Tag: #Character

ARE WE ‘DECEPTIVE’ IN NATURE ?

“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.”
― Alfred Tennyson

In true sense, the word deception implies ‘make believe’, that is, convincing a person that something exists whereas, in reality, it does not exist. Deception is a simple tool for enticing people and trapping them to believe in something unbelievable. This is an evil that has subsisted among human beings since time immemorial in literature and history we come across several uses of deceptive methods; even in our contemporary world, deception is rampant. In fact, such is the enormity of deception that it is often difficult to distinguish the real from the fake. Consequently, even today we come across reports of how many large corporations, especially related to chit funds, dupe their investors through unrealistic schemes. As a result of their ‘get-rich-quickly schemes lakhs of innocent investors lose their lifelong savings because they are shown the dream of coming out of their miseries but are pushed to the brink of perishing.

Deception is also a major tool used in forging currency notes and other negotiable instruments like cheques and drafts. Governments across the world have introduced many new techniques to ensure that their markets are not flooded by fake currency notes or negotiable instruments but, so far, there has been no fool-proof methodology to prevent the menace. Master criminals always manage to deceive by preparing exact copies of the originals. The same applies for important documents like passports and visas.

With the dawn of online shopping, fraudsters have had a free-run as it is practically easy to dupe people and escape without leaving a trace. People end up paying money for products bought online but never actually receive the goods on many occasions, or even if they do, such goods are either defective or elaborately wrapped empty boxes are provided. Consequently, tracking cyber-criminals is very difficult and the number to solved cases is low.

However, like everything else, even deception is a double-edged weapon: it can be used against a deceitful enemy and so serves as an important military tactic, especially in guerrilla warfare. We have read how Babur, the first Mughal Emperor enticed Ibrahim Lodhi to charge headlong and then fall into the covered trenches on the battlefield or how Chhatrapati Shivaji, the great Maratha warrior, used deception to kill Afzal Khan and harass Aurangzeb. Nobody can ever forget the deception carried out by Mark Antony in inciting the Romans from the Forum to rebel against the conspirators who killed Julius Caesar.

In present day military tactics, elaborate plans are drawn out to combat the enemy. The best-known methodology is to plant spies among them so that delicate information can be easily retrieved and the opponent’s actions can be monitored.

AIM OF EDUCATION IS TO BUILD CHARACTER

The aim of education should be building of character and not merely injecting of information.

– Pranab Mukherjee.

Education is a learning process that enables students and adults in a school community to understand, care about and act on core ethical values.

Learn the value of respect, justice, civic virtue and citizenship, and responsibility for not only themselves but also for others.

Education gives us the knowledge we need to know what dangers in society are and how to deal with them properly.

Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

– Martin Luther King Jr

Important aim of teaching should be producing students with good moral and skills for life.

Confidence and resilience are two character traits that are essential for success in the workplace.

As we all know, we faces various challenges after school life. We do not comfort with our good grade but we feel comfort with the character traits like confidence and resilience.

People with Confidence deals with well interview and prospect the more responsibility the within a job or any role.

People with resilience character, deals with failure rejection and various unseen obstacles in life. They face problems rather than wasting time on worrying about Minor failures. They always try to keep growing.

Education is the key to build characters

Producing students with good grades are not enough for them to face various kinds of challenges in their life. Good grapes are not going to help them for their fruitful life. But preparing students with good ethics, good Morals, social skills and life skills are really going to help them for their future challenges.

In today’s world the schools are focusing on student and forces them for good grades in academic. Parents also want their child to gain good grades in academics. but in future only good return are not going to work anymore. A person with with good grades and without any social or soft skills or ethics they faces competitions only.

Thus, focusing on building character is also very important for us.

Newness in dealing with life’s challenges

Life has meaning when there is satisfaction. Everything that happens brings something new. The more the psyche is tuned to see and value this reality, satisfaction keeps going, whatever the circumstance might be. The person who is continually cheerful can inventively utilize all assets in the correct manner and furthermore fulfills others.

