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The Mind; An ability that makes or breaks you

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According to wikipedia, "The mind is a set of cognitive faculties including consciousness, perception, thinking, judgement, language and memory. It is usually defined as the faculty of an entity's thoughts and consciousness. It holds the power of imagination, recognition, and appreciation, and is responsible for processing feelings and emotions, resulting in attitudes and actions" . Now, the mind is very complex and there is debate about what constitutes a mind, whether it includes the human spirit and soul, however, I am not going to delve deep into that aspect, and whatever its nature, it is generally agreed that mind is that which enables a being to have subjective awareness and intentionality towards their environment, to perceive and respond to stimuli with some kind of agency, and to have consciousness, including thinking and feeling and act upon those thoughts and feelings. This proves one thing that, we become who we are because of our mindset; what we think

Insanity and Weirdness; The ingredients to be a success

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I was at a pitching event, watching young entrepreneurs pitch their ideas and businesses, and during the Q&A session, the Guest of honor who happens to be a successful entrepreneur was asked, "What do we need to be successful entrepreneurs?", His answer took me by surprise and I was bewildered. His answer was, "To be successful in anything, we need to be insane and weird about what we do". After a while, I started getting all what He meant when He said that. Insanity in a good way(not insanity like a mad or mentally retarded person haha) is actually great. If you have a dream or a passion or a mind blowing idea that you want to embark on, you need to be insane about it. You need to love it, own it, work tirelessly towards achieving it. One need to be insane to do all of that. Most of the time, the people that care too much and working continuously towards their dreams are considered crazy or insane or sometimes weird. These are the people that boldly believ