Mavericks do not stumble upon!

Knowledge for Mavericks

No one recognized the voice on the audio file. The woman who had been the night word processing supervisor at the time of the murder had been downsized, her job function taken over by a temporary employee. It took three weeks to trace her to St. Paul, Minnesota. It took another week to learn that she had been killed when her right front tire disintegrated on the interstate one icy night.

Human resources kept only paper files on temporary workers. But the relevant ones were ‘old’ by now, and the HR director said they had definitely been shipped to storage on the south side of the city. Paper files kept for two months after an employee left then sent to the warehouse.

Someone went to the south side with the detective to look for the files. The warehouse was in an old industrial district. Red brick factories, long since abandoned, lines the deserted streets. Parking lots were guarded by rusty chain-link fences, empty except for the weeds pushing up through the asphalt. A brick smokestack its factory demolished long ago, stood alone and silent. The names of forgotten companies crumbled on worn marbles slabs above the boarded-up doorways. High on the buildings hung faded for rent signs, visible from the elevated railway that divided the district from the rest of the city.

Inside the warehouse was lit by harsh overhead fluorescent bulbs emitting a low constant hum. Along the side high bare walls stood five rows of mismatched drawer-filing cabinets. A filing clerk leaned against the counter, eating meat and rice out of a takeout container. He was tall, pale man, with black stringy hair that fell over his collar.

The clerk made detective fill out a request in pencil for records, then studied the form closely for several moments. After looking at request form clerk said ‘Nope,’ they were recycled. We only keep records like this for six months. [Bernd H. Schmitt narrated this story.]

What does the morale we shall draw?

One point this grim little story makes is that it’s not enough simply to have files without any knowledge. One has to see the knowledge required from these files. When persons makes knowledge available for others to use through a store and reuse method, which means making our intelligence being used for Mavericks Winning.

Human life flourishes only when the individuals rise above their selfish and sectarian interests and discharge their duties as integral units of the society. But we critically lack the consciousness and have become increasingly selfish. We have compromised a lot on habits such as ‘Find good in others’, ‘Walk the talk’ and ‘Finish, what we start’.

We do not cherish a potential Vision and unaware about the true talents hidden reside in us such as ‘Plan the best reality’, ‘Get more off our-self’ and ‘Mavericks wins’. This made us puppets in the hands of ‘Fear of failure’, ‘Get tired’ and ‘Adopt shoddy short cuts’. But the most important pit falls of this lack of ‘self-awareness’ is our inner belief to WIN. 

How can we do it better?

Knowledge is the marvelous inspiration to humanity. Evolution created us with equal brains, but it is the utilization of brain and day-to-day added knowledge which make all the difference. Knowledge brings confidence to face this competitive world. It is the knowledge which makes all the difference between floating and sinking of a person’s fortunes.

One must have a quest for knowledge, to learn, to question which is the mother of all inventions and leads to mind blowing discoveries. A knowledgeable person can face the challenges in their life in a tactful manner than a lay person. Not only in the world of science, the worth and power of knowledge cannot be underestimated in any other sphere whether it is stock market or sports. Share markets provide an excellent opportunity for investors who have proper knowledge of the game earn good profits but many investors who have incomplete knowledge lose big bucks. The investors who have sufficient and complete knowledge have earned huge dividends.

I think knowledge will make hell of a difference in our chase.

Samuel Smiles has rightly said ‘Knowledge is power’. Knowledge is something which a thief cannot steal, rather it enhances by sharing with others and every Mavericks Wins with Knowledge.