At the point when we can keep up our inside condition of bliss in all conditions, we can appreciate the excellence of life. We can see the positive in each and everything and furthermore just the decency in everybody. We are never let somewhere near circumstances, individuals or their responses, however appreciate everything.

At the point when we look for better approaches for reacting to life’s difficulties, misery closes which thus assists with satisfying one’s most noteworthy potential. All it needs is the assurance to receive a new mindfulness. Hence difficult negative considerations that channel out positive vitality are saved. The personal satisfaction turns out to be better.

We experience joy when there is freshness in reacting to circumstances. The likely vitality of the psyche is channelised in a positive manner to encounter satisfaction and fulfillment.

In this, a sound acumen acts like a mother, continually demonstrating us the new way, stuck instance of a tough situation. At the point when inside one is solid, there is the common capacity to treat the brain with affection and guide it towards the correct bearing. Such a sound perspective – which normally empowers the acknowledgment and legitimate usage of everything accessible – radiates from steady cognizance of one’s internal identity as initially unadulterated and positive ‘being’.

What’s more, from that point, the all encompassing strength of brain body-soul is effortlessly kept up and continued in all circumstances through the act of profound astuteness and Raj Yoga reflection in which one’s psyche and insight get guided to associate and cooperative with the Supreme Being.

When we gain proficiency with this meditational methods for controlling the psyche the correct way with adoration, we never experience the trouble in bringing back the brain and astuteness to right reasoning and right dynamic. As contemplation monitors the brain absolutely in a characteristic manner, we don’t need to control it or power it to think or not to think with a specific goal in mind.

Frequently, some concealed negative characteristics automatically vitiate our conduct and here and there our great characteristics get covered up. A couple of shortcomings ruin your honest nature now and again. Indeed, even a decent quality in you is conveyed distinctively in various settings. With one individual, you are more modest than with the other. In one circumstance, you are better than in another. This means characteristics are there, however they are not all that loaded with truth and straightforwardness.

The more you become constructive and straightforward in your inclination, the more will individuals approach you and feel great with you. Development of center characteristics like love, modesty, pleasantness and happiness when gotten steady and effectively obvious in you, will bring individuals closer to you. You will be viewed as a sparkling mirror by others, wherein they will see and understand their defects effectively and get propelled by you, to embrace ideals and great karma as key to genuine wellbeing and satisfaction.

Importance of awareness and contemplation

For the greater part, life implies essentially floating through it, battling with ordinary obligations and job and coming full circle in the last exit. Nonetheless, the chance of human life is too valuable to be in any way negligible endurance. As indicated by Aristotle: “a definitive estimation of life relies on mindfulness and the intensity of examination as opposed to upon minor endurance. ” This decree holds the way in to a satisfying and significant life.

In Buddhism, ‘mindfulness’ has been likened to ‘care’. Generally, mindfulness implies carrying on with existence with sharpness and comprehension. It is mindfulness from second to-second about ourselves and our environmental factors.

Mindfulness must be developed with exertion and afterward rehearsed till it turns into a propensity. To begin with, we create mindfulness about our own self – our body, brain and keenness – which at the appropriate time grows to our environmental factors and various features of lives. Cognizance about our body brings about great wellbeing with ideal anticipation and control of sicknesses. Attention to our psyche implies power over our contemplations; nascent , negative musings can be supplanted by solid ones. This thusly trains our discourse, sentiments, feelings and activities.

Mindfulness permits us to be attentive of our environmental factors, encouraging us to associate, relate, open to others’ pain and appropriately broaden our administrations. At the point when we lead a mindful life, we intentionally decide to avoid paltry exercises and enjoy just in those that increase the value of life. We do, peruse and talk just the significant, along these lines rationing valuable time and vitality. Continued mindfulness is equal with center. No errand, managed without mindfulness, can ever accomplish flawlessness. Henceforth, a condition of consistent mindfulness is a certain way to self-upgrade.

