A beautiful speech by Sundar Pichai

A beautiful speech by Sundar Pichai - an IIT- IIT-www.happy4all.org

Stanford-Wharton alumnus and Global Head

Google Chrome and now CEO of Google..

The cockroach theory for self-development

At a restaurant, a cockroach suddenly flew from

somewhere and sat on a lady.

She started screaming out of fear.

With a panic stricken face and trembling voice,

she started jumping, with both her hands

desperately trying to get rid of the cockroach.

Her reaction was contagious, as everyone in her

group also got panicky.

The lady finally managed to push the cockroach

away but ...it landed on another lady in the

group.

Now, it was the turn of the other lady in the

group to continue the drama.

The waiter rushed forward to their rescue.

In the relay of throwing, the cockroach next fell

upon the waiter.

The waiter stood firm, composed himself and

observed the behavior of the cockroach on his

shirt.

When he was confident enough, he grabbed it

with his fingers and threw it out of the

restaurant.

Sipping my coffee and watching the amusement,

the antenna of my mind picked up a few

thoughts and started wondering, was the

cockroach responsible for their histrionic

behavior?

If so, then why was the waiter not disturbed?

He handled it near to perfection, without any

chaos.

It is not the cockroach, but the inability of those

people to handle the disturbance caused by the

cockroach, that disturbed the ladies.

I realized that, it is not the shouting of my father

or my boss or my wife that disturbs me, but it's

my inability to handle the disturbances caused

by their shouting that disturbs me.

It's not the traffic jams on the road that disturbs

me, but my inability to handle the disturbance

caused by the traffic jam that disturbs me.

More than the problem, it's my reaction to the

problem that creates chaos in my life.

Lessons learnt from the story:

I understood, I should not react in life.

I should always respond.

The women reacted, whereas the waiter

responded.

Reactions are always instinctive whereas

responses are always well thought of.

A beautiful way to understand............LIFE.

Person who is HAPPY is not because Everything

is RIGHT in his Life..

He is HAPPY because his Attitude towards

Everything in his Life is Right..