Mind Without fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken upinto fragments by narrow domestic walls;

Where words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action---

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

                                                                     - Rabindranath Tagore

Todays post is inspired by this poem. The poem was written by Rabindranath Tagore a famous Indian poet that won the nobel prize for his poetry. Although this poem was written in the early 1930's, it never ceases to inspire me. As individuals passionate about entrepreneurship and innovation we strive to stay on a constant creative ebb. The truth is with every ebb there is a trough and for some of us, when we reach those troughs we tend to get stuck, frustrated and judge ourselves to hard on not being able to reach the next creative ebb. 

The thing is, this frustration blinds us to the real cause of these troughs - dead habit. The habit could be procrastination, could be not following up on a task, could be giving up to easily, could be getting distracted by the small things and not focussing on the big picture. It could be a million different things but it is only when we choose to let habit take over and let reason take a back seat - that we slip into these troughs.

So lets take cue from the poem, lets not let our habits hold us back, let us strive towards perfection, let us strive towards being free, creative, inspiring individuals.