Recently I came across a video of harsha bhogle’s speech, delivered in IIM-A, on excellence. It was the most wonderful speech I have ever heard. It was very motivating and inspiring.
It is really difficult for me to stop myself sharing his wonderful thoughts.
Harsha Bhogle is a man with multiple personalities. When he is not with Cricket big shots in the commentary box, he contributes as columnist to multiple news papers.
Harsha started with talked about some points on the institute (IIMA), how was his life in the institute when he was a student of the institute. In his speech he always kept on referring to his father (how he was petrified of him), his son (how his is not petrified of him), his wife, his lost hair and age (it was just like a warm up to make the atmosphere lighter).
Then he started to speak on Excellence. He used many real time experience to supports he’s point (mainly related to cricket).
Harsha says
– Excellence is not a skill; it’s an attitude, desire, passion.
– Excellence is about chasing the professional performance goal and letting the results take care of themselves. (Karmanye Vadhikaraste Ma Phaleshu Kadachana)
– Excellence never seeks excuses.
– Excellence is the series of 100%
– In life if you seek excellence, always seek people, who are better than you, Always surround yourself with people who are better than you.
– Excellence is not about talent alone. In fact major part of excellence has nothing to do with talent. It is what you do with the talent matters.
– Excellence is also about learning from mistakes. Mistakes are your best friends. Making mistakes is not a sin. Repeating same mistake is a big sin.
– Excellence is as much as knowing what not to do as much as knowing what to do.
– Excellence is all about having the confidence to share knowledge
– Excellence is all about accepting criticism.
His views on “The End”
The end is crucial. Because end is always the driver of the ambition. We usually set ourselves the end or the result goals. The End gives us the vision. “The End” at all cost attitude that pervades is the source for all anxiety. It also creates the temptation to do whatever it takes to win.
His views on “The Path”
Excellence is about chasing the professional performance goal and letting the results / end take care of themselves. Make the process of achievement supreme and make the result irrelevant. Make perfect the process of performance and don’t allow the pressure of the results to choke your performance. And that is the wonderful journey path to excellence.
“Excellence is a series of 100%”
If you give every moment 100% and then wait for the next moment and say “You know what! This is the moment I wanted to give 100% too” and then the next moment turns up and then you say ” Actually this was the moment I really wanted to give my 100% best” . And then you will find the little things in life that makes the difference between the good and great just happen.
You don’t know who is watching you, where which opportunity is coming along. So always give your 100% best effort.
Can you fill 2 liters in a 1 liter Pepsi bottle?
So you can never give anything more than 100%.
But you can give 100% for every moment
There is no shame in saying “Well done … you are better than me” When you know that you have given your 100% effort ethically.
“Excellence never seeks excuses”
The moment someone says “I would have been good But”.. This means you are not great already! it means you are trying to assign the blame of your poor performance on someone else.
The Aussies will never say that we have lost. They’ll just say that we’ll come back and do better next time.
The moment you allow yourself to go wrong, you fall into a possibility map, then you DO go wrong!
“Stop hating Criticism”
Don’t live in the rarified bubble without taking criticism.
“Arrogance”
Arrogance is the biggest stumbling block to success.
In the path of excellence, if you have ego and anger on your side, you don’t need an opponent. You have done 90% of the job of ruining yourself.
“Talent and Attitude”
Excellence is not about talent alone. In fact major part of excellence has nothing to do with talent. It is what you do with the talent matters. Talent needs to be justified by actions.
Attitude and Passion count far more than talent. Ability talent opens the first door but it is not going to open the last door for you.
Always live in present. Live by actions and not words.
“Luck”
Luck is all about recognizing the opportunity before it comes.
Luck is the fantastic fusion of talent and an opportunity spotted.
At the end this man tossed with a great saying, which realy boosts my confidence and motivated me like anything.
“khud ko kar buland etna ka har takdeer khuda bande se puche bol bande teri raza kya hai”.
Well these were some of his thoughts which I was able to summarize.
You can find Harsha Bhogle’s speech on excellence here
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