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July 17 - July 29, 2018
It is then that the foremost detective in the world—made so real by Arthur Conan Doyle—dishes out his famous theory about the mind being an ‘empty attic� with no ‘elastic walls�: ‘A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or best is jumbled up with a lot of other things . . . for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.�
‘He’s able to savour every moment and relish it more than others, whether it is good or bad, because woh saas leta rehta hai (he keeps breathing). You notice him, he’ll always take deep breaths despite being the fittest cricketer in the country as if he wants to make the most of everything, rather than rushing through life like most of us do,� says another friend.
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I’ve heard Dhoni himself talk about his pet peeve—people peering into their phones when they’re being spoken to or when they’re amidst a group of people. It apparently annoys him far more than most other modern-day distractions. This exemplifies his friends� belief that despite being a gadget freak, he ensures he never becomes a slave to them.
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Col Shankar reasons that Dhoni is able to be the same because of his two staunch principles in life—‘control the controllables� and that ‘no man can have everything in life, there’s always that one thing you will never be able to have�.
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