Brief Summary
This video presents APJ Abdul Kalam's top 10 rules for success, emphasizing the importance of handling failure, fostering creativity, and striving to be unique. He highlights the role of teachers in shaping dreams, the significance of integrity in leadership, and the necessity of continuous learning and perseverance. Kalam concludes with a message of harmony and peace, linking individual righteousness to global well-being.
- Handling failure is crucial for innovators.
- Creativity and imagination lead to breakthroughs.
- Every youth should strive to be unique.
- Teachers play a vital role in shaping dreams.
- Integrity is paramount for leaders.
- Continuous learning and hard work are essential.
- Righteousness leads to harmony and peace.
Handle Failure
Kalam emphasizes that understanding how to manage failure is as important as handling success, especially in a management environment. He advises young people to confront problems head-on, ensuring that problems don't control them. Instead, project leaders should take charge of problems, defeat them, and ultimately achieve success.
Be an Innovator
To be an innovator, one must possess certain characteristics that foster invention and discovery. Kalam explains that inventions and discoveries come from creative minds that constantly work and imagine the outcome. He uses the example of the telephone, highlighting the importance of imaging the outcome and constant effort, which allows the forces of the universe to work for that inspired mind, leading to breakthroughs.
Be Happy
Kalam shares that giving makes him happy, encouraging viewers to use their knowledge, economic resources, or kind words to bring happiness to others. He believes that making someone's life happy is the best thing a human being can do, leading to a conflict-free world.
Be Unique
Kalam learned from interacting with 11 million youth that everyone wants to be unique. However, the world often tries to make individuals conform. He challenges young people to fight the battle to be themselves and to never stop fighting until they achieve their destined place. History proves that those who dare to imagine the impossible are the ones who break human limitations and change the world.
Break the Limits
History has shown that individuals who dare to imagine the impossible are the ones who break all human limitations across various fields like science, medicine, sports, arts, and technology. By breaking the limits of their imagination, they change the world.
Learning Gives Creativity
Learning leads to creativity, which in turn leads to thinking. Thinking provides knowledge, and knowledge makes you great.
Be a Teacher
Kalam shares that his favorite title is that of a teacher because of the profound impact a teacher had on him during his childhood. He recalls his fifth-grade science teacher, who radiated knowledge and shaped his dream and way of life. Teachers have the opportunity to grow minds, enrich them, give dreams to young people, and nurture those dreams, helping them become great human beings.
Integrity
Every action of a leader should be transparent. A leader should work with integrity and succeed with integrity.
Be With The People
Kalam emphasizes the importance of being continuously in touch with the people. He shares that he traveled across various terrains and connected with millions of people, becoming "people's president."
Have a Dream
Kalam advises that one must have a dream, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and persevere. It's important not to be afraid of problems, as this will lead to success. He concludes with a message that where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character; where there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home; where there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation; and where there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
