Click

There is something magical about the word ‘click’ and the circumstances around which it is used. For e.g. "My physiotherapist kept working on me for weeks and one day, my bones clicked and the pain was gone". "Selling saffron tea by the beach side seemed like a below average business idea, but it clicked with visitors and we are opening shop number 50". "The interview with the senior partner was expected to be a rather short one as I was not a favorite for the job, but it clicked into a longer one because of a mutual interest in bonsai’s." Unexpected things happen, and one finds meaning in it in the most wonderful ways.

My reference to ‘click’ is with regards to the circumstances that leads up to making a decision. You may have a lot of data, analysis, and counsel by your side, but when you step in to the world of the unknown, you need the help of something more. Something that you see, hear or read that helps your mind click into making sense of it. Most times, it would be so profoundly simple that it would make you chuckle. That’s the magic working.

In the movie The Founder, when Dick McDonald asked Ray Kroc why he pursued the venture in the manner he did, he replied that it was the glorious name McDonald’s that did it for him. Time and again, Ray had to take a call staring into the unknown, and it was that click with the name that kept him going.

Choosing your life partner, taking an entrepreneurial path, moving country, investing in an idea are all some examples of decisions one would take heading into the unknown. Take a moment to reflect on such decisions you have made and what got the mind to click – and perhaps cherish them.

As I grew up the corporate ladder, I found myself fearing failure more and more and having to live with all the limitations that came with it. I am taking a moment to cherish the article that gave me the ‘click’ and set me free.

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