Just a Thought - The Power of Basics

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There are 26 letters in English Language but there are millions of words out there, which in turn are used to write and speak millions and millions of sentences. There are 8 notes in Music, but there are millions of tunes coming from them.There are billions of people in this world, their faces don't match (except twins to certain extent) even if the parts used to make them are the same.The complexity of literature, Music, and People have very basic/simple beginnings.If this thought is applied to everything you see, feel and hear, you will see a similarity.........for example, see our DNA, it is composed of only 4 nucleotides ATGC, but the arrangement makes the difference. How about finger prints?? the whole forensic science is based on small differences in finger prints among individuals. How about the elements in chemistry, they are just above 100 but the chemicals are many, with different structures resulting from different number and arrangement of atoms. There are many proteins, resulting from some aminoacids arranged differently. It is not just the arrangement of these basic tools of nature, the quantity and quality aspect has to be kept in mind. All words are made of letters but the number of letters, arrangement of letters, and other aspects determine the beauty and meaning of those words. What I want to say is that, what we have is just basic/simple tools (26 letters in the first case) but what we build with them matters. I don't mean to say we all have the tools, resources and imagination to create something extraordinary. But, whatever we create, it is from these basic tools. If you get this small basic idea, what you will understand is, you need to learn the basics of anything you try to accomplish. Imagine that you know only 24 letters in 26 letters of english language, what you create with those is incomplete. When one has to take up a project or a goal, it is important to know the basics of that particular task. This is what people call preparation and some call it research. Know the basics, you will have a good chance of accomplishing the task in hand. For example, you need a job as a scientist. You need not know everything about that job, all you need to know is where and how to find a job. It is that simple. This is the same reason why most successful CEO's in the world are not actually MBA graduates, they don't know everything but they know the basics. It is not wrong to know everything about something, but trying to know everything at the beginning delays  one's journey towards success. The point is simple, you don't have to know everything but you need to know that you will learn everything you can in the process. If one has this belief then, it is time for some action.