Most of the time we feel, what does mathematics have to do with the way we live our lives…? What lessons could those dry & abstract theories teach us about life...? And we feel it’s better to live life as it comes, allowing the so called ROUTINE (like worrying about things like people, salary, parents.etc.) to dominate over us.Hence, we spend our life busy worrying about how to cope with this ever changing stuff called LIFE, who doesn’t give us a single chance to catch up with it !! We spend silent moments of our lives, staring at the cover page of some magazine carry pics of people like Dhirubahi Ambani, Sharukh Khan.etc and etc. & somewhere down the line, spend the time day-dreaming abt them or discussing them & get used to this ROUTINE & ACCEPT it as a way of life.Thus, majority of us become another face in the crowd..an AVERAGE person.…Now the question is..So what?....How does Mathematics come into picture..??.. If we look closely at a stuff called BELL-CURVE in Statistics, it speaks a lot..it says that majority of the samples about 96% of them are found to be very close to mean or the AVERAGE…there are very few distinct points at the tail ends…these are the people who are different...people who are truly successful…not an average guy…So question is how did they escape this brutal & dominating PRISON called ROUTINE ?? … This reminds me of an old movie called “SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION” which talks about the people who have been in jail for a long period of time, who get used to the simplest things in life. These prisoners get food, have a place to sleep, have clothes to wear, and have books to read. They adapt to the guards always telling them when to wake up or when to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. Prisoners are used to a small world and when they have to go live in a big world, most of the time this is scary for them, because they are acclimatized to the environment of the prison except the hero (called Andy in the movie)..He never developed that kind of hazy dead look that the other inmates had. Nor did he adopt their hunched over sluggish walk when it came time to go back to their cages. The thing that constantly beamed from him, and differentiated him so much from everybody else was the thing he never gave up; HOPE. This man slowly and steadily by waking every night, when others used to sleep, digs a deep hole through the prison wall, which was thought to be insurmountable. And becomes the only guy in history who broke through that jail, leaving everybody including the prisoners dumbfounded who just couldn’t believe it…thus making him among those few people who are at the tail ends if the BELL-CURVE…
So ultimately the question is which part of the BELL CURVE are you in..??