Driving a mindful life implies catching every second, along these lines staying absolutely in the present. Melancholy of the past and tensions of things to come get consigned to the foundation; just the present overwhelms. Precipitously, we build up a feeling of worship forever’s favors and can make every second count.

Like mindfulness, the act of consideration is additionally crucial to an agreeable and improved life. Examination and mindfulness are firmly interlinked. Truth be told, mindfulness can appropriately be known as a result of examination.

Consideration is probably the best trait of man, however rehearsed distinctly by a chosen few. It implies significant reflection or mindful perception. By expository reflection on our everyday encounters and a legitimate, basic self-examination, we can bring perfection into our lives.

An upset brain can’t ponder. Just a tranquil brain can think judiciously and with clearness. By means of examination, numerous issues can be worked out with intelligent arrangements. We will in general see our slip-ups and inadequacies and present appropriate reparations in like manner. When considered over brilliantly , numerous circumstances, which seemingly out of the blue, seem terrible or unjustified, lose their poisonousness. Tense connections get backed out. After some time, as thought develops, we begin appreciating the subtleties of life and its working. The ‘how’ and ‘why’ of life encounters begin getting clear . We begin seeing obviously that beneficial encounters are not arbitrary – every one of our deeds (cause) is faultlessly adjusted by its impact (our destiny). The sentiment of being misled by life vanishes. We discover harmony and satisfaction.

In the current situation of the pandemic, attention to our self and our environmental factors is fundamental for our own and others’ prosperity. It is likewise an opportunity to consider profoundly on the positive viewpoints with confidence and expectation – it will light our way through the haziness.

Sherlock- the ever changing phenomenon.

Celebrities and icons, they are a staple in our lives constantly being showcased no matter where we go. We grow up idolizing them, praising their works, this can make them iconic within their own fields. However, these icons can also be fictional. Many a character from TV shows and books have become common household names due to their immense popularity. But none more than the greatest detective to ever walk the fictional works of Arthur Conan Doyle, the London sleuth himself, Sherlock Holmes. More than a century after first emerging into the fogbound, gas-lit streets of Victorian London, Sherlock Holmes is universally recognizable. His wardrobe comprising of the Inverness cape, deerstalker hat and the calabash pipe. With figures such as his best friend and housemate Dr John Watson, arch nemesis Moriarty and house keeper Mrs Hudson, Sherlock and his associates have become part of the popular consciousness, as have his infallible powers of deduction utilized in the name of law along with his catchphrase “Elementary, my dear Watson”. And yet many of his most recognizable features don’t appear in Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories. So, who exactly is Sherlock Holmes? Who’s the real “great detective,” and where do we find him?

We can often see Conan’s Sherlock speculate, guess and even make false guesses. Furthermore Mrs. Hudson is barely mentioned, never does he say his iconic catchphrase, and his sidekick spend most of the time apart and even his arch nemesis Moriarty, is featured only in two stories. His drug use is infrequent after the first two novels and Holmes is seen preferring his own sense of justice rather than being enthralled by the English justice system. Even the most iconic elements of the Holmesian legend aren’t Doyle’s either. The cape and hat were imagined by Sidney Paget, the story’s initial illustrator, the curved pipe added by American theater actor William Gillete and his iconic phrase was coined by author and humorist P.G. Wodehouse. Thus, we can see that the Sherlock we know is vastly different than the one imagined by Sir Conan Doyle. Many believe that he was inspired by his university mentor Dr Joseph Bell. But today Doyle’s version has long since been eclipsed by various different interpretations of the character, making the original virtually unrecognizable. There have been thousands of adaptations of Holmes, making him one of the world’s most adapted fictional character. This process began with Victorian stage plays and has since accelerated with the emergence of film, there were more than 100 adaptations of Holmes in the first two decades of the 20th century alone. Adding to the fact many thousands more in print, film, television, stage and radio it makes much sense that the character would take on different variations as it is played on by different perspectives. To showcase this, we can see clearly that during the WWII Holmes was featured in a number of allied anti- Nazi propaganda, with both Churchill and Roosevelt being avid enthusiasts, going so far to name one secret base as Baker street. On the other side of the coin, we see that he was adapted in German as well some being the favorite of Hitler. Another can be seen in the modern era, the vast differences in Downey’s and Cumberbatch’s portrayal of the same character. While the soul of the character stays the same, he simply dons different characteristics with each portrayal. So, the truth is that this world of adaptations has made him a palimpsest.

