The philosophers of ancient times often asked the purpose of life. Similar question was asked to me by a friend of mine who is currently persuing medicines. His question was, ‘what’s my purpose in your scheme for advancing civilisation through space exploration?’ The answer of this question was inspired by Mark Rober at that time. I said there’s a talent hidden in some corner of this world who’s not expressing herself because of the disabilities put around her due to her environment. But now I would say something like this, Your task is multi-pronged, by paying tax you are ensuring that India can contribute financial resources in poverty ridden countries where that talent may lie. Because you are pursuing such a noble course you owns the capabilities to bring innovation in your own field which can have far reaching effect in our whole civilization. The purpose of your life doesn’t end here, your genes posses intelligent qualities which when passed on to the next generation can, moreover, be the pioneer of some project that creates the very base for future endeavors.
What comes to your mind when we speak of brilliant minds? Albert Einstein? Stephan Hawking? Vinton Cerf? Bob Kahn? There are many names to say. Did they acquire that keen mind of their or they trained them? The thing is, we cannot be sure. After all, science has its language and so makes minds. Two types of mind one innately possess extraordinary capabilities and others who train themselves and push their limits. Nevertheless, these limits can be pushed to some extent only after that saturation comes or, say, and it went out of our hands. A movie named 'A man who knew infinity is based on the life of Srinivas Ramanujan. He was good with the number and contributed a lot in the field of Mathematics. However, what intriguing was that he was not trained or lectured by anyone. Moreover, on the contrary, there was G.H hardy who identified his work and helped him contribute to humanity. I am trying to say that if one deems to a person out of the above two, who will it be? My guess is Srin...
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