Most Important Skill For Success in Life

There was a King in ancient India who needed a wise man as his minister. This minister is supposed to be responsible for providing strategic advisory to King in all his matters. Given the level of importance for this role, intuitively the King wanted a man with highest possible intelligence.

Now, the process of finding a person of such caliber kick started in the entire Kingdom, 1000+ applications were received. In order to filter out best candidates from so many applications, various tests were conducted and after 3 months of the entire selection process 3 candidates were finally selected for the final round of selection, named Rama, Ramesh and Vikas, only one candidate was to be selected from these 3 candidates.

As the final judgement day got closer, Ramesh and Vikas were really anxious , they started preparing really hard, read all the books possible and gained all the possible skills. Just a day before the final judgment day, Ramesh and Vikas were becoming more stressful, they were busy whole night revising their skills and strategy, however the Rama slept like he has never slept before, he did not talk to anyone and was at complete ease as if there is not test tomorrow.

The final day arrived, these 3 candidates reached the examination hall. The king came to the examination hall and gave them a puzzle to solve and closed the room. The test for the final candidates were to solve a puzzle on the lock at the door of the room, whoever comes out of the room first will win the test and thus will be made the minister.

Ramesh and Vikas immediately started the solving the puzzles, tried their level best to solve that puzzle. They spent hours solving the puzzle, whereas Rama was simply meditating, observing the whole room and closely observing the lock on the door. He then sat at the corner of the room, did not talk to Ramesh and Vikas who were scratching their heads, were getting frustrated as they were unable to solve the puzzle. After a couple of hours, Rama stood up, simple walked towards the door, and got out of the examination hall as the room was never actually locked. The objective of the examination was never to solve the puzzle, it was to get out of the examination hall as early as possible. The king deliberately put the puzzle on lock to distract the candidates from their original objective. And thus, Rama was declared the winner and named as the minister of the Kingdom.

The moral of the above story, is to understand the importance of awareness and calmness in life. Awareness means you live moment to moment alert, conscious of yourself and conscious of all that is happening around you. You are in total sync with your surrounding. Being calm, means you are able to perform at your level best whatever may be the situation around you. You have the situational awareness about things happening around you, and, respond accordingly rather than getting stressed out and crushed out by the unforeseen situations in life.

No matter how much skills and knowledge you have , if you are not able to execute those skills in the toughest situations, you won’t be able to win the biggest battles of your life. Let us take an example from our day to day life, say you have a presentation to give to the CEO of your company and you have prepared everything for it. But, if you can’t deliver it in front of everyone in boardroom, if you develop anxiety and stress in the moments of giving presentation, your presentation will not be taken seriously as you are not able to convey your message properly. These is just one of many situations in our life.

Thus it is your ability to be aware and calm that will decide the fate your life more that anything else. So, let us become more aware and calmer as we more forward in life and win the biggest battles of your life effortlessly.

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