Art is best when the artists serves the art rather than the other way around.
This general rule applies to many things besides art.
Lets rephrase the above sentence to Entrepreneurship:
A Start-up is best when the Entrepreneur serves the start-up rather than the other way round.
Don't use a good start-up idea to serve you -to make you rich, powerful, etc - This way you stay stagnant, day dreaming about where the idea/start-up will take you in future. Instead work for the idea, be its servant , do whatever it takes to set it up. Call people to help you, share the vision, ask help, collaborate without fear of loss of leadership . Collaborate to make the idea a success.
Collaborate to changing the system, making it better. Work together, work not as their leader but as their servant to see the idea take shape.
So, be a servant to the work - the work of making the thought a reality.
The least show of leadership destroys the work by rousing jealousy.
Take charge of the movement, not as a leader but as a servant. Accede to everyone. Work ! Slowly work your way up.
Illusive Obvious - All present successful leaders were made a leader by the people, they had little aspiration to become one from the beginning.
When I was small, I played a lot of cricket in the colony.
I was a good player. I used to bat well and I was famous for my spin bowling. I used to experiment a lot with spins - at home with dad and at almost every bowling opportunity.
My experiments stated with as silly as "Thumb spin" - When I used to hold the ball between my thumb and rest of the fingers and tried to spin the ball using thumb motion. It was a complete disaster.
It was only a beginning and has led to one of my proud innovative spin in cricket ;) called "Reverse Spin". I would like to patent it in cricket :P
Its true that there are reverse spins/chops/back spins in other games but never in cricket.
One day I thought, why spin the ball only side ways. Lets try forwards or backwards. Forwards was easy but backwards required some practice and skill. I did it and got many many batsmen out.
The back spin, slows down the ball after it pitches. So batsmen tend to hit it expecting it to be faster, so they either completely miss it and be bowled by it or if they make contact they will have hit the ball a lot later in their swing of bat and thus the ball would rise high and go for a catch dismissal.
Oh Boy I have digressed a lot.
So coming to my cricket days.
I used to be made captain though I had no strong desired to be one. And I noticed that players liked my captaincy.
I used to play for the team as I felt being a captain meant it was a bigger responsibility, each player wanted things his way and it was my duty to keep them happy.
SO I had to sometimes drop my batting order since everyone liked to bat first.
In team selection I sometimes had to choose people with bad skills first, since they were my friends and wanted to be in my team. Infact I took it as a challenge to win with a weaker team.
I gave equal chances . I made moral decisions. I tried to play my best.
Thats all - No selfishness, no politics, no favoritism.
So the people - the ones who are ultimately led by the leader, choose for themselves a leader among them. And that leader is the one with no desire for power.
This general rule applies to many things besides art.
Lets rephrase the above sentence to Entrepreneurship:
A Start-up is best when the Entrepreneur serves the start-up rather than the other way round.
Don't use a good start-up idea to serve you -to make you rich, powerful, etc - This way you stay stagnant, day dreaming about where the idea/start-up will take you in future. Instead work for the idea, be its servant , do whatever it takes to set it up. Call people to help you, share the vision, ask help, collaborate without fear of loss of leadership . Collaborate to make the idea a success.
Collaborate to changing the system, making it better. Work together, work not as their leader but as their servant to see the idea take shape.
So, be a servant to the work - the work of making the thought a reality.
The least show of leadership destroys the work by rousing jealousy.
Take charge of the movement, not as a leader but as a servant. Accede to everyone. Work ! Slowly work your way up.
Illusive Obvious - All present successful leaders were made a leader by the people, they had little aspiration to become one from the beginning.
When I was small, I played a lot of cricket in the colony.
I was a good player. I used to bat well and I was famous for my spin bowling. I used to experiment a lot with spins - at home with dad and at almost every bowling opportunity.
My experiments stated with as silly as "Thumb spin" - When I used to hold the ball between my thumb and rest of the fingers and tried to spin the ball using thumb motion. It was a complete disaster.
It was only a beginning and has led to one of my proud innovative spin in cricket ;) called "Reverse Spin". I would like to patent it in cricket :P
Its true that there are reverse spins/chops/back spins in other games but never in cricket.
One day I thought, why spin the ball only side ways. Lets try forwards or backwards. Forwards was easy but backwards required some practice and skill. I did it and got many many batsmen out.
The back spin, slows down the ball after it pitches. So batsmen tend to hit it expecting it to be faster, so they either completely miss it and be bowled by it or if they make contact they will have hit the ball a lot later in their swing of bat and thus the ball would rise high and go for a catch dismissal.
Oh Boy I have digressed a lot.
So coming to my cricket days.
I used to be made captain though I had no strong desired to be one. And I noticed that players liked my captaincy.
I used to play for the team as I felt being a captain meant it was a bigger responsibility, each player wanted things his way and it was my duty to keep them happy.
SO I had to sometimes drop my batting order since everyone liked to bat first.
In team selection I sometimes had to choose people with bad skills first, since they were my friends and wanted to be in my team. Infact I took it as a challenge to win with a weaker team.
I gave equal chances . I made moral decisions. I tried to play my best.
Thats all - No selfishness, no politics, no favoritism.
So the people - the ones who are ultimately led by the leader, choose for themselves a leader among them. And that leader is the one with no desire for power.
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