Saturday, February 11, 2012

The Secret Letters Of A Computer Science Student: The Secret of His Success-Chapter 1 The book

The Secret Letters Of A Computer Science Student:
The Secret of His Success

 Edited by: Mr J.Motee 

Chapter 1 :The Book

The book

Sunny, 22 years old student of computer science student was searching through the book section of computer science, deliberately bored  and stressed by his studies. The great thing, he was very passionate about books. He moved to the Java Books Section and he lifts a book. A book, properly quoted at each page, each page contains quotations marked by Geniuses like Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and also Steve Jobs. He kept wondering, the book seems great "BIG JAVA" which contains most recent contents of the Java Libraries. He lifted the book at once.

The fall 

Sunny was a marvelous guy, he does not even leave the chance of studying for each second. More importantly, he was not happy with his life. Dumped by his best friend, after telling her "I think i have feelings for you", left him deliberately sad and also alone. He was not happy with life, more importantly he has tried to suicide three times in his life. First time, he failed to come out first his Form 1 Classes, he tried all sorts of poison that could have existed, still  the next day he woke up fine leaving him totally fine. Not even a scratch of pain, from overdose chemicals to higher overdose chemicals. 

He used to spend hours with music thinking why life is so pressured, he was loved by everyone. Despite he was not that handsome but girls used to trust him due to honesty and help he always provide. He just fell asleep in bus, when suddenly the bus conductor said : "Wake up son, you will miss your bus stop". Dressed like a fool, not cleaned shaved and most importantly an embarrassing hair style. He had a very bad positive self esteem. He hates enjoying for his birthdays, most importantly he hates living. It was as if studies is the only thing that could keep him busy with life. When he arrived home, he used to grab a chair and sit down like a fool. Most importantly, argue master number 1. He did not leave a chance to fight with his best friend called VJ . She never gave in, but the time was not too far when the friend left her without uttering a word. He assumed it as a lesson in life and thought he should keep moving forward. He grabbed the book what falls from it is some bunch of papers. The "BIG JAVA" book was like a treasure of letters.

The letters of a student in search of inner peace:

Letter read : " I am in search of inner peace, i find myself lost in the world. As if time has stopped  and i have stopped to take the wrong path. Not for long, finally i have find the inner peace.". Kinda , hard to figure out what those lines meant to say. But, after all the words were from a tensed student discouraged by his life of studies. "I cannot give my best but now i can". Here are the secrets i have discovered to live a better life as a student and as a human being quoted in red ink in the letter. Sunny kept reading, the boy was named Dani. Dani Arnout, he narrates more. The secret behind a successful life is to lead a life full of spirituality, a good mind and a good soul.  
Dani said the first thing to do in life is to forget the past  and cut the ropes. The ropes that  
holding you to reach your goals. Sunny in his inner thoughts "Goals but i do not have one".

The magical garden

Dani narrated in his letters, " I have been studying  from great books especially i have learnt the secret of genius". Your mind is like a garden and it is infested by thoughts. It is like a full cup. If you pour more tea inside it, no more will obviously go in.  A Farmer can hold a packet of seeds  which has no label on it and wait for the fruit at the end . It is the same thing here, one must have a goal in life. It is always something that they like to do, the secret is to find what you love to do or the way you love to do it and drill your full energy towards it. Your mind is a magical garden, which allows either flowers or weeds to grow in. Flowers are the good thoughts and weeds the bad thoughts. The more you let weeds to grow in, the flowers will die due to lack of physical conditions of the nature. The greatest secret is to take care of your mind, do not let it wander. Sunny paused by and thought : " What i dream whole days, are just mere girl who does not even give a fuck to me, or may be does not care for me at all " . Dani quoted "Your mind has a power, a great power and a power to change the world". So do you want to be the architect of your future or a destroyer. Let go the past, be the architect of your future.

