Vishy Anand Teaches Process Vs Outcome.

I was reading Vishy's article in times of India today and realized that the dude has an amazing clarity of mind.

What he basically  emphasized on was the same thing I have been harping about all these years. The same thing, I am trying to practice in my own professional and personal life. The same thing somehow which appears as a foregone conclusion to all the accumulated wisdom and knowledge so far
be it spiritual or personal grooming.

The ability to reach a stage where you concentrate on the process without getting bothered by the outcome. To work for the sake of work itself. To be system driven and be monotonous in execution. To reach a stage where it appears that you are not even a doer, it is as if things are getting done thru you. A trance like situation where you are having trip of your life. In sports terminology it is often termed as 'being in the zone'

In spiritual terms, its called a 'state of no mind'. Different expressions to say the same thing.

However it is easier said than done.

Vishy says that a loss does take a lot out of you. In fact it is such a huge thing that even a legendary achiever like Anand conceded a second defeat under the influence of first one.  I relate to this in my profession. A drawdown in a system results in all kind of psychological pressures. you second guess the system, you get frozen in time and choke, you move your stop losses, you start working without a strategy, you create the foundation for your own ruin.

He sums up the article by saying, I gotta do, what I gotta do. And that has a touch of class as far as I am concerned. Warren Buffet does not make investments with the outlook of making a million, sure he does earn more than that but the intention is to find an investment which qualifies his process.

Sachin Tendulkar takes pride in every shot he practices, it is a process of waking up at 5 in the morning, going through the grind every day without an off. he doesn't do it to score a century, sure he has scored a 100 of them but concentration is on the process.

It doesn't matter if Anand is able to defend this tittle or not. The idea is to stick to the process, without thinking about the lead, the score-line, the outcome.

No body knows that better than the 5 time World Chess champion.

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