What it takes to become a winner

Micheal Phelps Greatest Olympian of all times

22 GOLD Medals

  

 “Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.”

Winning the word says it all, the word pumps up our heart beat, shoots up our adrenaline to a whole new place you never dreamed of. The desire to WIN at times perish our fear of losing.

Winning the most sophisticated word in the dictionary which people say is reserved for winner.  And when we talk of winner’s we talk of people who are masters of their trait, they make things happen, refusing to take NO for an answer, they have this burning desire to succeed in any field, no matter what their position is before the competition begins they virtually prepare themselves mentally for that ultimate Numero 1 position.

They have their way of saying

“I made It look EASY” after every match, every practice session.

"Winner's are literally the guys who don’t watch others but they are the ones who get noticed by others."

So to pump up every ENGINEER around, here is a list of 7 quotes on Winning which every engineer can use in his life, may it be a competition, exams, your own personal goal to achieve something BIG in Life from the all time greatest coach in NFL Vince Lombardi.

   1.      Winners never quit and quitters never win.  

   2.      The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

   3.      Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

   4.      People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses or the problems of life.

   5.     The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

   6.     Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a   while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. 

   7.     Winning is a Habit.

 
                                             

                                 Vince Lombardi
 

JOBS The Movie of a Innovative Engieer

Steve Jobs - artist, the visionary who created one of the  most successful company of modern era. The guy who revolutionized  the Computer Industry, the motion picture industry, music industry, the telephone industry and gave birth to the Tablet industry.

So here the movie that depicts all these characteristics of Steve Jobs, the movie every Apple fan was desperately waiting for.

JOBS the movie in which Ashton Kutcher plays a very crucial role of Steve Jobs. A movie that’s shows Steve’s success with Apple in its early days. His downfall at Apple. Steve Jobs return to Apple in 1997 that not only shocked the World but took Apple from a period of downfall to becoming one of the most valuable company of the 21^st Century.

So here are few awesome reason to watch JOBS.

1. Young Steve Jobs

Here how we saw Steve Jobs.

A well experienced 50-55 year old guy who influenced the world with his way of thinking, his ideologies, philosophy for living a truly passionate life.

JOBS shows a more immature but a very passionate young Steve jobs who believed in creating something BIG i.e Create a whole Personal Computer industry , an Industry that never existed, but it was Steve’s vision to see through the future that made Personal Computer  possible.

Steve’s goal was simple a personal computer that every common man must feel free to use .

    2. Apple Computers

    Apple Computers the genesis of Art. This is where Art intersects Technology.

JOBS movie highlight how two guys one college dropout, Steve Jobs and other a successful engineer at HP, Steve Wozniak built on their vision of establishing a very successful company called Apple Computers. The most innovative and valuable company in Silicon Valley.

Apple was formally known as Apple Computer when it got started.

    3. Ouster from his own Company

You heard of fairy tales of good guy beating demons with very limited things in Hands.

JOBS is a movie that focuses more on Steve's struggles, his ouster from Apple in 1985. His struggles with his Board of Directors. We all know Steve Jobs as a very successful Entrepreneur who revolutionized the entire Computer Industry but before all these success there were a list of accumulated failure that made him a wise guy. You think your problems in life are bigger than other, Just watch the movie and imagine how it feels like to get kicked out of the company you once started.

”I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”

   4. Leadership

Many knew Steve as a great Leader that he was. The movie really shows how crazy Steve Jobs was regarding the detailing of every Apple product. Be it creating the Apple I in 1976 which was just a small Mother Board rather than being an entire Personal Computer or the birth of Macintosh. It gives you an insight about Steve’s obsession with perfection. The leader who believed his job was not to be good with people but to make them better.

   5. Inspiration

When was the last time you really watched a movie that inspired you for success. Well there are a lot of sports movie that pump up the motivation we require, But there are very few corporate movie that show the success of a guy who defines all odd and prove his vision to the world time and again and again.