Goals

Steve Jobs was a great man, he invented the world of technology. He was not graduated , henceforth why not me or anyone? Dani holds a workout plan, a plan to change life in 30 days. He elaborated with those plans, he said spend 1 hour every-day to think how you will spend your day, your daily goals and also condition yourself before you go out to challenge the world. The second step was the principle of auto suggestion, Dani wrote a quote of what he want to be and he repeated it 30 times per day. Dani quoted "I just gave a totally bad test for some days back, it was for the data structures module" , still i was totally depressed what is going to happen. The main problem was the lecturer was very bad but the great thing is i have mastered things i have not mastered first semester. An autosuggestion is a way of sending a message to your subconscious mind and there will come a time when it will develop into a physical power. So, Dani quoted " I am a guy full of energy, i am not that intelligent but i am meant to change the world. I may go through pain but i will face my fears and keep moving forward in life. What i can see is lessons of life will teach me, i will preserve my energy to change the world and mostly importantly my life. 

Wisdom of personal change
 
The great thing about human beings, they think they cannot change. They live their life according the way they want, but they fail to learn from genius. You need wisdom to change life, you need wisdom to be a genius. You can be the architect of your future , you are and you will be. Personal Change is a great thing, there exists very little amount of person that are willing to change. They stick to the way they live and trust me, "They are victims and not leaders". A human being loves learning from others and they have the will to change. Suraj started thinking again: "I tried this thing many times on VJ, but she always took me wrong. I did not want her to change but share the wisdom  i have". VJ was always stuck in her world, inflected by her ex-boyfriend which leaves me to argue with her most of the time. 

Sometimes it hurts to lose a friend, more importantly " I do not know VJ much but she always took me wrong" , a wisdom of personal change very few people give advice. We should seek the opportunity to learn from them. You may start as a lawyer and a mate as a doctor but a personal change in between the stages of life can make you yield more respect than the other. 

Sunny turned the second page of the letter, it was already 21.00 P.M and time for him to get back to work. More advices from Danny will be in the second part of the letter.


See you for Second Chapter

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Study Like A Pro, How?


Study like a pro, play the  role of a student but how?

Story from the guy in purple t-shirt

Today, 07.00 A.M , i was waiting to catch my bus for my classes. I sat there on the bench waiting for the bus and i wore the same black shirt , dressed like a gentleman. Someone once told me, "Suraj, your simplicity and honesty one day will make you a leader and everyone will be inspired by you". I could not understand why he said it. Another once said , "I know you can do it, you are a hard-worker and you are after all meant to be called a 'student'", this one was said by the Senior Lecturer of the Mauritius Institute of Education. Jokes apart, yes i did it. One of my students rocked the list of laureates this week. Remembered me one thing, i am a guy full of greatness.

The guy in the purple t-shirt then came, superbly dressed.  He was accompanied by his friends and  was busy complaining that he could not study at night. He was feeling lazy. I started thinking, i had a crushed night till 03.00 a.m.Still, i woke up before the sun rise. I could have spent my time choosing my clothes.   Instead, i was busy with my algorithms. 

Not finished yet, he now argues  about a taxi. A taxi which is dirty and how it appears inside. Wow, one word "Negativity prevails this guy". Frustration leads to argue.

The key idea

A student should have a goal. He should crave for knowledge. He has feelings for books. He is always properly dressed and gives everyone a smile.  A student learns from others even how to live life. He is inspired by success. He spends time reading good things. When he goes to school, he should have only one aim to grasp a little knowledge.

The most important thing, love what you do.   Let me quote from a great man, 

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”

 A student should have the desire of working and not  being forced to work. He / She should see his/ her works as an artist.

A student plans his time  for enjoyment , for keeping himself motivated and focus. Let me quote:

FOCUS+TIME+DAILY IMPROVEMENTS= GENIUS


See yourself as an artist and love what you want to do and achieve. 
"I do not need money to go to uni mom, I need my brain only."~Suraj.
"If you need money then, or feel hungry??"~ Mom
"I fill my stomach my knowledge so much, that i won't feel hungry anymore, ok give me the ten rupees, the rest ill keep it for my books"~ Suraj
Greatness =Success