right about your efforts is actually right.
- Why me? There’s no point in asking this question. The story of a priest. Caroline’s story. Your own story. Haven’t you ever received honor you didn’t deserve? What goes around, comes around. The world runs on balance.
- What’s essential for winning? Intelligence? Skill? Knowledge? No, none of these. You need two things: passion and perspective. The story of the worst footballer. My students’ stories. Little children’s stories. Sometimes the story of staying awake for two nights.
- From today, whenever you watch football or cricket, mentally think about what you would do if you were in that player’s position. Practice this.
- Scary things are only as scary as we make them. The childhood story of fearing cockroaches. The bumblebee’s story. What happens when you look down from a mountaintop?
- When you’re to look through the window, just look through, don’t look at.
- Spend more time with those who speak well of you and have faith in your abilities. When someone praises you, use the sense of responsibility it creates within you. Samar sir’s story. Every husband tries to do more of what his wife praises. Apply this to your life. Listen to praise with humility, give praise with generosity.
- Be a 2-dollar man.
- Sometimes a goalkeeper not running around actually reduces the chance of conceding a goal. Why does the goalkeeper run? We think, at least they tried. Even if they concede, people don’t blame them as much. Think less about what others are thinking.
- Stress management. Sachin Tendulkar’s story. Irfan Pathan’s story.
- Eat that frog! formula. Before sitting down to study, write down what you’ll study that day. Finish the difficult and boring subjects first. This way you can finish the easy subjects much faster. Set priorities. When you finish a difficult subject, give yourself a gift. Sometimes give yourself permission to slack off.
- The story of the iftar party. The story of get-togethers. Every humiliation hides an opportunity.
- Notice one thing. 96% of the world’s wealth is earned by only 1% of people. Among those who take BCS exams, only 1% of candidates become cadres. Why? This is partly controlled by factors beyond our control. Don’t worry about those. Use what’s in your control. Plan to be among those 1%! Think less about the misfortune of the other 99%.
- Once a song gets stuck in your head, it keeps playing and playing. Whatever kind of song it is! Maybe such a song got stuck that you’d be embarrassed to even hum! When our brain receives a signal, it only sees what signal our thoughts are sending. Our brain works only with keywords. Choose them very carefully. Like attracts like. Let me give you a real example.
- Creating your own work environment. Examples of Humayun Ahmed and Sunil Gangopadhyay.
- Stop complaining the world is not fair. Yes, it’s not fair. And, this unfair world is older than you and has charmed many people much better than you.
- You need two hands to hold two small things. You need two hands to hold one big thing. If you can’t let go of small opportunities, big opportunities will slip away. My own story. Live like birds. Leave to live.
- When doing a task, follow the car headlight theory. If you think about everything before and after the whole subject, your concentration is bound to be scattered. Most people prefer to think about what’s easy to think about and what discourages them from doing the tasks ahead, because the tasks ahead seem difficult.
The story of a nobody
- Changing life’s direction again and again. Stories of indecision. There’s always time at hand to understand that time is running out.
- Looking back. The story of being a nobody. The story of the boy with the worst results; who at one point wasn’t even supposed to complete honors, whom no one ever dreamed about. Not getting any recognition from anyone is a terribly painful thing.
- People tutor alongside their studies. But I studied alongside tutoring. Not out of necessity, but out of passion. Later I reflected, what does tutoring actually give us? ……. Often money and contempt; sometimes respect. Days of humiliation, nights of tears. The garland of poison cups and what followed. Simply surviving can mean so much. Have you read Shirshendu’s “Swimmer and Water Maiden”?
- It’s better to suffer pain than to receive nothing in life. Cry, only to smile better. Achieving what no one ever thought you could do—that is the most beautiful accomplishment. What does it mean to do something good? Doing something that brings smiles to your parents’ and loved ones’ faces, that holds their heads high—that is doing something good.
- Those of you who are here, who haven’t even started your careers yet, are you really behind? What does ‘being behind’ actually mean? The story of hearing about BCS. I started working at least 4.5 years after my friends.
- What is a career? What does a ‘good’ career (whether job or business) contain? I believe there are three things. One: Social recognition. Two: Solvency. Three: Time to spend your earning in your own way.
- Living a sparrow’s life without regret is far better than living long with sighs amidst great abundance. Yes, you can run the rat race like everyone else, racing to win like rats. But this has two problems. One: This race never ends. Two: Even if you win this race, you’ll remain a rat in the end. The problem with being a rat is that rats cannot enjoy human life. How much does a person really get from their job? We never know what will come first in our lives… the next day? Or the next life? Therefore, we should choose our careers keeping in mind that we can live life our own way before death.
- Career and Family—the story of filling a glass jar.
- I had no Aim in Life, except in exam papers. Someone asked me, what is your 10-year plan regarding life and career? I answered, I have never been able to make even a 10-minute plan in my life. Still I’m happy. No regrets! How much does a person really get in one lifetime? I am someone who lives in the world of each moment. What’s the point of living as such a careerist?
- Not living someone else’s life, not compromising with life—the story of a happy unsuccessful accidental engineer, the story of a frustrated entrepreneur. I am very happy because I didn’t get what I wanted. God sometimes grants our prayers by not granting our prayers. Thank God, He didn’t grant the prayers of my early life. Whatever you may have received in life, express gratitude for it and learn to give away some portion from your extra gains. The more you learn to be grateful in life, the better you will be.
