Every achievement is recognized and celebrated and every achiever is venerated. Is it good to celebrate the success or achievement? ....
Every achievement is recognized and celebrated and every achiever is venerated. Is it good to celebrate the success or achievement? What inner meaning the celebration of an achievement convey to us? Does nature has anything to tell us about how the celebration should be? and what are its consequences?
The notification of success/achievement always motivate the people around is known but in real sense it would spoil the achiever.
In nature, many plants live as annuals. Their life cycle ends within one year starting from germination, growth, flowering and seeding. Again the same process starts. We shall take Ocimum (Ocimum sanctum) or basil plant as an example for our discussion. If the flowers of Ocimum plant were removed continuously as and when they appear, the plant would continue to grow and sustain for the next season. An annual plant can be made to live for many years if the flowering can be stopped. Once the flowering is allowed, the plant would die with the season.
This is what going to be the result of the celebration of every achievement and achiever. Actually the celebration of an achievement is like allowing the Ocimum plant to flower. When a gala celebration is made out an achievement, the celebration energy fills the space of the creative energy. Not the celebration but the performance only has produced the achievement. To make more achievements, performance needs to be enhanced not the celebration of the achievement. Certainly, celebration will give happiness and happiness may give mental strength. But whether the mental strength will assure enhanced performance and enhanced achievement is doubtful if the process of the achievement is not well understood.
The view is not against celebration of success but on the importance of understanding and enhancing the performance. In sports, before even the sportsmen celebrate their victory in one game, they might become a looser in another game. Such kind of tangible result is what corporate should look for from its employees.
In corporate, it is a very customary practice that people love to sing the song of their past glory. What they have achieved several years ago or even a centaury ago will be taken as their capability potential. What has been displayed should not be stretched beyond a point to predict what more can be expected. When half a meter rubber thread is stretched, it might stretch to two meters. By seeing the above, one should not judge that if the rubber thread is stretched further, it would expand beyond two meters. It may break. Success should not be defined beyond its brief and extrapolated greatly to the future.
Usually the celebration annuls future achievements. This would shift a person from doing & creating to showing & proving. It codes deeply in the very subconscious mind of the achiever to wrap up to the past quickly and never set courage for future.
Every celebration should be around the reasons for the success and not on the mere success. The moment the result is produced, it is dead and what remains alive is the process led to the result. Only when we apply the same process again and again with some modifications that are required with time, the similar and differentiated result is possible.
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