Seeker's thoughts ...

1. Ones who can control the mind. They are the ones who have disciplined the mind by thinking of all possible problems and coming up with their respective solutions. These people analyze each feasible scenario leading into a situation before the scenario actually happens and plan for every possible contingency. But as they “plan” for scenarios there will always be scenarios which are missed and they kind of become clueless when it actually arrives. Admittedly those missed scenarios are rare but they do exist. Also, because they rely so much on controlling the mind they are finally dependent on this control and this dependence can lead to their downfall when the control becomes lower/slower. Another thing is that with trying to control things a certain tiredness comes in as control requires effort.



2. Ones who can seemingly bypass the mind. These are the ones who don’t let the mind come in between at all and solve the problem at hand without that. They just focus on the problem at hand – live in the present – without worrying a lot about the future or thinking too much about the past. They don’t run the fear of over-analyzing or complicating things more than they are. Bypassing the mind doesn't let one get tired [except the obvious effort involved in working on the problem at hand].

An example of (1) might be Sachin Tendulkar.
An example of (2) might be Virender Sehwag.

Raw cricketing talent-wise Sachin is probably miles ahead of Sehwag but Sehwag has overall higher highs as a result of his “talent” of bypassing the mind [although he has lower lows as well as sometimes the mind is needed to get past a certain initial barrier]. Tendulkar might be consistently good but stratospheric highs are possible only when the mind can be bypassed as in Sehwag’s case [as 2 triple centuries might show].

The question even in success and with successful people is whether: Consistent triumphs/good’s are okay or are spectacular highs something one wants at the risk of going through stunning lows as well?

1. This is more or less just a personal representation of the talents and success reasons for Sachin and Sehwag based on the perspective seen from various articles read, interviews heard and matches seen. Might not necessarily be the truth.


2. Both the steps mentioned are means of attaining success. Not doing either will, almost surely, result in failure.