INSIGHTS FOR THINKING BIG

                                                                                                                                                                 It is nice having you again on my little piece. The insights you shall be learning in this piece are not my own words. They are extracted from the book written by the acclaimed most ‘dullest school boy’ who later turned out to be the most renowned and gifted neurosurgeon the world has ever know. His name is Ben….. [No not Ben Ten], his name is Ben Carson, M.D. I had just finished reading his book titled ‘THINK BIG’ so I thought it needful to cull a few insights he shared in his book to you. The book ‘THINK BIG’ is a must read for every young person more especially those who wish to or already majoring a career in the medical field. According to him he said ‘This is a book about giving our best and especially about doing whatever we can to help others-about thinking big. It might also be called a book about excellence’ Enjoy!
-‘Boys, you are wasting too much of your time in front of that television. You don’t get an education from staring at the television all the time’-Sonya Carson
-‘Good enough isn’t perfect. So if it isn’t perfect it’s enough. Do it again’
-‘Be NICE to all people even when you do not have to be-everyone’s important’
-‘To have a loyal secretary is tremendously gratifying. Even though loyalty be an assumed in giving one’s best, I consider it an outstanding characteristic that all of us need if we are going to give our best’
-‘When Hopkins Hospital agreed to separate the Binder twins, a team of seventy of us spent FIVE MONTHS preparing for the operation’
-‘From then on I had an overwhelming sense that if I would allow Him to, God will play a big role in my career’
-‘When there is a chance, no matter how small, that is when, I believe, we must take risks and do everything we can to maintain that high quality life’
-‘Doing the right thing when it is not popular or when it is not going to get everyone’s approval is not always easy, but I am convinced that if we truly care about other people we would go ahead and take the risk anyway’
‘We don’t have to explain miracle; all we have to do is accept them’
-‘To be of use in the world is the only way to Happiness’-Hans Christian Andersen
-‘If you recognize your talents use them appropriately, and chose a field that uses those talents, you will rise to the top of your field’
-‘If we live by the rule of Honesty and accept our problems, we can go far down the road of our achievement’
-‘One thing my mother quickly sensed about the rich people was their attitude towards television. Although they had TV sets-sometimes as many as five or six-they did not watch it much. Instead they spend a large amount of their time reading and analyzing materials’          
 -‘Education is the best provision for old age’-Aristotle
-‘In my opinion, the base for personal preparation comes more from reading than from any other source. That some people do like to read much is really no substantive argument. The more we read, the better we read and the more we enjoy reading. We can not read too much-most of us do not read enough’
‘After reading comes the crucial step-REFLECTION. We have to think about what we have read. We choices, we do certain things because we have though them out’
-‘The brain acquires everything that we encounter, the difficulty does not come with the input of information, but in getting it out’
-‘What you need to know is determined by the group you intend to influence’
-‘If we want to make our lives count for the betterment of the human family, we must acquire every bit of information available to us’                       
 -‘Students who excel academically read extensively’
‘When we have knowledge that other people do not readily have, somebody needs us. It does not matter how we look like or where we came from, if we have something others have a need for’
‘Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from mars, but if you have knowledge that people need, instead of beating you, they will beat a path to your door’
-‘We may have to explore a little. We may need to pursue various channels to discover our own talent lies. We have to read for in-depth learning so that we can be more proficient in our work and in our life goals’
‘More things are wrought by prayers than these world dreams of. Prayer is the key to success and we stand tallest when we are on our knees’      
  -‘God cares about every area of our lives and God wants us to ask for help’
-‘Humility is not groveling telling everyone how worthless we are-humility is knowing who we are and what God is doing and has done in our lives’
-‘I have learned that when we give our best and stay at it, we would not always turn out to be number one, but if you truly give you best, you cannot lose’
‘Clothing is not important. Houses, cars and bank account-none of those are important-knowledge and hard work is-‘