Article by: Anuja Kumar (Director Eastern Region and Senior Career Counsellor, ICS Career GPS)
Let’s Keep collecting the dots as we go along in our life journey. It is not important to connect them right away.
We should grab opportunities that come our way and enjoy the experiences from all around to first collect these tiny dots.
Parents and teachers should encourage children to experiment with hobbies, build avocations and widen their talent base.
And then, one fine day…WHOOSH, a new pattern will pop up connecting those dots in a beautiful way…just as it did for them.
55 years ago she collected a dot when she learned Hindustani classical music.
- Today the 75-year-old loving grand-mom runs an NGO, keeps herself more busy than a business leader, AND is compiling and presenting the lost-and-forgotten folk songs of Uttar Pradesh on a local TV channel.
As a kid he would devour storybooks on magic and wizardry!
- Today the 30-year-old is a voice & theatre artist and coach, Urdu language teacher and the co-founder of ‘Daastaan Goi’ (east) – story-telling artform.
- He is currently working on reviving 1,000 magical stories from Alif Laila / Arabian Nights – eager to share these fascinating tales with the world.
As a young boy growing up amidst sprawling lawns in government bungalows, he collected his dots while lovingly tending to plants.
- Today, a 58-year-old business leader, writer and speaker at world fora, he is working on his dream project of hydroponic farming (soil-less farms)!
A 20-year-old with ‘insatiable Curiosity’
- This ‘seeker’ from somewhere in East India, who is also an architect, film-maker & science teacher, says it was this insatiable curiosity that drew him into probing the origins of COVID!
We know that Steve Jobs took up a course in calligraphy in college.
- Later, Jobs used this knowledge to create great text styles and fonts on the Macintosh systems.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: They never thought those patterns would emerge. Yet they lived / are living those patterns.
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I very well written, interesting article with profound insights on collecting and connecting dots in our life’s journey.
Thank you, Dr Dass. We too loved Mrs Kumar’s wonderful piece!