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Success

Success is the meeting point of satisfaction and happiness of two parties. One who is acting , delivering, working, performing or doing something and second, for whom, one is doing that. Only when both are happy and satisfied, the work done can be called a success.

From the perspective of the first party (who acts), the person should should place himself in an arena where everything that he does or everything that is required to be done, merely becomes a play for him. Few conditions need to be satisfied in order for an act to become a play:

1. The person is totally absorbed within and is completely cutoff from all externals. He is not simply thinking about anything which is not connected with the subject. The act becomes as natural to him as driving, which he performs effortlessly.

2. He has learnt all the skills, done all of this a number of times and has seen it all. Only when he knows the stuff from the core, he can master it and can even change the method at will, or improvise to suit a specific circumstance. He might have learnt the art and craft from a learned master and he must have spent s great amount of time with this, such that he has found his own unique way, like no one else. He must have failed big time a number of times, thus knowing all the failure points and how those can be fixed.

3. He loves the act so much that he does not have to overcome any kind of inertia when he is called for in the ring. He never gets bored  of this, repeating the same steps again and again, every time that he performs.

4. He has no desire to succeed. He merely loves to play.

5. He understand that he can fail and is not bothered by the failures. From each failure, he just learns one more trick.

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