Sherlock is a cultural text, repeatedly altered over time as each new interpretation is superimposed over the earlier one. One can almost see Sherlock like a phoenix, rising anew from its predecessor’s ashes, thus continually evolving embodying ideas and values far removed from those in Conan Doyle’s version. But never the less, the baker street resident will forever be the greatest detective of all times, Sherlock Holmes.

Read completely

If you are in a thought of reading this ensure that you decide without reading it. If you have already started reading it then ensure to read it completely. Know completely before you speak. Listen completely before you know. You don’t know until you know it completely. The repeated mistake we keep on doing is ‘not listening’. We make excuses to ourselves as though we know everything by knowing something. People hate to listen because it requires lot of patience. People like to speak because its the easiest job ever.You can’t judge a post without completely looking at it.

Do it completely else give up. Knowing half things bothers the most because if we don’t know we shut our mouths. Knowing nothing is better these days. If you have started then don’t stop. We don’t know until we know completely. If you start something end it by finishing it, not by giving up. These habits play a vital role and reflect in every possible action. If you can’t read completely then you can’t write completely, you can’t think completely. You should habituate to do anything completely. Develop the habit of doing the thing in full-fledged manner. Doing for the sake of doing isn’t considered as doing. You should have done it if you were doing it in the past.

Compete to complete the thing that you have started. Perfection evolves through completion. Try to be patient to become perfect. Read throughout because you never know until you read something completely. Nothing goes in vain. Try to read and try to listen from others. Don’t always try to express only from our side. Take the things from the other end as well. Everyone can speak but none listens. A good speaker isn’t always a good listener but good listener is always a good speaker. Things become tough when we speak because we have no control over it. Things become easier when we listen. The attitude of never giving up starts building up from habit of going through something completely. Don’t leave even a little bit of food in the plate. Don’t leave a single chapter for choice in the examination. Leaving a question for choice describes your way of choosing options and waiting for the opportunities to come. We can define one’s character by the way they eat. Even tiniest things matter the most. They decide the way we life and portrays us in such a manner. We may find it crazy but it’s true.

If you stop in the middle you can’t survive till the end. Starting is simple but ending is tough. The fighting spirit and the fire for desire aren’t the things that come instinctly. They have been developed in the course of time. Habituate the actions that are necessary for survival. May not be something regarding your career. But if you try to develop such things which effect your personality and social growth. The most foremost thing that should be developed is the ability to listen. Everyone hears, no one listens. Give yourself a push to succeed in your life. Character is a process not a result. Try to built it with you. The process must be able to change you in such a manmer that it reflects your personality. Focus on one thing because people try to do multiple tasks at same time. Doing multiple tasks is not at all a problem but doing it at parllely doesn’t make sense. The only thing I want you to develop is a habit which eventually turns your character and helps you in buliding personality.

If you have completed reading this post keenly. Completing doesn’t ensure finishing it. If you haven’t read it thoroughly please make sure that you read it again. I don’t expect you to follow all those things I mentioned there. I only expect you to read completely. Not understanding this post is not at all a problem. But reading it completely made you to complete it. You had atleast read this post patiently until you finished. You didn’t end it in the middle or even you didn’t skip the reading. Push yourself to read it completely. Develop the habit of completing which will surely help you. If you are not interested then don’t start reading but if you have started then don’t stop because no one know until he goes completely.