Have We Ever Introspected Ourselves???

“Importance of Knowing Thyself
- The Button Way”

There were 2 students named Kunjal & Ashish studying in class-X in the same school and same division. They were together since class-1 and had wild competition amongst each other for 1^st rank. Kunjal ranked 1^st in class-1, 3, 4, 7 & 9 while Ashish ranked 1^st in class-2, 5, 6 & 8. So now in class-X; the competition became more cut-throat.

While observing Kunjal one day, Ashish discovered something strange. In the last exam of board examinations, Ashish furtively managed to take off the 1^st button of Kunjal’s shirt without his knowledge. Now when exam started, Kunjal started sweating and panicking and was not able to write a single word in the exam paper. Finally the results were out wherein Ashish topped the school and Kunjal failed the examinations. The thing that Ashish discovered about Kunjal was that Kunjal has a habit of writing exams by holding his topmost shirt button again and again. On the last day of exam, since the button was not there, Kunjal was not able to concentrate on his exam and was feeling out of memory because of which he failed.

This small story urges us to ask few questions to ourselves:

·     Are we aware of our weaknesses?

·     Are we known to our habits that are making us helpless and dependent?

·     Are we alert on our competitors knowing of our weakness/habit/dependency?

· If yes then have we started with the remedial actions to eradicate them or are we procrastinating?

We all are aware of a well-known management concept of SWOT Analysis which says we shall be aware of our Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat. But the concern here is we are just aware about it; we don’t implement it.

              He who knows others is wise; 

                                      but he who knows himself is enlightened...

In practical lives, we sharpen our axe by focusing on strengths and creating the opportunities wherein in this heftiness of leading the race; we overlook the significance of identifying our weaknesses and thereby shrinking the radius of our threats!!! In order to mark an unbeatable success in life, all the four dimensions of SWOT concept needs to be followed hand in hand. Every single dimension is futile without the existence of other 3 dimensions…

“Know Thyself; Know Thy Success”