- To do something very good doesn’t necessarily require a very long time. To create something beautiful, emotion is needed more than hard work or intelligence. Knowing how to do many things in little time is a great art. …… No one kept their word. You fill up my senses. Kumar Sanu’s 28. Dostoyevsky’s story. …….. Be lazy. Bill Gates’ principle.
- One thing is very true. Being a good student academically doesn’t necessarily mean their career will be good. Good students often see you as an easy target. Use this weakness of theirs to your advantage. Try to have the last laugh. Let some time in between pass in tears, neglect, contempt.
- Before starting your career, ask yourself what you enjoy. Others cannot answer this. At most, they know what you should enjoy. The biggest disadvantage of thinking like ten other people is that the potential you actually possess falls into a predetermined pattern, and your achievement becomes nothing that can be called or seen as special. Whether you will make your life ordinary, it’s your choice.
- The two most difficult steps of doing any work: One: Deciding what you actually want to do, how you want to do it, why you want to do it. Two: Actually starting the work. The easiest technique to start any work is to actually start the work.
- Is confidence necessary for success, or is success necessary for confidence? I can’t do it, I can’t anymore, I quit! Shah Rukh Khan’s story.
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” The difficulty level of most of the competitive exams is overrated. — Why? Those who come first in civil service exams are human too, right? I used to think like this. ………. Don’t think your BCS won’t happen, your BCS won’t happen. Your prayer might get answered.
- Your passion pays!! Books, movies, music & of course Facebook!! No matter, whatever it is!! Basically, you were what you loved, you’re what you love, you’ll be what you’ll love!!
- If you are not thinking about your dream, you are not thinking at all.
- Success can never be deserved, success must be earned. The way you think after becoming successful, that this is your achievement, in exactly the same way after you fail, others think in their minds, this is your due.
- What’s the point of asking Bill Gates for rice-and-lentils business ideas? Be strategic.
- What people can’t do, or aren’t used to, they assume you can’t do either. There are some viruses that can never praise or tolerate anyone’s praise. Don’t let yourself be influenced by anything they say. Those who cannot praise your right work have no right to criticize your wrong work. Throw them out of your life. I love critics more than anyone else. I say, there’s no time for all this love-business. Rather, ruling suits him who… Kind words are healthier than a bowl of chicken soup. The story of a strange dog.
- Being known as a good student to everyone in childhood is a terrible thing—you can never think of yourself as small anymore. The unfamiliarity with accepting that others think I’m a fool is very painful! Sometimes it’s your bad luck! People want to see you as they want, not as you want to see yourself. Still, live in your own life. Don’t listen to others, listen to your heart.
- Don’t be serious, be sincere. Not everyone can do everything. Accept this. Find out which work you do best.
- Stop overthinking. ‘If you’re going through hell, keep going.’ Que sera sera — Whatever was, was; whatever is, is; whatever will be, will be. What will happen, will happen.
- Life didn’t come to us with a user-manual. So, it’s our right to use and to abuse it! Sometimes, failures are just too good! To fail successfully is an art.
- Deciding what you really want matters. Our problem is, we don’t know what we want. It took me almost 2 decades to decide what I really want. When I’d decided finally, it took me only a few months to get what I really want.
- Don’t only work hard, also work smartly.
- Only your results are rewarded, not your efforts. This is the way the world accepts or rejects you.
- What is SUCCESS?? It’s not the opposite of failure as popularly believed, it’s just living without sighs. It’s just dancing in the manner you want and making people think you dance well even if you don’t. It’s making your style others’ favourite brand even if it’s foolish. It’s sometimes making people laugh listening to your even worst jokes. It’s making others hear you even when you don’t speak. It’s taking the opportunity to tell others that meeting your previous millionth failure was essential, anyway. It’s making your failures worth-mentioning by you or by others. It’s living in your own way and let others live in their own ways.
BCS Examination DOs & DON’Ts
The difficulty level of the BCS examination seems somewhat overrated to me. While it is a competitive exam, which is true, there usually aren’t very many real competitive candidates, which is even more true. Most people prefer to intimidate others about this exam. Say what you know; also say what you don’t know. Let me share two facts.
- In BCS exams, 50% of candidates go just for fun, without any reason at all, somewhat like attending a get-together. (The amusing thing is, some of them actually succeed! ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’ type! There’s no point in feeling bad about their success.)
- Real competitive candidates are only about 7%.
This means your competition isn’t as fierce as you think. BCS examination has no specific syllabus, so 100% preparation for this exam is impossible for anyone. Keep in mind, thinking you’ve learned a hundred percent, then forgetting sixty percent of it and properly utilizing the remaining forty percent—that’s the art. For doing well in this exam, knowing what to study is far less important than deciding what to leave out.
I’ve tried to address this in the following slides. Use this guideline in your own way. Take as much as you need, throw away the rest.
Mama
always said, ‘Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re
gonna get.’” ~ Forrest Gump
“Don’t ever
let someone tell you, you can’t do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you
got to protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you
you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.” ~ Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness,
Film)
“Age after age, human perseverance
seems
like
someone
else’s
opportunity.
……………………………………………………………………….
Yet
in
human
hands
humanity
is
being
destroyed;
there
exists
no
pure
profession
on
this
earth.”
Nobody
will ever remember you after your retirement!