A small story


A young man asked Socrates, how he could get wisdom. Socrates replied, come with me. It took the lad to a river, pushed the boy’s head under the water, held it there until the boy was gasping for air, then relaxed and released his head. When the boy regained his composure, he asked him, what did you desire most when you were under the water?

I wanted air, said the boy. Socrates said to him, when you want wisdom as much as you want air when you’re immersed in the water, you will receive it. Likewise, when you really have an intense desire to overcome any block in your life, and you come to a clear-cut decision that there is a way out, and that is the course you wish to follow, then victory and success is assured.

Create that intense desire and come to a clear-cut decision that you wish to, in time, and not at the end of the life, if you really wish to be a successful person.