In life, you would want to be a better person day by day, wouldn’t you? Those who are happy with their present state, are lazy fellows;  they don’t want to work hard and improve themselves. I am not one of them.  So, I search the internet constantly  about how to be a better person in all fields of activities.

What struck me like a bolt was an article, “Tips to increase your brain power.” I read it in all seriousness imagining that  I was going to be a super guy within minutes!

The first tip was, “Act intelligent.”  I jumped from my seat remembering that whenever I acted to be  smart and intelligent, I was snubbed by my  colleague sitting next to me in the class room. “ Shut up,” he would pat me down.  “Who do you think you  are?”

“Well, I am that I am,” I replied.

“Hey, idiot, that’s God’s name, you fool.  You think you are God !”

My first impulse was a quiet prayer seeking God’s forgiveness for being too intelligent.

The next tip was, to reduce the sugar intake.  I thought the minimum sugar intake was an advice for diabetics.  I didn’t know that less sugar also increased your brain power. The article emphasized that my thinking would be clear if I took less sugar. Did I see any result?  Don’t be silly man; you can’t expect instant result, can you? I have to wait for some weeks.  I shall surely let you know if my thinking has become clearer.

“Use your imagination”, was the next tip.  This is something new to me. How do I use my imagination when I am clueless about the subject? Its further elaboration was, ‘when imagining how you will use it (the new knowledge), you tend to focus on those things you really need to remember’. For the life of me,  I couldn’t make head or tail of this advice.  So I left it.

“Limit your criticism” was the next guideline.  “It is important to know when not to be critical. Analysis is important.”  For your information, I had  always been a vociferous critique right through my college  days.  In fact I had been baptized, ‘Leader of the Opposition’, a tribe which  would attack anything, good or bad, on the part of the government..  I was like that leader.  I took note of this point and also wondered what this has to do with enhancing the brainpower.

All in all, increasing your brain power by observing something or keeping away from something, is a futile exercise. If we can sharpen our brain power through these recommendations, the world would have no ‘mentally challenged persons’ at all.  and everybody would be an Einstein or Isaac Newton. God has sent everyone into the world with some talent and some brain power and we are expected to put that quantum to full use. Be satisfied with that and  don’t aspire to be someone else.  OK?

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