Sports - Cricket…!!!

Sports, the moment the word is said people start thinking the waste of time and need to utilize that time for some fruitful cause. Is playing sports is bad..? If it is not a profession for a person does not have any benefit..?

Wikipedia defines it as - A sport is an organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means. It is governed by a set of rules or customs. In sports, the key factors are the physical capabilities and skills of the competitor when determining the outcome (winning or losing). This definition has lot of meaning involved in it. For a good human/student/manager, one need to be organized, skillful, committed, strategist, etc. By playing a sport all these can be achieved in simulated manner which can be used for better real purpose. Why should not we spend sometime on sport..?

Sport keeps you physically fit, which now a days kids are lacking and every now and then fall sick. If kid plays sports he can learn how to take defeats and manage themselves. Even elders are lacking physical fitness and sport can improve it. It refreshes one’s mind, give freshness to entire body and can relieved from our frustration. This also makes us to manage ourselves in social environment.

Cricket is a religion in India. But it is often criticized for spoiling people both kids and elders. Kids if they always play without study it harm their career. Elders do betting or ignoring their responsibility watches or play cricket. These are other side of the coin. But for me cricket gave me lot of things in life and am not a professional cricketer. Am from the Kannada medium student and did not have good knowledge of English reading as well as writing. Not ready speak in English and inferiority complex was building. Mother told me to read English news paper especially sports section since me interested in sports. My reading and writing skills improved. But still lacking in spoken English. So started listening to cricket commentary like an obedient student. This helped me to learn spoken English.

By playing Cricket learnt how to be a good team member. It made me keep aside my ego and get adjusted to people. It requires a lot of commitment to be fit and perform. Being committed is most required quality in corporate world. By leading a cricket team able to judge how to get best out of an individual. Again, this helps you when you are working with other team members or leading the team in corporate world. Playing cricket learnt practically ‘change is the only constant in this changing world’. You need to keep on inventing new skills and using it in better manner to be a winning cricketer. So it is in corporate world, need to acquire new skills and use it on daily task to be successful professionally.

It requires a lot of strategy to outperform the opponent team in cricket. Making a strategy to improve quality of work/task and exceed customer expectation. This allows a person to move ahead in corporate world. For the student, one needs to make lot of strategy to study and get good marks. Sometimes you feel frustrated and mentally fatigue. These can be overcome by playing your favorite sports. It creates few moments of sustained cessation, which is attained by yoga or meditation. Yoga makes you more introverts, but sports keeps you extrovert. Both extrovert and introvert are two faces of a valid coin i.e. personality. By playing sports I have earned lots of good friends personally and professionally.

I feel a human being should have at least one sports to be played on a regular basis to reap in many benefits.

Mathematics of Life

Mathematics can, broadly speaking, be subdivided into the study of quantity, structure, space, and change (i.e. arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and analysis). The mathematician Benjamin Peirce called mathematics "the science that draws necessary conclusions". But it has been always criticized that it does not contribute to human life. Only elementary mathematics is useful in day-to-day life. Art teaches the essence of life while, while science explores the truth of life, but what mathematics do?

Mathematics has lots of concept which can be related to life. One such example is simplex method. Simplex method in simple words ‘there will be three or more constraints out of which need to maximize profit or minimize losses. For a person life also has three major constraints Family, Profession, and Friends. All the three are important for person to lead a happy and peaceful life. You need to maximize your happiness with all these constraints. Person also has constraint of money to distribute among various things, which are constraints. You cannot allocate money for all and need to distribute among those so that your loss is minimized or profit is maximized.

The concept of a "limit" is used to describe the value that a function or sequence "approaches" as the input or index approaches some value. Here input is what you put an effort and function is the goal. The amount of effort is directly proportional to achievement of your goal.

Differential calculus is the study of the definition, properties, and applications of the derivative of a function. The process of finding the derivative is called differentiation. By finding the derivative of a function at every point in its domain, it is possible to produce a new function, called the derivative function or just the derivative of the original function. If you consider success/failure is a function and derivative is cause of success/failure. While analyzing success or failure, there is always small derivative causes this. That is why people say small-small things matters a lot in life.

Geometry is a part of mathematics concerned with questions of size, shape, relative position of figures, and the properties of space. These concepts come in life for various applications like driving a vehicle, playing games, lifting the object, interior decorations, reading maps etc.

Sets are one of the most fundamental concepts in mathematics. All collections of the familiar types of numbers are sets. If you want to have good friends in life you need find persons who have similar types of interest and should have same wavelength of thinking. This is what actually explained in one of the Panchatantra i.e. Mitrabheda.

Mathematics is always definitive and consistent. The problem is solved by intelligent person or average person or ordinary person, result is same. Like Mathematics, person should be definitive while making decisions. In-decisive mind makes you fall in trouble. Person should be consistent towards other human being irrespective of their status, caste, intelligence, culture, or age.

“I used to love mathematics for its own sake, and I still do, because it allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness....” by anonymous. These words are said by anonymous, but the sentence is embossed in my heart.

Self-Confidence

In Ramyana during ‘kishkindha khanda’ Sugreeva’s forces were in search of Seeta, they came to know that Ravana taken her as hostage to Lanka, which is at the other side of the ocean. One of them has to cross over the ocean and communicate Rama’s message, but the ocean is very vast and someone has to fly 100 yojana (measure of distance during those days) without break to reach Lanka. In Sugreeva’s force nobody was that much capable and they were thinking who is going to do this job? At that time, Jambavanta, Chief of force, identifies Hanumantha can do this and he encourages him to do it. Hanumantha gets inspired and believes that he can do it and takes off. He reaches the Lanka without much difficulty. He escapes from the Ravana’s force and reaches Seetha at Ashoka Vana. He communicates the Rama’s message to her and tells her that if she wishes he can take her to Rama on his shoulder, but Seetha refuses saying let Rama only come and save her. While he was returning he was captured by Ravana’s force. In Ravana’s court, they lit the Hanumatha’s tail and after that he manages to escapes, lights the whole Lanka with his tail and returns successfully. He plays the major role in the battle between Rama and Ravana. He brings the ‘Sanjeevani Parvatha’ and rescues the Lakshmana’s life. He becomes the most adorable person by Rama and Seetha as well as by people.

While analyzing the Hanumantha’s character what we have to observe is until he starts believing in himself he was one among the force, but once he starts believing in himself, becomes most important person and best individual. The act of believing in oneself or one’s own ability is known as self confidence. Until the individual do not have the self-confidence he will remains normal person, but once he realizes one’s own ability, starts moving in the direction of superior path and can achieve greater stature in life.

To attain the self-confidence person has to find his own way to do this. Never imitate others way, it might have given him the success, but it would not work for you. Hanumantha has found his way by listening to Jambavantha’s words. You have to keep an eye on your own ability also, and in day-to-day life you come across lots of incidents, which will give you the confidence, gather them. If self-confidence is there you can achieve the ambition as you think it should be, no matter how difficult it would be. There is no impossible word in the dictionary of the self-confident person. You can take the right decision, can solve the problems effectively, and never be in panic. Self-confidence can get you the other personality attributes like attitude, rational thinking, persistency, etc.

Swami Vivekananda quotes “the person who does not have self-confidence is known as atheist. The ‘Sanathana Dharma’ called the people as atheist one who does not believe in god, but ‘Naveena Dharma’ says one who does not have self-confidence is known as atheist.” His sayings are eternal truth and encourages the youths to have self-confidence.