My Inspiration

I take the most inspiring thing from Albert Einstein is to be rebellious and ability to fail and learn. That’s what he practiced in his life. He constantly challenged his thoughts, beliefs and made numerous mistakes before arriving at results, no one could achieve in the history of mankind. He had a habit of not accepting things as they are rather he used to think in experiments in his mind.

One mistake we all do is, do things blindly without putting logic to it just because everyone is doing it. You will be surprised to know that during Einstein negated this, he challenged his school teacher in the class. He challenged his PhD supervisor. He challenged Niels Bohr. He even challenged his senior physicist. There were many stalwarts of physics, whom he challenged just through his power of rational thinking.

The result was, he could give new ideas and theories, no one ever thought, visualized or postulated. Not only that, even today a large number of people
cannot understand what he told. NASA and various other research institution across the world are still trying to find the evidences of his predictions.
He lived hundreds of years ahead of his times.

Another inspiration is that he formulated his theories in his spare time, when he was working as a clerk. When he wrote his 5 papers in 1905, he said to his wife in a letter, that his papers were revolutionary and he would win the Nobel prize for one of his papers. See his confidence here. That’s the inspiration!

MY REGRETS

Living a life free of regret is very possible…I do it, and I am aware of many other people who experience a regret free life as well. No regrets. As far as I am concerned, regret uses energy; so I can use it in a more productive way. I try my best to learn and grow with each and every life experience, so there is nothing to regret.

How does it serve us, or anyone else to hold onto the feelings of regret? Of course we can identify the lessons without regret. That is exactly how to live a regret free life. If we spend our energy learning from the experience, there really is no room in the heart and mind for regret. Holding onto regret is a choice in each and every moment. Don’t think of the past too much instead focus on the present. Live the moment. There are only things I have learnt from in the past. Some have been very painful lessons. But once the emotional intensity passes enough for me to gain perspective, I don’t regret the experience. Instead, I push myself to try to learn and to grow from it. I then try to leverage this learning moving forward.I think what’s important is to give yourself the freedom to fail to take risks but not the freedom to fail to learn and grow. The only mistake we can make is believing we shouldn't make mistakes. The only failure we can make is the failure to learn (and thereby rob ourselves of the opportunity to leverage our experiences). Live. Learn. Grow. When we will do these things while loving and being fair to ourselves,regret shall be fleeting and experience;everlasting.

There is no reason in crying over spilled milk and blaming ourselves for unaccomplished wishes, and worrying about how one could have changed the course of their life. One should move on look forward to evening and make best of what remains of the day. A lesson to be learnt is that we should not get caught up in formalities and should always follow and pursue our desires. So forget the past and live in the present.