There is a psychology theory about how we (humans) wish someone to reach heights and then take all opportunities to pull them down. There are many examples. Sachin's case is one of those. He did it today - 100, hundreds. That's 10,000 runs!
I sincerely ask everyone of us to be introspective and reflect on our professional lives. Year on year from the day we start as freshers, we count and calculate the pay checks, bonus and crib about tax-man to see if we can gain maximum advantage. There is then this comparison with our friend's, family on these statistics. I am sure we all love numbers then - but have we ever calculated - these many lines of codes, or IT components or millions of manufacturing components or x number of lessons etc. depending on professional types, have we ever calculated on our personal deliveries? No!
It is true that if one gets a hefty bonus or a CxO title or a Director or VP title, there is a new car in the portico or a posh house in a Banjara hills/ECR and the whole family talks about it, friends have to celebrate and that's all part of the life. The new house gets a cheeky reduced property tax and its fine... But the occasion has to be dandy! Have we ever wondered, what would we do and how would we behave, if we get just millions on ad-modelling in addition to the CxO professional title? No!
We may professionally have failures and I am sure everyone has one at least, where the promotion was overlooked or project was junked or the team (?) has let us down or our manager (media) has been constantly criticising for everything you do! Though the team didn't deliver in spite of your excellent delivery record with smaller projects (aka - minnows), the senior management is harsh on you for a couple of bigger project failures. Has anyone ever wondered that how in these situations, we pick ourselves move on to a different company or a project and repeat same mistakes without reflecting? No!
Scoring runs is not so easy! be it Bangladesh or Maldives, doing out there a 100 times is not a joke! I don't mind even if its selfish, still who is altruistic in profession? Everyone needs a pay raise and I have reviewed many appraisals where people claim successes to get a C to B and a B to A rating to get better bonuses and promotions. Have we ever thought about, hey that project was a team-work (Bangladesh demonstrated this very well today with an all-round team work), I may be the PM, but its delivered by the team and it is a little odd to claim an A rating for a top bonus for a shared success? No!
I can go on, but you should get it by now...
Suggest to read some of the great headlines from international media (the guardians, the telegraphs etc.). This man has done something that mere mortals cannot even think of in our daily profession. He shows little ego, (has had no face-offs with any bowler till date) and keeps working like clockwork. Statistics is a way to measure things but not everything. What I have reflected here is something that brings awe to me. How could a man go on and on doing what he has done for so many years? It is discipline, practise, vision and instinct and especially in sports where the body gets a heavy beating, this man has achieved more than any CEOs could do. Actually he has blessed Bangladesh today, I am sure somewhere out there, a Bangladeshi kid would have said to himself, I want to do that someday. Yes, he has lit up so many dreams! The numbers give you a clue, but the under covers, this man has done something which no cricketer can even dream... Its not a 10,000 run feat... this is 100 x 100s!
You have ignited a fire and a generation of dreams! Hats-off to Sachin.
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It is true that if one gets a hefty bonus or a CxO title or a Director or VP title, there is a new car in the portico or a posh house in a Banjara hills/ECR and the whole family talks about it, friends have to celebrate and that's all part of the life. The new house gets a cheeky reduced property tax and its fine... But the occasion has to be dandy! Have we ever wondered, what would we do and how would we behave, if we get just millions on ad-modelling in addition to the CxO professional title? No!
We may professionally have failures and I am sure everyone has one at least, where the promotion was overlooked or project was junked or the team (?) has let us down or our manager (media) has been constantly criticising for everything you do! Though the team didn't deliver in spite of your excellent delivery record with smaller projects (aka - minnows), the senior management is harsh on you for a couple of bigger project failures. Has anyone ever wondered that how in these situations, we pick ourselves move on to a different company or a project and repeat same mistakes without reflecting? No!
Scoring runs is not so easy! be it Bangladesh or Maldives, doing out there a 100 times is not a joke! I don't mind even if its selfish, still who is altruistic in profession? Everyone needs a pay raise and I have reviewed many appraisals where people claim successes to get a C to B and a B to A rating to get better bonuses and promotions. Have we ever thought about, hey that project was a team-work (Bangladesh demonstrated this very well today with an all-round team work), I may be the PM, but its delivered by the team and it is a little odd to claim an A rating for a top bonus for a shared success? No!
I can go on, but you should get it by now...
Suggest to read some of the great headlines from international media (the guardians, the telegraphs etc.). This man has done something that mere mortals cannot even think of in our daily profession. He shows little ego, (has had no face-offs with any bowler till date) and keeps working like clockwork. Statistics is a way to measure things but not everything. What I have reflected here is something that brings awe to me. How could a man go on and on doing what he has done for so many years? It is discipline, practise, vision and instinct and especially in sports where the body gets a heavy beating, this man has achieved more than any CEOs could do. Actually he has blessed Bangladesh today, I am sure somewhere out there, a Bangladeshi kid would have said to himself, I want to do that someday. Yes, he has lit up so many dreams! The numbers give you a clue, but the under covers, this man has done something which no cricketer can even dream... Its not a 10,000 run feat... this is 100 x 100s!
You have ignited a fire and a generation of dreams! Hats-off to Sachin.
