Muses of Murari

I should say this book is output result of good research about the successful people and how they happened to be at right time & at right place and many a time, they are given right opportunities that made them successful in their fields. Case studies given like Bill Joy and the series of events that happened to him, which eventually put him in the right path to his success.

The book not only explores on case studies of successful people and the reasons of their successes. Author dealt deftly with many events/patterns  and reasoned them out. For example, author took Canadian’s ice hockey team selection process and reasoned out the peculiar pattern in high circuit teams, in which most of the players’ birthdays fall in first four months of the year. Author introduced Chris Langer and explained why he is not as successful as any other person of his caliber, in spite of his IQ as high as 195. Blame it on the less opportunities he had, his lack of enough soft skills and his poor family support during his formative years! Author also made interesting connection between rice growing culture in Asia and the superior math skills of Asians. Also the author explained on the case of Korean plane crashes in late 1990s and attributed to reasons like cultural differences between the first officer and the controller. And many more.

Main theme of the book is, the environment, circumstances, people around influences more on the success of any individual given that the person has other success ingredients like talent, hard work etc.,. After reading the book, I felt like I cannot agree more. Every one of us would have experienced ourselves or by seeing others, the success phenomenon due to happy turn of events. This book acknowledges the same observation.

We all love to hear the people who succeeded with their grit & determination, rags-to-riches stories, hail heros who under modest circumstances do extra ordinary feats. We try to get inspirations from their stories. But, we never think in under what circumstances and series of events that helped to make those successful scripts. May be this book can help us to start seeing in these lines!

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