Life Skills

- Amazing answer by Mr Awadhesh Singh, an ex student of IT-BHU (now IIT-BHU) When I was doing my B Tech, there was a Professor Das Talukedar who used to teach us ‘Mechanics’. His lectures used to be very interesting since he had an interesting way to teach and explain the concepts. One day, in the class, he asked the following questions, 1. What is ZERO? 2.What is INFINITY? 3. Can ZERO and INFINITY be same? We all thought that we knew the answers and we replied as following, ZERO means *nothing* INFINITY means *a number greater than any countable number* ZERO and INFINITY *are opposite and they can never be same* He countered us by first talking about infinity and asked, ‘How can there be any number which is greater than any countable number?’ We had no answers. He then explained the concept of infinity in a very interesting way, which I remember even after more than 35 years. He said that imagine that there is an illiterate shepherd who can count only upto 20. Now, if the number of sh

 With the car parked on the road, I got on to the bus. But seeing the crowd inside, I  was scared. There was no place to sit. At that moment, a seat became vacant. The next person could have easily occupied it. Instead, he offered me that seat. Next stop. The same thing happened. Again he gave his seat to another person.  I was observing him... this happened for four times in our entire bus journey. The man looked tired, he must have been going home after his job. In the last stop, we all got off. Out of curiosity, I spoke to him.  Asked why you were giving your seat to another every time ??  The interesting answer he gave was I haven’t studied at all or have much money. I have nothing to give, neither knowledge nor money. This is the only thing which I can do for others, easily. So I do this every day. Though working for all day, ‌ I can still stand for a little longer. When I gave you the seat, you said thank you. I felt very happy. I believe I'm contributing to the best of my ab

- #Science says that the amount of semen that is released once an adult healthy male has intercourse contains 400 million sperm. So, according to logic, if that amount of sperm found a place in the womb of a girl, then 400 million babies would be created! This 400 million #sperm, running like crazy towards the mother's uterus, only 300-500 sperm survive. And the rest? He dies of exhaustion or defeat on the way. These are 300-500 sperm, which have been able to reach the ovum. Only one of them, a very strong sperm, fertilizes the ovum, or takes a seat in the ovum. That lucky sperm is you or me, or all of us. Have you ever thought of this great war? 1. When you ran "there were no eyes, hands, feet, head, yet you won. 2. When you ran, you didn't have a certificate, you didn't have a brain, but you won. 3. You had no #education when you ran, no one helped but you won. 4. You had a destination when you ran and you ran with a single mind, aiming at that destination and you wo