We all get excited when apple is about to launch certain product. Be it the iMac or the iPhone. Not only they create things we want, but they also built in things which we thought never existed.

JOBS is a movie that’s completely stands as a Inspiration for any corporate guys to actually bounce back from any dire situation.

“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.”

   6. Vision to think outside the BOX

JOBS is a movie that show how a young Steve jobs in his twenties develops an attitude to influence people. Be it bringing in CEO of Pepsi Company to Apple or the creation of 1^st Macintosh which was a Personal Computer 10 years ahead of its time in 1984.

The creation of the Mac series and the Ipods.

“How does somebody know what they want if they haven’t even seen it?”

    7. Start young and Have Faith in yourself

Apple is a company founded by two youngsters who had no Business 
experiences. It shows how a young Steve Jobs handled rejection time and time again before someone actually invested in Apple.

Risk of failing in something is very less when you decide to start something at a very young age because you have no family life no children less responsibilities, then to start it at the age of 30 or 40. One has the psychological advantage at a very young age then at any other stage of life and that’s very well depicted in JOBS.

”JOBS” deals much spiritually into Steve Jobs life as well as Apple’s, his visit to India , his leadership as a very rough person who believed in every small detailing of things. His craze for computers as a mean to change the world is well scripted in the movie.

“Simplicity in every thing”. Breaking rules of other people and creating your own, I guess is something that one requires to become a LEGEND and ultimately change the World.

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

Steve Jobs

11 things every 1st year Engineer must be aware of.

First Year in Engineering, a year every amateur guy who enters engineering waits for, A year thats sets tone for a Normal individual to a possible Engineering degree. The degree that’s considered one of the toughest in the world. 

More importantly it’s a year that sets the tone for next 4 years of Engineering.

So lets get this straight, you studied Hard during your high school days.Set time Table every day. Combined your day and night just to reach this milestone, and you have finally made it , but again if you don’t take proper steps you let up missing some opportunities. So hear are the 11 things every First year engineer should be aware of.

   1. It’s the start of your Professional Life

  In Engineering you are going to learn tons of new concepts in a very short period of time    and whatever you learn has some sort of practical application in your life.

  Programming logic of Dyamic Website such as Facebook Twitter are based on C languages.

  Mechanical problems are something that truly exist in real life.

  KVL KCL in Basic Electronics is something that really happens in many electronic    appliance.

  1^st year in Engineering gives you a pre tour of what your professional life is going to be.

    2. It is tough for weak Hearted

 “Engineer is tough” , “1^st year is too tough to crack” This is 1 line you may listen more often    from your immature seniors. Off course Engineering is tough, quite challenging. But always    remember  1 thing nothing great has been achieved without some pain and suffering.

tip off – When you hear someone demoralize you think of other successful engineers in your circle. Focus on the outcome and take advice from someone sensible.

  3.  A year to strengthen your base as an Engineer

This is a year where your batteries are going to drain out totally. College life from 9-5, a year when everything will seems new. Things will be presented to you in a complicated way(don’t confuse them as being difficult) which most teenagers don’t figure out. Strengthen up the base of your specialize subject.This preparation will pave way for your future successes.

  4.   Engineers Day

15^TH September is celebrated every year as Engineers Day in India, as it is the birthday of legendary Engineer Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaray (1861-1962).

  5.   Friends are your keys to success

  Engineering is all about team, your are like an athlete in a  “Relay” race rather than      thinking of  being a sprinter who runs alone.

  Always keep one thing in mind every teenager you come in contact with are scholars in    their own right so never judge anyone small.

  Be with this circle of people who inspire you, help you to find your motive in life, share    things with you and most of all help you push your forward every single day.

In Engineering “if you want to go fast walk alone but if you want to go far have a team”.

  6.   It is Normal for Bookworms

Engineers are smart, creative,  they are the people who amass tons of knowledge(or are force to learn so much during their hectic study schedule) in the 1^st year itself.

