You must be wondering what these three things have in common. Two days back, annual meeting of World Economic forum ended. I was watching interview given by Jack Ma, this year. Discussion started from him, telling about Alibaba, how it started. What I saw different in Jack Ma was that there was no greedy approach in his ideas. From last 1 year I have been reading books like, Magic of thinking big, Think and grow rich. After reading them I realized that these books were written way past back in time. They get you motivated still, but one important point when learning is to know context and environment around the book and how it differs from yours. Its not reading alone, you have to take out book in your life properly otherwise it will be just another asset in your mind. Secondly, I realized that each country with their people have there own way of living, culture and they also have their own literature. If all we Indians, started having one car per person then what will happen. And these books were written according to some culture. You have to filter out knowledge out of them properly.
I was trying to learn what Jack Ma does that makes him CEO of Alibaba. At end one person asked about Global warming. He asked what things you want to teach to younger generation, probably last one that can do something about climate change, to make a spiritual mindset, an environmental mindset about world to care. Jack answered, that from past 200 years, in our hunger for knowledge based society we gained so much. We didn’t look inside ourselves. And today human beings get much more then they expect they should have. So environmental pollution is because human beings are getting greedy. Big data in future is going help us look inside us, what ugly side we have within our hearts. This is Chinese philosophy, to look inside everyday. So if we do not take action against pollution, all the money you make will spend in hospital, medicine and our children will be in big trouble.
Now what I saw was how deep is this Chinese philosophy is embedded inside him. I want to fixate not on having learning Chinese philosophy Jack Ma follows and not American way of living, but to have your own values and religion. There is where India comes. We people are filled with youngsters like me. Thinking and trying to do something new, innovative. It is easy to get lost in western books, following centered philosophy towards a goal. But you should always consider if that knowledge can be applied to your scenario or not. We have so many religions here to see, choose one and follow values. So you don’t have to follow American books necessarily and their way of living all by your heart. They have lot of less people than India or China have. We should remember our culture of meeting people, our relatives, our neighbors and helping each other out. We should gain knowledge that books are offering you, and give them consideration if they can be applied to your scenario or not. Its not how often you go to temples or mosques, but it is about being good at heart and following your dreams with values you have.
ameyjain 