Hi!
Again this article is based on my experience & thoughts!
I've already written an article on Thinking Big and here is the more practical way of having that mindset and to know the difference between Think Vs Desire Big!
Once in a meeting with our colleagues when asked "what car would you like to buy?" One of them named a luxury car, that is not a big thing to notice as he didn't answer anything wrong. But when I asked for the reason it's that he aspires big.
I'm happy that he had an impact to aspire big but after long time that answer had an impact on me again! Because it's easy to say Think Big but why should we do that, what would happen to us, what will change in life by Thinking Big. Or Do I know/realise my thinking is big now?
Then as usual the Perceptual Diversity comes in! (To know what's PD read my recent post).This time it's about Cricket!
People from the state of Tamil Nadu know about TNPL (Tamilnadu premier league) it's an Intrastate league where teams from each District compete. During TNPL, people from every district support their District Team unitedly and also they want their team to beat their neighbour districts. It's natural to support their district!
People from India don't need intro for IPL in which the people from one state support their state team unitedly to beat their neighbour state.
And then the ICC- international cricket where people from one country support their team unitedly to beat their neighbour countries.
In these 3 scenarios, the common thing to notice is not cricket but the UNITY. When the league expands naturally people unite as district, state & country irrespective of any differences but the unity lasts only for that one day of match.
Again I got a strike in my mind what if there occurs a competition between our Earth & some aliens from other planet! Is there any possibility that we unite despite our differences in territory, language, colour etc.., will the terrorists too support for our planet with us? Is it that easy to abolish terrorism!
So what makes the difference? The Thought.
The thought of supporting our district, our state, our nation, our planet makes such unity naturally. Unfortunately these thoughts too separates us as your district, your state, your country. The Thought becomes Big when the league is big but we don't realise it because we're not conscious about it.
Likewise in our day to day life while facing daily challenges like work pressure, money, relationship, health etc.., Keep your Thinking conscious and view your challenges from a big league. This will naturally makes your challenges trivial.
Now what about the luxury car thinking:
In my point of view, it's desiring big.
Desire is materialistic. It leads again to worry when it's not achieved/attained. Also it makes us to compare our life with others which deteriorate our mindset. Desire doesn't last long, it changes based on trends, it won't motivate us constantly and it makes us feel our current stage as the worst phase in life.
For example in our Job,
Thinking Big makes us to compare us with the best in the world.
It makes us to compare our Job with same Job in the biggest company in the world. It helps us to feel grateful, curious to improve our skill, explore further, push our limits, guides to come out of comfort zone and gives satisfaction in the Job that you're not doing a trivial work.
Desiring Big makes us to compare us with co-workers/ neighbours/ friends and their lifestyle.
It makes us desperate, kills curiosity, increases worry/fear, leads to mediocrity, work life imbalance, no job satisfaction etc.,
So should we not desire/deserve to buy a luxury car?
Of course we can buy it for sure but it happens only when we feel ourselves conscious in our current stage in life and keeping ourselves in a big league instead of competing in district level!
It's obvious that one who Think Big runs the world and one who Desire Big runs the Day!
