One of my colleagues in IRS left the services 6 years ago to join politics.
He has been the most active member of our WhatsApp group and is often called FPM (Future PM).
Before he quit the job (by taking VRS), he and his wife came to me for my opinion. His wife was not happy with his decision as none of their children were settled or married.
I told him that I don’t understand politics and can’t guide him in this regard. However, I warned him politics is very challenging with very low success rate.
However, he was confident that he would succeed as a politician. His confidence was based on his three-time election as president of the IRS (C&IT) association.
He formed his own party, the Uttar Andhra Praja Party, and fought in the 2024 Lok Sabha election from Vishakhapattanam.
Metta was perhaps inspired by a fellow IRS officer, Arvind Kejriwal, who became the CM of Delhi within a very short time of forming the AAP.
Unfortunately, he could get only 326 votes in the 2024 election and placed at 31/34 place.
I wish him all the best in achieving success in politics, for which he has taken so much risk and is working so hard.
However, you can't become successful just by wishing for it.
It is often said, “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.”
The fact that beggars don't ride horses despite their wish establishes that you can't achieve everything just by wishing or wanting.
I don’t believe that you can succeed in almost everything if you really want it.
I know for sure that I won’t succeed in many things in life, such as
- Politics: I can’t lie, tolerate the corrupt or criminals, or play casteism or communal card to generate hatred and divide the people.
- Sports: I am a medium-height person, and my body is not suitable for athletics. I also can’t excelll in games like boxing, basketball etc.
- Business: I am very poor at marketing and sales. I can’t pitch for funds for start-ups.
- Celebrity: I can’t become a popular personality like Osho, Acharya Prasant, or Jaggi Vasudev because most of what I say is unpopular and unacceptable to most people.
I believe that I would not succeed in more than 90% of the areas even if I wanted to because of my lack of aptitude in those fields.
It took me a lot of time and maturity to understand myself and to identify in which fields I could not succeed.
If I am somewhat successful today as a writer, it is because I have discarded most of the fields where I can’t succeed, focused only on a very limited domain, and worked on it for a long time.
I agree with Albert Einstein's famous quote: "It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer."
Hence, if you wish to achieve anything of value in your life, identify the things where you can’t succeed despite your best effort so that you can focus all your time and energy on a limited domain to achieve excellence and become hugely successful.
-Awdhesh Singh
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