When your enter your 1^st year of Engineer many people will tempt you into believing that getting First class should be your only goal in college, which is totally wrong. If this is  your point of view in the 1^st year you may end up being a bookworm who has no creativity, limited knowledge and atlast you may start doubting your smartness.

  7.   It is easy for guys and girls who have imagination

Follow your instincts,  listen to your gut feelings, move fast take risk. Its okay to try Big Things .it is better to try something and having it not work rather than trying nothing at all. Only when you start imagining you try to go beyond whats possible. Imagine things in your head whatever you write in real life.

This point may hardly make any practical sense right now but if you focus your mind on some specific goal this one will make sense to you.

  8.  Safe Zone

Engineering is brutal, awesome, full of KT’s ,it is what you imagine it to be. And so it’s really important to develop an positive attitude in the beginning .

Its about having fun, you may end up being in company of people who smoke, drink, may suffer break up’s, you will go through the high point of your life as well as the lowest low, regardless of whatever your situation make a point to be in a safe zone.

“ATKT(Allowed To Keep Term) is like a WAKE UP call. But a drop can destroy your spirit, don’t ever let that happen to you.”

   9. Every Single you should master your Craft

These things include FOLLOWING point no 1, 3, 7, 8. thoroughly. 

ACTIONS produced on a daily basis create Habits,Good or Bad.You choice makes the difference.

   10. Imagination is more important than knowledge

     

 " Imagination is more important than knowledge "

-        Albert Einstein 

Lets get this last one straight up. Whatever you study in Engineering are the fact's , innovations or discoveries which great visionaries have discovered during the peak period of their life.

Newtons discovered the 3 laws of Physics things related to gravity.

Albert Einstein introduced us to E=MC^2..

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates saw computers as a tool that can enrich a average humans life and created a whole personal computer Industry.

These are few people who worked with resources that were available to them and created something out of their own thought process that had no existence before.

             

  "Some see whats possible that’s knowledge

 other change whats possible

 through IMAGINATION."

4 Great Things Every Great Engineer Deserves.

Teenager the word derive from tens and some of you reading this blog will be in your late teen, some of you actually studying in your dream college, pursuing an engineering degree that is taking you one step  closer to your dream. And a dream is nothing but a wish if you are not able to fulfill it. But even to achieve that dream we deserve few things that help us in this journey of our so called engineering college life.

To put these in simple words it is like a plant deserving water and sunlight to grow higher and higher. Great athlete deserving high endurance training, proper nutrition and tremendous discipline in his desired sports to make his carrier a success.

So what are the things that an engineering student  deserves through his exhaustive course of 4 years in College to keep him motivated through his tasks, push him Sem after Sem  without a drop in his momentum.

    1.  Great College

This is one of the prime things every good engineer deserves. A want to be in one of the best college in his or her city. Great colleges are masterpiece from the point of view shaping a student’s life.

The values one learns from college actually help teenagers become someone recognizable in the society.

   2.  Great Guru’s 

This one’s self explanatory, we have gurus from our childhood and they help in shaping various part of our life. Great Gurus inspire other to set higher goals, study things that help exercise critical thinking of one’s brain.  Guru’s illusion our mind into believing that anything is possible. Teach subjects in a desired manner so bunch of our time are saved, thus creating a totally different set of environment for learning.

                 3. Great Goals

 Goals are those chunks of imaginary pieces that push us every single day towards our Ambition. Ambition is that imaginary destination which manipulates our thinking process.

Setting small goals every Semester keeps one motivated through their span of 4 years in Engineering.

“Defining small achievable goals throughout  your years in college will make your days count rather than you counting your days.”

   4.  Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking means the broadest set of thinking. It is the ability to think clearly and rationally. Critical Thinking cannot be deserved it has to be developed and if we need to make a good carrier out of our college education we need to master this thinking. A CRITICAL Thinker always has an edge over other bookworm guys who have immense knowledge of memorizing a specific subject. It means thinking out of the box.

