God is the best planner. Just when you need them the most, He brings to you people who have the power to change you. These people bring to you God's message, which orients you to the right direction in the journey of life. A few years back I used to believe that only money is the measure of a man's greatness. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Azim Premji, Mittals and a few more are considered renowned in the world, apparently, because of their wealth. This deceived me. I had set a goal for myself that: If I'll be this rich then only will I consider myself successful. But in the last few years, I've become wiser.

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Chautauqua, let me speak about it first. Webster's defines it as:  any of various traveling shows and local assemblies that flourished in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that provided popular education combined with entertainment in the form of lectures, concerts, and plays, and that were modeled after activities at the Chautauqua Institution of western New York. But if you read Robert Pirsig's Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, you know why this applies to ThoughtWorks University sessions. Its not about what a Chautauqua was intended to be (as described above), but what it actually did that matters. It was influential. (The dictionary needs to be updated.) But, how did Robert Pirsig come into the picture from out-of-the-blue?

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Well most of you know that I'm at the TWU these days and that's what this post is about. I'm just awestruck at the amount of opportunities that TWU has offered to me:

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