Dr.

Didacus Jules

Didacus Jules

A crisis turned upside down and inside out is an

opportunity
Although we are told by everyone from very early that Life is
never a bed of roses, we still behave as if we expect it to be.
When crisis and unexpected problems confront us, the easiest
reaction is to be overwhelmed.
If we take the time to analyze the crisis or the problem we will
find that embedded in the root of the problem is the solution
and that every crisis also presents wonderful opportunities that
can take us to a different height.
Like they say when Life gives you lemons, make lemonade

Maintain an unrelenting optimism of the will

Its about never giving up and keeping alive a fire for change. Life
was not meant to be a mindless adherence to anything. Unless you
find purpose in life you will spend your entire life like a sleep walker
who is just going through the motions of existence, reacting to
external stimuli and a victim of circumstance. Dont go through life
like a sleep walker. Humanity is endowed with consciousness and
we should seek to extend our consciousness to really experience
what it is to be alive!
We should strive in every waking minute to
make deliberate choices. This means always
analyzing the situations in which we find
ourselves, examining our options to understand
and anticipate the consequences of choice in
each option. And then CHOOSE. If we do not
exercise conscious choices, then choices are
made for us by others or by the logic of the
situation and then we become the victim of
circumstances.

There is no better lesson than failure

There have been so many occasions in my life in which I have experienced failure of all
kinds. There are the things that I have failed to do; there are the things that I have
failed to accomplish; there are moments when I have failed to be; and there are
responsibilities and standards that I have failed to uphold.
But looking back, I realize now that some of the greatest, most important and most
impactful lessons of my life have been taught not by my achievements but by my
failures. And I have learnt also that success and failure are not separate milestones but
different parts of a process and a cycle. As a child we learn to walk by falling down and
the fear of falling did not overcome the will to walk. If we learn the lessons of each
failure, we discover the secret of the next time success

Later, if not sooner, we all become

our parents
In our adolescence we all go through a stage where we oppose our
parents. We think that they will never understand us; that they are
out of touch and irrelevant. When we too get older, we realize that
we all become our parents.
The problem with the older generation is that we too often forget
the carelessness of our youth and pretend that we never committed
any of the sins of youth. The problem with the younger generation is
that they think that their parents were always old and never did the
crazy things that they dont want them to do.
The reality is that when you are young you are inexperienced and
invincible but when you are old, you have learnt the hard way and
know the dangers of the road ahead of the youth.

If you dont stand for something, you

represent nothing
The most pathetic spectacle is to see people bending
opportunistically in every wind. I learnt from an early
student protest experience that when you take a stand on
anything, do so on the principle of the position and not the
popularity of the cause. And before you take a stand on
principle be sure you can keep standing inspite of the
consequences. If you cant take the heat dont enter the
kitchen.
You lose a little bit of your self-respect every time you give
in to fear and intimidation and your spine gets weaker
every time you genuflect to expediency

Life is a coin tottering on its edge

Human life is sooo fragile. Death walks our shoulder every day and we know not
the hour. If we were to be more conscious of the ever-present possibility of our
death, we would live better and more fulfilling lives. As I write this, I have lived
for 20,455 days that in hindsight is A LOT of days!... but I must treat every
future day with which I am privileged not as just another day but as a gift of the
Universe.
The more we realize that tomorrow is never promised, the better we live today.
And when I think back on these 20,455 days, I regret how much of it has been
wasted in all kinds of negativity inspite of all that I have accomplished. But I
have also learnt that an attitude of gratitude for all that life has brought is the
foundation of peace of mind and growth of spirit.

Always question everything

Its the only way to be really sure in your conviction. The entire chronicle
of human progress is written by those who have questioned things. It is
those who question everything, who challenge every dogma, who look
twice at what is taken for granted who have enabled and hastened
human progress.
I have learned that to question things is not to be disrespectful even if we
have been taught that you should be respectful of authority. Respect can
be demanded but it has to be earned; and what is disrespectful is to
require anyone to display blind adherence without the conviction of
conscience.

Always question everything

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels.

The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't
do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are
crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
- THINK DIFFERENT, Apple Computers 1997

We are all HUMAN

I was taught and socialized at home and in school to respect others because
we are all the same. In spite of these teachings the expressions of prejudice in
our language, our social attitudes and the reality of our social structure made
us treat difference as if it were abnormal. I have come to learn that disrespect
for difference is the product of fear and ignorance. We demonize other
religions because we force God to wear the clothes of our culture; we find
other cultures weird because we are too locked in the confines of our own
conceit. The prison of perception prevents us from seeing the Other just as
we see ourselves and to understand that no matter how different another
human being is from us, we are fundamentally the same.
We all share a common humanity and the more I
travel all around the world (having now seen 62
countries or 26% of the world), the more I
appreciate the wonder and beauty of the diversity
of humanity. We are brothers and sisters all, loving
and working, dreaming and constructing, our fear
and our courage stem from the same human heart.
Take time to understand and to celebrate the
rainbow of humanity.

We are all HUMAN perspectives 2

Wealth creation is not what we have been

taught

We are never taught the real secret of wealth creation. If I had known
then what I know now about the real world of finance, I would have
structured my entire approach to wealth generation differently.
The earlier that you gain a realistic understanding of the world of finance
the better able you are to avoid its pitfalls. Wealth is created by
accumulating assets that can generate independent income. A personal
mortgage is a trap created by the banking industry to make you an
indentured worker for the greater part of your working life. It is the slow
painful road to asset accumulation that enriches the banks more than it
enriches you. Take time to research and understand the options for
investment and to understand how to use financial tools to work for YOU.

More powerful than the

will to win is the

courage to begin

Anonymous

MAKE YOUR LIFE COUNT

but how could you live

and have no story to tell?
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights