Many people in this world want to succeed in life. We spend most of our time working hard to be more successful, but you'll be surprised to learn that working harder increases your chances of failure. All the great people of the world, even the greatest people, never did much work. Rather, they did one thing at a time.
Today I am going to tell you some things that are very important in your life and to bring improvement in your life. If you do not learn them then you will not be able to face the situation in your life. When I was young, my writing was not very good. Once I saw a very good writing of a girl in my school, then I decided that I would try to do my writing well and then in the same way. I started trying to improve my writing.
After a while, new students came to our class. One of them was very funny. He used to make other children laugh a lot. When I saw him, I decided to be like him. Will be a little funny person who will make others laugh and that's how I started trying. The result was that I did not succeed in any of the tasks, nor did I write well, nor did I make people laugh, and so my life went on.
And then after reading the book "The One Thing". I realized how big of a mistake I had made.
You don't remember Quaid-e-Azam because Quaid-e-Azam used to recite good Naats. Quaid-e-Azam's writing was also good. Quaid-e-Azam was also good in poetry but you remember Quaid-e-Azam because he was good in only one thing and that was politics. Besides, no matter how much skill they had, Quaid-e-Azam might be average in them.
The problem with most people who stay average in their lives is that they try to do a lot of things at once, but you have to find one thing in your life that you have to focus on.
If you put a piece of paper outside on a day when it is very sunny in the summer season, will that paper burn or not? That paper will not burn. But if you are in the winter sun where the sun is shining brightly, place the paper under the sun and place a magnetic frying glass in front of the paper, the purpose of which is to convey the focus of the sun in one place. Will put all the light in one place which will make the paper catch fire even in winter season. In the same way, you have to make your focus narrow.
Friends, the next point of this book is that multitasking is a lie. Neither humans nor computers can do multitasking. Multitasking means doing two things at the same time. The computer does the same thing at the same time but it does the job very quickly, from which we do not know and in the same way man can do only one thing at a time.
Some of you may be wondering if we can do two things at once. That is, we can eat while watching TV. We hear phone calls while walking somewhere. This means that we can do two things at the same time.
No friends, we are not doing two things together, but our brain puts one of these two things in the background, it is only focusing on one thing.
For example, if you are going to a park and talking to a friend on a phone, you will keep walking while talking, but your whole focus will be on talking, not on walking, but whenever you are in a traffic road. When you reach the road, you will tell your friend to wait, tell him to cross the road first, then I will talk to you, then your focus will be on crossing the road.
Similarly, when we think that we are doing two things at the same time, one of the work is going on in the background and the other is working and we are actually focused on the other work, so never Don't try to do two things at once. Doing two things at once means that you are trying to catch two different rabbits together. In the end, you will not get one.
Then the next point of this book is our will-power. That is, the power to do what we want to do. This power is limited, it is sometimes more and sometimes less. When we wake up in the morning our will power is at its highest and as the day goes on our will power decreases and at night our will power is very little. So you should finish your important work in the morning as your will power will decrease at night. Even if you try to do it, you will not be able to do it properly.
But here a question arises as to what are your essential tasks and this is the biggest concept of this book. The essentials of your life are the things that describe your life that you want to see completed until you die. Just as there was poetry for Allama Iqbal, there was football for Ronaldo, there was boxing for Muhammad Ali. And in the same way you have to dedicate one of your tasks and that is your essential task and that is what you have to focus your full attention on.
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