Have a mindset that lets you believe in yourself rather than taking guesses of other people as an advice. Things will start to happen only when you exercise the critical part of your brain that will eventually end up building confidence in you.

In life “Nothing comes for Free”. If that would have been the case the word granted would have been used more often in our daily life’s.

Great College, Guru’s, Friends are something that every engineer deserves but to actually sustain all the above two things we to need to develop sense of having determined Goals and act of critical thinking about things around us.

One last thing before we wind up.

"Dreams are nothing but wishes if we don’t act on them."

4 REASONS WHY GOOD IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH IN ENGINEERING

GOOD is a very astonished word – always associated with positive karma’s in life.In a way the word is a big competitor of word BAD so people try to play safe and like to be in corner of GOOD all the time.

GOOD Habits are always better than BAD ones, GOOD people always better than other, GOOD in studies will get you admission in a good college and eventually will help you getting a good paying JOB.

But do these so called good rules apply to an ENGINEER. Somewhat “Yes” but in many ways “No”. So if GOOD is not GOOD enough for Engineers than what actually suits an Engineer. The answer lies in being GREAT at what you do. So that when you do it people will see the spark in you. They would be made to think that you are a breed different from the Normal. In many ways you end up doing things that others just dream they are capable of doing.

So here are few things for teenagers pursuing Engineers must follow to be different from Normal.

    

   1. CHANGE

Engineering is intimidating, Quite Challenging than other courses available in college. Teenagers who enter engineering are never the same after their 4 years course is completed and they become graduate. But the Question is what  is that change you want to become. What is that change you want to see in yourself. Why should you change?.  Youngsters who end up taking engineering are passionate about their life. Engineering is like a grind. You have to grind for change only then you become a great learner in engineering.

Quick Fix for CHANGE – Find a passion in your desired field  and you will always be enjoying what your learning and that passion will indeed CHANGE your thoughts. These thought will further change your Habits.

 

   2. HABITS

If you don’t want to suffer miserable situation in Engineering then try changing your Habits. Habits shape life. You become what to repeatedly do. Gone are the days when you use to score good marks in school, Junior college and Classes. Engineering is more about gaining practical knowledge from whatever you read, rather then knowing every answers.

Quick Fix for HABITS- Google that new concept that you learned in college today. Dig deep into something that interests you. Dedicate 15 minutes for these activity of searching(or some productive hobby you like doing) every single day. This small habits will make a BIG difference once you look back at yourself after every 6 months..

Instead of trying to learn few good Habits try neutralizing or giving up some BAD ones.    

   3.TIME

Some wise man said “TIME IS MONEY” this phrase suits engineers. Engineers get only 5 month(even less than that sometimes) in every SEMESTER to complete a syllabus that’s really vast.And by the time you think of starting studies you end getting assignment, write ups and what not and you are left with hand full of days to complete an gigantic syllabus .

Quick Fix for Time – Try getting up  1 hour early daily and memorize most of your answers at that time, make a commitment that all your assignments write ups and Practical’s get over during your time in college, bunked lectures and free time during the break can prove quite helpful. So you can save your time during evenings and worki on  some useful engineering projects at Home.

    4.GOOD Engineers read Great Engineers DO IT

When was the last time a Good Computer Engineering student built a complex C++,Java or Database Program. When was the last time Electronics and EXTC Engineers design their own PCB that actually produced an output etc etc and the list goes on. A long time back could be an answer for these question.

 Good engineering read some new concept in ONE SEMESTER only to forget it in the next SEMESTER. THE GREAT ones built upon whatever they have learned.

  

Change your MENTALITY. Figure out your BAD habits and try slashing them out of your life . Manage your time well every single day and Aim for Greatness

With all these said it time now to AIM for being Great.

“Learn to say NO to the GOOD

So you can say YES to the GREAT.”