The acronym not only just makes you appreciate the odds (1 in a few hundred billion) of getting a chance to live; but also indicates that it is the only (possibly) chance you've got.

The problem: Most of the people take is as an excuse to procrastinate and focus on living a selfish life fulfilling their own desires instead of working for development of the ecosystem (the life support).

What can be done?

Over the time, I've experimented with and found out that motivation can only come from self. You can guide someone but the ultimate decision is theirs. Now, their decision depends on few controllable factors and something called productive anxiety is a result of balancing them.

Few pointers to be experimented:

Step 1: Develop a curious mind: A curious mind by default has a tinge of productive anxiety that makes them yearn for knowledge and discovery. Step 2 can help do this.

Step 2: Introduce them to a problem domain; judge their interest; debates and group discussion on different social, scientific, and historical topics can fire the spark in many.

Step 3: Ask them to prototype a solution; It can be an inspiring paper, a proof of concept; or anything similar.

Step 4: Keep the fire lit: Curious minds tend to wander all the time and keep finding newer and interesting problems to solve. It raises another problem; they fail to keep working on same problem over long time. They get bored easily in simple terms. To address this issue, techniques discussed in step 2 should be repeated over the course but scope limited to problem in hand to keep the fire going in the right direction.

I understand it is a challenging task in itself but I walk in both the shoes at the same time and I know very well how much more challenging it gets when you've to follow these steps with yourself all the time. Having a mentor to focus on these aspects really help.

There are numbers. They're playing a game of hide and seek. Some of them are hiding. We call them unknowns. Some of them are there to help us find these unknowns. We call them constants or coefficients. Each coefficient together with others and the unknown forms a statement which is true for a specific value of unknowns. We call it an equation. If we have exactly same number of such equations as the number of unknowns, we get a map. This map is called a matrix equation where all coefficients arrange themselves in a 2 dimensional grid. Solving this matrix equation will reveal the values of unknowns.

Both want to live through me. But they are different. One's a storyteller. Another, a story writer. One wants to explore through me and the other wants to tell what it knows already. One is wisdom, one's seeker of it. They're both inside me. The seeker and the knowledge. Then why are they in denial? Why don't they realise that they're already present. I'm just a window between them. I'm just the story within them.

To start with right people need to be empowered and more importantly, be empowered in their own city. I would ask the silos to open investment in tier 2 and tier 3 cities. It maybe high risk but such high risk low capital investments will help development of these cities as well.

This will also reduce the high population migration towards tier 1 cities reducing overall cost of living, raising quality of living for everyone.

Instead of a single employee with a single task in hand we make pair of two and hand them the same task. It will increase the overall efficiency on work and will also help develop team work skill which now a days are no longer taught in educational institutes.

I would love to hear your take on this.