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- A beautiful speech by Sundar Pichai.
Cockroach
Theory
A
beautiful speech by Sundar
Pichai - an IIT-MIT Alumnus and Global HeadGoogle Chrome:
The cockroach
theory for self development
At a restaurant, a cockroach suddenly flew from somewhere and
sat on a lady.
She
started screaming out of fear.
With a
panic stricken face and trembling voice, she started jumping, with both her
hands desperately trying to get rid of the cockroach.
Her
reaction was contagious, as everyone in her group also got panicky.
The lady finally managed to push the cockroach away but ...it
landed on another lady in the group.
Now, it
was the turn of the other lady in the group to continue the drama.
The waiter
rushed forward to their rescue.
In the
relay of throwing, the cockroach next fell upon the waiter.
The waiter
stood firm, composed himself and observed the behavior of the cockroach on his
shirt.
When he was confident enough, he grabbed it with his fingers and
threw it out of the restaurant.
Sipping my
coffee and watching the amusement, the antenna of my mind picked up a few
thoughts and started wondering, was the cockroach responsible for their
histrionic behavior?
If so, then why was the waiter not disturbed?
It is not
the cockroach, but the inability of those people to handle the disturbance
caused by the cockroach, that disturbed the ladies.
I realized
that, it is not the shouting of my father or my boss or my wife that disturbs
me, but it's my inability to handle the disturbances caused by their shouting
that disturbs me.
It's not
the traffic jams on the road that disturbs me, but my inability to handle the
disturbance caused by the traffic jam that disturbs me.
More than
the problem, it's my reaction to the problem that creates chaos in my life.
Lessons
learnt from the story:
I understood,
I should not react in life.
I should always respond.
I should always respond.
The women
reacted, whereas the waiter responded.
Reactions are always instinctive whereas responses are always
well thought of.
A
beautiful way to understand............LIFE.
Person who
is HAPPY is not because Everything is RIGHT in his Life..
He is HAPPY because his Attitude towards Everything in his Life
is Right..!!