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Do you have to know everything?

Article Summary by: varghese    

Original Author: Prof.P.A.Varghese
 
This is the age of the information highways. Every knowledge is available ion your home or laptop. If you try
to know everything, soon there will an overloading. Select that which you require and delete the others. There is no need to know whatever that is happening
 in the entire world. Otherwise you will always be in tension.
Those who try to know everything are found to be a jack of all trades and not particularly successful.
The ones who climb up the ladder, get the full details of the particular line they are in.
Also, they have an overall picture of the business or profession.
They simply ignore the rest. They are after result and they cannot afford to dabble in everything..  
There have installed  filters in their mind which let in only the high priority ones concerning their work. The others are simply discarded.  
This is the age of specialization. Become a super specialist to succeed.
The specialists go into the minutest details and improve upon.
A successful professional concentrate on the details of their job,  study the future trends and incorporate new technologies, machines and try  innovations.
Every moment their minds are preoccupied with how they can improve the efficiency of production or marketing or both. They spend time to study their subordinates and try to motivate them to become sharper.
They maintain a single track mind which concentrates on their line like a laser beam.
When you research, you have to study the research and studies done so far, the future trends and ruminate over your conclusions.
A successful painter has to learn every subtlety of color, framing; he has to master light and cultivate his imagination. Every artist has to get into every single nuance of his profession. There is no winning without focus or pain.
But the president of country or the MD of a corporation cannot know all the details. They get a gist of everything and develop a correct perspective. There are aids who will gather all the required details for them.
 
Published: March 22, 2008
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