Don't Sprint the Marathon

Life mimics a marathon more than it does a sprint Obvious as that may appear as proud and ambitious parents we often push our children to excel in ways that may help them achieve some early successes - but may sap their stamina to endure the more difficult challenges which life may throw at them. What is more our obsessive rush to get our children off to a good start overlooks the fact that in life as in a marathon an early lead hardly matters but being too intent on coming first may leave our children lacking in many of the life skilld that a normal childhood would teach them. V. Raghunathan best-selling author of Games Indians Play offers an alternative approach that can be even more rewarding: life he avers is not a sprint and it does not in the long run matter very much if you missed out on the best school college or job as starters. As long as you give yourself the time to develop your personality and skills you will still get where you want at your own pace and perhaps far more happily. To illustrate based far more happily. To illustrate based on first-hand interactions he gives numerous examples of many achievers famous and not-so-famous among them N. R. Narayana Murthy Dr Kallam Anji Reddy Dr. P. D. K. Rao V. Mani Ashwini Nachappa Ila Bhatt and G. M. Rao. For those helping their children along for success in life or rethinking their children along for success in life or rethinking their own approach to it Don''t Sprint the Marathon will prove an invaluable guide.