Year 2000, I met this guy Azim Parkar, who taught me one way to “Succeed in Life”
It’s quite simple really.
Whenever you meet a person just make a list.
List of three things that you like about that person.
And then every time you meet him/her keep updating that list.
May be its something that someone just told him and he just passed it on.
But the fact that he gave me this lesson is one of the three good things I remember about Azim.
The other two being
- The fact that he empathized a lot with just about everybody
- He thought our hostel was great place to live because it was such a peculiar mix of people
I met him in the Rs. 150 a month charitable hostel in Chincholi Bandar, Malad, next to one of the biggest dumping ground in Mumbai then. He was born and brought up in Dubai where his father was some bigshot in the National Bank there.
2 comments:
That's a very nice tip. I am going to try and practice it especially on people who I get so irritated with.
Really works! Even people who are popularly disliked (!), they also have their good sides!
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