This post is dedicated to my DH who is a huge fan of "Slumdog Millionaire" .
Jamal Malik is one question away from winning 20 million rupees, how did he do it?
A) He cheated
B) He’s lucky
C) He’s a genius
D) It is written
Answer: D) It is written
Throughout the movie, "Slumdog Millionaire" we follow Jamal Malik through his life and how each incident in his life held the answer to one of the questions on "Who wants to be a millionaire?"
I have been reading this book called "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell. It takes an interesting look at successful people. The author says that people are successful not only because they are brilliant or skillful but also because of the circumstances they live in. For eg. Bill Gates is brilliant but he also owes his success to his parentage. His parents were wealthy enough to send him to private school with computer access. He went to school at a time the computer revolution was just beginning. So Bill Gates was born in the right year!
The author Malcolm Gladwell gives a few more examples of people born in the same era and how they were the right people, at the right place, at the right time.
The movie "Slumdog Millionaire" and the book "Outliers" have the same theme! Whatever we do in life, unless it is "written" we won't achieve anything.
5 comments:
what do u ve to say abt ramalinga raju? :)
@ maya
In india u need to have a "pink certificate" thats all!;)
haha... but i dont think its jus he pink certificate!
Dear Jan,
You won't believe ...I had just sent a comment on Maya's blog and the subject of the comment was almost the same as this blog post - ARR has been at the right place at the right time with the right connections to be awarded 2 Oscars. It is not that there were no better composers than ARR now or in the past or no better songs of ARR now or in the past than Jai Ho. It just happened that God smiled on him.
Just a reminder: "If you try, you may; if you don't, you won't" - more and more attempts improve the chance of achieving your goal...once we achieve the goal we can call it HIS GRACE. If you don't try, HIS GRACE won't be there; it is "written" that way !!!
Love
Appa
I actually dont like Malcom Gladwell that much. He is a clever analyst. His tipping point was celebrated as great original thinking..but at the end of it, there is nothing actionable from his writings..
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