Where do all the ideas go!?

There has been a lot of buzz about Satya Nadella, an Indian born, becoming the CEO of Microsoft. There were people mocking at those who were feeling proud about it. Their point is that he had to go to USA to reach such a great height. He is not even an Indian anymore and you can't take credit for it and you have got no reason to be proud of it. Well, I agree with them. Why is it hard for someone to succeed in India? Why don't we encourage budding entrepreneurs? Why don't we give way for innovations? Well, I must admit, things are changing these days. There are number of successful young entrepreneurs coming out with brilliant ideas. The social media has made it much more easier. But I feel that's only a portion of the youngsters in India. What about the rest? Do we all dream big... big enough to reach the stars? When I say why is it hard to succeed in India, I am not talking about the facilities, standard of education or infrastructure in our country. Its much simpler than that. I am talking about our thought process. How many of us really think about making it big?
I personally feel that not all of us are provided with enough freedom and support to think out of the box. For many Indian youngsters, the first problem arises when they are in a relationship.. Boyfriend... Girlfriend stuff, yeah. Most of our Indian parents cannot still digest the fact that their more than 20 year old son/daughter is in a relationship! Some of them feel its even wrong to chose your own life partner! Of course, caste is their problem. So they spend all their energy giving a tough time to these kids, trying to get them out of the relationship. And that's why most of the young generation's energy and time is spent in trying to face these problems, trying to convince their parents. If  basic things like love and healthy relationships are made so complicated and unattainable, how could someone go to the next level of thinking out of the box... taking their life to the next level, setting bigger goals, contributing to the society and so on. To be more clear, you must have heard about Maslow's hierarchy of needs. For those of you who haven't, here you go:

Here is the link for the Wikipedia page:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs.

I wonder, may be, If all the youngsters are given this freedom, the number of success stories, the number of young achievers will be much more than what it is currently!

Life lessons from Flappy Bird!

Yeah, Life lessons from Flappy Bird! I am not so much into games. Recently, I saw all this hype about Flappy Bird and thought, lemme check it out. Well, its a simple game. I guess most of you gamers out there would have mastered it by now. But it did take me quite a number of attempts to score 2! As I progressed through the game, I realized what was slowing me down. You know every time you cross the hurdle there comes the 'Ting!' with the score in the center of the screen. Every time I made a new score or every time I managed to continuously cross many of those green towers or whatever they are, I got all excited with the series of 'Ting!' 'Ting!' 'Ting!' and the points popping up and the next second, there goes the birdie landing on the floor.. 'Thud!'. Well this is common to most games, yeah! I thought to myself, this is what all those wise elderly people mean when they say, do not fix your eyes on the target, instead concentrate in the present and enjoy the journey. So simple and can be applied to everything! Life lesson from Flappy Bird! Didn't I tell ya! ;)